Gajiro Satoh
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.043 |
| Birthday | 1944-08-09 |
| Place of Birth | Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Gajirô Satô, |
1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses
8/2
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
1993
Tora-san's Matchmaker
8.5/2
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
1991
Tora-san Confesses
8/2
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izum...
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Tora-san Confesses
1990
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
8/2
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1994
Tora-san's Easy Advice
8/2
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injure...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
7/2
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
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Tora-san to the Rescue
1968
In Broad Daylight
0/0
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start...
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In Broad Daylight
1973
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
8/6
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1997
The Peking Man
3/1
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains d...
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The Peking Man
1982
Ninja Wars
5.6/21
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with th...
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Ninja Wars
1979
G.I. Samurai
5.983/29
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...
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G.I. Samurai
1997
Shura ga Yuku 6
0/0
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the...
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Shura ga Yuku 6
1973
The Incident at Takanodai
0/0
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The Incident at Takanodai
2000
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
9/2
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through h...
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
7.4/5
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he o...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1977
The Japanese Belly Button
4.6/7
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
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The Japanese Belly Button
1974
Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
0/0
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Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
2002
Graveyard of Honor
6.2/53
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
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Graveyard of Honor
1996
Supermarket Woman
6.5/25
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
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Supermarket Woman
1974
Tora-san's Lullaby
7.5/4
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
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Tora-san's Lullaby
1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
8.5/2
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...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
1977
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
8.5/2
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.7/3
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
1997
Steel & Lead
0/0
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, and...
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Steel & Lead
1968
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
0/0
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit reca...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1971
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
0/0
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
8/2
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
1974
Japan Beauty Story
0/0
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Japan Beauty Story
1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
9/2
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
1969
It's Tough Being a Man
8.1/18
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora...
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It's Tough Being a Man
2013
Disregarded People
4/3
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relation...
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Disregarded People
1993
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
5/7
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
8.5/2
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1968
大安旅行
0/0
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大安旅行
1977
Short and Fat
0/0
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
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Short and Fat
1979
Dead Angle
7/1
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Dead Angle
1976
Outlaw Cop
5/2
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
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Outlaw Cop
1996
The Rainbow Seeker
0/0
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...
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The Rainbow Seeker
1977
Nuns That Bite
6.7/7
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulan...
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Nuns That Bite
1986
Bullying is Costly
0/0
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut.
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Bullying is Costly
1991
Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
0/0
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. Meanwhi...
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
2017
Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
7/4
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke S...
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
1978
The Killing Game
7.389/9
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back h...
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The Killing Game
1973
Stray Dog
7/4
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...
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Stray Dog
1973
Quarreling with Yakuza
5/1
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.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
1974
Reformatory Buddies
0/0
Third film in the series.
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Reformatory Buddies
1984
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
8/2
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 t...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1976
The Classroom of Terror
6/1
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by...
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The Classroom of Terror
1971
Follow the Girls
0/0
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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Follow the Girls
1977
Suddenly, Like a Storm
0/0
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the ju...
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Suddenly, Like a Storm
1976
Dragon Princess
5.8/14
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention...
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Dragon Princess
1974
The Four Roughnecks
5/1
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from...
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The Four Roughnecks
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
2/1
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Faraway Tomorrow
1969
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
6.8/6
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,...
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
6.8/7
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1970
Tora-san, His Tender Love
7/6
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
1967
Code Between Brothers 6
6.5/4
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
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Code Between Brothers 6
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
8/2
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1979
Prey
2/1
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay...
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Prey
2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
8/1
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
2015
Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 29
0/0
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Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 29
1977
Proof of the Man
7.4/14
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...
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Proof of the Man
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8/2
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living Nati...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
2010
About Her Brother
6.3/16
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...
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About Her Brother
1981
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
7/2
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
9/3
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1969
Women Can't Be Beaten
0/0
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
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Women Can't Be Beaten
1980
Foster Daddy, Tora!
7.5/2
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.
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist
8/6
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
8/2
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1981
Tora-san's Promise
8/2
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all hi...
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Tora-san's Promise
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
8/2
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1975
Tora-san, the Intellectual
7.7/3
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to s...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
8.5/2
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Sabur...
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Tora-san, the Expert
1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
8.5/2
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his fam...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
8/3
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1974
Tora-san's Lovesick
7.3/3
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
1970
Tora-san's Runaway
7.8/6
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest...
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Tora-san's Runaway
1989
Tora-san, My Uncle
8.7/3
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
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Tora-san, My Uncle
1973
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
5.7/3
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1972
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
7.5/4
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1971
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
7.8/5
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
8/2
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
7.2/4
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1972
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
7.6/5
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1983
Tora-san Goes Religious?
8/2
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
8/2
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
6.5/3
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a n...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
1986
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
7.5/2
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1987
Tora-san Goes North
8.7/3
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter,...
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Tora-san Goes North
1987
Tora-san Plays Daddy
9/2
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mothe...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
8.5/2
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8/2
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1970
Melody of Rebellion
5/1
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a den...
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Melody of Rebellion
2018
The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce
0/0
Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda becomes entangled in an elaborate divorce scheme targeting a hard-working waitress at his cafe.
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The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce
1968
The Shy Deceiver
5/1
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.
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The Shy Deceiver
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
0/0
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1995
Osaka Tough Guys
7.4/5
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money f...
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Osaka Tough Guys
1969
Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
0/0
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress...
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Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
1995
The Pachinko Game Drifter
0/0
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, bet...
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The Pachinko Game Drifter
2002
The King of Minami 19
0/0
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The King of Minami 19
1978
Pink Lady's Motion Picture
5.5/1
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 bul...
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