Kou Machida

Acting

Kou Machida

Born

1962-01-15 (64)

Place of birth

Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

22 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 11 titles

Endless Waltz poster
5.3

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Endless Waltz

1995

August in the Water poster
7.2

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

August in the Water

1995

The Black House poster
6.1

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened.

The Black House

1999

Osaka Story poster
6.0

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

Osaka Story

1999

Soft Skin poster
6.4

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.

Soft Skin

1998

No artwork available
5.5

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.

Atlanta Boogie

1996

Kumagusu poster
NR

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

Kumagusu

1991

Romantic Mania poster
NR

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.

Romantic Mania

1997

Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu poster
NR

Hosono, a film director who continues to make adult videos to make a living, spends his days desperately trying to realize his own project. However, one day, driven by anxiety and impatience, he steals a script from the screenwriter's home...

Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu

1997

pierce LOVE&HATE poster
6.0

Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends up failing to do so.

pierce LOVE&HATE

1997

Minato no Rokishî poster
8.0

Set in Hakodate in the summer, this is a retro-inspired coming-of-age drama about a love triangle between a sister and brother who are like lovers and a young man.

Minato no Rokishî

1999

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits