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

6.5

181 votes

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...

6.0

87 votes

6.0

87 votes

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

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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

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The Dream of Russia

1992 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

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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

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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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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

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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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