Shunsuke Matsuoka

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Born: February 27, 1972

Movies for Shunsuke Matsuoka...

Instant Swamp
Title: Instant Swamp
Character: Futa Amayo
Released: May 23, 2009
Type: Movie
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.
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The Code
Title: The Code
Character: Snitch
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.
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The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Title: The Most Beautiful Night In The World
Character: Ishizuka
Released: May 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.
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Sixteen
Title: Sixteen
Character: Maruyama
Released: May 26, 2007
Type: Movie
A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
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Unholy Women
Title: Unholy Women
Released: November 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively. The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.
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The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Title: The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya
Character: Ensign Akashi
Released: August 11, 2006
Type: Movie
In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.
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Colors
Title: Colors
Released: July 15, 2006
Type: Movie
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It's Only Talk
Title: It's Only Talk
Character: Honma
Released: June 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
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Aishiteyo
Title: Aishiteyo
Released: December 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather constantly. But Keiji himself doesn't like the job much. He only does it because it pleases his mother, who hates empty pages in the schedule book. One day they attend a big audition. While Keiji wins first stages of the audition, he begins to feel distance from the mother. It makes things worse for him when she has a new boyfriend..
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Aegis
Title: Aegis
Released: July 30, 2005
Type: Movie
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Title: Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Character: Nirayama
Released: July 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
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In the Pool
Title: In the Pool
Released: May 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.
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River of First Love
Title: River of First Love
Character: Kawashima
Released: November 13, 2004
Type: Movie
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.
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Black Kiss
Title: Black Kiss
Character: Yusuke Shiraki
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.
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Out of This World
Title: Out of This World
Character: Kazushiro Hirayama
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
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Last Love, First Love
Title: Last Love, First Love
Released: December 3, 2003
Type: Movie
A Japanese salaryman in Shanghai falls in love with two women, one of whom is terminally ill.
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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Title: FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"
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Alive
Title: Alive
Character: Condemned Criminal 2
Released: June 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
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T.R.Y.
Title: T.R.Y.
Released: January 11, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Aiki
Title: Aiki
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
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Title: The Private Detective Mike
Character: Tadashi
Released: July 1, 2002
Type: TV
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.
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The Choice of Hercules
Title: The Choice of Hercules
Released: May 11, 2002
Type: Movie
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
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Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
Title: Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young woman's (Amiko Kanetani) foolish attempts to win back a lost love (Shunsuke Matsuoka) by taking the one recourse she believes might actually do the trick: becoming a porn star.
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Unloved
Title: Unloved
Character: Hiroshi Shimokawa
Released: November 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
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Scarecrow
Title: Scarecrow
Character: Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?
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A Tender Place
Title: A Tender Place
Character: Jun-ichi Utsumi
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
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Stereo Future
Title: Stereo Future
Released: June 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
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Freeze Me
Title: Freeze Me
Character: Nogami
Released: May 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover and mistreats her again. Chihiro takes revenge, kills him and puts him in a freezer. The other rapists are awaiting a similar fate...
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
Title: Hakuchi: The Innocent
Character: Yoshida
Released: November 13, 1999
Type: Movie
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.
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Man, a Natural Girl
Title: Man, a Natural Girl
Released: February 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Miike's first television production in seven years (since 1992's Last Run), Tennen Shoujo Mahn (lit: Natural Girl Mahn) is an adaptation of a manga series by Tetsuya Koshiba about a schoolgirl with extraordinary fighting prowess.
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Mobsters' Confessions
Title: Mobsters' Confessions
Character: Asakawa
Released: February 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Small-time con man, Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka), makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko, a refugee from her stepfather's sexual abuse. But things start to get out of control when yakuza boss Kamewada (Shohei Hino), muscles in on the action.
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A Yakuza in Love
Title: A Yakuza in Love
Character: Matsuoka
Released: September 6, 1997
Type: Movie
When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.
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Deborah, the Rival
Title: Deborah, the Rival
Released: August 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book of the same name by Kaoru Tada.
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My Secret Cache
Title: My Secret Cache
Character: Yankee
Released: February 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the film, Sakiko begins a desperate quest to retrieve the money.
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Title: Ryoko!!
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
"Ryoko!!" is a four-episode competitive series created by Toshihide, a leading director in the modern Japanese film industry, starring actress Shigeru Muroi. Ryoko, who has absolute values ​​within herself and is always nihilistic, yet compassionate and tearful, is played by Shigeru Muroi, who can now be said to be a charismatic actress of today. Tsuyoshi Toshige is the original story and director of the first episode, and Junji Sakamoto is the director of the second episode. The first unique film produced by the most unique individuals in the Japanese film industry
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Gonin 2
Title: Gonin 2
Character: Kaji
Released: June 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and caused the death of his wife. Before long, the yakuza and Toyama arrive at the women's hideout.
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In a Thicket
Title: In a Thicket
Released: May 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.
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Nozokiya
Title: Nozokiya
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
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MARKS
Title: MARKS
Character: Sata
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
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Broken Heart
Title: Broken Heart
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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Title: If love happens a second time
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: TV
Kosuke Mikami, the head office manager of a convenience store, takes a mistress named Komachi, a Kyoto beauty, while he is working alone in Osaka. After he returns to Tokyo, his wife finds out about this and ends up divorcing him... "Koimo Nidome Nara" is a Japanese TV drama that was broadcast on the Nippon Television Network's Wednesday Drama slot from January 11, 1995 to March 15, 1995. Starring Sanma Akashiya.
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800 Two Lap Runners
Title: 800 Two Lap Runners
Character: Kenji Hirose
Released: July 9, 1994
Type: Movie
This coming-of-age story revolves around two young long distance runners, Kenji Hirose and Ryuji Nakazawa. Kenji, haunted by memories of his dead friend Aihara with whom he had a brief homosexual affair, is now dating Aihara's former girlfriend Kyoko, but Kyoko is more interested in Kenji than he is in her. Ryuji, Kenji's friend and track rival, is pursuing hurdler Shoko but she in turn is after Kenji. Ryuji does have his own admirer, Nao, Kenji's younger sister, but when they do get together, Nao resembles her brother too much for Ryuji to go through with the lovemaking.