Sakichi Sato

Sakichi Sato

Born: May 13, 1964
in Osaka, Japan
Sakichi Sato (佐藤 佐吉, Satō Sakichi, born May 13, 1964) is a Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter. He has written several screenplay adaptations of manga series including Tokyo Zombie, Ichi The Killer, and Gozu. He also directed Miss Boys about cross-dressing schoolboys. In the West, he played Charlie Brown in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1.

Movies for Sakichi Sato...

Title: Lost Man Found
Character: Director
Released: June 26, 2022
Type: TV
Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.
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Wife of a Spy
Title: Wife of a Spy
Character: Street vendor
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: Movie
It’s 1940, and the population of Japan is divided over its entry into World War II. Satoko, the wife of a fabric merchant, is devoted to her husband but is beginning to suspect he’s up to something. Soon she allows herself to be drawn into a game in which she enigmatically conceals her intentions.
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Title: Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Character: Makiuchi
Released: January 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
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Satsujinki
Title: Satsujinki
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original work, with only minor differences in the storyline as follows. Yashiro Ryusuke's own home is located on Y Koji. When he first accompanies Kanako on the road, Kagawa meets her in front of Yashiro's house, and Kamei also appears there. Dr Asano's wife did not show up. It is explained that Kagawa has two girls (in the original story, one is a student at a girls' school, but the gender of the other is unknown). The introduction of the 'one in 500 murderers' is told against the backdrop of Kindaichi excavating an air-raid shelter (which appears to have been made from a natural cave).
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Title: シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Character: Inspector
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: TV
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Shinkoyaki and other croquettes in Asahikawa
Title: Shinkoyaki and other croquettes in Asahikawa
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
First business trip away from Tokyo in a while,
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Title: Smoke and Mist: Gold Rush
Character: Izawa
Released: July 18, 2015
Type: TV
Kumagai is an art teacher at a private female high school. Sakai, the school's chairman of the board, runs the school like the school is his own property and pays Kumagi a low salary. Then, Music Teacher Naoko and P.E. Teacher Oyamada asks Kumagi to join them in a scheme to blackmail Sakai. Unexpectedly, Sakai and his girlfriend Akemi go missing. The duo are assumed to be kidnapped by Minowa and Nakao who are education consultants. Meanwhile, Kumagai and Naoko unwittingly become involved in a scheme to steal large amount of gold bars that were hidden by Sakai.
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As the Gods Will
Title: As the Gods Will
Character: Tadakatsu Okudaira (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: Movie
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
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Title: Solitary Gourmet
Character: 竹さ
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
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Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Title: Karate-Robo Zaborgar
Released: October 15, 2011
Type: Movie
An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.
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Tokyo Playboy Club
Title: Tokyo Playboy Club
Character: Matsunosuke
Released: October 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Katsutoshi is forced to flee his hometown and ends up at a rundown nightclub called "Tokyo Playboy Club." His hot-headedness gets him into further trouble, and the club's waiter Takahiro and his girlfriend Eriko also get caught up in it as their underworld predicament worsens to the point of no return.
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Title: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Character: Charlie Brown
Released: March 27, 2011
Type: Movie
An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is a complete edit of the two-part martial arts action films Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2. The film was originally scheduled to be released as one part. However, due to the film's over 4 hour running time, it was split into two parts.
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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Title: A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.
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The Seaside Motel
Title: The Seaside Motel
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 2010
Type: Movie
The Seaside Motel is trapped in the mountains, without even enough water to serve their guests 24 hours a day, much less having a view of a body of water of any kind.
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Heibon Ponch
Title: Heibon Ponch
Released: November 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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Rainbow Song
Title: Rainbow Song
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their university film club, to saying their last goodbyes. Though in love with each other, neither had the courage to confess their feelings before it was too late.
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Memories of Matsuko
Title: Memories of Matsuko
Released: May 27, 2006
Type: Movie
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Title: A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Released: May 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
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Lizard Baby
Title: Lizard Baby
Released: October 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Horror screenwriter, Umeki, has writer's block. He goes with his pregnant wife, Akiko, to a check-up and is struck with an incredible idea - a horror story about a woman who gives birth to a reptile! Despite his wife's disgust, Umeki goes ahead with the screenplay, which the critics love. But the horrible prophecy fulfills itself, as his wife gives birth to a freak of nature. His baby is born half human, half lizard! The reptilian baby slithers on the floor, leaving a wet trail of slime behind [it]. To his horror, his wife, Akiko, holds it lovingly in her arms. His movie has become a mirror image of his own life as Umeki slips slowly into madness.
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Black Kiss
Title: Black Kiss
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Title: Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Character: Charlie Brown
Released: April 16, 2004
Type: Movie
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Title: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Released: December 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Title: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Character: Charlie Brown
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Last Life in the Universe
Title: Last Life in the Universe
Character: Yakuza
Released: August 3, 2003
Type: Movie
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.
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Gozu
Title: Gozu
Character: Coffee Shop Manager
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
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Bright Future
Title: Bright Future
Character: Manager of Recycle Shop
Released: January 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
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Igyō no koi
Title: Igyō no koi
Released: August 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her
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Ichi the Killer
Title: Ichi the Killer
Character: Man Kicking Ichi
Released: December 22, 2001
Type: Movie
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.