
Acting
Dankan
Born 1959-01-03 · Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Dankan (ダンカン, born 3 January, 1959) is a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 30 films since 1990.
Acting credits
7.6A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...
Suspect X
2008
6.2On 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
6.4Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Dead or Alive
1999
6.9A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.
Noroi: The Curse
2005
6.5Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Fukushima 50
2020
6.9Masaki, 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
6.8After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he's approached by a man offering a mysterious job opportunity.
Eyes of the Spider
1998
8.0Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
Box: The Hakamada Case
2010
7.1A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run.
Tokyo Ghoul
2017
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Goku Sagi 3
2015
6.9Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.
Doppelgänger
2003
5.7While 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Man with Two Hearts
1996
6.4A beautiful cosmetics company employee is found dead in a gruesome state. What's more, it becomes apparent that one of the victim's colleagues, a homely woman named Miki, has gone missing. Television director Akaboshi attempts to interview as many of Miki's friends and acquaintances as he can find, eliciting miscellaneous information from them.
The Snow White Murder Case
2014
NRA live-action film adaptation of the manga by Dookuman Pro. Duncan gives a dynamic performance as the high-energy inspector, whilst Norika Fujiwara plays his female detective colleague with passion! The Osaka Prefectural Police’s Dotonbori Station is a lawless, chaotic hotbed of miscreants. Among them, Inspector Washika stands out as a legendary figure, overwhelming others with his beast-like temperament and sheer power. He loves shooting guns and women, and has written countless disciplinary reports over the years! Yusuke, Takuya, Miki and the others are assigned to this very Dotonbori Station. Sure enough, the rookie duo are constantly being led by the nose by the extreme Washika. To make matters worse, cases—from drug deals and rape to convenience store robberies—keep piling up one after another, and the situation only gets more complicated. As if that weren’t enough, Miki has been kidnapped by a rapist! How on earth will Washika and his team sort out this worst-case scenario!?
Inspector Iteamae of Dotonbori
1997
6.2A young drifter is casually drawn into violence – a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
Two Punks
1996
2.0A young woman moves into an apartment that is rigged with hidden cameras.A voyeur watches her every move and begins a strange relationship with her.
Dark Love: Rape
2008
6.8Sakiko is a typical teenager in many ways. She hates her divorced father, who chases after every skirt he sees. She does not know, if she will ever be loved by the other sex. When her dad suddenly inherits a lot of money and becomes really lazy, she hates him even more. He finally decides to start his own cafe, where Sakiko, of course has to help. From this moment, strange customers and good-looking waitresses form the center of tension between father and daughter.
Cafe Isobe
2008
7.1Sayaka works at a office. She's not very good at her job or with love. One night, she finds a man, Itsuki, collapsed in front of her home. She takes him inside and they begin to live together. Itsuki teaches Sayaka about cooking wild herbs and collecting wild herbs, but he has a secret.
Evergreen Love
2016
6.417 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.
Ain't No Tomorrows
2008
8.0Shimada, a former Self-Defense Force member, suffers from severe PTSD following the loss of a comrade in a firefight in war-torn South Sudan, a tragedy covered up by the government. Shining a light into Shimada's solitary life in illegal arms manufacturing is a job as an apprentice at a traditional Japanese fireworks factory. There he begins crafting fireworks alongside the master artisan and fellow craftsmen who embrace fireworks that illuminate people's peaceful lives. Yet, parallel to Shimada's journey, his comrades-in-arms with unresolved feelings team up on radical acts to expose the government's cover-up, escalating tensions and pulling Shimada back into the darkness he thought he'd left behind.
Flames of a Flower
2025
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
7.1Asako 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
3.9Compilation of the four short films in the Extraneous Matter series.
Extraneous Matter Complete Edition
2022
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gozamareji
2003
10.0After dropping out of college, "Takeshi" jumps into the Asakusa France Theater and begins his training as a comedian. His teacher, Senzaburo Fukami, Masayoshi Inoue, who also trains at the French Theater and aspires to be a writer, and other good-natured dancers... This heartwarming and moving drama set in Asakusa vividly depicts the process of "Takeshi's" self-discovery through interaction with his delightful friends.
Asakusa Kid
2002
8.0Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp they are offered to sell their children for a large sum of money, because there were customers that needed healthy internal organs.
Innocent Seven
2005
8.0Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp they are offered to sell their children for a large sum of money, because there were customers that needed healthy internal organs.
Innocent Seven
2005
6.1A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite sombre), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose: the other passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so their families can collect the insurance money.
Suicide Bus
1998