Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

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

A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her...

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...

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

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

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

1939 Japanese movie

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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...

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

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

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