Masanori Machida
Also Known As: Tsuyoshi Machida, 町田剛
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 07, 1955
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Dangai: Illusion
Overview: Kyoichi, a small-time drug dealer for the yakuza, has recurring nightmares about two men raping him. Once his real-world problems escalate, people around him start dying in horriffic ways and he finds it increasingly difficult to tell dreams from reality.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-20
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
Overview: A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-31
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Aikoki: Urban Legend
Overview: A freelance reporter is investigating an urban legend about an aikoki (literally: love bite monster) that only attacks men in this erotic horror film.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-30
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Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo
Overview: Yuzo Ooki is unexpectedly fired. Managing to find a new job, Yuzo navigates the maze of crazy coworkers. Yuzo is undaunted, but he is bullied by his new workmates and dumped by his girlfriend. Suddenly, an alien encounter changes everything as it feeds off the co-workers and melds with their madness creating an explosion of energy that plunges the town into chaos. Only Yuzo can save them from this crisis.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-12-09
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Lady Battle Cop
Overview: When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-09
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Spring Special
Overview: Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2004 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Koroshiya desu no yo (It's a Hitman, You Know) - starring Mizuki Alisa. 2. Jibun-counsellor (Self-counsellor) - starring Inohara Yoshihiko. 3. Be Silent - starring Watabe Atsuro. 4. Sasoimizu (Pump-priming) - starring Harada Taizo. 5. Saigo no Hitotoki (The Last Moment) - starring Nagasaku Hiromi.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Fantasy Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-29
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Hell's Angels: Crimson Roar
Overview: After a fight with a local girl gang, Yoko serves time in prison. After her release the world she once knew has changed. When she is drugged and raped by a local yakuza she seeks revenge…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako
Overview: Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'animal panic horror' film with a new edge presenting an allegory of the worst in the modern materialistic world. This is the first full-length feature film for Yuichi Kanemaru, who has worked as assistant director to Kaneto Shindo, Yasuo Furuhata and Takashi Miike. And Tomoko Tabata's dynamic performance in her first horror movie is a definite highlight.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-22
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Chikan torakku: Injo norippanashi
Overview: Katsuma is a truck driver with a good mood but an empty head and wallet. One day, his brother, Riichi, asks him to double his pay, and he gladly accepts. Katsuma drives the truck smoothly, but suddenly, a flirtatious woman, Reiko, jumps out from the back of the truck...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-09-05
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Yoriko
Overview: Satoru is a fledgling writer. When his latest manuscript is rejected, his editor, recognizing his talent, offers him a cottage by the beach to work in peace. At first, he struggles, but he is driven to write after meeting a girl, Yoriko, on the beach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
Overview: The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him. Junya falls in love with the equally speed-hungry Hiroko.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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Concrete
Overview: A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-11
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Zero Woman R
Overview: A mysterious female spy is recruited to infiltrate the Japanese underworld and gather evidence for a clandestine secretive branch of the Tokyo Police Department.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-05-26
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Ecstasy Equalizer Ren
Overview: One day, Kyosuke, a former athlete and lover, appears before spending time as an Olympic athlete and now as a chaste wife of Akio, a politician. Love burns again with him who lives as a gunman in a corner of the underworld, but Kyosuke is brutally killed. I feel sorry for chasing the mystery of his death with his left handgun, but behind it, the darkness of the huge underworld and the secret of my husband's black relationship were hidden
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Execution In Daytime
Overview: A former detective vows revenge on those who caused his daughter's suicide
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Brush of the God
Overview: His story follows a schoolgirl named Akari Tokimiya and the fantastical adventure which occurs when she visits the memorial service of her grandfather Kenzo, a master special effects man. She has unhappy memories of the old man and his passion projects, the last of which he died during the making of. At the memorial service, she meets classmate Takuya, a tokusatsu superfan, and a strange person named Hozumi, the star of the movie Kenzo was making when he died. Hozumi has with him a prop from the film, the titular “Brush of the God,” which transports Akari and Takuya into the world of the movie where they face fearsome Kaiju, including the legendary Yamata-no-orochi who is attempting to destroy everything. If they are to survive and get back to their homes, Akari and Takuya must find out the secret of the movie.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-26
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The Daimon 2
Overview: The second in the series about a former businessman who rises in the world of the yakuza. Monjiro Tashiro sets out on his path. As war with the Hamaike clan escalates, Ishimaru, the chairman of the Ishinokai, is shot dead by an assassin. Monjiro's girlfriend is also taken hostage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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The Daimon
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name, this hard-boiled action drama depicts the life of a man torn between being a respectable civilian and a respected yakuza. Monjiro Tashiro, a salesman for an event company, is asked by a woman who appears out of the blue to find the truth behind the death of her best friend. Monjiro is forced to cooperate...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-05
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D
Overview: Kawamata is a psychotic soldier who fell in with the Russian Special Operation Forces. It was at this time that Kawamata became the guinea pig for this secret scientific research organization. The Russians wanted to ensure that they were ahead of the U.S. in the arms race, and used this organization to develop a mobile combat suit, armed to the teeth with all kinds of weapons imaginable. During his tenure on the project, Kawamata met Matsuzaki, a twisted scientist who was kicked out of Japan...
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-09
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Detonation! Violent Games
Overview: Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-15
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Hotarubi no Mori e
Overview: One hot summer day a little girl gets lost in an enchanted forest of the mountain god where spirits reside. A young boy appears before her, but she cannot touch him for fear of making him disappear. And so a wondrous adventure awaits...
Genres: Romance Animation Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-17
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Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
Overview: Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Overview: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-03
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Pink zone: Chikyû ni ochite kita rajo
Overview: On the rooftop of the building, Urata, who has a large debt, was trying to get over the fence with a determined attitude. Then, a dazzling light of a line runs. Urata also forgot that he was trying to commit suicide, and when he headed for the direction where the light disappeared, Sora (Abeno Miku), a naked woman, fell in the suspicious light. Urata takes Sora home and takes care of her in the room, but when she wakes up, she has a power that is unworldly. On the other hand, Kiriyama, a debt collector who pursues Urata, suddenly sees a naked woman, Riri ( Yukine Sakuragi), who has fallen with the light, and is suddenly thrown away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-25
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Violent Fighters
Overview: In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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The Specter
Overview: Spectre is a 2005 Tokusatsu short film created by Konami. Spectre stars Shinji Kasahara in the lead role as Tetsuya Teresaki, codename Spectre. The movie chronicles D.O.E Agent Tetsuya who, after dealing with a mission involving tracking a fugitive alien, is sent on a new mission to deal with alien invaders trying to steal an alien artifact from a local archaeological research site.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-09
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Apartment Wife: Lust for an Orgasm
Overview: Taeko, a married woman who wants to get out of the housing complex as soon as possible, meets Aono, the leader of a motorcycle gang, and sees his youthful body and feels something lewd burn inside her. Aono took his then girlfriend Taeko to a snack bar where her friends Ken and Rumi hang out. That night was a game day, and Rumi was surrounded by a crowd of men... Depicts a woman who will give up everything for her long-awaited home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Groper Train: I Feel the Fingering
Overview: "Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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Chikan densha: Yurete zecchô go byô mae
Overview: Takeo, a dull, middle-aged man with a delusional habit and a timid personality, is mistaken for a groper by a young woman on the commuter train. He thinks he'll be taken to the police, but for some reason he's taken to the bank of a railway bridge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-03
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