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....

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

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

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

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...

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

A 1954 film.

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.