Makoto Ashikawa
Makoto Ashikawa (芦川誠, born 19 April 1960) is a Japanese actor.
Fireworks
as TanakaDetective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed...
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Zatoichi
as CarpenterBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice...
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Kids Return
as Teacher HashidaShinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing...
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Boiling Point
as AkiraMasaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and...
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Cold Fish
as Supermarket ManagerShamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a...
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Violent Cop
as KikuchiA detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in...
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Ju-on: The Curse
as Tatsuya SuzukiWhen elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils...
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Female Yakuza Tale
as YoshimiOcho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle...
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Ju-On: The Curse 2
as Tatsuya SuzukiOn his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up...
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Takeshis'
as Assistant at AuditionBeat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets...
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Getting Any?
as Scientist's AssistantWhile pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves...
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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
as Yakitori Shop ManagerRyuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men....
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Kubi
as PriestLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against...
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Fish Story
as SuzukiA rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song...
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Golden Slumber
as OgushiWhen easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for...
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Weekend Shuffle
as uncreditedFirst mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
as uncreditedIn 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective...
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Love Circumstances for Adults
as uncreditedSensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the...
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The Inerasable
as Mashiko's Father-in-lawA novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds...
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The Booth
as uncreditedShogo, the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily...
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Around The Table
as Teacher OjimaHaruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku,...
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Odayaka
as uncreditedSaeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku...
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The Dork, The Girl, and The Douchebag
as uncreditedA man with a wife and child attempts to run off with a hostess, but he doesn’t show up at the...
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September Sky
as uncreditedKobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an...
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That Man Is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano
as uncreditedDocumentary with Makoto Ashikawa, who played Kikuchi in Violent Cop, and Masayuki Mori, the...
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Midnight Diner
as HashimotoSet in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open...
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