Makoto Satō Movies

1961 Japanese movie

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

A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and...

When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against...

1972 Japanese movie

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

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

A dramatization of the Miike miners' strike.

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,...

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

In 1976, the Beauty Pair burst onto the women's professional wrestling scene like a comet. This tag team, consisting of Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda,...

Akira Nobi directs this violent two-fisted tale about a pair of abandoned sibling teens who fall into a web of yakuza intrigue. The film opens with...

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

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

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...