Frankie Sakai
Frankie Sakai, born Masatoshi Sakai (堺 正俊; 13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996), was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
Edo Porn
as Nakajima IseThe world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income,...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Inspector KawaiA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Mothra
as Senichiro 'Sen-chan' FukudaShipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Inokori SaheijiSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Honiden MatahachiIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
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Dynamite Don-Don
as TokuemonYakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...
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Westward Desperado
as uncreditedIn this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do...
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The Walking Major
as uncreditedU.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...
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The Last War
as Mokichi TamuraA Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...
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A Geisha's Diary
as NozakiA young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she...
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Romance Express
as uncreditedComedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the...
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
as IchiroThird film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run...
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Oh, My Comrade!
as FukuzoFukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo....
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Moonlight Serenade
as PhotographerAfter the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
as Army Captain Prince TamenagaComedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer,...
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The Dangoro Party in the Sky
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as Tomimatsu ShimizuOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Gokudô Petenshi
as uncreditedA group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence,...
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The Greatest Man in the World
as IsenokamiRemake of classic samurai film of 1932
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Room for Let
as Goro YodaWhen Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old...
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Frankie the Milkman
as Rukuheita Sakai / Kogorô SakaiRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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Burden of Love
as Kamenosuke Dewa-no-koujiThe female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a...
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
as Taro FujikawaA young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as Shimizu ToyomatsuTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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Dancing Sisters
as Kunio YamatoIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
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Sharaku
as TsutayaA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
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Furankī no uchūbito
as uncreditedDr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange...
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You Can Succeed, Too
as Zenta YamakawaA group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
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The Maid Story
as uncreditedNine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like...
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Topsy-Turvy Journey
as uncreditedA drama from director Masaharu Segawa.
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Hito mo arukeba
as Keima SunagawaA drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as Kinichi KoyamaA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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An Urban Affair
as Heita SakuraiFollow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the...
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The Green Music Box
as ClownRuriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family...
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Quick Change Tanuki Palace
as Jazz TanukiThis is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a...
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
as Junpei TanabeSet in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three...
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
as Professor Sakai / Mr. Sakai#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie...
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
as uncreditedHikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
as uncreditedShoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...
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Aces Wild
as uncreditedKeisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an...
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Fusa
as uncreditedPeriod piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have...
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Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi
as Kapi(voice)Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster...
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Bridal Cruise
as uncreditedDaisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out...
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Kigeki-otoko no ude dameshi
as uncreditedIn front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music,"...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
as Tachibana's Old Friend AA continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as JiroYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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The Ghostly Trip
as uncreditedThe 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the...
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Mastermind
as Captain Yamada (as Furankî Sakai)Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called...
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Waiting for the Flood
as Tadashi OnoA young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.
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Shōgun
as YabuAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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A-Un
as uncreditedSenkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...
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