Yûki Meguro

Yûki Meguro

Born: August 15, 1947
in Tokyo, Japan
Yuki Meguro is an actor, singer and host in Japan.

From an early age, he appeared as a child actor in films for various companies, but after starring in the first part of Toei's first TV drama, "風小僧" he devoted himself to his studies and entered Doshisha Junior High School, only to drop out in order to study abroad. He studied at high schools in Hawaii, St. Louis, and later Boston University's Department of Drama and the University of Southern California, but he also ended up dropping out. After returning to Japan, he starred in the movie "Murder in the Deep" (1969) and began his career as an actor in earnest.

He has appeared in countless films and television dramas, both period and contemporary, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film "Shōgun" (1980, USA). In addition to showing off his singing ability, which has led to records in musicals , he also hosts information programs.

Movies for Yûki Meguro...

Title: Kasō Girei
Released: December 3, 2023
Type: TV
Two unemployed men started a "service business" out of desperation - it was a "religion".
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The Divine Protector - Master Salt Begins
Title: The Divine Protector - Master Salt Begins
Character: Tendou Kotoku Mitsunori
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
At 7:07 PM, the occult club members are holding a ritual ceremony to summon “Master Salt” in Kamono Girls’ Highschool in Tokyo, to help one of the members, Nanako, who has been struck by mysterious incidents. They draw a pentagon and a circle with purified salt and burn a sealed envelope with a written wish. Out of nowhere, the divine protector, Master Salt appears with a blast of wind. She sees through the identity of the spirit that cursed Nanako and repels the curse. After that event, Nanako and her friends ask Master Salt to repel the curses that bring misery to people. They discover that this world is full of people who curse others. What will Master Salt and the girls encounter in the battle against a powerful enemy?
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The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
Title: The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
Released: October 7, 2022
Type: Movie
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Musashi
Title: Musashi
Released: May 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original period drama based on the historical facts of the life and travels of the famous Miyamoto Musashi we find an apprentice, an instructor and the account of a famous battle in Japan of the Middle Ages where many questions will be answered.
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Yassadaru Man
Title: Yassadaru Man
Character: Master
Released: April 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Kisaragi Hazime and Akahata Satomi, workers of Mihara City Hall in Hiroshima prefecture will try to recover the lost popularity of their official city mascot : Yassadaru Man and boost its image again.
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The Book Peddler
Title: The Book Peddler
Character: Tatsuzo Akamatsu
Released: July 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person.
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Bushido
Title: Bushido
Released: October 19, 2013
Type: Movie
1732, in the era of Yoshimune Tokugawa. West Japan suffers from a severe famine. Three years after wards, it appeared as though calm had been restored to the domain, but there is word that Jyuzo Matsumiya, the sword fighting instructor sent by the shogunate, is taking some suspicious actions.
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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What the War Meant
Title: What the War Meant
Character: Osamu Tsukada
Released: December 24, 2008
Type: Movie
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Title: Detective Office 5: Another Story
Character: Watanabe
Released: September 29, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
Character: Guest
Released: July 27, 2003
Type: TV
After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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Magistrate Mayuzumi
Title: Magistrate Mayuzumi
Released: June 4, 1995
Type: Movie
During the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those struggling to uphold the Shogunate. The most modern 'Gatling Gun' has been stolen from its warehouse in Edo Castle by burglars targeting the very Shogun himself.
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Title: The Diary of Chuji's Travels
Released: February 24, 1992
Type: TV
A historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary people Chuji Kunisada. The film was made to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Kinya Kitaoji's acting career.
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Sky of Penta
Title: Sky of Penta
Released: July 27, 1991
Type: Movie
1991 family movie.
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Title: 鞍馬天狗
Released: October 7, 1990
Type: TV
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Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders
Title: Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders
Character: Masayuki Nogi
Released: September 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami...
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Title: Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Character: Chief of Staff
Released: July 26, 1986
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
