Makoto Satō

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with ...

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, ...

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has ...

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a ...

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King ...

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat ...

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku ...

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer.

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer’s machinations and a young man who committed suicide.

The movie takes place in the five-day period before, during and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which five of the students ...