The filming site of the movie "Koisuredo Koisuredo Monogatari"(1956). The people in front are from right to left, Director Torajiro Saito, Tony Tani, Ichiro Arishima, and Mariko Miyagi.
Torajirō Saitō (斎藤 寅次郎, Saitō Torajirō, January 30, 1905 – May 1, 1982) was a Japanese film director known for his comedy films. Born in
Akita Prefecture, he entered
Shōchiku's
Kamata studio in 1922 and debuted as a director in 1926.[1] He later worked at the
Shintoho and
Toho studios.[1] He became known as the "god of comedy" for directing over 200 films, many of which were nonsense comedies featuring famous clowns such as
Ken'ichi Enomoto,
Roppa Furukawa, and
Junzaburo Ban.[1][2][3]
^Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie The Japanese Film: Art and Industry 1982 Page 198 "One of the earliest of the postwar comedies was Torajiro Saito's The Emperor's Hat (Tennō no Bōshi), made in 1950 and incorporating a plot which before the war would have constituted a severe political crime. A man working in a museum ..."