Soundtrack: Kôichi Sakata

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Kôichi Sakata. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Oshin (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 15 min. · Japan

Direction Sugako Hashida

Cast Ayako Kobayashi · Yûko Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Pinko Izumi

Plot (297 Episodes) The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is Japanese archaic cognomen. In Japan,...

7.5

23 votes

7.5

23 votes

Night of the Felines

1972 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Tomoko Katsura · Ken Yoshizawa · Hidemi Hara · Hidetoshi Kageyama

Plot Bathhouse prostitute Masako and her street-whore friend Jun are pawn for their Yakuza Pimps. These girls have lost control over their own existence, passed from one client to the next...

5.9

53 votes

5.9

53 votes

Marco (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot Marco, a young boy who lives with his family in the harbor city of Genoa, Italy during a depression period in 1881. Marco's father, Pietro Rossi, is a manager of...

5.7

24K votes

5.7

24K votes

A Woman Called Abe Sada

1975 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Genshu Hanayagi · Yoshie Kitsuda

Plot In 1936 a geisha named Abe Sada was found wandering around the streets of Kyoto with a knife, a rope, and a severed penis in her hands. The latter turned...

5.5

43 votes

5.5

43 votes

Oshin

1984 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Eiichi Yamamoto

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Woman on the Night Train

1972 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Mari Tanaka · Keiko Tsuzuki · Toshihiko Oda · Tomoko Katsura

Plot Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his...

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Oyaji no hige 2 (TV)

1987 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

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Dangerous Games

1970 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Junko Natsu · Jiro Okazaki · Chieko Matsubara · Yoshiko Ikebo

Plot Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation...

Not rated

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Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Fumio Kurokawa · Eiji Okabe

Plot Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Itô Sachio, Tatsuo Hori, Hidemitsu Tanaka, Natsume Sôseki, Fumiko Hayashi, Mori Ogai, Yasushi Inoue, Hisashi Inoue, Yuzo Yamamoto, Ichiyô Higuchi, Kyôka Izumi, Koizumi Yakumo, Jirô Akagawa,...

Not rated

Not rated

Savage Wolf Pack

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tamio Kawaji · Mieko Fujimoto · Yuri Yoshioka

Plot The clash between a group of motorist gangster and a professional hunter who desire for revenge.

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Not rated

Oyaji no hige (TV)

1986 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

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Lucy of the Southern Rainbows (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Saitô

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Rail of the Star - A True Story of Children

1993 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Satoru Namekawa · Toshio Hirata

Plot A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due...

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Outlaw: Black Dagger

1968 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Akiyoshi Fukae · Eiji Gô

Plot A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

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Oyaji no hige 3 (TV)

1988 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

1968 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Asao Koike · Jiro Okazaki

Plot On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of...

Not rated

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Secret Honeymoon: Rape Train

1977 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yuuko Oribe · Noriaki Abe · Tokuko Watanabe

Plot Two trivial criminals, who escape the pursuers to the church where they take the newly arrested bride, ride a moving train whose empty freight car provides a hiding place for...

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The Secret of The Seal

1992 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Nekomataya

Plot After his mother passes away, Atonio and his family move from West Germany to his father's home country of Sardinia. There, everyone calls him Tottoi. Tottoi tries get used to...

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Not rated