Hisashi Saito
Known for Directing
Born
October 5, 1959
Died
December 17, 2022 (age 63)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
34 films
Known for Directing
Born
October 5, 1959
Died
December 17, 2022 (age 63)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
34 films

The Sound of Grass
2021 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
Kudo Kazuo is a man diagnosed with psychataxia. As he cannot work and he only goes out for his follow-ups, Kazuo begins running every day as part of his psychiatric treatment and changes gradually thanks to the people he meets.

Love Dart
2019 · 2h
country: Japan
Yumeka (Kanon Nawata) whiles away her time making art in a studio left to her by her grandmother, though it appears she’s not attached to the art and may not find real value in it. She sleeps with men easily but seems empty of emotion in general. Even more in a shell is her university friend Tomoko (En Nakagami), a clean freak who cannot get involved with men. Yumeka suggests Tomoko have a tryst with their friend Takaya, but Tomoko is naturally less than interested. She does, however, take up Yumeka’s suggestion to take a job at a softcore porn movie theater and this sets of a chain of events the film follows. There she meets Kyoichi (Ryusuke Fujiwara), a young man who prostitutes himself. The thoroughly opposite Tomoko is intrigued.

There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of
2013 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
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.

Diary of Beloved Wife: White Room
2006 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
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 day, Yoshida’s junior colleague, Kato, shows him a video. Its title is White Room: Evening Classroom Inspection, and in it a girl is shown holding a photograph of her mother against her thigh while engaged in fondling. But the astounding thing is that it is a room in their newly-constructed apartment! Yoshida stealthily takes the video home, but Sachiko sees what it contains.

A Painful Pair
2002 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
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.

Sunday Drive
1998 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
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.

French Dressing
1998 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Japanese schoolboy is saved from an attempted suicide by his teacher only to be raped by that teacher before starting a menage a tois which includes one of the teacher's girl students.

Summer Memories: An Abnormal Happy Killer
1995 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
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...

SMAP VIDEO Hajimete no natsu
1993 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Yo Kitayama, Kentaro Eda, and Kentaro’s older brother join Sekine Shogo, Atsushi Yukihiro, Tetsuo Baba, and Shione Kobayashi in an attempt to fly once again an airplane that had previously failed to take off. Carrying each of their hopes and feelings with it, will the propeller finally turn?
Making Two
Making Two
1990
country: Japan
Film directed by Hisashi Saito.

Impure Heterosexual Friendship
1988 · 41m
country: Japan
Chiaki Saito + Sayoko Nakajima in Impure Heterosexual Friendship, 1988.

WATER CROWN
1986 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Ira, a girl who seems to be leading a normal high school life but is apparently working as a prostitute, and Kishida, a seemingly ordinary cram school student who may have raped her, are bound together by a strange and poignant relationship...
Ushiro atama
Ushiro atama
1985 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
1985 film

Back Head
1984 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
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, and the past and present are told in an unhurried manner. However, the past soon becomes a duplicate of the present, and every day turns into a daringly extraordinary one. Inspired by a short film of the same title by Fumiko Takano.