Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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 hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

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