Saki Takaoka
Saki Takaoka (高岡 早紀) is a Japanese actress born as Sakiko Takaoka (高岡 佐紀子). Her uncle is the jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin
as KirisatoJapan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot...
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Megazone 23 III - Part 1 - The Awakening of Eve
as EVE (voice)Years after the events of Megazone 23 II, the only city on Earth is the supposedly idyllic Eden....
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In Love and Deep Water
as Misaki KurumaOn a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross...
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Midnight Diner
as Tamako KawashimaA restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a...
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Love for Beginners
as Kyouka KanzakiHibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet,...
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
as Yumi SawamuraFormer yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy...
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The Lowlife
as TakakoBased on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in...
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Just Remembering
as Taxi PassengerA former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love...
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Love Is Five Seven Five
as Yoko-SenseiA haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku...
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Masquerade Night
as Yuri KaizukaAn anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states...
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Monster
as uncreditedA woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her...
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Swimming Upstream
as uncreditedOne day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at...
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Crest of Betrayal
as OiwaWeaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and...
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Memo
as Michiko MotohashiMayuko Motohashi is a high-school student in Tokyo. She suffers from an obsessive-compulsive...
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Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
as uncreditedFollows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the...
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Desire
as Asao HakamadaYokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko...
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Snow Flower
as Miyuki's MotherA terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love
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A Long Walk
as Sachi's motherA lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old...
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo: Volume 2
as uncreditedAn anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu...
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Samurai Gangsters
as uncreditedJirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with...
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
as Miss ItôNostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including...
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Female
as Masako Kihara'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed...
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First Love
as Sanae MakabeA university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and...
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The Harimaya Bridge
as Noriko KuboThe Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim...
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The River with No Bridge
as Nanae MinemuraA widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku...
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25
as uncreditedDetectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They...
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Happy People
as uncreditedJapanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a...
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Rika - Jisho 28 Sai no Junai Monster
as Rika AmamiyaA dead body in a suitcase is found on a mountain. The body is identified as Takao Honma. 3 years...
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Seicho Matsumoto Special: Fingers
as Kaori SuzukiFukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own...
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Love on Sunday: Last Words
as uncreditedNagisa, a high school girl who has been given three months to live. Without telling her widowed...
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Eden
as uncreditedWhen Miro's transsexual friend Noripee dies, Miro and his friends from the gay bar 'Eden' are...
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Waiting for Good News
as uncreditedGeneral store manager Akio (Tetsuji Tamayama) lives a carefree live in Okinawa with his dog,...
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Ocean Waves
as Chisa TsumuraAs a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of...
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The Housekeeper
as uncreditedNobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the...
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Wet Red Thread
as uncreditedShigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
as uncreditedA dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An...
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Kanashiki Tenshi
as Kaoru KonoThe body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses...
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on...
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Dance with Me
as KyokoAs a child, Kyoko learned latin dance from Jose, a Cuban-American serviceman stationed in Japan....
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
as uncreditedHiguchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu...
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Detective Katherine
as Reiko KujoKatherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his...
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cf Girl
as uncreditedThe film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as uncreditedDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Nikenme Dou Suru? ~Tsumami no Hanashi~
as uncreditedThe hosts explore different neighborhoods and izakayas, discussing various snacks and drinks....
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Welcome Home, Mone
as Takamura SatokoBorn in September of 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in...
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks
as uncreditedSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...
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Like a Dragon: Yakuza
as ReinaSet in the fictional town of Kamurocho, the story unfolds across two intersecting timelines—1995...
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Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
as GuestAfter participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of...
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as uncreditedDaimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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Genroku Ryoran
as OjunThe 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most...
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Jin
as uncreditedA brain surgeon named Minakata Jin has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies...
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Impersonating Miwa
as Koshino AyameMiwa Kubota is a 29-year old movie fanatic who just got fired from her dead-end job. She saw...
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I'm Home
as Club MamaIeji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent...
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Tower of Justice
as Shiho Komiya（小宮 志歩）Ren Kamijō is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation...
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Jeanne's Judgment
as Kono MiyaSanpuu Minami is a popular shojo manga artist who is believed by many to be a woman. In...
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Smiling Matryoshka
as Mysterious WomanIchiro Seike (Sho Sakurai) is a popular, 43 year old politician. He has gained popularity for...
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Detective versus Detectives
as Yoko YabukiKitagawa Keiko plays Sasaki Rena, a detective who risks her life investigating detectives for...
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Oh My Boss! Love not included
as Jinko UekusaNami Suzuki is an ordinary girl with no particular dream and only wants a moderate amount of...
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Time of Distrust ~ Women's Wars
as uncreditedAsai Michiko is a 28-year old housewife. Her husband is 38-year old Yoshio, who works at an...
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Lawyer Sodom
as Shoko OdagiriA legal suspense drama featuring the unconventional lawyer Odagiri Wataru, who specializes in...
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The Tempest
as Ookimi KikoeSet in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the...
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My Family Goes Viral
as Hinako KagariAkari works as a manager at a cafe. She is sincere and she has a good reputation with those...
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Over-the-Shoulder Lover
as Ruriko MuronoThis is the dramatized version of the Naoki Award-winning novel by author, Kei Yuikawa. Moe...
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Love of Sage
as Yuri AsakuraA woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years because her...
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Everyone's Getting Married
as Sakuragi YukoAsuka Takanashi is a twenty-something woman who works for a megabank and holds various...
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Basically Nice
as uncreditedThis is a story about 3 men that live together : Zen, Taro and Ken. One morning they wake up to...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as OkoMusashi Miyamoto left his village and ended up fighting in the battle of Sekigahara with his...
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Ooku ~ Hana no Ran ~
as UemonsaTells the story of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun.
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Dakara Korosenakatta
as Mariko OgawaSerial killer vs newspaper reporter. A shocking mystery depicting an unprecedented theatrical...
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Megazone 23 Part III
as EVE (voice)Years after the events of Megazone 23 II, the only city on Earth is the supposedly idyllic Eden....
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THE DOCTOR
as uncreditedSet in a large hospital, this moving human drama depicts the conflicts and struggles of two...
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Double-edged Axe
as Taeko KawasumiThe eldest daughter of Detective Shibasaki Sachio from the First Investigation Division is found...
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Sentosha: Battle Wheels
as uncreditedRenowned entertainers and car lovers grasp the wheel and compete with their battle cars in a...
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Warera ga Paradise
as Niwa SatsukiAt Seven Star Town, a high-class facility where Asako works as the head nurse, wealthy elderly...
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Flower of Ice
as Yasuko TakahashiSeno Kyoko is a pianist who receives an inheritance from her uncle, and begins living happily...
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Heisei Saru Kani Kassenzu
as Miki YamashitaBartender Junpei Hamamoto witnesses a hit-and-run incident, and knows the person arrested for...
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Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
as Taura JunkoFollows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the...
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Iron Armored Machine Mikazuki
as Tomoko IsurugiKazeo Isurugi, a ten-year-old boy, joins the fight against the King Torupa's Idoms by...
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Rika
as Rika AmemiyaMany people around Rika disappear. What she says is all lies, including her career, age and...
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Rika: Reverse
as Amamiya RikaAdapted from the novel "Rika", this series depicts the younger days of the lead character Rika...
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The Makioka Sisters
as Makioka SachikoTaking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company...
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