Shozo Endo

Acting

Shozo Endo

Born 1971-07-13 · Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

Best known for his appearances in the yearly batsu games shown on New Year's Eve in which he stars with other comedians in an endurance game. Endo is also part of Cocorico the comedian pair with 'Naoki Tanaka' who star on the ongoing series Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende.

Acting credits

Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! Me and the Space Princess poster
6.5

The Noharas get abducted by aliens who claim that Shin-chan's baby sister is their princess! Will she stay on this planet or return to Kasukabe?

Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! Me and the Space Princess

2012

Castle Under Fiery Skies poster
8.6

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's novel of the same name received the 33rd Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Art Direction.

Castle Under Fiery Skies

2009

CONFLICT II: Conclusion poster
7.0

The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa) orders Oda (Kōji Matoba), a wakagashira-hosa of Tendokai who has just been released from prison, to investigate. Meanwhile, Washio presses the client behind the whole affair, former METI official Masaoka (Jiro Okazaki), to reveal the truth. But before long, both Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta)—whom Washio was protecting—and Sumire (Kokoro Nakayama), daughter of Washio’s former senior Kawashima (Naomasa Rokuhira), are kidnapped by Daitoa-dan. To make matters worse, Sumire is drugged and used as bait to lure Washio out. Blinded by rage, Washio storms the Daitoa-dan headquarters alone— But what awaits him there…? An epic finale marking the 20th anniversary of All In Entertainment, featuring a star-studded cast that defines the ninkyo (chivalry) genre! The fierce showdown over the casino rights between yakuza and mafia finally reaches its conclusion.

CONFLICT II: Conclusion

2016

tokyo.sora poster
7.6

Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.

tokyo.sora

2002

Dark Tales of Japan poster
5.8

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

Dark Tales of Japan

2004

Love and Lies poster
5.4

The Japanese government carries out a program to increase the birth rate in the country. Their program analyzes gene information from its residents and selects a marriage partner for them. Aoi Nisaka is a high school student. She is in a love triangle with childhood friend Yuto Shiba and Sosuke Takachiho. Sosuke Takachiho is appointed by the government to become her husband.

Love and Lies

2017

CONFLICT: Outbreak poster
7.0

The Hyodo-gumi boss—part of Tendokai, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate—has been brutally murdered. Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), the head of the Washio-gumi and Tendokai’s wakagashira (underboss), is convinced that Yoshinari Myojin (Sho Aikawa), a former Tendokai wakagashira-hosa now running Tokyo’s underworld of thugs and mafia, is behind the killing. Around the same time, Tendokai's 5th-generation chairman Katsushige (Hakuryu) orders Washio to secure a woman named Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta). Washio sets out with his men, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Date (Hideo Nakano), but they’re ambushed by a group of heavily armed youths. Barely escaping, they manage to bring Nagi to their hideout—only to discover she’s a key player in a power struggle over the Tokyo Casino Project. And so begins the greatest conflict yet, entangling yakuza, mafia, street gangs, the police, and even the state itself—

CONFLICT: Outbreak

2016

All About Our House poster
6.3

Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.

All About Our House

2001

There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie poster
4.5

Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.

There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie

2001

Busjack Returns poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Busjack Returns

2017

Bayblues: 25 Years and 354 Days poster
NR

"I'm definitely going to be the best." This is the path that these young baseball players once chose to take to become entertainers. Just when they were sure they would finally make it, after struggling to reach the top amidst a burning sense of urgency, their partner was struck by fulminant hepatitis. Hoping for the recovery of their partner, to whom they had entrusted their lives, they continued to hide their anguish from those around them... This moving story is still talked about by entertainers to this day, depicting the sudden death of a young genius manzai comedian and the raw, passionate story of their short but passionate youth, piercing the heart. (translation)

Bayblues: 25 Years and 354 Days

2014

Yankee Gurentai Nanbo no Monjai! 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yankee Gurentai Nanbo no Monjai! 2

1994

Young Thugs: Kishiwada Youth Baseball Team poster
NR

The 4th installment of the popular series "Kishiwada Shonen Gurentai". This time, the popular comedy duo Cocorico has been selected as the lead, and idol Hiroko Anzai has been selected as Madonna. In 1970, the boy Gus is uninterested in the fact that Ryuji, a fair-skinned and meek transfer student to the next class, becomes popular with the girls. One day, Ji-yan from Liichi forms a grass baseball team, and Gus, who is not good at baseball, becomes a member. Gus finds out that Ryuji, who is sickly, is also secretly practicing baseball, and starts practicing with him.

Young Thugs: Kishiwada Youth Baseball Team

2000

Young Thugs: Super Special Edition I Had a Dream poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Young Thugs: Super Special Edition I Had a Dream

2000

Busjack poster
3.0

A recently laid off-man having a really bad day accidentally gets mistaken for a hijacker on a bus full of very extreme personalities. He really didn't mean to hijack this bus. But he's got nothing better to do, so he might as well make the most of it.

Busjack

2014