Tag Archives: Makoto Satô

While testing the advance prototype of a revolutionary gas engine Read More »

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. Read More »

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict Read More »

After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety. Read More »

The son of a murder crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other. Read More »

Liberated from a slave auction, Osami joins with priest Ensai on a quest to find and deliver relics of the Buddha to Osami’s brother Read More »

In the days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Kato Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps Read More »

A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the sengoku period. Read More »

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. Read More »

In 1964, a chemical factory in Niigata Prefecture dumped mercury into the Agano River Read More »

A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. Read More »

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Read More »

Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents’ leader Read More »

A reformed gangster helps a former yakuza member. Read More »

Sonny Chiba plays the character referred to as “Mr Soh”, who is based on the true life founder of Shorinji Kempo, Doshin So. Mr Soh has been acting as a secret agent in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation. Read More »