Masayuki Imai

Acting

Masayuki Imai

Born 1961-04-21 · Hyogo, Japan

Masayuki Imai was a Japanese playwright and actor.

Acting credits

Battleship Yamato poster
NR

Kon Ichikawa's war film depicts the 60-hour period from the departure of the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Navy, until its sinking by the American forces during Operation Ten-Go.

Battleship Yamato

1990

Playtime Never Ends poster
8.0

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.

Playtime Never Ends

1991

47 Ronin poster
7.4

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.

47 Ronin

1994

修羅のみち3 広島・四国全面戦争 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち3 広島・四国全面戦争

2002

Winds of God poster
7.0

After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.

Winds of God

1995

Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse poster
NR

2000 horror original video.

Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse

2000

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark poster
9.0

A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark

1993

T.R.Y. poster
7.2

At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.

T.R.Y.

2003

A Quiet Life poster
7.6

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

A Quiet Life

1995

Yakuza Ladies Neo poster
4.5

Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.

Yakuza Ladies Neo

2013

About Love, Tokyo poster
6.5

In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating by a former yakuza now running a pachinko parlor, a tense triangle forms as money, power, and personal ties collide.

About Love, Tokyo

1992

Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza poster
7.3

Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.

Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza

1996

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio poster
NR

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

2004

Treasure of the Black Jaguar poster
NR

Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary.

Treasure of the Black Jaguar

2010

Naniwa Chūshingura poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Naniwa Chūshingura

1997

Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku poster
7.0

Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.

Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku

1996

The Assistant Doctor poster
NR

Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.

The Assistant Doctor

2010

Rape poster
9.0

A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally wanted to be a writer of children's stories, but the violence novel he wrote to fill in the blanks became a big hit and became a popular author. The content of his works is so extreme that even his wife Yasuko's reality is so different from Masayuki's actual image. One day, while Masayuki is away, Yasuko receives a call from a woman who calls herself Tomoko Abe. She says that the woman was raped by Masayuki, so Yasuko decides to meet Tomoko. Yasuko is relieved by her story, which has no basis or evidence, but Tomoko's harassment of her escalates, and she finally puts her self-made scenario into action. Masayuki, who doesn't know anything, falls into her temptation and ends up writing the experience into a novel as planned...

Rape

1995

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars poster
7.0

After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars

1995

Kagura Me poster
NR

A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.

Kagura Me

2015

The Mamushi poster
NR

Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Together, they have 23 convictions and are the most villainous duo in the world, who have made Osaka tremble with fear as the "Tobikan Kaku" duo. On a whim, Tobikataro falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and is forced to rescue her. The villainous duo eventually become embroiled in a conspiracy behind the mayoral election, and hit out at the gangsters...

The Mamushi

1997

Violent Archipelago 2 poster
NR

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

Violent Archipelago 2

2013

Hometown poster
NR

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa, embarks on a marathon across Japan.

Hometown

1999

BACK STAGE poster
NR

Satoru, who attends an acting school, is reunited one day with his childhood friend Sayaka, who aspires to be a musical theatre star. After their reunion, the two strive to realise the dream they had promised each other as children, whilst nurturing their love for one another.

BACK STAGE

2001

Behind the camera