Tatsuo Saitō Movies

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

A 1954 film.

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.