Masahiko Sakata Movies

Surgeon Asami Hanaoka is in financial difficulty. A gang soon plot to takeover the hospital.

When the recession hits, Osaka-based loan shark Ginjiro Manda decides to help out small business owners in trouble, but finds himself face-to-face...

A youth drama portraying the life of legendary actor Shoji Kaneko, who devoted his life to filmmaking and died at the young age of 33.

When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old...

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a...

Follows a blackmailer who exploits the weaknesses of powerful villains and strips them of their wealth.

Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the...

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

#7 in the King of Minami series, following "Tactical Debt." Manda tries to save his business from a money-lending hostess club run by yakuza from...

This film, directed by Banmei Takahashi, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Atsushi Mizoguchi. It depicts the love-hate relationship...

In a town near an American naval base a woman starts a affair with her Aunt’s Black boyfriend who is a U.S. serviceman.

22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One...

With the death of her father, a daughter reluctantly returns to the family temple hidden in the mist covered mountains where dark and forbidden...

Amon, a private detective specializing in affair investigations, is asked by a man named Koga to investigate the conduct of his wife, Misako, who is...

A sensual drama depicting the world of lust that unfolds in an inn deep in the mountains.

The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.

As soon as he bought a small house on a loan, his wife died in an accident. His work wasn't going well either. But this unsuccessful father raised...

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to...