Masayuki Imai
Birthday: Born in 1961-04-21 in Hyogo, Japan
Deathday: 2015-05-28
Masayuki Imai was a Japanese playwright and actor.
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あしたの、喜多善男
Character: Minami Takao
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he me...
ギフト
Character: Sadayuki Yanagase（野長瀬 定幸）
An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune....
オリンピックの身代金
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女弁護士水島由里子の危険な事件ファイル
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a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima...
お見合い結婚
Character: Tanuma Kensuke
This comedy-romance is about the arranged marriage between an ex-cabin attendant suffering from the pain of lost love, and an elite employee of a trading company. After resigning from her job as a cabin attendant to get married, Setsuko’s would-be fiancé runs off. Following this tragedy, Setsuko spends her days chain-smoking and drinking heavily to escape her broken heart. Meanwhile, Kotaro, an employee of a big trading company, is offered an assignment in Milan. Although Kotaro wanted the job, ...
出張鑑定人 宝来伝吉
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お金がない！
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Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kentaro works for, though, goes bankrupt on pay day and Kentaro finds himself out of a job and with even less money. The brothers are thrown out of their apartment and Kentaro, a born optimistic until then, decides that he must aggressively pursue "money". This drama depicts the success story of Kentaro in his search for money and a better life....
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47 Ronin
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Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death....
Robbery
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Friendship and violence...
Don's Road 10
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The tenth 'Don's Road' film....
A Quiet Life
Character: Arai
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip....
Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse
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2000 horror original video....
My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness
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A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but......
Naniwa Chūshingura
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Treasure of the Black Jaguar
Character: Katsu Taka
Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary....
Come On, Happiness
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In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Te...
Invited Woman
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Pinku film released in 1996...
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Character: Izawa
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata....
Another Lonely Hitman 2
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
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With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld....
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Character: Sho Saimon
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia....
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
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Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark....
Rape
Character: Masato Ohkubo
A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally wanted to be a writer of children's stories, but the violence novel he wrote to fill in the blanks became a big hit and became a popular author. The content of his works is so extreme that even his wife Yasuko's reality is so different from Masayuki's actual image. One day, while Masayuki is away, Yasuko receives a call from a woman who calls herself ...
The Assistant Doctor
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Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa....
Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 3: Fly Birdie
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The third film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro....
Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 4: Shank Shank Shank
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The fourth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro....
Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 5: Beloved Lost Ball
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The f ifth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro....
Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Character: Sho Saimon
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza....
Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Character: Sho Saimon
Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia....
The Mamushi
Character: Tobishitaro
Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Together, they have 23 convictions and are the most villainous duo in the world, who have made Osaka tremble with fear as the "Tobikan Kaku" duo. On a whim, Tobikataro falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and is forced to rescue her. The villainous duo eventually become embroiled in a conspiracy behind the mayoral election, and hit out at the gangsters......
About Love, Tokyo
Character: Hitoshi
Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan....
Yakuza Ladies Neo
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Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large con...
Winds of God
Character: Makoto Tashiro
After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships....
Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô
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Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends....
Kagura Me
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A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance....
Playtime Never Ends
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A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large....
T.R.Y.
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At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese....
Scenery to Remember
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Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves....
Popcorn Love
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Violent Archipelago 2
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Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by....
Violent Archipelago
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Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by....
修羅のみち3 広島・四国全面戦争
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