Takeshi Wakamatsu

Takeshi Wakamatsu

Born: July 2, 1950
Died: April 14, 2021

Movies for Takeshi Wakamatsu...

Title: 60 JUSTICE PROJECT
Character: Mitsukura Sera
Released: May 6, 2018
Type: TV
Eiji Arima is a veteran detective who is about to retire. Shoichi Sera is a young lawyer and Misuzu Haruna is a prosecutor. These three people belong to the Gohan Taisakushitsu ("Misjudgment Countermeasure Office’". Their job is to re-examine death-row convictions and check to see if anyone was falsely convicted.
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Title: Hello, Detective Hedgehog
Character: Kuramoto
Released: July 14, 2017
Type: TV
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
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Title: Ryōmaden
Released: January 3, 2010
Type: TV
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Target
Title: Target
Released: June 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A Professional sniper, Ryo has executed so many missions with his partner, Narushima. But Ryo is caught in between a multitude of emotions, when he realizes that his newest target will be an old acquaintance of his.
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Rain Fall
Title: Rain Fall
Character: Benny Watanabe
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: Movie
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
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Last Words
Title: Last Words
Released: June 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Nagisa, a high school girl who has been given three months to live. Without telling her widowed father where she is going, she sets out from the city to the small town where she was born. She recalls her childhood memories, and her love for Satoshi begins to grow stronger. However, she is shocked to discover that Satoshi is having an affair with Eriko, a married woman.
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安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
Title: 安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
Released: June 13, 2003
Type: Movie
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Timeless Melody
Title: Timeless Melody
Character: Sugiura
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: Movie
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he is none too happy to see again. How will this affect their private haven?
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Ring 0
Title: Ring 0
Character: Yûsaku Shigemori
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
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Inferno Jūrin
Title: Inferno Jūrin
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
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Angel Dust
Title: Angel Dust
Character: Rei Aku
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
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Farewell to the Ark
Title: Farewell to the Ark
Character: Dai
Released: September 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
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The Hunchback of Aomori
Title: The Hunchback of Aomori
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This is Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa). Terayama gathered dwarfs, circus freaks, itinerant magicians, acrobats and untrained youth for his burgeoning troupe, Tenjo Sajiki. The troupe's premiere offering, written and directed by Terayama, was Aomori-ken no Semushi Otoko (The Hunchback of Aomori, 1967).
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The Lemmings
Title: The Lemmings
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This second version of the play follows Wan and Tsu, two apprentice cooks who, as they eavesdrop on their neighbors one day, are shocked by the sudden disappearance of a wall separating them from the next flat. As they try to understand what happened and how to fix their wall, the line between reality and fiction begins to crumble, their endeavors continuously halted by weird and disrupting characters.
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Fruits of Passion
Title: Fruits of Passion
Character: The guardian of the house
Released: June 3, 1981
Type: Movie
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.
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Private Collections
Title: Private Collections
Character: (segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Released: June 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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Grass Labyrinth
Title: Grass Labyrinth
Character: Akira
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.
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Third Base
Title: Third Base
Character: Oshi
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.
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Shintokumaru
Title: Shintokumaru
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer's phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978.
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The Reading Machine
Title: The Reading Machine
Released: December 11, 1977
Type: Movie
In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a combination of gymnastic contraption, printing press and early cinematic apparatus, the machine’s purpose remains ambiguous. And like this machine, Terayama’s film connects his work in poetry, motion picture and graphic design by weaving together printed and projected, still and moving images.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Released: June 14, 1975
Type: Movie
An experimental short featuring people and nails.
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Smallpox Tale
Title: Smallpox Tale
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross the screen and nails are hammered into the skull of the ailing patient. Illness in this film is as much a psychic entity as a physical one and manifests itself in an array of theatrical tableaux from grotesque women rigorously brushing their teeth to a snooker game where the players in white face makeup behave like automata. A Tale of Smallpox uses a medical theme to chart the traumatic dream life of Terayama’s times, evincing deep-rooted concerns in the Japanese national psyche that hark back to the upheaval of Meiji modernisation and the devastation of World War Two.