Gajirō Satō
Birthday: 1944-08-09
Place of Birth: Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo com...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a...
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Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter t...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another ...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a f...
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Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to ...
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In Broad Daylight
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindl...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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The Peking Man
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confi...
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Ninja Wars
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the wor...
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G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their...
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Shura ga Yuku 6
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster...
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii...
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The Japanese Belly Button
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss....
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Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fe...
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Supermarket Woman
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty...
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Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and l...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by th...
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Steel & Lead
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his m...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and la...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn w...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...
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It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but recon...
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Disregarded People
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometo...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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Short and Fat
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga ...
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Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi...
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The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushi...
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Nuns That Bite
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds ...
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Bullying is Costly
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a b...
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen o...
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acqu...
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The Killing Game
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gon...
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Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abrupt...
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The Classroom of Terror
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school ...
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Suddenly, Like a Storm
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a sto...
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Dragon Princess
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He train...
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The Four Roughnecks
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Tak...
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
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Code Between Brothers 6
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern J...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee...
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Prey
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful s...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully compre...
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About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud...
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career....
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mits...
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Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his ...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing ca...
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Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarra...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her si...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. ...
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Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to tra...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan sto...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride....
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown a...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. ...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She ...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that...
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Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune)...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is a...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vie...
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Melody of Rebellion
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He r...
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The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce
Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda becomes entangled in an elaborate divorce scheme targeting a hard-wor...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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Osaka Tough Guys
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced...
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Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One y...
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The Pachinko Game Drifter
Based on the comic by Yoshikazu Ebisu, starring Riki Takeuchi, Dan-chan, who plays the role of Takeu...
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "mons...
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Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...
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The Detective Journey
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become ...
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Tokyo do mannaka
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted...
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Big, Big Fellow
The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter...
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Dioxin from Fish!
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo....
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous mo...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying a...
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