Makoto Ashikawa
Also Known As: Makoto Ashikawa
Biography: Makoto Ashikawa (芦川誠, born 19 April 1960) is a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 19, 1960
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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The Dork, The Girl, and The Douchebag
Overview: A man with a wife and child attempts to run off with a hostess, but he doesn’t show up at the place they agreed to meet. The hostess continues to wait fully aware he won’t come. Then a man calls out to her…. “The Dork, The Girl, and The Douchebag,” the latest film in three years by OKUDA Yosuke who made his commercial film debut with “Tokyo Playboy Club” (11), is a powerful ensemble drama intertwining a drug dealer, a yakuza, an ex-convict youth, and others. It can be said the film inherits the setting of his previous work, but the intense realism exhibited in the raw chaos far exceeds the previous film and amply points to OKUDA’s future potential. Portraying the complex male character who only lives for violence, OKUDA’s talents as an actor should also not be overlooked.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-22
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Boiling Point
Overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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Violent Cop
Overview: A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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Kids Return
Overview: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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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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Female Yakuza Tale
Overview: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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The Booth
Overview: Shogo, the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of Studio 6, a creepy and dilapidated booth abandoned since its last DJ committed suicide several years ago. Suddenly, Shogo begins receiving disturbing calls, the voice on the line whispers "Liar" over and over. Is the joke on him, has someone discovered the truth about his sinister past, or has the curse of Studio 6 been unleashed again? In this Booth, all sins will be atoned for.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-05
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Odayaka
Overview: Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-22
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Takeshis'
Overview: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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Zatoichi
Overview: Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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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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Fish Story
Overview: A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Weekend Shuffle
Overview: First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
Overview: In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-19
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September Sky
Overview: Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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Ju-on: The Curse 2
Overview: On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-25
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Ju-on: The Curse
Overview: When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-11
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Fireworks
Overview: Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Love Circumstances for Adults
Overview: Sensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival for Makeup Room. Yamagishi Shiori (Maru Junko) is a single 38-year-old woman working in the editorial department of a women's magazine. Workaholic Shiori's only diversion is watching erotic videos for women and indulging in fantasies of romance with her favorite male porn star Shunsuke (Arima Yoshihiko). Then, one day she covers a porn shoot for a feature story about popular male porn stars…
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-29
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Around The Table
Overview: Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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The Inerasable
Overview: A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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That Man Is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano
Overview: Documentary with Makoto Ashikawa, who played Kikuchi in Violent Cop, and Masayuki Mori, the film's producer, commenting on the film and what was happening behind the scenes of Takeshi Kitano's first film as a director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-11
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Golden Slumber
Overview: When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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The King of Minami 23
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Kubi
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Genres: History Action Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Underdog: Part Two
Overview: Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a worthy opponent in Omura, an up-and-coming wunderkind who is trying to escape his violent past. The men's fight for redemption culminates in a climatic match brimming with raw, testosterone-fueled emotions. Upholding the Rocky Balboa spirit of learning to get hit and keep moving forward, Underdog is a tough, uncompromising epic that deserves a spot in the pantheon of great boxing films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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Underdog: Part One
Overview: Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to crawl his way to the top. Omura Ryuta is a youngster who grew up in foster care. Miyagi Shun, a TV celebrity with famous parents, takes a shot at boxing as part of a TV show. Three underdogs with very different back stories put their pride on the line as they exchange blows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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