Makoto Satō Movies

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...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

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

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...

Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

1961 Japanese movie

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...

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

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...