Acting
Yoji Sasaki
Born
1975-05-06 (51)
Place of birth
Hyogo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
36 titles
Known for
8.7Seeking an escape from his mundane life, high-schooler Keita Amishima stumbles into the secret life of an agent of UNDER ANCHOR - a covert organisation combating cyber terrorism. Keita isn't alone, as he is partnered with an A.I. - the Phone Braver "Seven". Together, Keita and Seven work to counter cyber crimes, all the while dealing with the machinations of a rogue Phone Braver, "Zero One".
Cellphone Investigator 7
2008
4.2Based on the comedy manga by Abe Shuji, "Elite Yankee Saburo" tells the story of Ookochi Saburo (Ishiguro Hideo), a plain and shy boy entering high school. Unfortunately for him, his two older brothers had built a reputation as legendary troublemakers at that school. When Saburo arrives, he is immediately misunderstood and treated as an "elite yankee."
Elite Yankee Saburo
2007
NRSegawa Kiichi, a former delinquent, happens to encounter a lonely 10-year-old girl who looks like she is going to be killed by the Yakuza. He saves her by reflex and later realizes that she lost her memory. She doesn't know why the Yakuza are after her and Kiichi is attacked time and again because of that. With his own life in sudden danger, he calls on six friends from his high school days as a delinquent. These enthusiastic, single-minded men band together to protect her to the end.
Wild Heroes
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Worst Date Ever
2000
6.2Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
The City of Lost Souls
2000
6.0An idealistic young lawyer whose faith in the law is rocked when she is unable to prevent a rapist from walking free. Her disillusionment of the judicial system is complete when her next case goes disastrously wrong, her corrupt boss is killed by her disappointed gangster clients, and she only narrowly escapes the same fate when a gun-toting stranger bursts into the office and shoots the men dead.
Gun Crazy: Episode 2 — Beyond the Law
2002
Film credits
2010s · 6 titles
6.0Erika is a second generation Dump Truck Driver. She learns about letting go when she helps the man of her dreams get his girl instead.
Dump Girl Erika
2011
NR2016 original video.
Platinum Family Crest
2016
NRYuki and her boyfriend Makoto seem like an ordinary student couple, but in fact, they both have a shocking secret: their families are gangsters and they have been dating without revealing their true identities to each other. When Yuki's father suddenly dies, Yuki has to become the third generation leader. Then an incident triggers a conflict between the two unions...
Sakigake!! Gokudo Yankee Gakuen 2
2012
NRAfter a shootout with a group of voyeurs, Peach and Cherry, the idol policewomen of Kaihin Police Station, end up killing the ringleader. As the man turns out to be the younger brother of the head of the Scorpions drug organization, the pair find themselves in danger of being assassinated.
Beach Patrol Force: Cherry and Peach
2013
NRMai, a university student, has an incredible memory due to an illness she suffered as a child. Her boyfriend Minoru, who noticed Mai's ability to remember everything in an instant, persuades her to use her special ability to play mahjong. Mai is reluctant, but she learns that Minoru has been losing a lot of money at mahjong and is in debt to a man named Akaboshi. Akaboshi sees Mai's ability and suggests that they make some money together.
Female Mahjong Fighter - Legendary Divine Skill
2010
NRReiko, a pampered college student, is busy every day with piano lessons and dates with her boyfriend. She's engaged to Katsuo, a tax accountant, and is overflowing with happiness, but tragedy strikes suddenly. Her father is criminally charged with tax evasion! He's taken away, and their assets are seized. Reiko, a sheltered girl who can't do anything on her own, remembers hearing that her classmate Shingo makes money playing pachinko, so she decides to try her luck there. However, her funds quickly run out, leaving Reiko at a loss. But then, by chance, Shingo shows up at the parlor. After hearing Reiko's story, Shingo promises to train her into a skilled pachinko player. Reiko's pachinko skills improve rapidly, but she becomes entangled in a dark conspiracy involving the pachinko parlor, a corrupt tax accountant, and even the public prosecutor's office. Will Reiko, the pachinko player, awaken her true potential?!
Strongest Female College Student: Pachinko Queen Reiko
2010
2000s · 22 titles
6.2Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
The City of Lost Souls
2000
6.0An idealistic young lawyer whose faith in the law is rocked when she is unable to prevent a rapist from walking free. Her disillusionment of the judicial system is complete when her next case goes disastrously wrong, her corrupt boss is killed by her disappointed gangster clients, and she only narrowly escapes the same fate when a gun-toting stranger bursts into the office and shoots the men dead.
Gun Crazy: Episode 2 — Beyond the Law
2002
5.3What happens when an innocent 18-year-old girl has to work in the adult video industry? Find out the hilarious results in Rinko Eighteen, based on the comic by Matsumoto Taka. In her first starring role, gravure model Tashiro Sayaka stars as Rinko, an aspiring doctor who returns home to find out that her father is bankrupt and has divorced her mother. With nowhere to go, Rinko signs up for the first job she finds, which turns out to be a production assistant at an adult video production company. Naturally, nothing can possibly prepare her for the work waiting for her at her new job…
Rinko Eighteen
2009
5.8From Minoru Kawasaki, the director of "The Calamari Wrestler," "Executive Koala," "The Entire World Sinks Except Japan," and "The Rug Cop," comes the epic story of a giant crab who washes ashore, befriends a boy, finds love, and becomes a sports legend. The film has been described by Kawasaki as being 'like Forrest Gump...but with a crab.'
Crab Goalkeeper
2006
NRThe twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 12
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War: Final Chapter
2000
5.4A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place.
