Sachio Sakai
Real name: Yukio Abe. Born September 8, 1925, as the son of an electrician in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo City Asakusa Technical College. Passed the 1st Toho New Face exam and joined Toho. It is in sync with Toshiro Mifune and Hajime Izu. Debuted in 1947 with Kurosawa's "One Wonderful Sunday". Later appeared as a regular in the many Toho movies. It was nicknamed "Boo-chan" by the studio associates.
Seven Samurai
as Coolie #2A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Godzilla
as Newspaper Reporter HagiwaraJapan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the...
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Drunken Angel
as Guitar PlayerDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
as ObayashiThe advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...
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Ikiru
as Yakuza (uncredited)Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
as HagiwaraDuring an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught...
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Sanjuro
as SamuraiToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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Yojimbo
as First Foot SoldierA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Throne of Blood
as Washizu samuraiReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Soldier (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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All Monsters Attack
as Bank Robber SenbayashiIchiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents'...
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Rhapsody in August
as MournerThe story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Matahachi Honiden (uncredited)A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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King Kong Escapes
as HenchmanAn adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the...
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Godzilla
as Hagiwara (uncredited)A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S....
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Matahachi HonidenAfter years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
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The Mysterians
as uncreditedIn Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an...
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One Wonderful Sunday
as Shady Ticket ManYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
as Wing Fat HenchmanIn comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret...
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The Last Gunfight
as FudokichiJapanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the...
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The Vampire Doll
as Taxi DriverA young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Atsugi Air Base Crew ChiefFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Gorath
as PhysicianIn 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth....
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Samurai Saga
as (uncredited)Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Red Lion
as Peasant KesajiJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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Half Human
as NakataThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as uncreditedOlder, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful...
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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Battle Cry
as Nimaibashi Roh WasukeDuring the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal...
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Space Amoeba
as The Editor (uncredited)When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide...
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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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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
as uncreditedThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...
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Desperado Outpost
as uncreditedWhen Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the...
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Samurai Banners
as uncreditedKansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He...
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
as Communications MinisterA young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several...
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Legacy of the 500,000
as Igarashi, Keigo Gunji's driverDuring World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the...
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The Big Boss
as uncreditedRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...
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Ironfinger
as uncreditedAfter being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets...
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Golden Eyes
as Middle-aged JapaneseA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling...
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The Gambling Samurai
as TamazoChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
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Sudden Rain
as TadaA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Ôban
as EmployeeA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
as HagiwaraObscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as OfficerA hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all...
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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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Big Shots Die at Dawn
as uncreditedAn early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Third SkierAn American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
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Operation Enemy Fort
as uncreditedSoldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
as GuideOsami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the...
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All About Marriage
as Koichiro DoiUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...
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The Secret of the Telegian
as TakiMen are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device...
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Daredevil in the Castle
as Kai HayamiDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
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The Retreat from Kiska
as KojimaIn 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers....
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
as uncreditedTeacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending...
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Key of Keys
as InagawaIntelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.
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Turning Point
as uncreditedA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...
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The Skin of the South
as uncreditedWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
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Blueprint of Murder
as uncreditedYuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother...
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Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Rise Against the Sword
as ShigejuFarmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight...
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The Blue Pearl
as YanagiyaThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
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The Weed of Crime
as uncreditedToho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
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Saga of the Vagabonds
as uncreditedLord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men,...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as uncreditedFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as uncreditedA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
as uncreditedThe Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see...
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Whirlwind
as uncreditedSet at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...
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Our Failures
as uncreditedTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his...
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The Mad Atlantic
as KawabeCaptain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
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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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The Killing Bottle
as Secret Police Officer ShimadaIn Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a...
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Wedding Season
as uncreditedUrban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks...
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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Girls in the Orchard
as uncreditedGirls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with...
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Operation Mad Dog
as uncreditedFilm number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
as uncreditedTV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to...
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Outlaw Cop
as uncreditedA bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs...
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The Underworld
as uncreditedYakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become...
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A Man in Red
as uncreditedTakashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a...
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The Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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Pride of the Campus
as HiroshiYoung Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant,...
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The Young Ace in Hawaii
as 赤塚Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous...
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A Man Among Men
as OnukiGangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but...
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Last of the Wild Ones
as uncreditedA legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja
as uncreditedA Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto...
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Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project
as The 1/8 Project StaffTheatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.
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The Last Embrace
as Uchimura (Saboten)Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two...
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The Witness Killed
as MurataJapanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
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Outpost of Hell
as uncreditedThe fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Sir Galahad in Campus
as uncreditedThe first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
as uncreditedA Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto...
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Hangyaku no Tabi
as uncreditedHiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto...
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Bonds of Love
as MiyataAdapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel...
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Sazae-san Sequel
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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The Paradise Island Story
as uncreditedMusical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Ultra Q
as Manager of Tokyo Advertising CompanyAs supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be...
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