Tak Sakaguchi
Also Known As: Toshirô Takuma, Sakaguchi Tak, Sakaguchi Taku, Taku Sakaguchi, 匠馬敏郎, 匠馬 敏郎, Toshirō Takuma, Toshiroh Takuma, Toshirou Takuma, Toshiro Takuma, Takuma Toshiro, Takuma Toshirô, Takuma Toshirō, Takuma Toshiroh, Takuma Toshirou, 坂口 拓, さかぐち たく, Tak, تاک ساکاگوچی
Biography: Tak Sakaguchi ( born March 15, 1975), credited prior to May 2014 as Tak Sakaguchi, is a Japanese actor, director, fight choreographer, and stuntman. He is best known for his lead role in Ryuhei Kitamura's cult film, Versus. Sakaguchi is a talented martial artist, and as such, stars in films featuring copious fight scenes and performs all of his own stunts. He is known to be skilled in Bājíquán, Shaolin Kenpo, boxing, kick boxing, and mixed martial arts. Sakaguchi is a Christian. Description above from the Wikipedia article "Tak Sakaguchi"; licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ishikawa, Japan
Birthday: March 15, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Osaka Girl
Overview: One day, Chiho is asked to collect the rent from her grandmother, who has a bad leg. Chiho easily agrees and regrets it. The inhabitants of the flat are yakuza, host, robber, alcoholic, etc. They are all scum and they don’t pay the rent.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-21
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Overview: Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-17
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Azumi
Overview: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-10
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Azumi 2: Death or Love
Overview: Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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Versus
Overview: A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-23
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Aragami
Overview: Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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Alive
Overview: Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-21
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Be a Man!! Samurai School
Overview: Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Overview: Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Overview: Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-09-02
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Tokyo Gore Police
Overview: In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Godzilla: Final Wars
Overview: Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Overview: Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-30
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Death Trance
Overview: In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave thirsts for the ultimate battle.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-09
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Battlefield Baseball
Overview: Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Mutant Girls Squad
Overview: Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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Yakuza Weapon
Overview: After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-27
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Deadball
Overview: Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Overview: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Cromartie High School: The Movie
Overview: When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Grave of Love
Overview: Yuta (Abera Hidenobu), a monk with a passion for photography, captures in his viewfinder "that girl" (Ogura Yuna) who passes by his temple each day. One day as he is focused on taking photos, he has a reunion with childhood friend Yuka (Kano Yura). In the brief time they reminisce, she suddenly pressures him for a kiss. Moreover, he witnesses "that girl" meet a guy she got to know through a dating app.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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Snake of Violence
Overview: In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the time. One day Kenji who lives in an orphanage is sold to a yakuza and their friendship has to come to an end. 25 years later, Kanako is married to Atsushi who is an incompetent yakuza. They have 3 daughters. Kenji is a competent unbeatable yakuza. Atsushi, who sucks at everything, for the first time gets a dangerous mission to kill a thug who has attacked the office of his yakuza group. Kenji, who has advanced to the first lieutenant position, by mistake kills a dumb-ass son of the head of Tokyo Yakuza, which triggers a battle between Osaka and Tokyo Yakuzas. Then, Kenji meets Atsushi in 25 years.
Genres: Drama Action Family Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-22
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One-Percenter
Overview: After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Overview: The ex-convict protagonist of Versus lives far away from the maddening yakuza when he receives a new visit from the gangsters of the resurrection forest.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-08-04
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Hole
Overview: An omnibus film consisting of four stories on the theme of "holes" by four directors.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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Bad City
Overview: Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-05
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Jam Films
Overview: Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-28
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Be-Bop High School
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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United Red Army
Overview: Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-26
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Yoshie Zero
Overview: A short film prequel to Mutant Girls Squad.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rocket & Super Detective
Overview: From prominent Japanese filmmaker Yudai Yamaguchi comes this off-the-wall anthology of three experimental vignettes showcasing the style and wit that are the director's stock-in-trade. Recorded on digital video, these genre-bending short films -- starring then up-and-comer Tak Sakaguchi -- are awash with farce, Yamaguchi's pubescent sense of humor and electrifying rock 'n' roll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-02
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RE:BORN
Overview: A former special forces operative struggling to contain the destructive impulses of his past goes on a rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Meatball Machine Kodoku
Overview: Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-08-19
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Kingdom
Overview: Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
Genres: Action Adventure War History Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-04-19
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Red Blade
Overview: Living a troubled home-life, a teenager becomes so stressed out with everything around her that she disappears into a series of fantasy-related books. While trying to escape her situation, she soon finds herself living in feudal Japan with a ninja master and his students who inform her that she's in a separate dimension from her regular life and are to help train together in the way of the ninja. When the training's complete, the girls learn that an evil warlord that left them orphans has intentions on killing them all as well, forcing the girls to team up together with all their training to defeat the madman and live in peace again.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-12-15
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Samurai Zombie
Overview: A family travelling in a minivan are taken hostage by two fugitives. When the minivan gets a flat tire, they stumble upon a village infested by zombies in samurai armor.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-30
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Rise of the Machine Girls
Overview: Living in the lawless Ishinari District in a future Japan, sisters Ami (Hina Nagimiya) and Yoshie (Hanakage Kanon) who sold their bodies to help their parents, try to earn a living performing as an idol group in the area. When their performance causes stranger Matsukata (Tak Sakaguchi) a notorious hitman, to notice their condition, the three realize their worth to each other in the fight against Aoyama Dharma (Kimono Negishi), the female boss of a notorious organ harvesting ring in the area. Realizing that even their skills are no match for her army of goons and henchmen, the two are outfitted with special homemade weaponry to their bodies and become the ultimate killers.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-17
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Crazy Samurai Musashi
Overview: In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-21
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Prisoners of the Ghostland
Overview: In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-31
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Tokyo Dragon Chef
Overview: Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-08-01
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Grave of Love 2
Overview: Yuta, who was fatally wounded for the sake of his favorite child, is bedridden for the rest of his life. At the same time, his childhood friend Yuka has been taking "rustics" she has collected through a matching app to the other world one after another. And then, the evil hand crept up on her...
Genres: Horror Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-10-03
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