Makoto Satō Movies

1961 Japanese movie

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,...

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

A dramatization of the Miike miners' strike.

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...

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...

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

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...

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned...

1972 Japanese movie

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

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

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,...