Makoto Satō Movies

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

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

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.

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

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to...

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...

Story of a textile designer-turned featherweight boxer (Kubo) who, a la Champion ( 1949), loses everything as he battles his way to the top.

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

1972 Japanese movie

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Salaryman comedy.

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

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