Gajirō Satō Movies

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Third film in the series.

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front....

Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre...

Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.

The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a...

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

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,...

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...

Based on the comic by Yoshikazu Ebisu, starring Riki Takeuchi, Dan-chan, who plays the role of Takeuchi, challenges the great game of the century,...

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...

A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him,...

Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.