Gun Crazy: Episode 1 — A Woman from Nowhere
2002
NRA new horror TV drama by six up-and-coming directors, set in a school built on land where a legend of a priestess who was slaughtered by warriors 400 years ago remains... Three high school girls who begin to tell a hundred stories are confronted with the horror of a chain of curses...
Rensakaidan ~a chain of curses~ Vol.2
2006
NRAfter World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city.
The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War
2000
NRThe thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 13
2000
NRSet in an old movie theater, this group drama depicts the battle between dying yakuza and salaried workers who have forgotten their dreams.
Requiem of Darkness
2000
5.3Aki Fukase is a rookie detective looking to make a name for herself in the field of law enforcement. Unfortunately, her inexperience contributes to the death of her partner when a trap is set by Galhowk, an international terrorist group. Overcome with guilt, Aki is ordered to take some time off until she recovers from the ordeal. However, she's more determined than ever and decides to disobey those orders and sets out to track down Galhowk in order to clear her conscience and her name.
Gun Crazy: Episode 3 — Traitor's Rhapsody
2003
NRAfter serving a term in prison because of shooting the leader of the rival group, Goro finds out that his fellow Yakuza Shiroyama, left the group and living as a normal people.
Yakuza Legend: Kill Them All
2005
NRThe story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports manga. The younger brother engages in vigorous bare-knuckle brawls with local yakuza and well-known brawlers. The distance between them grows little by little, and the younger brother struggles in the shadow of his elder brother's light. Strong enemies and incidents appear one after another.
Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History
2003
NRThe fourteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 14
2000
4.7Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen location happens to be the same place where American scientists had previously experimented on resurrecting the dead.
Junk
2000
NRNoriko is an ex-prostitute married to Satake, a charismatic, wise-cracking lady-loving Yakuza. But when Satake is called upon to murder a rival, Noriko must take up the mantle to lead his gang.
A Sniper's Woman
2008
NRThe man has returned to his old town: Jin Kaito (Lo Kwon), known as “Jin the Gigolo”. “Make every woman happy” is Jin’s motto. In his hands, any woman melts into ecstasy, led to heavenly heights of pleasure she’s never known. Waiting for this love-and-peace-driven man is his old yakuza acquaintance, Minoh (Kenichi Endō). The boss’s daughter, Maki (Koharu Tono), has been kidnapped by a rival gang, and Minoh begs the newly returned Jin for help, which he immediately refuses, but when it’s revealed that he had slept with Maki just before the abduction, things spiral out of control. Now, Jin is dragged into a full-blown rescue operation!
Dochinpira: Jin the Gigolo
2001
NRDragged into a yakuza conflict, Jin (Lo Kwon) is forced to team up with Minoh (Kenichi Endo), the head of the Gōtotsu-gumi (Kazuhiro Nakahara), to rescue Maki (Koharu Tono), the kidnapped daughter of their boss. Frustrated by the lack of clues, Minoh storms the rival group Okimoto Kōgyō with his underlings. Maki is nowhere to be found, only the mutilated body of the Okimoto chairman remains. Meanwhile, drugs begin to circulate in the Gōtotsu-gumi’s territory, where narcotics are strictly forbidden. Upon uncovering the evil lurking in the shadows, Jin and Minoh charge into a deadly showdown! What is the true motive behind Maki’s abduction? And who will survive the coming storm?
Dochinpira: Jin the Gigolo 2
2001
NRThe eleventh 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 11
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yakuza Legend: The Legendary Kawachi Ten-Man Killer
2005
6.3In Southeast Asia, armed guerillas storm a party being hosted by a major Japanese trading company. They kidnap Eri Enomoto (Rika Uesugi), the director's daughter, and demand a huge ransom. But company infighting stalls plans to comply with the kidnappers, and Eri's father collapses from the strain. When Eri's childhood friend, Miki (Natsuki Katoh), learns of the kidnapping and the company's reluctance to save her friend, she decides to try and rescue Eri on her own.
Gun Crazy 4: Requiem for a Bodyguard
2003
1990s · 2 titles
NRJapanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.
Dead Beat
1999
NRManjiro, a yakuza who values loyalty and compassion, finds his organization on the brink of collapse. One day, a wandering man named Tetsu appears before him. Impressed by Tetsu’s deep sense of honor, Manjiro joins forces with him to take on a rival syndicate in a fierce gang war.
Tetsu: A Heisei Tale of Chivalry
1999
Series credits
8.7Seeking an escape from his mundane life, high-schooler Keita Amishima stumbles into the secret life of an agent of UNDER ANCHOR - a covert organisation combating cyber terrorism. Keita isn't alone, as he is partnered with an A.I. - the Phone Braver "Seven". Together, Keita and Seven work to counter cyber crimes, all the while dealing with the machinations of a rogue Phone Braver, "Zero One".
Cellphone Investigator 7
2008
4.2Based on the comedy manga by Abe Shuji, "Elite Yankee Saburo" tells the story of Ookochi Saburo (Ishiguro Hideo), a plain and shy boy entering high school. Unfortunately for him, his two older brothers had built a reputation as legendary troublemakers at that school. When Saburo arrives, he is immediately misunderstood and treated as an "elite yankee."
Elite Yankee Saburo
2007
NRSegawa Kiichi, a former delinquent, happens to encounter a lonely 10-year-old girl who looks like she is going to be killed by the Yakuza. He saves her by reflex and later realizes that she lost her memory. She doesn't know why the Yakuza are after her and Kiichi is attacked time and again because of that. With his own life in sudden danger, he calls on six friends from his high school days as a delinquent. These enthusiastic, single-minded men band together to protect her to the end.
Wild Heroes
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Worst Date Ever
2000
No synopsis available yet.
はみだし刑事情熱系
1996
No synopsis available yet.
はみだし刑事情熱系
1996
