Ichirō Satō Trailers
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Total trailers found: 50
31 August 1955
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too.
14 August 1976
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria.
07 July 1954
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman.
08 June 1958
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. Driven by his passion for capturing the truth, he takes on daring assignments that impress many, though his risky work worries his wife.
23 August 1949
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store.
31 May 1975
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
16 June 1963
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men.
08 June 1968
During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.
17 February 1963
A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.
08 July 1953
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
31 May 1975
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows.
30 April 1957
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love.
26 January 1974
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
15 February 1969
The 24th and final entry in the Ekimae series, set at Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefecture, formerly known for its ferry service to the Seto Inland Sea.
25 July 1965
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
28 August 1960
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother.
17 January 1976
Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.
28 April 1966
15th entry in the Ekimae series, surrounding the then-insanely popular Weekly Shounen Sunday series Osomatsu-kun and Obake no Q-Taro.
29 March 1969
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
29 September 1961
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
13 September 1955
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko.
19 September 1964
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together.
22 January 1955
Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic chaos unfold around her and fortune-teller Ishibashi.
23 December 1962
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.
09 October 1956
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
12 October 1963
The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with Shingo, a married novelist.
13 August 1961
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
31 October 1965
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls.
24 December 1961
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku.
09 January 1955
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa.
24 October 1956
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her mother’s push for an arranged marriage.