Screenplay: Yasushi Sato

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Yasushi Sato. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


And Your Bird Can Sing

2018 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Shô Miyake

Cast Tasuku Emoto · Shizuka Ishibashi · Shôta Sometani

Plot Sachiko works in a bookstore in a harbour town on Hokkaido, where a perpetually late co-worker named Boku catches her eye. After spending a night in the bunk bed of...

6.6

23 votes

6.6

23 votes

The Light Shines Only There

2014 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Mipo Oh

Cast Gou Ayano · Chizuru Ikewaki · Masaki Suda · Kazuya Takahashi

Plot In a Japanese port town, Tatsuo, a traumatized man, spends his days drifting aimlessly and his nights drinking himself to oblivion. Whiling his hours away at a pachinko parlor, he...

6.3

39 votes

6.3

39 votes

Over the Fence

2016 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Jô Odagiri · Yû Aoi · Shôta Matsuda · Yukiya Kitamura

Plot Yoshio Shiraiwa (Joe Odagiri) is dumped by his wife and goes back to his hometown of Hakodate. He then enrolls at a vocational school, while receiving unemployment payments. At the...

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Sound of Grass

2021 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan

Direction Hisashi Saito

Cast Masahiro Higashide · Nao · Shunsuke Daitô · Gô Rijû

Plot Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly,...

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