Movies: Tatsuo Saitō

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

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

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

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

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Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from...

Hong Kong-set religious drama....

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier...

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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 his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film....

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

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The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup t...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks....

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

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut...

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, he...

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A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film....