Akaji Maro
Akaji Maro (麿 赤児 Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, Butoka, and theater director. He was born in Sakurai, Nara and is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination...
Movie pageKill Bill: Vol. 2
as Boss OzawahThe Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins...
Movie pageKill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
as Boss OzawahAn assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their...
Movie pageOx-Head Village
as Kanon's GrandfatherHaving launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish....
Movie pageSuicide Club
as Detective MurataWhen 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the...
Movie pageDiary of a Shinjuku Thief
as ActorIn Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...
Movie pageKikujiro
as Crazy ManBrash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is...
Movie pageGemini
as KakubêWhen his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...
Movie pageWhy Don't You Play in Hell?
as uncreditedIn Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza...
Movie pageShaolin Girl
as Rin's MasterA Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial...
Movie pageFemale Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1
as TenkaiYuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge...
Movie pageTonbi
as KaiunYasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira...
Movie pageSekigahara
as Ishin ShimazuThe background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in...
Movie pageWe Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams
as uncreditedA treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke...
Movie pageFly me to the Saitama
as Sojyuro SaionjiPeople from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they...
Movie pageUnlucky Monkey
as HoboA dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out...
Movie pagePornostar
as Yakuza BossA young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped...
Movie pageYumeji
as CriminalFollowing the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an...
Movie page9 Souls
as Owner of Candy ShopAfter discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track...
Movie pageTada's Do-It-All House
as OkaIn Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One...
Movie pageKagero-za
as HomelessA 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Movie pageInflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
as uncreditedA wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a...
Movie pageZigeunerweisen
as uncreditedA surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...
Movie pageSPEC: Heaven
as Akira NitanaiSaya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a...
Movie pageDangan Runner
as uncreditedA would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to...
Movie pageThe Stairway to the Distant Past
as Lt. NakayamaBroke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to...
Movie pageJam Films
as uncreditedJam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Movie pageMonday
as Homeless Man / DemonA simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally...
Movie pageGhost Master
as Tetsuhiko TodorokiAkira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of...
Movie pageThe City of Lost Souls
as Okijima Gang MemberBrazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be...
Movie pagePostman Blues
as Boss of Minato GangSawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about...
Movie pageDrive
as Lord KobariKenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his...
Movie pageThe Motive
as A-sanFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
Movie pageThe Whispering of the Gods
as ShopkeeperRou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods...
Movie pageGARO Special: Beast of the Demon Night
as Makai Priest AmonIn the aftermath events of GARO: Chapter of the Black Wolf, Saejima Kouga sets out to the...
Movie pageThe Trap
as Lt. NakayamaWhen a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I...
Movie pageWill to Live
as uncreditedIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...
Movie pageLove Will Tear Us Apart
as Ryûjin MaroWakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved...
Movie pageCat's Eye
as UmeharaThree cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in...
Movie pageHanako of the Toilet
as MonkWhen a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously...
Movie pageKT
as Susumu KawaharaThis movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean...
Movie pageBe a Man!! Samurai School
as Heihachi EdajimaMomotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made....
Movie pageThe Emperor in August
as Admiral Hisanori FujitaIn July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration....
Movie pagePostcard
as MonkToward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a...
Movie pageDisconcerto
as OkaSet within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem...
Movie pageKakekomi
as SeisetsuKakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by...
Movie pageMitsugetsu
as Brokerage Firm PresidentTetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been...
Movie pageAwakening
as uncreditedAfter the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy...
Movie pageYakuza Weapon
as Kenzo IwakiAfter four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated...
Movie pageUtsushimi
as SelfThis faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against...
Movie pageLupin's Daughter: The Movie
as Iwao MikumoAm I really the daughter of a thieves family? Hana Mikumo, daughter of the "L family", a family...
Movie pageHanezu
as Yo-ChanWoodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old...
Movie pageAll Under the Moon
as SenbaA Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers...
Movie pageA Last Note
as uncreditedA retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has...
Movie pageGolden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
as uncreditedNursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a...
Movie pageButoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
as Himself"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in...
Movie pageHell Girl
as WanyudoTormented and bullied people can access a special website, run by a Hell Girl who will enable...
Movie pageSamurai Resurrection
as Ieyasu TokugawaShiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of...
Movie pageGinji - The Slasher
as ŌmutaIn prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945,...
Movie pageThe Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as uncreditedTaro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...
Movie pagePersona
as DaimonInto the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely...
Movie pageBorn to Be Baby
as uncreditedA detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a...
Movie pageTAP: Perfect Education
as uncreditedIn Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a...
Movie pageKaidan. Strange Stories of Japanese Ghosts
as HimselfAn exploration of the spirit world as portrayed in the height of the J-horror era of the late ‘90s.
Movie pageEn moi
as Man on DutyA movie director goes to the Paris Opera to shoot his new film. Lacking inspiration, he looks...
Movie pageCircus Boys
as Tattoo MasterTwo brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta...
Movie pageDoomsday Detective
as uncreditedShinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his...
Movie pageMoonlight Serenade
as Circus performerAfter the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his...
Movie pageLie Lie Lie
as DenHatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day,...
Movie pageMadness in Bloom
as uncreditedYamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of...
Movie pageThe Notorious Concubines
as uncreditedDark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak....
Movie pageEvil Spirits in the Darkness
as Hirose KinzōThe film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo...
