Koichi Sato — Actor (41)
cover

Movie

Oishinbo (1996) WikiData IMDb TMDB
美味しんぼ
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Koichi Sato / Michiko Hada …
other title: 美味しんぼ
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
cover

Movie

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB
ペンギンズ・メモリー 幸福物語
director: Shunji Kimura actor: Koichi Sato / Hiromi Tsuru …
other title: ペンギンズ・メモリー 幸福物語 / Penguin's Memory: Shiawase Monogatari …
Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.
cover

Movie

Silent Tokyo (2020) IMDb TMDB
サイレント・トーキョー
director: Takafumi Hatano actor: Koichi Sato / Yuriko Ishida …
other title: サイレント・トーキョー
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for the TV broadcasting station and a housewife are accused by the Ebisu police as being the culprits. During this chaotic situation, a mysterious man silently watches as everything unfolds. A video clip is then uploaded to an online video website. The video contains a demand to talk with the Prime Minister during a live broadcast or a bomb will be detonated at 6 pm in Shibuya, Tokyo. Who is behind the bombings and who will stop them?
cover

Movie

Death Powder (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB
デスパウダー
director: Shigeru Izumiya actor: Shigeru Izumiya / Rikako Murakami …
other title: デスパウダー / Desu pawuda
Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.
cover

Movie

Dearest (2012) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
あなたへ
director: 降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 田中裕子 …
other title: 致亲爱的你 / あなたへ …
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.
cover

Movie

HERO (2015) IMDb TMDB NeoDB
HERO
director: 铃木雅之 actor: Takuya Kimura / 北川景子 …
other title: 律政英雄 新电影版 / 律政英雄新电影版 …
Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.
cover

Movie

The Catch (1983)
魚影の群れ
director: 相米慎二 actor: 绪形拳 / 夏目雅子 …
other title: 鱼影之群 / 魚影の群れ …
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
cover

Movie

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
陽気なギャングが地球を回す
director: 前田哲 actor: 大泽隆夫 / Shota Matsuda …
other title: 快乐的暴力团转地球 / 陽気なギャングが地球を回す …
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
cover

Movie

Botchan (2016) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
坊っちゃん
director: Masayuki Suzuki actor: Kazunari Ninomiya / Nao Matsushita …
other title: 坊っちゃん
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
cover

Movie

Hit Me Anyone One More Time (2019) IMDb TMDB Douban
記憶にございません！
director: 三谷幸喜 actor: 中井贵一 / 藤冈靛 …
other title: 不存在于记忆中 / 我不记得了 …
Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of modern Japan. During a recent speech, a citizen had thrown a rock at him causing him to lose his memory. Keisuke Kuroda’s subordinate takes him to the official residence of the prime minister where he tries to implement changes to the country. The only people aware that he has lost his memory are his three secretaries.
cover

Movie

Whiteout (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
ホワイトアウト
director: 若松节朗 actor: 织田裕二 / 松岛菜菜子 …
other title: 暴风雪 / ホワイトアウト …
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
cover

Movie

The Magic Hour (2008)
ザ・マジックアワー
★ 7.4 (5 ratings) director: Koki Mitani actor: Koichi Sato / Satoshi Tsumabuki …
other title: ザ・マジックアワー
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
cover

Movie

Wait and See (1998) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
あ、春
director: 相米慎二 actor: 佐藤浩市 / 齐藤由贵 …
other title: 啊，春天 / あ、春 …
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
cover

Movie

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986)
野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Isako Washio / Yasufumi Hayashi …
other title: 野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき / 原野、山峰、海滩 …
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
cover

Movie

Midnight Diner 2 (2016)
続・深夜食堂
director: 松冈锭司 actor: Kaoru Kobayashi / 河井青叶 …
other title: 深夜食堂2 / 続・深夜食堂 …
The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.