Senri Sakurai

Senri Sakurai

Born: March 20, 1926
Died: November 10, 2012
in London, United Kingdom
Japanese musician, comedian, actor. Member of band Crazy Cats. Real name · Chisato Sakurai.

Movies for Senri Sakurai...

Heaven's Bookstore
Title: Heaven's Bookstore
Character: Tasuke
Released: June 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
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Yoshino's Barber Shop
Title: Yoshino's Barber Shop
Character: Grandpa Mikawa
Released: April 10, 2004
Type: Movie
In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.
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Eiko
Title: Eiko
Released: February 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.
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The Twilight Samurai
Title: The Twilight Samurai
Character: Tozaemon's Attendant
Released: November 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
Title: Hakuchi: The Innocent
Character: Doctor
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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Memory & Desire
Title: Memory & Desire
Character: Mr Kuroda
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Title: Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
Character: Asai
Released: January 28, 1995
Type: Movie
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Title: Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Character: Chisato Sakurada
Released: November 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Title: Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Released: December 20, 1986
Type: Movie
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
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I Go to Tokyo
Title: I Go to Tokyo
Released: August 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Title: Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Released: December 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Title: Tora-san's Song of Love
Released: August 6, 1983
Type: Movie
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
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Tora-san, the Expert
Title: Tora-san, the Expert
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
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Good Luck Love
Title: Good Luck Love
Released: December 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Title: Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Released: August 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Title: Tora-san Plays Cupid
Released: December 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Title: Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Released: July 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
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祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
Title: 祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
Released: August 5, 1972
Type: Movie
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Price of Life
Title: Price of Life
Character: Shinkichi
Released: July 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy of a phony doctor.
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Where Spring Comes Late
Title: Where Spring Comes Late
Character: Himself
Released: October 24, 1970
Type: Movie
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
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Shameless School
Title: Shameless School
Released: May 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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Crazy Big Explosion
Title: Crazy Big Explosion
Released: April 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Japan for Sale
Title: Japan for Sale
Released: November 2, 1968
Type: Movie
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
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Downtown Blues
Title: Downtown Blues
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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Mexican Free-for-All
Title: Mexican Free-for-All
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Hotsprings Holiday
Title: Hotsprings Holiday
Released: February 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: The Million Dollar Pursuit
Released: January 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
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Monsieur Zivaco
Title: Monsieur Zivaco
Character: Old woman
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
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Greatest Challenge of All
Title: Greatest Challenge of All
Released: August 5, 1967
Type: Movie
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
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Scorpion
Title: Scorpion
Released: May 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
Title: Las Vegas Free-For-All
Released: April 28, 1967
Type: Movie
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
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Let's Have A Dream
Title: Let's Have A Dream
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.
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The Lovable Tramp
Title: The Lovable Tramp
Released: November 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
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Gamblers' Luck
Title: Gamblers' Luck
Released: March 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Title: The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Character: Monta
Released: January 3, 1966
Type: Movie
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
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The Crazy Adventure
Title: The Crazy Adventure
Character: Kakurai
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
Title: Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
Released: May 29, 1965
Type: Movie
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Title: Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
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The Best Playboy In Japan
Title: The Best Playboy In Japan
Character: Apartment Manager
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
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Crazy Operation
Title: Crazy Operation
Released: March 24, 1963
Type: Movie
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Title: Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Released: December 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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Wakai kisetsu
Title: Wakai kisetsu
Released: October 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Happy Go-Lucky
Title: Happy Go-Lucky
Released: July 27, 1962
Type: Movie
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
Title: Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
Released: May 12, 1962
Type: Movie
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Directors].
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Title: Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie