Production

Shoetsu Sato

Known for

Production

Credits

11 titles

Known for

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence poster
7.3

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

1983

August in the Water poster
7.2

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

August in the Water

1995

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep poster
5.2

Mami runs a barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to super-short skirts. Recently, Akira, who is anxious about not finding a job, has started coming to her shop. Although he has a girlfriend, he is soon interested in Mami.

Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep

1983

Tokyo Blood poster
7.7

Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.

Tokyo Blood

1993

Yoi Ko to Asobou poster
9.0

Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.

Yoi Ko to Asobou

1994

Elephant Song poster
7.0

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Elephant Song

1994

Film credits

Behind the camera

August in the Water poster
7.2

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

August in the Water

1995

Tokyo Blood poster
7.7

Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.

Tokyo Blood

1993

Yoi Ko to Asobou poster
9.0

Five junior high school students in the city enjoy stealing as a game to pass the time. One day, a mysterious masked man suddenly appears in front of them and attacks them.

Yoi Ko to Asobou

1994

Elephant Song poster
7.0

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Elephant Song

1994

Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku poster
NR

Kaori, who can find nothing in her daily life but sex with her male friend Taro, suddenly meets a middle-aged man named Kosuke. She hopes that Kosuke will quench her thirst, but is disappointed to learn that he has a woman named Naomi. Upon learning of Kaori's feelings for him, Taro...

Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku

1994

Wild Side poster
NR

In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver

Wild Side

1993

No artwork available
7.0

Omnibus film, set in a fictional town at 45゜N latitude: Wonder Rubbish; Pao-san to no fukushu; Jonetsu no koya; Kaze wa, dotchi ni fuite iru

N45゜

1994

Korosiya Ami poster
NR

Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin

Korosiya Ami

1993

Kitakoto no aru hajimete no michi poster
NR

The encounter and parting of a man and woman in Hokkaido

Kitakoto no aru hajimete no michi

1993