Production

Satoru Ogura

Known for

Production

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole poster
5.4

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole

1988

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood poster
4.6

A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

1985

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment poster
4.8

Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment

1985

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment poster
4.8

Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment

1985

Kamikaze Girls poster
7.2

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

Kamikaze Girls

2004

Princess Raccoon poster
5.8

Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.

Princess Raccoon

2005

Rabbit Horror poster
5.2

To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.

Rabbit Horror

2011

Guinea Pig Part 4: Devil Doctor Woman poster
4.4

A doctor conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!

Guinea Pig Part 4: Devil Doctor Woman

1986

Lucky Sky Diamond poster
4.0

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...

Lucky Sky Diamond

1989

Blessing Bell poster
6.9

Existential study on a newly unemployed factory worker who silently moves through the city, unknowingly influencing other people's lives.

Blessing Bell

2002

Summer of Ubume poster
7.0

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.

Summer of Ubume

2005

Mushi-Shi: The Movie poster
6.0

Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and interact with Mushi. One such person is Ginko who travels from place to place to research Mushi and aid people suffering from problems caused by them.

Mushi-Shi: The Movie

2007

The Shock Labyrinth poster
4.3

The horror-thriller follows a group of teenagers dealing with the disappearance of one of them, Yuki, at an amusement park's haunted house. On a rainy day 10 years later, Yuki inexplicably returns. However, no sooner is she united with her former friends than she collapses, and the group rushes Yuki to a nearby hospital. But after checking in, they discover that things are not quite as they seem at the medical center. As the night wears on, the group sinks deeper and deeper into the events from a decade ago that led to Yuki's disappearance.

The Shock Labyrinth

2009

Ekeb of Dekye poster
6.6

Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover, the wife of the president of his company. But before he is able to leave, he has to kill her husband and make it look like suicide.

Ekeb of Dekye

2010

The Warrior and the Wolf poster
4.2

Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves...

The Warrior and the Wolf

2009

Pistol Opera poster
6.1

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Pistol Opera

2001

Candlestick poster
4.0

In Japan today, there is a demand for "100 million people to become shareholders" due to the "20 million yen retirement problem" and the spread of NISA and iDeCo. It is no exaggeration to say that we live in an age where "billionaires" are born through cryptocurrencies and stocks, and that anyone has the chance to become a billionaire.

Candlestick

2025

Candlestick poster
4.0

In Japan today, there is a demand for "100 million people to become shareholders" due to the "20 million yen retirement problem" and the spread of NISA and iDeCo. It is no exaggeration to say that we live in an age where "billionaires" are born through cryptocurrencies and stocks, and that anyone has the chance to become a billionaire.

Candlestick

2025

KING GAME poster
NR

5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.

KING GAME

2010

Black Jack poster
NR

Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.

Black Jack

1996

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You poster
NR

A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

1996

Hard Luck Hero poster
5.9

The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.

Hard Luck Hero

2003

Nanase futatabi poster
6.0

A gifted psychic named Nanase teams up with other psychics in order to fight against a mysterious organization determined to hunt them down.

Nanase futatabi

2010

Youjo Melon poster
4.7

In the ruined house, a member of the rock band breaks a seal to shut Melon the witch. And then Melon murders the members of the band one after another.

Youjo Melon

1987

Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless poster
1.0

A fake documentary disguised as an undercover report on a secret circle that teaches how to freely secrete the brain drug endorphins.

Report on Latent Narcotic Substances in the Brain: Drugless

1991