Masashi Arifuku

Acting

Masashi Arifuku

Born

1952-02-18 (74)

Known for

Acting

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Yell poster
8.3

NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on. 

Yell

2020

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger poster
7.5

Long ago, a great, destructive war between humans the Orgs was ended; the people of Earth were believed to be the victors. But now, 1,000 years later, the Orgs have returned. And five new warriors have been selected by the Power Animals to claim the responsibility of protecting humanity once again, by becoming Gaorangers!

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger

2001

Code Blue poster
7.6

Four young physicians are assigned to the “Doctor Helicopter” system, the latest medical system where a medical team is dispatched to the patients via helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, and witness the fragility of life, all while growing personally and professionally.

Code Blue

2008

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins poster
7.5

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

2012

R-17 poster
5.2

A young school counselor steps into a prestigious girls' academy, only to uncover a hidden world of harassment, manipulation, and forbidden desire that the institution is desperate to keep quiet. Case by case, the girls she's there to help pull her deeper into the darkness behind the school's polished walls, and closer to a truth that will shatter everything she thought she understood about them, and herself.

R-17

2001

Survival Family poster
7.3

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.

Survival Family

2017

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins poster
7.5

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

2012

Survival Family poster
7.3

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.

Survival Family

2017

Wood Job! poster
7.4

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.

Wood Job!

2014

Mr. Long poster
7.3

Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.

Mr. Long

2017

I Will Fly to the Sky on a Wheelchair poster
8.0

(I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. There he meets an ill kid in the hospital named Ishii Daisuke who is living his life positively, and the store staff Katou Kumi, who always smiles even though she had a sad past. He gains confidence and decides to start his rehabilitation. After Yasuyuki is discharged from the hospital, he starts relying on everybody everywhere, so he falls into despair and starts thinking of committing suicide seeing no future for himself.

I Will Fly to the Sky on a Wheelchair

2012

花実のない森 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花実のない森

2017

稲垣家の喪主 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

稲垣家の喪主

2017

Cloudy, Ocassionally Sunny poster
NR

A busy career-woman (MEGUMI) and her mother (Miyoko Asada) have complex feelings upon learning that the estranged, abusive father of the family has been hospitalized with dementia. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

Cloudy, Ocassionally Sunny

2018

2000s · 5 titles

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse poster
5.1

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin air. Kitaro and his friends investigate these mysterious cases when they meet Kaede Hiramoto, a high school girl who finds herself involved in this mystery. With the help from the librarian of Yokai Library, they find out that the curse was caused by an evil Yokai that was released from 1,000 years of sealing. To save Kaede, they are to gather the 5 ancient musical instruments and perform the ritual to seal the evil Yokai again, which has to be done within 48 hours!

Kitaro and the Millennium Curse

2008

Sunflower poster
6.8

Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earlier times together.

Sunflower

2000

Sing Salmon Sing poster
5.6

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee’s knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and photographer Junichi Makimura, asks Kasumi is he can photograph her singing she accepts, thinking this means she is beautiful as well. However the end result is a comical shot of Kasumi with her mouth wide open, which Makimura likes to a hungry salmon! Distraught by the ensuing humiliation, Kasumi quits the choir, until she is encouraged to return by an unlikely counsel - the brutish leader of thuggish rival all male choir, Hiroshi Gondo.

Sing Salmon Sing

2008

Tokyo Serendipity poster
6.0

Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

Tokyo Serendipity

2007

Uchū no natsu poster
NR

After losing her parents, Kanako moves in with her grandmother in a town by the sea.

Uchū no natsu

2003

1990s · 8 titles

Round About Midnight poster
7.0

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.

Round About Midnight

1999

MARKS poster
6.0

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...

MARKS

1995

Tuff Part I - Origin poster
7.0

Jiro, a freelancer working at a delivery pizza shop, witnesses the brilliant killing techniques of professional assassin Nejime at a gangster's office where he makes deliveries. Jiro rescues the wounded Nejime and volunteers to become his apprentice. From that day on, Jiro learns the art of killing in a dog eats dog world.

Tuff Part I - Origin

1990

Unlucky Monkey poster
6.7

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?

Unlucky Monkey

1998

Tokyo Lullaby poster
6.7

When Koichi Hamanaka returns after his mysterious disappearance years earlier, journalist Asakura who befriended Hamanaka's wife during his absence, tries to piece together the reasons for his departure.

Tokyo Lullaby

1997

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata poster
9.0

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

1993

Night Head poster
7.0

The movie version of the TV series that gained cult popularity. One day, the Kirihara brothers who have supernatural powers meet a supernatural power girl named Sakie Tengen, and fight against an organization that has noticed her ability.

Night Head

1994

Cash Hunt: The Last Exit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cash Hunt: The Last Exit

1999

Series credits