Makoto Satō Movies

The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict...

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they...

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

1969 yakuza movie.

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...

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Crime melodrama about two detectives (Ikebe and Arashima) and one detective's trumpet-playing son (Sato) who become involved in a complex murder...

A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success,...

Action melodrama.

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

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

1961 Japanese movie

A group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart...

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.