Hirofumi Satô

Movies

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
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Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
Tora-san, His Tender Love
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Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Murder in the Deep
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Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
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A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
Lady with Seven Faces
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A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal 500 million yen of ill-gotten money from the safe at Nitto Textiles
Season of Love
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Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.
Living Skeleton
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A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
Black Lizard
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A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
Fountain of Love
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Five young men have many financial troubles, but this only brings them closer together.
Lemon Girls on the Go
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Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.
Everybody, Let's Go!
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A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...
Let Us Love
Sound Mixer
Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.
Rebellion of Japan
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Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Our Young World of Music
Sound Mixer
Japanese youth film.
A Trap
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When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
Volunteering for Villainy
Sound Recordist
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
Fountainhead
Sound
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Late Spring
Sound Recordist
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.