Gajirō Satō — Actor (31)
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Suddenly, Like a Storm (1977) IMDb TMDB
突然 嵐 の ように
director: Shigeyuki Yamane actor: Hiromi Go / Kumiko Akiyoshi …
other title: 突然 嵐 の ように
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship ...
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In Broad Daylight (1968) IMDb TMDB
白昼堂々
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: 白昼堂々
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store.
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Prey (1979) IMDb TMDB
餌食
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Yuya Uchida / Jun Tatara …
other title: 餌食
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
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Melody of Rebellion (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB
反逆のメロディー
director: Yukihiro Sawada actor: Yoshio Harada / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 反逆のメロディー / Hangyaku no merodī
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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The Four Roughnecks (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
あばよダチ公
director: Yukihiro Sawada actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Kenzō Kawarasaki …
other title: あばよダチ公
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat! (1969) IMDb TMDB
めくらのお市　みだれ笠
director: Hirokazu Ichimura actor: Yōko Matsuyama / Gorō Ibuki …
other title: Watch Out, Crimson Bat ! / めくらのお市　みだれ笠
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
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Dinosaur Corps Koseidon (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
恐竜戦隊コセイドン
actor: Yoshihiro Onishi / Nanami Murano …
other title: Koseidon / 恐竜戦隊コセイドン
The series follows the adventures of Go, a superhero leading a patrol who travel in time to defeat the Godmess Empire, an alien armada who, after landing on Earth 70 million years ago, has altered the course of time. Go's enemies include dinosaurs which are telepathically controlled by the aliens. He has the ability to stop time for 30 seconds.
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The Killing Game (1978) IMDb TMDB
殺人遊戯
director: Tōru Murakawa actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Yutaka Nakajima …
other title: 殺人遊戯
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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The Classroom of Terror (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
暴力教室
director: Akihisa Okamoto actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Hiroshi Tachi …
other title: The classroom of terror / 暴力教室
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.
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G.I. Samurai (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
戦国自衛隊
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Sonny Chiba / Isao Natsuyagi …
other title: Time Slip - Der Tag der Apokalypse / Les Guerriers de l'Apocalypse …
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
ピンクレディーの活動大写真
director: Tsugunobu Kotani actor: Keiko Masuda / Mie …
other title: ピンクレディーの活動大写真 / Pink Lady no Katsudō Daishashin
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.
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Nuns That Bite (1977) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧
director: 牧口雄二 actor: Haruka Tajima / ひろみ摩耶 …
other title: 여옥문첩 - 찢겨진 여승 / 女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧 …
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)
キネマの天地
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiichi Nakai / Narimi Arimori …
other title: Prise finale / キネマの天地 …
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
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About Her Brother (2010) Douban NeoDB
おとうと
director: 山田洋次 actor: 苍井优 / 加濑亮 …
other title: 年轻的弟弟 / 给弟弟的安眠曲(港) …
东京一隅，温柔善良的高野吟子（吉永小百合 饰）独自打理着去世丈夫留下来的药店。过去的20年里，她和婆婆、女儿小春（蒼井優 饰）住在一起，虽颇多艰辛，但日子平淡幸福。如今，女儿将要嫁作人妻，吟子喜悦之余仍不免有所忧虑。原来在丈夫13周年忌辰上，她的弟弟铁郎（笑福亭鹤瓶 饰）醉酒胡闹，惹得亲朋不快。吟子和哥哥庄平（小林稔侍 饰）有意瞒着弟弟，然而得到消息的铁郎依旧欢喜前来，而且照例醉酒闹事。铁郎的举动不仅让家人颜面尽失，也影响了小春的婚姻。此后的日子里，这个年过半百却总也长不大的弟弟成为了姐姐久久无法割舍的牵绊……
本片为日本国宝级导演山田洋次向市川昆致敬之作，受邀参加第60届柏林影展，并荣获电影节特别奖。
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Proof of the Man (1977)
人間の証明
director: Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / George Kennedy …
other title: 人間の証明 / Sombras de una guerra …
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.