Makoto Satou Movies

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

Salaryman comedy.

Story of love, friendship, and college sports.

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

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

Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared...

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

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

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

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,...

Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to...

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

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,...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.