Yûrei Yanagi

Acting

Yûrei Yanagi

Born

1963-04-08 (63)

Place of birth

Hiroshima, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Yurei Yanagi (柳 憂怜) is a Japanese actor.  He's also been credited as Masahiko Ono (小野 昌彦).

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

Unnatural poster
8.4

Mikoto, a forensic investigative examiner, and her partners trace down the evidence of crimes and unravel the puzzles behind mysterious deaths.

Unnatural

2018

The Private Detective Mike poster
8.5

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.

The Private Detective Mike

2002

Ring poster
7.1

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Ring

1998

Fireworks poster
7.7

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With those close to him suffering their own tribulations, Nishi's methods become increasingly extreme.

Fireworks

1997

TAGUSARI bros. poster
6.9

Two brothers become police officers to hunt down their parents' killer, who escaped justice by just two days before the statute of limitations was abolished.

TAGUSARI bros.

2026

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

Missing poster
7.3

A girl vanishes while walking, leaving her family devastated. As months pass without clues, rumors about her mother's actions intensify online, straining her marriage.

Missing

2024

Kubi poster
6.9

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

Kubi

2023

The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room poster
NR

A former high school teacher Sugiura lost everything when he was caught, peeping photos of his favorite student and living a degenerate life. One day, a girl named Rumi, wearing high school uniform, appears in front of Sugiura. They are immediately drowns in lust and Rumi crashes into Sugiura's apartment. Gradually, Sugiura becomes obsessed with Rumi and tie her down. When Sugiura's dark desire to leave her in a beautiful, young appearance forever, and Rumi's deep feeling towards Sugiura crosses, they head towards a beautiful but sad ending.

The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room

2021

The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger poster
7.0

Akiko (Mai Fukagawa) is a former idol, but now lives an ordinary life. She works at a company and keeps reminding herself that she is happy and to have a fulfilling day. One day, she walks to work and falls down. She becomes stuck and unable to move. Akiko breaks down mentally and decides to quit her job. Now, Akiko doesn't have a job, a boyfriend, and only 100,000 yen (~$700 USD) in her bank account. Her friend then tells her that she should move in with 56 year old salaryman Sasapon (Arata Iura), who lives alone in his house in Tokyo. When she visits Sasapon, he invites her to stay at his house on the condition that she can live there until his retirement. Their strange living arrangement begins.

The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger

2023

The Resisters poster
NR

Shuji lives a quiet life ghostwriting heartfelt letters for others. Once connected to a criminal organization, his life changed after receiving a letter from a young girl while in prison.

The Resisters

2025

2010s · 15 titles

Ghost Theater poster
6.1

Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.

Ghost Theater

2015

Helldriver poster
5.7

Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.

Helldriver

2010

Haruko Azumi Is Missing poster
6.5

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.

Haruko Azumi Is Missing

2016

The Crawler In The Attic poster
5.9

Private detective Kogoro (Kouta Kusano) receives a request from Naoko (Yuki Mamiya). She is the daughter of a family that runs a large hosital. Naoko wants private detective Kogoro to investigate her fiance Endo (Yasushi Fuchikami) and whether he is having an affair with university student Teruko (Noriko Kijima).

The Crawler In The Attic

2016

The Complex poster
4.8

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.

The Complex

2013

Psycho Gothic Lolita poster
5.2

Yuki lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and kill her mother. In order to revenge herself Yuki becomes a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, using a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in God's name.

Psycho Gothic Lolita

2010

Little Nights, Little Love poster
6.7

Sato is an employee conducting a survey in front of Sendai Station. Saki takes the survey and the two ultimately become a couple. 10 years later, Sato proposes to Saki on the occasion of their 10th anniversary.

Little Nights, Little Love

2019

Lost Love Murder poster
6.0

Shuichi Minamida lives comfortably on the proceeds of his father's legacy, but he struggles with the idea that his beautiful wife, Moyako, no longer loves him. One day he confesses his worries to Kotoura, his dentist. Kotoura summons the Akechi detective agency and asks them to investigate his friend's wife, Miyako. Fumiyo Akechi takes the case and begins her investigation. She soon notices that something strange is going on between Miyako and the dentist. This observation leads to a tragic ending which none of those involved could ever imagine.

Lost Love Murder

2010

No artwork available
0.5

After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up as women through the internet. At first he feels uncomfortable about them, but he becomes interested in those men. He begins to exchange emails with cross-dresser Karen who has a charismatic personality.

The Little Girl in Me

2012

Dear Deer poster
4.7

When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.

Dear Deer

2015

Good-bye Debussy poster
6.3

16-year-old Haruka lost the people she loved the most in a fire. Haruka is also physically and emotionally wounded from the fire, but she still dreams of becoming a pianist. She takes part in an upcoming competition. Inauspicious incidents then occur around her. Musical student Yosuke, who teaches piano to Haruka, tries to solve the case.