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Title: 人妻三人密会の宿
Released: May 21, 1986
Type: TV
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Zero
Title: Zero
Character: Miyano
Released: August 11, 1984
Type: Movie
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
Title: Legend of the Eight Samurai
Character: Hikita Gonnokami Motofuji
Released: December 10, 1983
Type: Movie
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
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Meiso chizu
Title: Meiso chizu
Character: Yûki Meguro
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Shōgun
Character: Omi
Released: September 15, 1980
Type: TV
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Title: Shōgun
Released: September 15, 1980
Type: TV
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Title: The 47 Ronins of Ako
Character: Uesugi Noritsuna
Released: April 16, 1979
Type: TV
Set in the eighteenth century, during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. Akō-han is demolished by the Tokugawa shogunate. Hotta Hayato is a ronin who is living a desperate life because of his sad past. But one day he starts working for Chisaka Takafusa, the Chief retainer of the Uesugi clan. The Uesugi clan and Chisaka are wary of Ōishi Kuranosuke and Ako Roshi's movements, so Chisaka orders Hotta to observe Ōishi Kuranosuke.
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Title: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Character: Yagyu Tomonori
Released: October 3, 1978
Type: TV
It takes place at the time of the Shogunate rule with Shogun Hidetada and who will succeed Hidetada. A struggle for power between the family and the daimyos. Historically the Yagyu's have always been close to the Shogunate, and helped...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Title: Operation Plazma in Osaka
Released: January 31, 1976
Type: Movie
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Title: Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Character: Arsene Lupin the III
Released: August 3, 1974
Type: Movie
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-generation cat-burglar Lupin as an obstacle, countless assassins are sent to kill him on sight and kidnap his girl Fujiko! Can Lupin get the loot before the Maccherone gang, rescue Fujiko, and stay alive at the same time?
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Ginpei Manpyo
Released: January 26, 1974
Type: Movie
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Title: The Bodyguard
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: TV
Sonny Chiba stars as a member of a private bodyguard company.
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Human Target
Title: Human Target
Character: Detective Murayama
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Title: Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Character: Sankuro
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
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Fight for the Glory
Title: Fight for the Glory
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
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Murder in the Deep
Title: Murder in the Deep
Character: Tatsuya Sakaki
Released: October 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
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Eight Brave Brothers 3
Title: Eight Brave Brothers 3
Released: August 26, 1959
Type: Movie
The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.
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Eight Brave Brothers 2
Title: Eight Brave Brothers 2
Released: August 19, 1959
Type: Movie
2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
Title: Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
Character: トン坊
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the owner, Shigebē, that she had come to collect a life he owed from twenty years ago and then left. The same night, Maruiya Genbē also received a visit from the woman's palanquin, and nearby, a man named Manbē was murdered. The detective Hayanawa Gohē concluded the murder was the work of a fox spirit, but another detective, Den Shichi, skeptical of this theory, noticed footprints on the tatami and decided to investigate further.
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Four Swordsmen of Ashura
Title: Four Swordsmen of Ashura
Released: April 26, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Black Hooded Man
Title: The Black Hooded Man
Released: April 5, 1955
Type: Movie
A mysterious black hooded man intervenes when an anti-government group who plots to steal the precious blue diamond called “Maguna no Hitomi.”
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The Missing Heir
Title: The Missing Heir
Character: 勢之佐
Released: February 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended up fighting with the companions of the castle patrol Matsunomura Genba, including Onimatsu. He was later reconciled by the family elder Ishikawa Yoriimo, who also gave him some money. Returning home happily, Ginpei found that his mother had already passed away. Okin, the daughter of a soba shop owner, comforted the heartbroken Ginpei, who in gratitude became affiliated with the Ishikawa household. Ginpei, a ruffian but ordinarily a quiet and honest man, became favored by Yoriimo's wife Chiyo and their child Harunosuke, and he began to accompany Yoriimo to the castle. Inside the castle, the family elder Otsuki Gyobu was in cahoots with Yoshitada's favorite concubine, Osada no Kata, and together with the treacherous Genba, they were plotting to establish Osada no Kata's child, Seinosuke, as the heir.