Direction: Tatsuo Satō
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Tatsuo Satō. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Cat Soup
2001 · Movie · 32 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Cat Soup is an extremely difficult film to describe, due to its awesome surrealism and almost nonexistant dialogue. It is more a work of art than an anime. There are...
6.7
695 votes
6.7
695 votes
Soar High! Isami (TV Series)
1995 · Series · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Gisaburô Sugii · Tatsuo Satō
Plot Isami Hanaoka is just a fifth grader who happens to be a descendant of the Shinsengumi. Together with fellow descendants and classmates Soshi Yukimi and Toshi Tsukikage, she discovers in...
6.7
98 votes
6.7
98 votes
Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 20 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Katsushi Sakurabi · Tatsuyuki Nagai · Tsutomu Yabuki
Plot TV Series (2008). 12 Episodes. Fumika and Kanaka are mail carriers- but not the typical kind. For one, Kanaka is a talking staff and for two, Fumika delivers shigofumi: letters...
6.6
58 votes
6.6
58 votes
Ninja Scroll: The Series (TV Series)
2003 · Series · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Fourteen years after defeating the immortal warrior Himuro Genma and thwarting the Shogun of the Dark's evil plans, Kibagami Jubei continues to roam all over Japan as a masterless swordsman....
6.4
891 votes
6.4
891 votes
Martian Successor Nadesico (TV Series)
1996 · Series · 22 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Akito doesn't want to fight. Despite a childhood spent on the anime Gekiganger 3, a Mecha show, he'd rather cook than pilot a Mecha. Fate intervenes when his home on...
6.3
21 votes
6.3
21 votes
Helck (TV Series)
2023 · Series · 22 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot TV Series (2023). 24 Episodes.Three months have passed since the Demon Lord was struck down, and the Demon Realm is holding a tournament to select his replacement. The leading contestant...
5.7
24 votes
5.7
24 votes
Lord Marksman and Vanadis (TV Series)
2014 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot TV Series (2014). 13 Episodes. In times of war, set in Western Europe, Eleonora Viltaria, one of the seven Vanadis of Zhcted, leads the war into Brune. There are actually...
5.7
48 votes
5.7
48 votes
Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness
1998 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Three years have passed since the end of the "Martian Successor Nadesico" series and the war with the Jovians has ended. Ruri has become captain of the Nadesico B and...
5.0
24 votes
5.0
24 votes
Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne: Kamogawa Days
2012 · Movie · 44 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Toshimasa Suzuki
Plot An intermezzo between the two halves of Rinne No Lagrange, showing the main characters going about their lives after they've separated. Madoka returns to Kamogawa and continues with her Jersey...
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Atom The Beginning (TV Series)
2017 · Series · 22 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Katsuyuki Motohiro
Plot In Japan after a great calamity, there were two geniuses who dreamed of the future. One was Umatarô Tenma. The other was Hiroshi Ochanomizu. The two labored day and night...
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Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars (TV Series)
2001 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Hiroyuki Tanaka · Kiyoshi Egami · Sôichi Masui
Plot TV Series (2001). 26 Episodes. The day after an apparent alien invasion of Tokyo is repelled by a mysterious being, middle schooler Murata Hajime discovers that his small town holds...
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Bodacious Space Pirates (TV Series)
2012 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Marika is a first year high school student living in a far away galaxy known as Uminoakeboshi. One day she finds out that her recently deceased father was once the...
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Soar High! Isami (TV Series)
1995 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Gisaburô Sugii · Kiyoshi Fukumoto · Ken'ichirô Watanabe
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Licca-chan no Nichiyoubi (S)
1992 · Movie · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Licca and Izumi has been asked to babysit Izumi's relatives, Aki and Tomo. Izumi is more focused on baking cookies, leaving Licca to fend for herself with a distrustful Aki...
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Stellvia (TV Series)
2003 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Shigeru Ueda · Naoyoshi Kusaka · Tsuyoshi Nagasawa
Plot In 2167, a supernova explosion engulfed the Earth with a wave of electromagnetic energy, turning the sky green and causing countless disasters. After recovering from that first wave, humanity started...
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Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace
2014 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō
Plot Katou Marika, a third year student at Hakuho Girls' Academy, is a legitimate space pirate with a Letter of Marque. Between her studies, leading her school's space yacht club, working...
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Tasūketsu (TV Series)
2024 · Series · min. · Japan
Direction Tatsuo Satō · Tōru Hamazaki
Plot TV Series (2024). A group of five people in a world where people have suddenly disappeared. A mysterious self-proclaimed "Emperor" gathers five people together through anonymous messages and has them...
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