Masayuki Imai
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Masayuki Imai was a Japanese playwright and actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hyogo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 21, 1961
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 28, 2015
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47 Ronin
Overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Robbery
Overview: Friendship and violence
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Don's Road 10
Overview: The tenth 'Don's Road' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-09
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A Quiet Life
Overview: A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-23
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Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse
Overview: 2000 horror original video.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-21
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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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Naniwa Chūshingura
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-08
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Treasure of the Black Jaguar
Overview: Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Come On, Happiness
Overview: In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film. In 2011, Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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Invited Woman
Overview: Pinku film released in 1996
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Overview: Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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Another Lonely Hitman 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-04
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
Overview: With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-14
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Overview: After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-07-23
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Overview: Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Rape
Overview: A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally wanted to be a writer of children's stories, but the violence novel he wrote to fill in the blanks became a big hit and became a popular author. The content of his works is so extreme that even his wife Yasuko's reality is so different from Masayuki's actual image. One day, while Masayuki is away, Yasuko receives a call from a woman who calls herself Tomoko Abe. She says that the woman was raped by Masayuki, so Yasuko decides to meet Tomoko. Yasuko is relieved by her story, which has no basis or evidence, but Tomoko's harassment of her escalates, and she finally puts her self-made scenario into action. Masayuki, who doesn't know anything, falls into her temptation and ends up writing the experience into a novel as planned...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Assistant Doctor
Overview: Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-09
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Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 3: Fly Birdie
Overview: The third film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-15
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Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 4: Shank Shank Shank
Overview: The fourth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-15
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Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 5: Beloved Lost Ball
Overview: The f ifth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-14
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Overview: Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Overview: Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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The Mamushi
Overview: Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Together, they have 23 convictions and are the most villainous duo in the world, who have made Osaka tremble with fear as the "Tobikan Kaku" duo. On a whim, Tobikataro falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and is forced to rescue her. The villainous duo eventually become embroiled in a conspiracy behind the mayoral election, and hit out at the gangsters...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-13
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About Love, Tokyo
Overview: Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Yakuza Ladies Neo
Overview: Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-08
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Winds of God
Overview: After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô
Overview: Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
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Kagura Me
Overview: A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Playtime Never Ends
Overview: A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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T.R.Y.
Overview: At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-11
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Scenery to Remember
Overview: Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Popcorn Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-21
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Violent Archipelago 2
Overview: Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-06
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Violent Archipelago
Overview: Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-16
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