Kinzō Sakura
Also Known As: Kinzou Sakura, Kinzoh Sakura, 佐藤金造, Kinzô Satô, Satou Shigeki, Satō Shigeki, Satoh Shigeki, Sato Shigeki
Biography: Kinzo Sakura is a Japanese actor and comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: December 29, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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Tampopo
Overview: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-23
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A Taxing Woman
Overview: Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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Honto Ni Atta!! Toshi Densetsu: Saikyo-ban
Overview: The 18 best urban legends from the "Honto Ni Atta!. Toshi Densetsu" trilogy have been selected in this scariest edition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-21
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Mr. Baseball
Overview: Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Juvenile
Overview: 11-year-old Yusuke and his classmates camp in the woods and see a strange light. They discover a small metallic object like a robot which talks, calls himself Tetra and knows Yusuke's name. Tetra can create wonderful gadgets but actually has to save the world with Yusuke's help from extraterrestrials with bad intentions.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-15
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Let’s Go Home Someday
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-08
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Kaidan Saikyou Sen 2018 The Decisive Battle
Overview: Finalists, semi-finals, and finals of the competition to determine the "Kaiou," the most powerful ghost storyteller who tells the scariest ghost stories. The 10 winners of the preliminary rounds held in Tokyo and Osaka, including Tanishi Matsubara, Ami, and Daizo Miki, as well as the seeded player, Kinzo Sakura, tell ghost stories under the watchful eye of Junji Inagawa, the chief advisor of the competition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-04
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Ryuji
Overview: Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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My Sky (Detective Edition)
Overview: Ippei Yasuda, the scion of the Yasuda Zaibatsu who has continued his wandering journey, becomes a detective and corrects evil! Recognized for outstanding grades at the police academy, Ippei is assigned to the Kyobashi police station as a new detective.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-29
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My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness
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Overview: A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Natsu no pēji
Overview: Three young country boys are beginning to drift apart as friends. In the summer, they set off to have an adventure in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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Like a Savage
Overview: Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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Sugisawa Village Legend: Kanzen mu Sakujo Zettai Kyofu-ban
Overview: Sugisawa Village in Aomori Prefecture, where a massacre of the entire population occurred during the war. This documentary-style film depicts the horrors experienced by a TV crew on a trip to the village, which is feared as a cursed village.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-02
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Overview: Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Aizome Kyôko no mibôjin geshuku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Overview: Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
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TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Kinzo Special
Overview: A special DVD edition from the “TV Broadcast Prohibited Series” (TV放送禁止シリーズ), that gained popularity as horror videos, plus bonus footage! Not only the famous horror night tales, but also many ghost photos and haunted spots are introduced.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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Kinzō Sakura: Ghost Stories - Real Accounts! Stories So Scary You'll Die
Overview: Kanzo Sakura made his breakthrough as a ghost story teller in the 1990s when he appeared in the ghost story corner of a TV variety show, and is regarded as one of the leading figures in the world of ghost stories. Based on the sensations he gained through his own near-death experience, Kinzo Sakura told his ghost stories and spiritual phenomena he had experienced in front of the camera.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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Kinzō Sakura: Ghost Stories - Real Accounts! Return from the Brink of Death
Overview: On February 12, 2013, at 11:30 a.m., Kanzo Sakura, a master ghost storyteller who wandered the borderline between life and death due to a brain hemorrhage, finally shared his near-death experience and psychic disorder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-02
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Madadayo
Overview: Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-17
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Those Swell Yakuza
Overview: Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Fearsome Edamame
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 2001.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Kinzō on the 13th Day
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 2001.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: Gut Test 2000
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 2000.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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TV Broadcast Prohibited Series: The Very Scary Story of Tsumami Edamame
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 2001.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Fireflies in the North
Overview: Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown
Overview: When the Imagin and Kohana take a trip to visit Ryotaro and Airi, they are attacked by the legendary Ghost Train, and onboard are two Imagin and the evil Kamen Rider Yuuki, who is none other than Ryotaro! But when all hope seems lost, a blue DenLiner appears, delivering someone claiming to be Kamen Rider New Den-O! Just who is he, and can he help everyone save Ryotaro and save time once again?
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Human Scramble: Road
Overview: Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
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You'll Fall For Me
Overview: Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both want to spend Christmas Eve with the same guy. Will they choose friendship? Or love?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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Abare Bunya
Overview: Based on Tetsuya Saruwatari's manga series about a reporter who gets assigned to a serial murder case involving schoolgirls who engage in "compensated dating".
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Fu · Shi · Gi · na BABY
Overview: Roller skating boy band Hikaru GENJI face a series of strange events after a baby one day suddenly appears in their dormitory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Shout: Angels Crying
Overview: A series of bizarre murders targeting only female rock vocalists. Another popular vocalist has begun to be targeted ... The mental horror that slowly attacks ... Psycho, suspense, and horror are here!
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Shomuni
Overview: Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-28
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Chips
Overview: Tadashi Imamura is a burglar who idolises Ozaki, a star baseball player he shares a birthday with. One day he realises their connection is much deeper than that and decides to find out more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-07
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Birdcage of Horrors
Overview: A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for the SEGA Dreamcast console. It tells the story of Nao Tsunoda, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who moves to Tokyo’s Grauenheim apartment complex. One day, Nao’s life turns into a nightmare when she suddenly discovers the headless corpse of her neighbor on the roof of the house — and a chain of brutal murders continues, becoming clear that a psychopath is hunting the apartment building's inhabitants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-01
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Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Overview: Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-20
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Kinzo OF THE DEAD: Kinzo Sakura's Comeback in the Entertainment World
Overview: Horror film.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Kinzo's Ghost Stories
Overview: Japanese horror film.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-14
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Successful Filming! A DVD That Brings Happiness When Watched?! Zashiki-warashi
Overview: It was said that a Zashiki-warashi appeared in a room of a certain inn. Our filming crew, after being repeatedly refused permission for an interview, finally obtained consent from the inn to film. The project followed us as we conducted a close-up investigation until we were able to capture footage of the Zashiki-warashi.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
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