Direction: Junya Sato
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Junya Sato. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Yamato
2005 · Movie · 145 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Takashi Sorimachi · Shido Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ken'ichi Matsuyama
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6.5
181 votes
The Bullet Train
1975 · Movie · 152 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Ken Takakura · Sonny Chiba · Kei Yamamoto · Eiji Gô
Plot One of the Japanese Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race...
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6.0
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The Go Masters
1982 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan
Direction Ji-shun Duan · Junya Sato · Shu'an Liu
Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Misako Konno · Nobuko Otowa · Hideji Ôtaki
Plot Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely...
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Proof of the Man
1977 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast George Kennedy · Mariko Okada · Yusaku Matsuda · Broderick Crawford
Plot 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...
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The Silk Road
1988 · Movie · 144 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Koichi Sato · Anna Nakagawa · Tsunehiko Watase
Plot In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One...
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Thirst for Love
1966 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Yoshiko Mita · Rentarô Mikuni · Tetsurô Tanba
Plot Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
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Manhunt
1976 · Movie · 151 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Ken Takakura · Yoshio Harada · Ryo Ikebe · Ryoko Nakano
Plot A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
1992 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Yôko Minamino · Hidekazu Akai · Tomokazu Miura · Kaho Minami
Plot Keiko's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds...
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Never Give Up
1978 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Ken Takakura · Ryoko Nakano · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Rentarô Mikuni
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Yakuza Skirmishes
1972 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Tatsuya Fuji · Eiji Gô
Plot In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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Theater of Life
1983 · Movie · 138 min. · Japan
Direction Kinji Fukasaku · Sadao Nakajima · Junya Sato
Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Kie Nakai · Hiroki Matsukata
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The Dream of Russia
1992 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Ken Ogata · Oleg Yankovskiy · Takuzo Kawatani · Noboru Mitani
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Harukanaru sôro
1980 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Masakane Yonekura · Takahiro Tamura · Yôko Tsukasa
Plot A spectacular drama depicting the truth about the birth of the world’s top company “Toyota Motor”.
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The Last Kamikaze
1970 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Koji Tsuruta · Ken Takakura · Sonny Chiba · Tatsuo Umemiya
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Kuruwa sodachi
1964 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Yoshiko Mita · Katsuo Nakamura · Tatsuo Umemiya · Mako Midori
Plot Tamiko has been with a geisha house since she was little, but she kept on studying hoping to start a new life and marry a medical student, Yasuke, a sweet...
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Ku-Kai
1984 · Movie · 179 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Mayumi Ogawa · Kô Nishimura · Hideo Murota
Plot Biopic about the Buddhist master Kukai who founded an important order in 19th century Japan.
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Lost in the Wilderness (Story of an Adventurer, Naomi Uemura)
1986 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Chieko Baisho · Masato Furuoya · Go Wakabayashi
Plot Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world's highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.
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Golgo 13
1973 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Ken Takakura · Pouri Baneai · Mohsen Sohrabi · Jaleh Sam
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Sakurada Gate Incident
2010 · Movie · 137 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Takao Osawa · Kyoko Hasegawa · Akira Emoto · Katsuhisa Namase
Plot In February 1860, 17 samurai organized a secret team in order to assassinate the minister of the government of Edo, Naosuke Ii, because he was the great promoter of the...
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Jitsuroku: Shisetsu Ginza keisatsu
1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Junya Sato
Cast Noboru Andô · Tatsuo Umemiya · Hideo Murota · Tsunehiko Watase
Plot After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza and decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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