Good-bye Debussy

2013

No artwork available
NR

Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase's divorce arbitration. Ayano, the wife, who works for a boutique company, insists her husband is involved with another woman. Supported by her employer Kotomi Saegusa, the company president, she demands a divorce as soon as possible. On the other hand, her husband Tetsuo, a trading professional, denies having a relationship with a woman. He says he will not agree to the divorce and does not plan to let his only son Kenta go, so the arbitration continues. According to Akira's investigation, Ayano gave birth to Kenta as a single mother five years ago when she was working as a hospital clerk, making him Tetsuo's stepson. Tetsuo loves Kenta as his own child, so Akira doesn't understand why Ayano is so insistent on getting a divorce. However, Tetsuo's insistence on not giving up custody of his stepson Kenta is also very unusual.

Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo

2016

Cold Bloom poster
6.2

Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well as forgiveness of surviving coworker Takumi.

Cold Bloom

2012

Listener poster
NR

Omnibus film that tells five stories from a radio station and its listeners.

Listener

2015

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

2000s · 20 titles

Ju-on: The Curse poster
6.8

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.

Ju-on: The Curse

2000

Ju-on: The Curse 2 poster
6.2

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.

Ju-on: The Curse 2

2000

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman poster
6.0

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman

2007

Achilles and the Tortoise poster
7.0

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008

The Milkwoman poster
6.9

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.

The Milkwoman

2005

The Code poster
6.2

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.

The Code

2009

Look of Love poster
7.0

A young man is unable to have relations with the girls he likes. A pimp meets him after having a strange experience and they are althogether on a bizarre ride through a gloomy and disconnected Tokyo.

Look of Love

2005

Asako in Ruby Shoes poster
7.1

Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern globalization. The film jumps back and forth from Korea and Japan, with each main character feeling out of place in their respective homes.

Asako in Ruby Shoes

2000

Kaidan poster
6.7

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the handsome son of Shinzaemon, coincidentally meets Toyoshiga, the daughter of Soetsu. They fall in love. It is a doomed love, as the spirit of Soetsu is far from dead

Kaidan

2007

Silver Rain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Silver Rain

2009

Last Scene poster
7.0

Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.

Last Scene

2002

The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage poster
3.5

There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.

The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage

2003

Ju-rei: The Uncanny poster
4.7

A group of high school girls discover the truth to an urban legend when one by one, each begins to die under mysterious circumstances.

Ju-rei: The Uncanny

2004

Ghosts vs. Aliens 03 poster
9.8

A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.

Ghosts vs. Aliens 03

2007

No artwork available
NR

Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).

Hazan

2004

The Slit-Mouthed Woman 0: The Beginning poster
4.0

Young Misato struggles to survive after suffering severe facial trauma. And yet, after the operation, his face will not retain the after-effects of the tragedy... Her big sister will try to protect her by all means, but she will not be able to do anything against the many murders that will take place, nor against this strange shadow that will begin to creep... like a ghost... of the sadly legendary deformed woman.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman 0: The Beginning

2008

The Oil Merchant's Wife poster
NR

Starting with director Gosha Hideo's version in 1992, the puppet theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon has been made into a film on countless occasions. The actor Sakagami Shinobu wrote and directed this version. This new interpretation focuses on a woman who played a minor role in the original version, and features a bold performance from former pin-up model Fujikawa Nozomi. Yohee (Yasuda Shingo), son and heir of the store Kawachiya, runs up huge debts due to his obsession with the prostitute Okiku (Fujikawa). Told by her husband Chizaemon, Okichi (Yamada Kinuwo) goes to condemn Yohee. On her way back home, Okiku laughs and mocks her, which Okichi finds sexually exciting.

The Oil Merchant's Wife

2009

Ghost Zombie poster
5.8

Straight-to-DVD horror release from "Kushisake Onna" director Koji Shiraishi. A taxi driver who lives only for the idol Mika Enno accidently runs over a heretic folklorist named Hirano. Film stars Chise Nakamura and Nocchi.

Ghost Zombie

2007

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.1 poster
NR

Anthology film with 3 stories. Fukuro (Bag), Joyu Sutoka (Actress Stalker), and Moso Kankin (Delusional Confinement).

Scarier Stories Than Ghosts Vol.1

2005

Yumeno poster
10.0

Film directed by Yoshitaka Kamada.

Yumeno

2005

1990s · 18 titles

Ring poster
7.1

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

Ring

1998

Fireworks poster
7.7

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With those close to him suffering their own tribulations, Nishi's methods become increasingly extreme.

