Makoto Satō Movies

Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to...

Punch, Pinch, and Sench participate in a Tokyo-to-Osaka auto race but their car is stolen, and so get jobs in a cabaret where they pose in bathing...

A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old...

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

Film with Junko Miyazono.

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.

A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu and the detective who rides with him to arrest...

The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series.

In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent...

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

1962 Japanese movie

Ever since that fatal incident in college, Kanako has sensed them. A sound behind her... an object moving at the corner of her vision. Birds. Cooing,...