Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

1945 Japanese movie

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

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

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A 1954 film.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...