Torajirō Saitō
Director
30-01-1905
Birthday
Aquarius
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Total Films
Also known as (male)
Place of Birth
30-01-1905
Birthday
Aquarius
Zodiac Sign
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Genres
0
Total Films
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Also Known As (male)
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Place of Birth
Creative career
actor
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producer
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director
52 Works
writer
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other
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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Comedy movie0.0
Year:
1962
Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1961
誰よりも金を愛す
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1961
社長野郎ども
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Year:
1960
Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita
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Year:
1956
A Doting Parent’s Lullaby
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Year:
1955
Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife.0.0
Year:
1955
Song Festival, Full Moon, and the Battle of the Raccoon Dogs
Hibari Misora musical.0.0
Year:
1955
浮かれ狐千本櫻
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1954
Weak-kneed from Fear of Ghost-Cat
Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period6.0
Year:
1954
Unique Sword Technique for Revenge
Comedy directed by Torajiro Saito about swordsmen in the era of feudal Japan.0.0
Year:
1954
Road to Hawaii
A 1954 film.0.0
Year:
1954
Great Edo Song Festival
The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne woman, that was sent away from his home 16 years ago while carrying a special seal. At that time, Kanda's detective Zenshichi (Ichikawa Kodayu II) had three daughters, the third of whom, Omiyo (Misora Hibari), was a skilled singer and an expert with the lasso.0.0
Year:
1953
Bravo! Five Men
A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".0.0
Year:
1953
珍説忠臣蔵
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.0.0
Year:
1953
Bikkuri Sanjuushi
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Year:
1952
The Foster Mother
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out of guilt for breaking up with her. How does the daughter feel?0.0
Year:
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The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro Imai (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)). Starring Achako Hanabishi (Segedei Momoshiki Goten), Tamao Nakamura (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)), Seinen Hayashi (Nijunin no Kenka-jou) and Sumire Harukaze (Harukaze Sumire). Also Rumiko Komachi, Shunji Sakai, Yoshio Tabata and Mieko Suzuki.0.0
Year:
1957
Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.0.0
Year:
1953
Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.0.0
Year:
1953
娘十八びっくり天国
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1952
Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively young men on the R University Rugby Club, Toshio (Tsuruta Koji), Kenkichi (Tabata Yoshio), and Shunzo (Kawada Haruhisa).0.0
Year:
1952
大当りパチンコ娘
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1952
Somersault on the Way
A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks being destroyed in the area, a local kingpin Saheiji shows up at Denbei's demanded he hand over the mask, a request Denbei rejects out of pity for Chomatsu. However, after it is accidentally revealed that the mask contains an important map, Saheiji plots to steal the mask. Chomatsu gets involved after his mother makes a sudden reappearance that sends the boy on a roundabout journey that will reveal the truth about his family.0.0
Year:
1950
The Emperor's Hat
A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.0.0
Year:
1950
The Tokyo Kid
A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after the reward money.0.0
Year:
1950
Blue Sky Angel
1950 drama film0.0
Year:
1950
憧れのハワイ航路
Akogare no Hawaii kôro0.0
Year:
1950
Odoroki ikka
1949 Japanese film0.0
Year:
1949
Akireta musumetachi
Japanese comedy film.0.0
Year:
1949
聟入り豪華船
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Year:
1947
Five Tokyo Men
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Year:
1945
Tokkan ekichô
Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita0.0
Year:
1945
敵は幾万ありとても
1944 war movie0.0
Year:
1944
Exploits of Heisuke Isokawa
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Year:
1942
The Splendid Gold Mine
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Year:
1941
Life Begins at 61
Japanese war-era film0.0
Year:
1941
Kodakara fūfu
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Year:
1941
明朗五人男
1940 Japanese movie0.0
Year:
1940
Harmonica Boy
The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.0.0
Year:
1940
My Daughter's Only Wish
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest problem: His daughter Hideko is too clever and is expected by her teachers to enter the school for higher girls after graduating from primary school. But how is our poor clerk supposed to pay the school fees? How does poor Hideko feel about the situation? How can they cope with the envious colleagues who have less brighter daughters? And - an important question for Hideko's mother - what will the neighbours think? What's the point about getting a good education for girls anyway?0.0
Year:
1939
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.0.0
Year:
1938
Enoken's Hokaibo
An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.0.0
Year:
1938
If You Throw This Child Away
If you throw this child away0.0
Year:
1935
If You Throw This Child Away
If you throw this child away0.0
Year:
1935
Kid Commotion
Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day.8.0
Year:
1935
Japanese King Kong
A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film.2.0
Year:
1933
A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.0.0
Year:
1930
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.0.0
Year:
1929
The Dawning Sky
A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.5.5
Year:
1929
Sword of Penitence
Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.0.0
Year:
1927