Movies: Makoto Satō

  • 1997
    Princess Mononoke

    Princess Mononoke (1997)

    Princess Mononoke

    8.31997HD

    Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying ...

    Princess Mononoke
  • 1980
    Shogun's Ninja

    Shogun's Ninja (1980)

    Shogun's Ninja

    6.21980HD

    In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured g...

    Shogun's Ninja
  • 1958
    The Hidden Fortress

    The Hidden Fortress (1958)

    The Hidden Fortress

    7.91958HD

    In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains....

    The Hidden Fortress
  • 1997
    The Eel

    The Eel (1997)

    The Eel

    71997HD

    A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison....

    The Eel
  • 1967
    Japan's Longest Day

    Japan's Longest Day (1967)

    Japan's Longest Day

    7.11967HD

    Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...

    Japan's Longest Day
  • 1989
    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

    6.41989HD

    Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the inn...

    Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
  • 1962
    Chûshingura

    Chûshingura (1962)

    Chûshingura

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    Chûshingura
  • 1985
    Typhoon Club

    Typhoon Club (1985)

    Typhoon Club

    6.51985HD

    Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students end...

    Typhoon Club
  • 1983
    Amagi Pass

    Amagi Pass (1983)

    Amagi Pass

    6.71983HD

    Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became ...

    Amagi Pass
  • 1982
    The Imperial Japanese Empire

    The Imperial Japanese Empire (1982)

    The Imperial Japanese Empire

    5.51982HD

    Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War....

    The Imperial Japanese Empire
  • 1970
    Blind Woman's Curse

    Blind Woman's Curse (1970)

    Blind Woman's Curse

    6.21970HD

    Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akem...

    Blind Woman's Curse
  • 1968
    Golden Eyes

    Golden Eyes (1968)

    Golden Eyes

    6.51968HD

    A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo....

    Golden Eyes
  • 1980
    Port Arthur

    Port Arthur (1980)

    Port Arthur

    7.51980HD

    Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a ...

    Port Arthur
  • 1981
    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy (1981)

    The Imperial Navy

    6.61981HD

    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....

    The Imperial Navy
  • 1960
    The Storm of the Pacific

    The Storm of the Pacific (1960)

    The Storm of the Pacific

    5.61960HD

    Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victor...

    The Storm of the Pacific
  • 1966
    What's Up, Tiger Lily?

    What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

    What's Up, Tiger Lily?

    5.31966HD

    In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe....

    What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  • 1985
    Miss Lonely

    Miss Lonely (1985)

    Miss Lonely

    71985HD

    Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?...

    Miss Lonely
  • 1978
    Message from Space

    Message from Space (1978)

    Message from Space

    5.81978HD

    The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each ...

    Message from Space
  • 1959
    Desperado Outpost

    Desperado Outpost (1959)

    Desperado Outpost

    6.11959HD

    When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer....

    Desperado Outpost
  • 1969
    Battle of the Japan Sea

    Battle of the Japan Sea (1969)

    Battle of the Japan Sea

    61969HD

    Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront t...

    Battle of the Japan Sea