Fireworks

1997

Ring 2 poster
5.8

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.

Ring 2

1999

Boiling Point poster
6.9

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Boiling Point

1990

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

Minazuki poster
5.8

Akira's wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only a cryptic note as a clue the two brothers go on a road trip to find his wife. After a series of violent encounters with strangers, Akira meets a prostitute. The pair start a relationship. After Akira finds his wife, he questions whether he still wants to be with her.

Minazuki

1999

Don't Look Up poster
6.4

A filmmaker and crew slowly go insane after being continually haunted by the ghost of a dead actress.

Don't Look Up

1996

Serpent's Path poster
6.9

With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.

Serpent's Path

1998

Dangan Runner poster
6.8

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.

Dangan Runner

1996

No artwork available
NR

Mitsuhiko, an assistant director, has an experience with a young call girl at a hotel one day. He enters into a "relationship" with the girl he meets there for 30,000 yen per intimate encounter, but gradually finds himself being manipulated by her.

18-Year-old Call Girl

1996

King of Sha-kin 2 poster
7.0

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

King of Sha-kin 2

1997

An Obsession poster
6.6

Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing a suspect. While unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the force. All of a sudden, his missing firearm is used in a series of crimes.

An Obsession

1997

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment poster
6.3

There once stood a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka all lived, worked, and shared experiences. The name of the complex was Tokiwa-so, and these were the early days of artists who would later be revered as legends.

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

1996

T-Back Bride poster
NR

A home invader's sadistic plot is foiled when Ai Iijima shows up and starts doing random cosplay stuff for whatever reason.

T-Back Bride

1992

Waiting for the Flood poster
10.0

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.

Waiting for the Flood

1991

Warrior's Justice 3 - Termination poster
NR

Kojima Takeshi, who has strayed from the yakuza world, launches a gang that draws a line in the sand with today's yakuza society. However, the Sekiyama and Jinno gangs, who find this an eyesore, attempt to crush Takeshi and his gang. The Sekiyama and Jinno gangs send in an assassin, Kishigami, a former brother of Takeshi...

Warrior's Justice 3 - Termination

1994

Immoral: Indecent Relationship poster
4.3

Director Tatsumi Kumashiro died during filming and film was edited from unmatched footage and incomplete scenes by Shishi Productions which decided not to release film theatrically and it went direct to video by Beam Entertainment.

Immoral: Indecent Relationship

1995

Targeted Idol: Real Stalker poster
NR

An obsessive fan stalks and kidnaps his idol.

Targeted Idol: Real Stalker

1997

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

Unnatural poster
8.4

Mikoto, a forensic investigative examiner, and her partners trace down the evidence of crimes and unravel the puzzles behind mysterious deaths.

Unnatural

2018

The Private Detective Mike poster
8.5

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.

The Private Detective Mike

2002

TAGUSARI bros. poster
6.9

Two brothers become police officers to hunt down their parents' killer, who escaped justice by just two days before the statute of limitations was abolished.

TAGUSARI bros.

2026

The Complex: Prologue poster
4.8

"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex". A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.

The Complex: Prologue

2013

Zero: Dragon Blood poster
7.2

Rei Suzumura continues to hunt Horrors in a certain city. One day, he meets a young woman in love with photography, Alice Hiromi. After witnessing Makai Knight ZERO in action, she develops an interest in Rei. Meanwhile, a carriage crosses a far away bridge. The carriage contains a coffin in which a man lies. That man is none other than the Dragon Knight, who used the power of Dragons to hunt Horrors.

Zero: Dragon Blood

2017

Hitori Shizuka poster
7.6

In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura already is at the scene of the crime.

Hitori Shizuka

2012

High Position (1986) poster
NR

Mitsuhiko Amano is full of regrets. A 46 year old salaryman who had just been laid off, he was told that his wife wanted a divorce, something that he might have been wanting for years. So he visits a soapland, a place he hasn't been since he started dating his wife 22 years ago. While there, a fire suddenly erupts, trapping Amano and a soapland girl in the bath. In a rare moment of bravery and decisiveness, Amano attempts to lead the girl to safety, only to slip and hit his head. As his consciousness fades, he sees the back of the soapland girl making her escape... A fresh set of regret blankets him as he passes out, he returns to his 16-year-old body while remaining 46 years old. The time is 1986.

High Position (1986)

2020

Tonsure poster
NR

Yabu is an unattractive and incompetent middle-aged publishing editor. Mika is a beautiful young author who debuted at 18 and has since written two best-sellers. When Yabu commissions some writing from Mika, she suddenly finds herself stricken with writer's block. Somehow, Yabu ends up being confined to Mika's home, resulting in a strange state of cohabitation for the mismatched pair.

Tonsure

2008

Behind the camera