Makoto Satou 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...

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...

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

1969 yakuza movie.

Story of love, friendship, and college sports.

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

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

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,...

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

Based on the story "Actress and Poet" ("Joyu to shijin") by Minoru Nakano.

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

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

A dramatization of the Miike miners' strike.