Masayuki Imai

Acting

Masayuki Imai

Born — Died

1961-04-21 — 2015-05-28

Place of birth

Hyogo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Masayuki Imai was a Japanese playwright and actor.

Known for

Gift poster
6.0

An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune.

Gift

1997

Olympic Ransom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Olympic Ransom

2013

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow poster
8.0

Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

2008

Okane ga Nai! poster
5.7

Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kentaro works for, though, goes bankrupt on pay day and Kentaro finds himself out of a job and with even less money. The brothers are thrown out of their apartment and Kentaro, a born optimistic until then, decides that he must aggressively pursue "money". This drama depicts the success story of Kentaro in his search for money and a better life.

Okane ga Nai!

1994

Omiai kekkon poster
8.0

This comedy-romance is about the arranged marriage between an ex-cabin attendant suffering from the pain of lost love, and an elite employee of a trading company. After resigning from her job as a cabin attendant to get married, Setsuko’s would-be fiancé runs off. Following this tragedy, Setsuko spends her days chain-smoking and drinking heavily to escape her broken heart. Meanwhile, Kotaro, an employee of a big trading company, is offered an assignment in Milan. Although Kotaro wanted the job, he had one problem: the conditions state that he needs a wife. Hastily, a date is set for the two to meet for a potential arranged marriage. Despite the fact that neither of them is looking forward to the meeting, fate has a way of bringing two doubtful souls together

Omiai kekkon

2000

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

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

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

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

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

The Assistant Doctor poster
NR

Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.

The Assistant Doctor

2010

Violent Archipelago 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

2013

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

Don's Road 10 poster
NR

The tenth 'Don's Road' film.

Don's Road 10

2014

Come On, Happiness poster
NR

In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film. In 2011, Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films.

Come On, Happiness

2012

2000s · 9 titles

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

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

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

Scenery to Remember poster
NR

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.

Scenery to Remember

2008

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules poster
10.0

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

2002

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

Robbery poster
NR

Friendship and violence

Robbery

2000

True Account: Kyushu Yakuza Chronicles poster
NR

How many did I kill? I remember about fourteen, but beyond that, I've no idea. Unbound by past or future, this man lived utterly in the present. His fierce, half-life is depicted here. The legendary hero most feared by Kyushu's yakuza—his spectacular life story is resurrected now!

True Account: Kyushu Yakuza Chronicles

2003

Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse poster
NR

2000 horror original video.

Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse

2000

1990s · 25 titles

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

No artwork available
NR

Office worker Hiroko plans to murder a former classmate who is blackmailing her using her past. She plans and puts her perfect crime into action, but is struck by an unexpected turn of events. Hiroko, who works at a credit union, has a past in which she embezzled 10 million yen from the company to give to a man. She has been secretly paying it back and is finally just six months away from paying it all back. Just when she is happy to be proposed to by pharmacy owner Nozawa, her high school friend Kyoko blackmails her for 10 million yen. In fact, Kyoko is the mastermind behind the man who extorted money from Hiroko. She has gone from being an actress to a club madam and is in trouble with the debts of her club. Hiroko decides to kill Kyoko, who will stop at nothing to kill her...

The Woman Who Kept Hiding

1995

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

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love poster
NR

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love

1991

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

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

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

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

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

Popcorn Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Popcorn Love

1990

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

Naniwa Chūshingura poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Naniwa Chūshingura

1997

My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness poster
NR

A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but...

My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness

1998

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

Hometown poster
NR

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

Hometown

1999

Another Lonely Hitman 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Another Lonely Hitman 2

1997

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 4: Shank Shank Shank poster
NR

The fourth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 4: Shank Shank Shank

1997

Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô poster
8.0

Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.

Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô

1995

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 5: Beloved Lost Ball poster
NR

The f ifth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 5: Beloved Lost Ball

1998

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

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 3: Fly Birdie poster
NR

The third film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 3: Fly Birdie

1995

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

No artwork available
NR

Hishataro, a man with thirteen prior convictions, hit a massive long-shot winner at the racetrack—only to be swindled out of the fortune by Ginpachi Sakamoto, a man he had met there. When Hishataro tracked Ginpachi down and roughed him up, Ginpachi pitched a "lucrative deal": a huge payout for helping to force out holdouts during a resort development project. Eager for the money, Hishataro stormed into the inn that was refusing to vacate, but he fell instantly in love with the young proprietress. He completely changed his tune, turning against the yakuza behind the land-clearing scheme and launching a violent assault on them instead.

Double Yakuza: Go Get 'Em!!

1998

Invited Woman poster
NR

Pinku film released in 1996

Invited Woman

1996

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

Series credits

Gift poster
6.0

An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune.

Gift

1997

Olympic Ransom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Olympic Ransom

2013

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow poster
8.0

Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

2008

Okane ga Nai! poster
5.7

Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kentaro works for, though, goes bankrupt on pay day and Kentaro finds himself out of a job and with even less money. The brothers are thrown out of their apartment and Kentaro, a born optimistic until then, decides that he must aggressively pursue "money". This drama depicts the success story of Kentaro in his search for money and a better life.

Okane ga Nai!

1994

Omiai kekkon poster
8.0

This comedy-romance is about the arranged marriage between an ex-cabin attendant suffering from the pain of lost love, and an elite employee of a trading company. After resigning from her job as a cabin attendant to get married, Setsuko’s would-be fiancé runs off. Following this tragedy, Setsuko spends her days chain-smoking and drinking heavily to escape her broken heart. Meanwhile, Kotaro, an employee of a big trading company, is offered an assignment in Milan. Although Kotaro wanted the job, he had one problem: the conditions state that he needs a wife. Hastily, a date is set for the two to meet for a potential arranged marriage. Despite the fact that neither of them is looking forward to the meeting, fate has a way of bringing two doubtful souls together

Omiai kekkon

2000

Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima poster
NR

a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima

Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima

1997

出張鑑定人 宝来伝吉 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

出張鑑定人 宝来伝吉

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ナースな探偵

1997

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

演歌・唱太郎の人情事件日誌

1996

Behind the camera