Masato Irie

Acting

Masato Irie

Born 1963-04-02

Acting credits

Bayside Shakedown 2 poster
6.1

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.

Bayside Shakedown 2

2003

Inugami poster
5.2

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Inugami

2001

Keiho poster
6.3

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.

Keiho

1999

Samurai Commando Mission 1549 poster
5.3

An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.

Samurai Commando Mission 1549

2005

Aogeba Tôtoshi poster
5.9

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.

Aogeba Tôtoshi

2006

It's On Me poster
NR

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by the amount of money she gives them.

It's On Me

2009

Have You Seen the Barefoot God? poster
6.0

2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.

Have You Seen the Barefoot God?

1986

Soup poster
7.0

Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.

Soup

2012

Japanese Salaryman NEO poster
4.0

Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nakanishi and his team are struggling to come up with ideas when Shinjo suggests “sexy” as a possible marketing buzzword.

Japanese Salaryman NEO

2011

Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain

2013

No artwork available
NR

Japanese film directed by Michio Mitsuno.

Birthday Present

1995

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland poster
4.0

Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar...

Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland

1999

劇場の灯を消すな!サンシャイン劇場編 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

劇場の灯を消すな!サンシャイン劇場編

2020

Peanuts poster
6.3

A hero called the legendary third baseman in the former prestigious grass baseball team "Peanuts", will start to rebuild the peanuts that have now turned into weak teams from the outset. Peanuts are going to fight against the team of strong teams, taking advantage of the redevelopment of the city where Captain Sagara lives.

Peanuts

2006

Midori poster
6.6

Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out of class due to a dizzy spell, she becomes acquainted with Shun, a boy in the class below, in the school sanatorium. As the two begin feigning illness together on a regular basis, their uncomfortable flirtations soon blossom into a full sexual relationship.

Midori

1996

Saiaku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saiaku

2001

Company Ghost Stories 2 poster
NR

This is the second omnibus horror film describing a terrifying experience that takes place in an office where dead and living spirits are stirring. Miki has a psychic vision of the ghost of a woman shedding tears of blood at her new temporary workplace.

Company Ghost Stories 2

1997

Company Ghost Stories poster
NR

A spine-chilling horror story set in a company, not a school. The film dramatically recreates a bizarre story that occurred in an office. Miki, a temporary worker, feels a spirit when she heads to her new office. On the 13th floor of the building, there used to be a red crack...

Company Ghost Stories

1997