Makoto Satō Movies

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

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...

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the...

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

Film with Junko Miyazono.

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their...

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

1961 Japanese movie

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

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.

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi