Tatsuo Saitō Movies

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

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

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

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...

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.

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Japanese war movie.

Japanese Warmovie

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...

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

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...

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

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Three high school girls travel to Osaka to visit a friend and end up on a lively journey through Kyoto, Beppu, and Aso. Along the way they meet...