Junya Satō

超能力者　未知への旅人

Jun'ya Satô

Tomokazu Miura, Mieko Harada

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki” healing power.

日本ダービー　勝負

Jun'ya Satô

Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuo Umemiya

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.

暴力団再武装

Jun'ya Satô

Koji Tsuruta, Tetsurō Tamba

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).

空海

Jun'ya Satô

Kinya Kitaoji, Mayumi Ogawa

The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD.

The Last Kamikaze

Jun'ya Satô

Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

遥かなる走路

Jun'ya Satô

Kōshirō Matsumoto, Masakane Yonekura

人生劇場

Jun'ya Satô, Sadao Nakajima

Keiko Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nagashima

Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.

The Gambler's Counterattack

Jun'ya Satô

Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.

実録安藤組　襲撃篇

Jun'ya Satô

Noboru Andô, Hiroko Fuji

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

植村直己物語

Jun'ya Satô

Toshiyuki Nishida, Chieko Baisho

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.

陸軍残虐物語

Jun'ya Satô

Rentaro Mikuni, Katsuo Nakamura

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.

未完の対局

Jun'ya Satô, Ji-shun Duan

Rentaro Mikuni, Misako Konno

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 described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.

Organized Violence II

Jun'ya Satô

Tetsurō Tamba, Ryôhei Uchida

Organized Violence II

おろしや国酔夢譚

Jun'ya Satô

Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

組織暴力

Jun'ya Satô

Tetsurō Tamba, Shin'ichi Chiba

A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.

The Private Police

Jun'ya Satô

Noboru Andô, Bunta Sugawara

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.