Shoichi Sakurai
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Mahjong Demon 2: With a White Blade on His Back
1993-10-22
Mahjong Demon 2: With a White Blade on His Back
Overview: A young professional mahjong player, Sakurai Shoichi (Shimizu Kentaro), who graduated from university, was employed at a real estate company. While on a business trip with the company president (Hamada Akira) to a secluded hot spring town, he learns that an elderly couple who are the president's benefactors are in trouble. The old man was a former gambler who ran the town with honor and compassion, but his business was taken away by an emerging gangster (Hiura Tsutomu). When Sakurai Shoichi finds out that the emerging gangster is making a shady profit from mahjong, he offers to play as a substitute for the player without payment.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
1994-02-25
Mahjong Demon 3: Extraterritorial Mahjong
Overview: Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap set by a politician who wants Sakurai to play as a substitute. Falling right into the trap, Sakurai is forced to participate in an underground mahjong match held at a certain country's embassy...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-25
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Mahjong Demon 4: Mahjong Proxy War
1994-10-21
Mahjong Demon 4: Mahjong Proxy War
Overview: Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Mahjong Ghost Side Story: Tokaido Mahjong Unhomed
1996-09-06
Mahjong Ghost Side Story: Tokaido Mahjong Unhomed
Overview: Sakurai Shoichi meets Nishi, a man who lost all his money in gambling. Attracted by Nishi's personality, Shoichi invites him along on a gambling trip to the Tokaido. Nishi wants to raise money for his son's college entrance fee, so he wants him to play mahjong and win. However, at an inn in Hakone where Nishi is friendly, Shoichi is tricked by the yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Shin Mahjong Demon 2: Mahjong Lawless Zone
1999-08-27
Shin Mahjong Demon 2: Mahjong Lawless Zone
Overview: The Kuronuma Group, a huge mahjong organization that controls the political and financial circles of Japan from behind the scenes, has been growing rapidly by taking in underground professionals one after another with the overwhelming strength of the second generation leader, Nishimura Hiromitsu. In the midst of all this, a young pinch-player, Matsuoka, who respects Sakurai Shoichi, faces off against a low-level member, which leads to a confrontation between Sakurai and Nishimura...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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