Tatsuo Saitō Movies

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

1939 Japanese movie

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...

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

That Night's Woman

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...

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...

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

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 racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

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

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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

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

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...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.