Makoto Satō Movies

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yui Natsukawa

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Action

Cast: Hayato Tani

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Youki Kudoh

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Pinku from 1975.

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Cast: Rushia Santô

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isako Washio

In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nae Yuuki

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Satō

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Youji Matsuda

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyoshi Ozawa

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Fuji

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Sono

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mi Bom Kang

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Miyazono

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The...

Genre: War

Cast: Jun Hashizume

While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King...

Genre: Action

Cast: Vic Morrow

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

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

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takako Irie

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

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Cast: Makoto Satō

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Konno

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara