Acting

Masao Imanishi

Born 1931-03-27

Acting credits

Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love poster
6.2

Notorious thief Lupin the Third aims to steal the lost treasure of the Romanov royal family with his criminal associates along for the ride. The treasure is an immense quantity of gold hidden underground in the vaults of a mysterious Texas bank. But to obtain the gold, Lupin and his friends will have to face down both the Mafia and Rasputon, the telepathic descendant of the mad monk Rasputin. Lupin again eludes inspector Zenigata with the help of a mysterious blonde named Judy Scott, as Rasputon manipulates the world's leaders to put every obstacle in Lupin's path.

Lupin the Third: From Siberia with Love

1992

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer poster
6.8

Lopple and Chammy, two runaway aliens, recruit Doraemon and Nobita to help save their planet from destruction.

Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer

1981

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves poster
6.1

A peasant boy and 38 cats band against the tyrannical Ali Baba the 33rd and his cat-phobic genie.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1971

The Sensualist poster
5.5

A story of a man's erotic encounter with a courtesan in the 1700s.

The Sensualist

1991

The Imperial Navy poster
6.6

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

The Imperial Navy

1981

Zôressha ga Yatte Kita poster
5.5

During WWII most zoo animals that could pose a danger to the public were slaughtered. Only two elephants survived the war, and trains were arranged to bring children from all over the country to see them.

Zôressha ga Yatte Kita

1992

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon poster
6.2

The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Crow, and Ted's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

1965

Horror of the Wolf poster
7.3

Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.

Horror of the Wolf

1973

The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S poster
2.5

Youth suspense movie.

The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S

1982

Donbe's Story poster
NR

Researcher Mutsugoro takes his family to a remote and uninhabited island near Hokkaido, to study the local population of wild bears. Nearby poachers make his life difficult, and he "inherits" an orphaned bear cub, whom the family call Donbe and raise as one of their own.

Donbe's Story

1981

The King poster
NR

Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to keep playing in the hope of defeating star player Sekine.

The King

1973

The King of Minami 2 poster
NR

The second in a series of anime works depicting the activities of Yamikinya Manda Ginjiro, who is called "Minami no Ogre". Yanagida, a machine supplier who had lent money to Ginjiro, visited him. Yanagida had borrowed from Ginjiro the unpaid portion of the machine delivery fee to Tamura Iron Works, but Tamura Iron Works went bankrupt and was unable to repay. From Yanagida's story, Ginjiro senses that a professional sorter has moved behind the scenes, and finds out a man named Gennai, the sorter.

The King of Minami 2

1994