A story of a college student (Tatsuo Saitô) and his schoolmates trying to pass the exams by cheating. Read More »
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I Was Born, But… (1932) Yasujirô Ozu, Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Read More »
Every-Night Dreams (1933) Mikio Naruse, Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Jun Arai
A single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son until–her long-lost husband returns. Read More »
Days of Youth (1929) Yasujirô Ozu, Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui, Comedy
The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirô Yûki and Tatsuo Saitô) who vie for the attention of the same girl (Junko Matsui) during a skiing trip. Read More »
Seishun no yume ima izuko / Where Are the Dreams of Youth (1932) Yasujirô Ozu, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô, Comedy, Romance
When a young man inherits his father’s lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka / What Did The Lady Forget? (1937) Yasujirô Ozu, Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano, Comedy, Drama
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday, the professor does not feel like going to his weekend golf game, but his wife packs him off anyway. So he leaves his bag at the apartment of his student Okada, and goes to a bar with a friend. Setsuko traces him there, and insists that he take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada to take her home, while he sleeps at Okada’s. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home, and also of her husband when she discovers that he did not go golfing.
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