Buichi Saitō (斎藤武市, Saitō Buichi, 27 January 1925 – January 2011) was a Japanese film director[1][2] from Saitama Prefecture.

[3] His representative works included Wataridori series starring Akira Kobayashi, Farewell to Southern Tosa(1959) and Gazing at Love and Death(1964).

[4] Saitō often worked with Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido and Sayuri Yoshinaga.

After graduating Waseda University, he joined Shochiku Film and started working as an assistant director under Yasujirō Ozu[5] and Kōzaburō Yoshimura etc.

[4] This biographical article related to Japan is a stub.