Tatsuo Saitō Movies

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Hong Kong-set religious drama.

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in...

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...