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Makoto Satō (佐藤 真 Satō Makoto, September 12, 1957 - September 4, 2007) was a Japanese documentary film director. Among his best-known films were Living On the River Agano, which describes people around the Agano River where incidents of Niigata Minamata disease were discovered, and Self and Others.

Makoto Satō
佐藤 真
Born	(1957-09-12)September 12, 1957 Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Died	September 4, 2007(2007-09-04) (aged 49)
Occupation	Film director

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His final film, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2006 Mainichi Film Awards.[1]

Early life

Satō was born in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, and raised in Tokyo.

Filmography

• Living on the River Agano (1992, 阿賀に生きる)
• Artists in Wonderland (1998, まひるのほし)
• Self and Others (2000, SELF AND OTHERS)
• Hanako (2001, 花子)
• Memories of Agano (2004, 阿賀の記憶)
• Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2005, エドワード・サイード OUT OF PLACE)

References

External links

• An English-language interview with Sato
• Box set of the Complete Works of Makoto Sato
• Towards a Cinema of Absence - Satō Makoto in the Japanese and international context

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