Makoto Satou Movies

A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase,...

Film with Junko Miyazono.

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

1969 yakuza movie.

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

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...

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

Story of love, friendship, and college sports.

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,...

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected...

A young man from a family photo studio becomes a newspaper photojournalist, learning the risks and demands of the job through repeated setbacks. His...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

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

A dramatization of the Miike miners' strike.

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