Acting

Masahiko Arima

Born 1925-07-22 · Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Acting credits

A Thousand and One Nights poster
6.7

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.

A Thousand and One Nights

1969

Port Arthur poster
7.4

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

Port Arthur

1980

The School of Flesh poster
5.8

A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy marriage after the war, in pursuit of a wild and pure Japanese man. Three gorgeous 39-year-old single women who are in the same situation get excited about each other’s love affairs. Adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel.

The School of Flesh

1965

Love Letter poster
7.8

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover.

Love Letter

1985

Beast Alley poster
7.0

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.

Beast Alley

1965

Death of a Tea Master poster
5.6

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

Death of a Tea Master

1989

The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody poster
NR

A elusive thief nicknamed 'King of Terror' can disguise himself as anyone, and targets only first-class artworks. His next target is the 'Tears of Anastasia', a treasure belonging to Ryoko, a beautiful violinist's prestigious Kobayakawa family. The great detective Kogoro Akechi is asked by Inspector Namikoshi to provide security.

The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody

1986

No artwork available
NR

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

The Rokumeikan

1961

Assignment Dragon No. 3 poster
7.0

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.

Assignment Dragon No. 3

1967

The White Rose of Hong Kong poster
7.0

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful secrets unravel a complex web of betrayal. As love, family, and justice collide, Matsumoto must face a truth too deep to escape—and a loss too great to mend.

The White Rose of Hong Kong

1965

奥飛騨二重心中 poster
4.0

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.

奥飛騨二重心中

1985

Secret of the College Girls: Part-Time Sex Pros poster
7.0

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Secret of the College Girls: Part-Time Sex Pros

1974

Congratulatory Speech poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Congratulatory Speech

1985

0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!- poster
NR

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.

0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-

1979

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi poster
7.0

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi

1965

殺人者 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

殺人者

1966

Blood Is Dry poster
6.3

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.

Blood Is Dry

1960

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3 poster
NR

The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ryoichi Kashiwagi died of a heart attack. His father, Shigeyuki , is already bedridden and has billions of Japanese yen in assets. Ryoichi's wife Yukiyo and Ryoichi's younger sister Tsuruko have a dispute over these assets. Newspaper reporter Matsushita, who met Ryoichi just before his death, was interviewed, and was told that there was something unnatural about Ryoichi's cause of death. Soon, Tsuruko died mysteriously. Matsushita decides to have Kyosuke Kozu, a university professor and a famous detective, solve the case.

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3

1985

No artwork available
NR

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

The Rokumeikan

1959

The Detective poster
NR

Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted.

The Detective

1984