Tatsuo Saitō
Birthday: 1902-06-10
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Tatsuo Saitō (斎藤 達雄, Saitō Tatsuo, 10 June 1902 – 2 March 1968) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1925 to 1967.
Movies
Wedding Day
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a leth...
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Escapade in Japan
A plane is forced to land at sea just off the Japanese coast. A young American boy is later befriend...
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I Was Born, But...
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...
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G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese ...
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My Geisha
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...
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Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge t...
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That Night's Wife
In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes wit...
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The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had al...
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Three Stripes in the Sun
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falli...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
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Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return o...
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Tokyo Chorus
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his ...
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Ornamental Hairpin
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a ...
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King of the Land
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year....
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Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer secti...
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Burden of Life
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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Sailor
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. How...
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Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo ...
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Women at War
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a ...
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A Certain Woman
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu...
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The Flower is not False
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously...
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Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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Joe Butterfly
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surre...
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Elegy of the North
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithf...
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The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wiv...
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I Flunked, But...
This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way...
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The Lady and the Beard
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tensi...
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of h...
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The Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's...
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Osayo Koi Sugata
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. Wit...
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Okoto and Sasuke
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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Lord Jim
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem him...
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Kōfuku no genkai
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along ...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and M...
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The Groom Talks in His Sleep
A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely...
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The Devil's toast
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's ...
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South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in ...
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The Woman Who Holds the Key
Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuhe...
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The Vampire Moth
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask....
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of win...
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Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....
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Suzhou Nights
A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment...
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Claws of Iron
During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in t...
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Shisha to no kekkon
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train ac...
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The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost....
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Carmen's Innocent Love
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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Tokyo File 212
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the ...
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A Primer on Marriage
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself...
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Young Lady
Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalis...
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Spring Comes from the Ladies
A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered t...
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The Luck Which Touched the Leg
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner....
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The Revengeful Spirit of Eros
A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently disc...
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Pumpkin
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film....
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The Life of an Office Worker
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates o...
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Wife Lost
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Consi...
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Physical Beauty
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with h...
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Mother's Ambition
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu w...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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The Tree of Love
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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Silver Stream
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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College Is a Nice Place
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studie...
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Ningen moyo
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president....
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Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold prote...
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The New Road: Ryota
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow ari...
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Let's Have A Dream
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t...
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Mother and Child
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his ne...
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Morishige, where are you going?
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets ...
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Mik...
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Merry Migratory Birds
Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was ...
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日本敗れず
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance
Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into ...
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Salarygirl Story: Saucy Staff
Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm, where buried family secrets and a com...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist...
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A Wife Quits
Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepene...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The Golden Demon
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
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The Sun Rises from the East
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directe...
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Mother of the East
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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A Strong Wind Blows
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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The Green Voyage
Three high school girls travel to Osaka to visit a friend and end up on a lively journey through Kyo...
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