Movie pageAsahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as uncreditedAsahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new...
Movie pageUneasy Encounters
as Man of dry river bedA five-part comedy and horror anthology
Movie pageThe Most Terrible Time in My Life
as Lt. NakayamaMaiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese...
Movie pageSukiyaki
as uncreditedKenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as...
Movie pageThis Is Shinogi
as uncreditedAn office worker who happens to end up helping a yakuza
Movie pageThe Room
as The HitmanA quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him...
Movie pageThe Nearest Place to the Sky
as uncreditedKitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9...
Movie pageShangri-La
as Ookura NagashimaShangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who...
Movie pageAkame 48 Waterfalls
as uncreditedA man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange...
Movie pageBirdsong
as AkiraTokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to...
Movie pageShinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
Movie pageDamejin
as uncreditedAn off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives...
Movie pageKazura
as uncreditedBald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a...
Movie pageNeko Ninja
as KatsuragiKagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy...
Movie pagePacchigi! Love & Peace
as uncreditedIn 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to...
Movie pageThe Projects
as GondoWhether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat,...
Movie pageThe Dropout
as uncreditedDetective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was...
Movie pageUta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as On (segment "Kuu")Six Stories based on Six Songs.
Movie pageDreams on Fire
as GrandfatherFleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met...
Movie pageBoxer Joe
as uncreditedA docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18...
Movie pageAn Angel with Many Scars
as uncreditedAn odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts...
Movie pageInto a Dream
as Sato's FatherLow-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown,...
Movie pageThe Haunted Lantern
as uncreditedWife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present
Movie pageKnockout
as Daisuke KamoiA Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
Movie pageDark Harbour
as uncreditedManzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a...
Movie pageZipang Punk Goemon Rock III
as Toyotomi HideyoshiGoemon Ishikawa steals a golden statue from Yukari Kukai with female thief Neko no Me Ogin, but...
Movie pageToy Reanimator
as Mr IwaiSet in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed...
Movie pageThat's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
as uncreditedComedy about a group of chemistry students who organize a cheating scam during their final...
Movie pageTales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition
as uncreditedCommemorating the 25th anniversary of the series. In this work, we collaborate with five popular...
Movie pageSwing Man
as OdaA man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.
Movie pageSHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3
as Narration (voice)The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series.
Movie pageHeisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
as Kanji, Nobuko's fatherThe members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their...
Movie pageThe Pistol That Sprouted Hair
as TakaShirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping...
Movie pageWild Flowers
as uncreditedReal pro wrestlers Mizuho Ishikawa, Cutie Suzuki and Emi Tojyo star alongside newcomer Miki...
Movie pageThe Outer Way
as uncreditedThe cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in...
Movie pageGuard Dog
as uncreditedA tough and violent battle ensues between Hikaru Gotokuji, who's been assigned as the bodyguard...
Movie pageCheck
as HakuginSet in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes...
Movie pageReady to Shoot
as SakuradaA middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in...
Movie pageUnder the Turquoise Sky
as SaburoTakeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends...
Movie pageShin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
as uncreditedRemake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
Movie pageKnown As! Pissken
as uncreditedThe thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
Movie pageCrazy Love
as uncreditedCorrelated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of...
Movie pageNagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War
as uncreditedThe life and death of the men who are bound by violence.
Movie pageThe Naked Summer
as uncreditedThe Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and...
Movie pageA Light in the Distance
as uncreditedMado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might...
Movie pageCrazy Camel
as uncredited‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are...
Movie pageGARO
as AmonThe Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that...
TV Show pageCSI: Crime Scene Talks
as uncreditedSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...
TV Show pageThe Naked Director
as uncreditedFollows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. ...
TV Show pageThe Files of the Young Kindaichi
as Goryu TachibanaA young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective,...
TV Show pageMoribito: Guardian of the Spirit
as uncreditedThe heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues...
TV Show pageHoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
as 老人Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during...
TV Show pageHoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
as uncreditedHoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during...
TV Show pageKeeping-Words Sisters Chouchoutrian
as Otori-samaThe fourteenth entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series.
TV Show pageDaughter of Lupin
as Iwao MikumoHana comes from a family that has been thieves for generations. Hana refuses to become a thief...
TV Show pageTada's Do-It-All House
as uncreditedIn the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business...
TV Show pageHayabusa Fire Brigade
as Tasuku EnishiMima Taro is a writer who has hit a slump. Tired of city life, he moves into the house he...
TV Show pageWay Too Kawaii!
as Shinjiro TatsumiA newly transferred employee discovers the hard work and passion of the professionals that fuels...
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as uncreditedFreelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a...
TV Show pageAffectionate Time
as Amano RokusukeThis is the story about one small coffee shop located in the northern island of...
TV Show pageKamogawa Shokudo
as uncreditedCustomers relying on a single line advertisement “Search for food with memories”, finally arrive...
TV Show pageThe Password is Courage
as uncreditedThe story takes place in a small rural village surrounded by beautiful nature. However, it is...
TV Show pageKeisei Saimin no Otoko
as Fujita DenzaburoA 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...
TV Show pagePapa ga Mo Ichido Koi wo Shita
as uncreditedYamashita Tomo is just an average junior high school girl...but her father is a "NEET" (Not in...
TV Show pageGoldfish Club
as Mizuki YozoIrie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or...
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