Masahiko Sakata

Acting

Masahiko Sakata

Born

1956-09-10 (70)

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Kamen Rider poster
6.4

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Dreams poster
7.7

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Dreams

1990

Denshichi Torimonocho poster
7.3

Denshichi of Kuromon-cho hates crime and hates people. He is a stylish and kind Okakitori. Denchichi is a chivalrous and gentle okabiki, and he will not tolerate bad people under the ten purple hands of Murasakibusa, entrusted to him by the magistrate of Toyama. Denchichi is sent by Koi Nyobo's fire to destroy the evils of Edo.

Denshichi Torimonocho

2016

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters poster
7.8

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

Cold Fish poster
6.9

When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.

Cold Fish

2011

Love Letter in the Sand poster
5.8

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

Love Letter in the Sand

1988

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Cold Fish poster
6.9

When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.

Cold Fish

2011

Shield of Straw poster
6.4

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.

Shield of Straw

2013

Strong Man Chapter 3 poster
NR

The Third and final 'Strong Man' film.

Strong Man Chapter 3

2017

Shiratori Reiko: The Movie poster
NR

Japanese TV drama Shiratori Reiko, which is based on the original Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! shōjo manga by Yumiko Suzuki, will be receiving a feature length theatrical film in June of 2016.

Shiratori Reiko: The Movie

2016

Strong Man poster
NR

The first 'Strong Man' film.

Strong Man

2016

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38

2015

Faces poster
NR

Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double lives cross in the shadows of Edo.

Faces

2016

RAFT poster
NR

A boy named Shogo landed on the island. He approaches a man making a raft on the beach and tries to help him with the work. The subtle air that flows between the two. They seem to know each other well, but they are also like others. The truth behind a marine accident three years ago then became clear. A child went out on a raft to the sea and went missing. The man was the father of the missing child, and Shogo was a close friend who made a raft with the child.

RAFT

2011

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 22 titles

Dreams poster
7.7

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Dreams

1990

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet poster
6.5

Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the task down, he will face the consequences for betrayal.

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

1990

Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe poster
7.4

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.

Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe

1995

Getting Any? poster
5.8

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.

Getting Any?

1995

Fudoh: The New Generation poster
6.7

In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

Fudoh: The New Generation

1996

OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru poster
4.0

Following cosmetic surgery to enhance her breasts, an office worker is raped. The rapist's son, after setting his distinctly Oedipal gaze on his father's busty victim, locates her and they begin an ill-fated sadomasochistic affair that leads to a bloody killing spree.

OL renzoku rape: Kyonyû musaboru

1990

Bounce Ko Gals poster
6.7

Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating. Raku is a street dancer. Togo was brought up in the US, and after being back in Japan for one year, wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

Bounce Ko Gals

1997

The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark poster
NR

#7 in the King of Minami series, following "Tactical Debt." Manda tries to save his business from a money-lending hostess club run by yakuza from Tokyo and a beautiful woman with a grudge.

The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark

1994

Soft Skin poster
6.4

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.

Soft Skin

1998

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland poster
5.6

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland

1996

Noctiluca poster
6.0

Surgeon Asami Hanaoka is in financial difficulty. A gang soon plot to takeover the hospital.

Noctiluca

1997

Suite Room poster
NR

Ando Chigusa is the editor of 'Weekly Topaz'. She rented a room once a week to her female writer, Aso Tsuyoshi, as a place of affair. Chigusa was surprised to find out about the other person. It was Chigusa's ex-boyfriend, Shinjo Tsuyoshi...!!

Suite Room

1993

Emperor of Evil poster
NR

This film, directed by Banmei Takahashi, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Atsushi Mizoguchi. It depicts the love-hate relationship between an older brother who tries to live an honest life and a younger brother who tries to return to the world of crime. Shigetoku, the younger brother who made a name for himself in the yakuza group "Toryu-kai" alongside his older brother Atsuhiko, is arrested after a conflict with a rival organization. Eight years later, Shigetoku returns to Atsuhiko, who has gone straight, but Shigetoku shows resentment towards Atsuhiko's lifestyle.

Emperor of Evil

1994

The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda poster
6.0

When the recession hits, Osaka-based loan shark Ginjiro Manda decides to help out small business owners in trouble, but finds himself face-to-face with the yakuza who come to collect debts.

The King of Minami: Ginjiro Manda

1992

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku poster
4.3

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku

1990

Honban: Vibe sekkan poster
4.7

Kasumi Yuka heads the cast of this silly softcore film from Hisayasu Sato, the usually far more sober cult filmmaker known for grim depictions of alienation and sadism. Yuka plays a cranky harridan who uses her vibrator to administer questionably effective punishment to people who annoy her.

Honban: Vibe sekkan

1992

Look Into Me poster
3.7

A married couple enjoy engaging in S&M sexual behavior, and the wife, Yuri, asserts, "The ultimate SM play is death." After her husband dies, supposedly accidentally, Yuri is left alone, grieving and self-destructive. Her mental state deteriorates as she watches and masturbates joylessly to the home-made SM videos she made with her husband.

Look Into Me

1991

No artwork available
2.0

Saeki Shingo and Yuri are siblings who lost their parents at an early age and live together. However, Shingo gets engaged to his girlfriend Keiko, and the three of them start living together. Although this new life should be full of happiness, Keiko has some worries. She is having an affair with her boss, Tsuchiya. Moreover, Keiko, who had been turned into a masochist by Tsuchiya, worries that she may no longer be able to have normal sex. Meanwhile, Yuri is completely addicted to lesbian play with her girlfriend Miyuki...

