Masahiko Sakata
Also Known As: 坂田祥一朗, 坂田 祥一郎, Shōichirō Sakata, 坂田祥一郎
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: September 10, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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Faces
Overview: Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double lives cross in the shadows of Edo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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Shiratori Reiko: The Movie
Overview: Japanese TV drama Shiratori Reiko, which is based on the original Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! shōjo manga by Yumiko Suzuki, will be receiving a feature length theatrical film in June of 2016.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
Overview: Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Widow's Perverted Hell
Overview: A married couple enjoy engaging in S&M sexual behavior, and the wife, Yuri, asserts, "The ultimate SM play is death." After her husband dies, supposedly accidentally, Yuri is left alone, grieving and self-destructive. Her mental state deteriorates as she watches and masturbates joylessly to the home-made SM videos she made with her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-26
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Hentai byôtô: Hakui seme
Overview: Japanese cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato took a crack from his constant climb toward respectability with this particular kinky pinku-eiga entry aimed at the latex and rubber fetish set. A medical center nurse dealing with a patient for amnesia finds out that he is the serial slayer whom has been wandering the city armed with a metal baseball bat. The story is really an excuse for many softcore couplings offering rubber gloves as well as the like. an usually downbeat wallow in the perverse, perhaps offering evidence that while one can take the filmmaker out of the slum, the reverse is often untrue. Maya Shiraki movie stars with the omnipresent Takeshi Ito and Yoko Fujita.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-28
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Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku
Overview: Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-01
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Black Hair Velvet Soul
Overview: A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Boko climax!
Overview: Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-deprivation therapy. Unfortunately, she is raped during the course of the therapy and becomes pregnant.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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Shojo no kisumāku
Overview: Three women waited together for a man who was late. One of the women wants to confess her love and has a gift of a scarf for him. But when the man shows up he is accompanied by another woman…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-15
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Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara
Overview: An aimless and lonely call girl becomes involved with a detective who is looking for a underage runaway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-20
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Dreams
Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu
Overview: The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-05
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The Highest Honour
Overview: After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Tattoo
Overview: An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-29
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Poruno Joyû Shigan
Overview: 22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One day, a customer invites her to appear in a real behind-the-scenes video, after she starts appearing in an underground video. Then, by chance, she auditions for a movie and makes her debut as a new actress, but the underground video is also leaked, and she becomes a scandalous actress...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-15
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Nozoki
Overview: An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
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Love Beast: Hunt
Overview: In a town near an American naval base a woman starts a affair with her Aunt’s Black boyfriend who is a U.S. serviceman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Benriya K-ko
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-06
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Komatsu Midori no suki bokuro
Overview: With the death of her father, a daughter reluctantly returns to the family temple hidden in the mist covered mountains where dark and forbidden secrets dwell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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Save the Last Dance For Me
Overview: The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. Fatalistic and sad, this is one of the more depressing Japanese softcore films, and Sato makes it even worse by including footage from the lovers’ actual 8 mm experimental film throughout the story
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-01
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Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!
Overview: Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru
Overview: Following cosmetic surgery to enhance her breasts, an office worker is raped. The rapist's son, after setting his distinctly Oedipal gaze on his father's busty victim, locates her and they begin an ill-fated sadomasochistic affair that leads to a bloody killing spree.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Soft Skin
Overview: Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Cold Fish
Overview: Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
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Strong Man
Overview: The first 'Strong Man' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Strong Man Chapter 3
Overview: The Third and final 'Strong Man' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-14
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Suite Room
Overview: Ando Chigusa is the editor of 'Weekly Topaz'. She rented a room once a week to her female writer, Aso Tsuyoshi, as a place of affair. Chigusa was surprised to find out about the other person. It was Chigusa's ex-boyfriend, Shinjo Tsuyoshi...!!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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YADO: Tsukiyono-mura Yamanba Densetsu
Overview: A sensual drama depicting the world of lust that unfolds in an inn deep in the mountains.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-23
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Getting Any?
Overview: While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Double Rape
Overview: Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-05-06
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Honban: Vibe sekkan
Overview: Kasumi Yuka heads the cast of this silly softcore film from Hisayasu Sato, the usually far more sober cult filmmaker known for grim depictions of alienation and sadism. Yuka plays a cranky harridan who uses her vibrator to administer questionably effective punishment to people who annoy her.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Shield of Straw
Overview: Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-25
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Overview: A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-11
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New Third Gangster
Overview: When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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RAFT
Overview: A boy named Shogo landed on the island. He approaches a man making a raft on the beach and tries to help him with the work. The subtle air that flows between the two. They seem to know each other well, but they are also like others. The truth behind a marine accident three years ago then became clear. A child went out on a raft to the sea and went missing. The man was the father of the missing child, and Shogo was a close friend who made a raft with the child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-24
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The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda
Overview: First in the long-running series starring Riki Takeuchi as Ginjirō Manda, a loan shark in Osaka's Minami district, who shows off his brilliant debt collector skills against numerous enemies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-26
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Warrior's Justice
Overview: In this gripping cinematic adaptation of 'Crest of the Rules,' a graphic novel by Ushijiro and illustrated by Teruichi Nasu, audiences are immersed in the intense world of a militant yakuza struggling against the currents of changing times. Abandoned by evolving waves, he battles a formidable enemy organization, faces excommunication from a former ally, and confronts both factions during a period of societal disapproval.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-03
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Fudoh: The New Generation
Overview: In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-12
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To the Sea, See You
Overview: Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, team leader Mizuki (Nenji Kobayashi) is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii (Goro Ohashi) to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary, retired mechanic and driver Eiji Honma (Ken Takakura) to the team. Honma soon discovers his ex-wife Kei (Ayumi Ishida) is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Juan Vázquez (Tomas Arana). He is also accompanied by Yuko Takei (Junko Sakurada), a singer who followed Yoshii from Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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Spring Bell
Overview: Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-09
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Mansei hatsujô furin-zuma
Overview: Saeki Shingo and Yuri are siblings who lost their parents at an early age and live together. However, Shingo gets engaged to his girlfriend Keiko, and the three of them start living together. Although this new life should be full of happiness, Keiko has some worries. She is having an affair with her boss, Tsuchiya. Moreover, Keiko, who had been turned into a masochist by Tsuchiya, worries that she may no longer be able to have normal sex. Meanwhile, Yuri is completely addicted to lesbian play with her girlfriend Miyuki...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-26
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Inran Sisters
Overview: As soon as he bought a small house on a loan, his wife died in an accident. His work wasn't going well either. But this unsuccessful father raised his two daughters on his own. That's what he's most proud of. The older sister is an office worker who is having an affair with her boss. The younger sister is worried because she can't finish sex with her boyfriend. An incident occurs to each of these sisters, and it leads to an unexpected development..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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