Makoto Satō — Actor (73)
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Warring Clans (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
戦国野郎
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Yuriko Hoshi …
other title: 戦国野郎 / Clanes en guerra
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack...
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Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Adventure in Kigan Castle (1966) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
奇巌城の冒険
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshiro Mifune / Tatsuya Mihashi …
other title: Le avventure di Takla Tan / Les Aventures de Takla Makan …
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.
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The Killing Machine (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
少林寺拳法
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Sonny Chiba / Yutaka Nakajima …
other title: 少林寺拳法 / Shaolin Karaté …
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and gangsters get the worst of it, as Mr. Soh builds up his school on the island of Shikoku.
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Desperado Outpost (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
独立愚連隊
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Makoto Satō / Izumi Yukimura …
other title: 独立愚連隊 / Der Deserteur
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.
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
転校生
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: 尾美利德 / 小林聪美 …
other title: 転校生 / La Nouvelle de la classe …
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
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The Eel (1997) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData Skybridge IMDb
うなぎ
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Koji Yakusho / Misa Shimizu …
other title: L'anguilla / A Enguia …
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.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
座頭市
director: Shintarō Katsu actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kanako Higuchi …
other title: Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 26 : L'Odyssée finale …
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 innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Lonely heart (1985) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
さびしんぼう
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: 富田靖子 / 尾美利德 …
other title: 寂寞的人 / さびしんぼう …
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?
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Vengeance for Sale (2002) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
助太刀屋助六
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Kyoka Suzuki …
other title: 助太刀屋助六
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.
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Typhoon Club (1985) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
台風クラブ
director: 相米慎二 actor: 三上祐一 / 红林茂 …
other title: 台风俱乐部 / 台風クラブ …
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
セーラー服と機関銃
director: Shinji Sōmai actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Yuki Kazamatsuri …
other title: セーラー服と機関銃
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.