Mansei hatsujô furin-zuma

1996

No artwork available
NR

Three people find themselves locked in the same room: a skilled hitman awaiting execution for having an affair with a yakuza boss's woman; a "trigger man" from a rival gang who has been taken prisoner; and the boss's mistress—the very woman who seduced the hitman. Amidst the confinement, they trade insults and deceive one another, yet eventually, they become bound together by a shared desire for revenge...

Two Stray Dogs and One Cat

1997

New Third Gangster poster
9.0

When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.

New Third Gangster

1996

Warrior's Justice poster
NR

In this gripping cinematic adaptation of 'Crest of the Rules,' a graphic novel by Ushijiro and illustrated by Teruichi Nasu, audiences are immersed in the intense world of a militant yakuza struggling against the currents of changing times. Abandoned by evolving waves, he battles a formidable enemy organization, faces excommunication from a former ally, and confronts both factions during a period of societal disapproval.

Warrior's Justice

1993

Yusuri: The Blackmailer poster
NR

Follows a blackmailer who exploits the weaknesses of powerful villains and strips them of their wealth.

Yusuri: The Blackmailer

1997

1980s · 21 titles

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters poster
7.8

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

1985

Love Letter in the Sand poster
5.8

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

Love Letter in the Sand

1988

Save the Last Dance for Me poster
3.3

The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. Fatalistic and sad, this is one of the more depressing Japanese softcore films, and Sato makes it even worse by including footage from the lovers’ actual 8 mm experimental film throughout the story

Save the Last Dance for Me

1986

Black Hair Velvet Soul poster
4.1

A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.

Black Hair Velvet Soul

1982

Tattoo poster
5.7

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Tattoo

1982

Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara poster
4.2

An aimless and lonely call girl becomes involved with a detective who is looking for a underage runaway.

Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara

1987

Spring Bell poster
7.2

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.

Spring Bell

1985

Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat! poster
5.0

Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs.

Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!

1987

No artwork available
NR

Pink film by Chiaki Kimata.

New Wife Tortured in a Locked Room

1986

The Highest Honour poster
6.6

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

The Highest Honour

1982

Umi e, See You poster
10.0

Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, DANKAI leader Mizuki is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary retired mechanic/driver Eiji Honma to the team. Soon Honma discovers his ex-wife Kei is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez. Honma's truck also comes to include stowaway passenger Yuko Takei, Yoshii's pop star girlfriend who is trying to salvage their relationship.

Umi e, See You

1988

Nozoki poster
9.0

An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue.

Nozoki

1983

Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu poster
2.0

The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.

Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu

1982

Boko climax! poster
4.0

Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-deprivation therapy. Unfortunately, she is raped during the course of the therapy and becomes pregnant.

Boko climax!

1987

Love Beast: Hunt poster
3.7

In a town near an American naval base a woman starts a affair with her Aunt’s Black boyfriend who is a U.S. serviceman.

Love Beast: Hunt

1983

Poruno Joyû Shigan poster
NR

22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One day, a customer invites her to appear in a real behind-the-scenes video, after she starts appearing in an underground video. Then, by chance, she auditions for a movie and makes her debut as a new actress, but the underground video is also leaked, and she becomes a scandalous actress...

Poruno Joyû Shigan

1983

Inran Sisters poster
2.0

As soon as he bought a small house on a loan, his wife died in an accident. His work wasn't going well either. But this unsuccessful father raised his two daughters on his own. That's what he's most proud of. The older sister is an office worker who is having an affair with her boss. The younger sister is worried because she can't finish sex with her boyfriend. An incident occurs to each of these sisters, and it leads to an unexpected development..

Inran Sisters

1988

Benriya K-ko poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Benriya K-ko

1984

Komatsu Midori no suki bokuro poster
3.7

With the death of her father, a daughter reluctantly returns to the family temple hidden in the mist covered mountains where dark and forbidden secrets dwell.

Komatsu Midori no suki bokuro

1985

Shojo no kisumāku poster
2.0

Three women waited together for a man who was late. One of the women wants to confess her love and has a gift of a scarf for him. But when the man shows up he is accompanied by another woman…

Shojo no kisumāku

1987

Double Rape poster
2.0

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Double Rape

1989

Series credits

Kamen Rider poster
6.4

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Denshichi Torimonocho poster
7.3

Denshichi of Kuromon-cho hates crime and hates people. He is a stylish and kind Okakitori. Denchichi is a chivalrous and gentle okabiki, and he will not tolerate bad people under the ten purple hands of Murasakibusa, entrusted to him by the magistrate of Toyama. Denchichi is sent by Koi Nyobo's fire to destroy the evils of Edo.

Denshichi Torimonocho

2016

I am Reiko Shiratori! poster
NR

19-year-old Reiko (Mayuko Kawakita) is extremely beautiful and comes from a wealthy family. When she was little, she was bullied by a kid and Tetsuya (Masaru Mizuno) saved her. Since then, Reiko only likes Tetsuya. Yet, as a high school student, she turned down Tetsuya's confession. Despite her parents’ opposition, Reiko goes to Tokyo to attend a university where Tetsuya studies. At this time, Reiko wants to be honest about her feelings for Tetsuya, but due to her pride she doesn't tell him.

I am Reiko Shiratori!

2016

Overlord: Blood Genealogy poster
7.5

When a mafia leader is killed, his son and the deadliest assassin in the mafia compete in order to be the new leader.

Overlord: Blood Genealogy

2018

15 Sai no Blues poster
NR

Sanada Kohei, a third-year junior high school student, is bullied by classmates and struggles with both school and family life. He finds solace in caring for potted flowers in his room. After going through ten tutors, Kohei meets Shunsaku, a hip-hop singer-turned-tutor. Shunsaku's unconventional and tough approach helps Kohei transform.

15 Sai no Blues

2005