Hisashi Saito

There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2013)

Cinema worker Eri and her husband Fumiya have decided not to have children. They live happily together, sharing their joys and sadnesses. However, an incident begins to silently bring about change in their placid lifestyle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Sakiko Takao  •  Matsuo Yoshioka  •  Nao Okabe  •  Kinuo Yamada

Cinema worker Eri and her husband Fumiya have decided not to have children. They live happily together, sharing their joys and sadnesses. However, an incident begins to silently bring about change in their placid lifestyle.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Sakiko Takao  •  Matsuo Yoshioka  •  Nao Okabe  •  Kinuo Yamada

Sunday Drive (1998)

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Shinya Tsukamoto  •  Takuji Suzuki  •  Miako Tadano  •  Takumi Tanji

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Shinya Tsukamoto  •  Takuji Suzuki  •  Miako Tadano  •  Takumi Tanji

Ushiro atama (1985)

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Water Crown (1986)

A seemingly ordinary preparatory school student Kishida who seemed to have raped her with a girl who seems to be prostituting while seemingly sending an ordinary high school girl high life is tied up with some kind of strange relationship.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Junko Kikuchi  •  Katsuyuki Hirano  •  Risa Imanishi  •  Tsukiko Ishida

A seemingly ordinary preparatory school student Kishida who seemed to have raped her with a girl who seems to be prostituting while seemingly sending an ordinary high school girl high life is tied up with some kind of strange relationship.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Junko Kikuchi  •  Katsuyuki Hirano  •  Risa Imanishi  •  Tsukiko Ishida

French Dressing (1998)

Drama about a narcoleptic senior-high student, Mayumi, and his relationships with a male teacher who raped him and a female classmate whose boyfriend keeps bullying him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Munehisa Sakurada  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Miako Tadano  •  Shinobu Yaguchi

Drama about a narcoleptic senior-high student, Mayumi, and his relationships with a male teacher who raped him and a female classmate whose boyfriend keeps bullying him.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Munehisa Sakurada  •  Hiroshi Abe  •  Miako Tadano  •  Shinobu Yaguchi

A Painful Pair (2002)

Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be seduced by an office employee.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Miako Tadano  •  Takuya Suzuki  •  Miwa Kawagoe

Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be seduced by an office employee.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Miako Tadano  •  Takuya Suzuki  •  Miwa Kawagoe

Diary of Beloved Wife: White Room (2006)

Sachiko and Yoshida are newlyweds, and have just moved into a newly-constructed apartment with completely white rooms. It’s reasonable to expect that they would be enjoying their newlywed life, but Sachiko is refusing to go along with Yoshida’s sexual demands. One ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Koromo Tomosato  •  Yohta Kawase  •  Chigusa Takaku  •  Miyabi Endô

Sachiko and Yoshida are newlyweds, and have just moved into a newly-constructed apartment with completely white rooms. It’s reasonable to expect that they would be enjoying their newlywed life, but Sachiko is refusing to go along with Yoshida’s sexual demands. One ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Koromo Tomosato  •  Yohta Kawase  •  Chigusa Takaku  •  Miyabi Endô

Love Dart (2017)

Mijika encourages her girlfriend, Tomoko to lose her virginity in more ways than one. Tomoko, a germaphobic basket case, blushes, but is inspired by her new ticket-taker position at a porn film theatre. Trouble ensues when the third wheel confesses his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Kanon Nawata  •  En Nakagami  •  Ryusuke Fujiwara  •  Takahiro Miura

Mijika encourages her girlfriend, Tomoko to lose her virginity in more ways than one. Tomoko, a germaphobic basket case, blushes, but is inspired by her new ticket-taker position at a porn film theatre. Trouble ensues when the third wheel confesses his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Kanon Nawata  •  En Nakagami  •  Ryusuke Fujiwara  •  Takahiro Miura

Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer (1995)

OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Takuji Suzuki  •  Rumi Komatsu  •  Tarô Suwa

OV version of the comic "Summer Memories" based on Naoki Yamamoto. Kawanaka (acted by Takuji Suzuki), who was arrested in another case, started talking about the murder school girls. Detective Kuroda is gradually at the mercy of Kawanaka's madness...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Takuji Suzuki  •  Rumi Komatsu  •  Tarô Suwa

The Sound of Grass (2021)

Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Masahiro Higashide  •  Nao  •  Shunsuke Daitoh  •  Go Riju

Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of Hakodate for mental treatment on sunny days and rainy days. When ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Masahiro Higashide  •  Nao  •  Shunsuke Daitoh  •  Go Riju

Impure Heterosexual Friendship (1988)

Chiaki Saito + Sayoko Nakajima in Impure Heterosexual Friendship, 1988.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Sayoko Nakajima  •  Chiaki Saito

Chiaki Saito + Sayoko Nakajima in Impure Heterosexual Friendship, 1988.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Sayoko Nakajima  •  Chiaki Saito

Back Head (1984)

Tsujiko is a college student who suddenly cuts her hair short like a man. Her ordinary daily life is captured with an ultra-long camera that is almost always left unmoved. Episodes with her friends from her high school days are cut back and forth in black and white ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Atsushi Hirata  •  Okamoto Hitoko  •  Asada Minako

Tsujiko is a college student who suddenly cuts her hair short like a man. Her ordinary daily life is captured with an ultra-long camera that is almost always left unmoved. Episodes with her friends from her high school days are cut back and forth in black and white ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hisashi Saito
CAST:  Atsushi Hirata  •  Okamoto Hitoko  •  Asada Minako