Cast: Makoto Satô

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Reiko Dan · Noriko Shigeyama · Sonomi Nakajima · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One...

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Sô Yamamura · Makoto Satô · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Saburô Bôya · Akira Emoto · Jun Fubuki · Akihiko Hirata

Plot A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Akira Takarada · Yumi Shirakawa · Keiko Yanagawa

Plot Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Reiko Ohara · Hajime Hana · Kei Sato

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Makoto Satô · Ichirô Nakatani · Kumi Mizuno · Naoya Kusakawa

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

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Junko Miyazono · Masumi Tachibana · Makoto Satô · Rokko Toura

Direction Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Akihiko Hirata · Yuriko Hoshi · Tôru Ibuki · Kumi Mizuno

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Yosuke Natsuki · Kumi Mizuno

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yuriko Hoshi · Makoto Satô · Ichirô Nakatani

Plot Kichi is a powerful ninja running away from the Takeda clan, and particularly from another ninja called Saburoza. During his trip he meets two misterious men: Doko Harima is a...

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Sonny Chiba · Yumiko Nogawa · Makoto Satô

Plot After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take...

Direction Senkichi Taniguchi

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Jun Tazaki · Makoto Satô · Anne Mari

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Kuniko Miyake · Kumi Mizuno · Yutaka Sada

Direction Takashi Tsuboshima

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Yuriko Hoshi · Akiko Wakabayashi

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Satomi Kobayashi · Toshinori Omi · Makoto Satô · Sayuri Ishibashi

Plot 9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched.

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Plot Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion....

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Tamio Kawaji · Makoto Satô · Isao Yamagata

Plot A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kô Nishimura · Kôzô Nomura · Chisako Hara · Makoto Satô

Plot 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 running a dope ring. Battling...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Shogoro Ichikawa · Izumi Yukimura