Kōichi Saitō Trailers
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Kōichi Saitō (斎藤 耕一 Saitō Kōichi, 3 February 1929 – 28 November 2009) was a Japanese film director and photographer. Born in Tokyo, Saitō started studying at Rikkyo University but ended up graduating from the Tokyo College of Photography (currently Tokyo Polytechnic University). He was initially a movie stills photographer at Nikkatsu before launching his own production company, Saito Productions, and directing his first film, Tsubuyaki no Jō, "a low-budget, independent film with a visual flair that earned comparisons with Claude Lelouch and with Richard Lester’s Beatles films, including A Hard Day’s Night". Some of his first films were youth movies featuring Group Sounds music. He came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of movies about young people escaping to or searching for their identity in the countryside. He won the best director award at the 1972 Mainichi Film Awards. His Tsugaru jongarabushi was selected the best film of 1973 in the Kinema Junpo poll of critics. Saitō continued directing into his seventies and also made some documentaries. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette) in 2000.
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10 February 1971
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store.
14 July 1979
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family.
08 March 1957
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
09 October 1993
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota.
01 January 1971
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach.
09 October 1974
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel.
15 November 1980
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
15 December 1963
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions.
20 March 1971
Based on the song by Mari Henmi
18 March 1970
A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there.
17 September 1969
Reiji and Takashi, although they are brothers, differ from each other like fire and water - Reiji is an empath, and Takashi will use anybody, to get as far up the social ladder as possible.
01 September 2001
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian evangelistic group of ex-Yakuza.
16 July 1977
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her.
29 March 1972
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
03 October 1970
Based on Shinichi Mori song
01 November 1975
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
17 April 2004
A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away.
15 September 1968
Rebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best version of one's self, is faced with her most formidable challenge yet in the charming but very stuck in his ways, Clive, a former soccer star.
05 April 1972
Kaori, the principal of Tanimoto Gakuen, a major player in the beauty industry, is aiming to expand into Shinjuku in order to make further progress.
28 October 1972
Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean.
27 April 1968
Village Singers film
10 July 1971
Based on Shinichi Mori song
08 April 1978
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
20 December 1973
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen.
15 September 1973
A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.
29 March 1969
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band.
04 March 1964
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
29 August 1964
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko.
13 January 1971
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi.
23 December 1967
Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.
15 March 1975
Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
24 April 1976
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
