Tak Sakaguchi

Tak Sakaguchi

Born: March 15, 1975
in Ishikawa, Japan
Tak Sakaguchi ( born March 15, 1975), credited prior to May 2014 as Tak Sakaguchi, is a Japanese actor, director, fight choreographer, and stuntman. He is best known for his lead role in Ryuhei Kitamura's cult film, Versus. Sakaguchi is a talented martial artist, and as such, stars in films featuring copious fight scenes and performs all of his own stunts. He is known to be skilled in Bājíquán, Shaolin Kenpo, boxing, kick boxing, and mixed martial arts. Sakaguchi is a Christian.

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One-Percenter
Title: One-Percenter
Character: Takuma Toshiro
Released: April 12, 2023
Type: Movie
After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin.
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Bad City
Title: Bad City
Character: Han
Released: July 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
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Title: The Sealer
Character: Shin Godo
Released: January 16, 2022
Type: TV
In this world, there exist demon swords. Those who have the sword will have their will taken over, and they will lust for human blood and keep on killing indiscriminately. The sealer is who searches for those blades that haunt people and seal them with his scabbard.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland
Title: Prisoners of the Ghostland
Character: Yasujirō
Released: August 31, 2021
Type: Movie
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
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Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Title: Violence Musou: Subliminal War
Released: August 4, 2021
Type: Movie
The ex-convict protagonist of Versus lives far away from the maddening yakuza when he receives a new visit from the gangsters of the resurrection forest.
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Title: Red Eyes
Released: January 23, 2021
Type: TV
Kyosuke Fushimi is a former detective from e Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department's Homicide Division who currently works as a special agent of KSBC (Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department Investigation Analysis Center). He uses his genius brain and knowledge of past crimes to solve difficult cases. He also make use KSBC's latest investigation ability to find the serial killer who murdered his lover.
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Grave of Love
Title: Grave of Love
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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Crazy Samurai Musashi
Title: Crazy Samurai Musashi
Character: Musashi
Released: August 21, 2020
Type: Movie
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
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Tokyo Dragon Chef
Title: Tokyo Dragon Chef
Released: August 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!
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Osaka Girl
Title: Osaka Girl
Released: March 21, 2020
Type: Movie
One day, Chiho is asked to collect the rent from her grandmother, who has a bad leg. Chiho easily agrees and regrets it. The inhabitants of the flat are yakuza, host, robber, alcoholic, etc. They are all scum and they don’t pay the rent.
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Rise of the Machine Girls
Title: Rise of the Machine Girls
Character: Tetsuya 'Justice' Matsukata
Released: August 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Living in the lawless Ishinari District in a future Japan, sisters Ami (Hina Nagimiya) and Yoshie (Hanakage Kanon) who sold their bodies to help their parents, try to earn a living performing as an idol group in the area. When their performance causes stranger Matsukata (Tak Sakaguchi) a notorious hitman, to notice their condition, the three realize their worth to each other in the fight against Aoyama Dharma (Kimono Negishi), the female boss of a notorious organ harvesting ring in the area. Realizing that even their skills are no match for her army of goons and henchmen, the two are outfitted with special homemade weaponry to their bodies and become the ultimate killers.
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Kingdom
Title: Kingdom
Character: Zuo Ci
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
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Red Blade
Title: Red Blade
Character: Saizo
Released: December 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Living a troubled home-life, a teenager becomes so stressed out with everything around her that she disappears into a series of fantasy-related books. While trying to escape her situation, she soon finds herself living in feudal Japan with a ninja master and his students who inform her that she's in a separate dimension from her regular life and are to help train together in the way of the ninja. When the training's complete, the girls learn that an evil warlord that left them orphans has intentions on killing them all as well, forcing the girls to team up together with all their training to defeat the madman and live in peace again.
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Title: バウンサー
Character: Seijuro Torai
Released: April 14, 2017
Type: TV
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RE:BORN
Title: RE:BORN
Character: Toshiro Kuroda
Released: September 24, 2016
Type: Movie
A former special forces operative struggling to contain the destructive impulses of his past goes on a rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins.
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Title: Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Character: Sasaki
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
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Snake of Violence
Title: Snake of Violence
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the time. One day Kenji who lives in an orphanage is sold to a yakuza and their friendship has to come to an end. 25 years later, Kanako is married to Atsushi who is an incompetent yakuza. They have 3 daughters. Kenji is a competent unbeatable yakuza. Atsushi, who sucks at everything, for the first time gets a dangerous mission to kill a thug who has attacked the office of his yakuza group. Kenji, who has advanced to the first lieutenant position, by mistake kills a dumb-ass son of the head of Tokyo Yakuza, which triggers a battle between Osaka and Tokyo Yakuzas. Then, Kenji meets Atsushi in 25 years.
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Deadball
Title: Deadball
Character: Jûbei Yakyû
Released: July 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…
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Yakuza Weapon
Title: Yakuza Weapon
Character: Shozo Iwaki
Released: February 27, 2011
Type: Movie
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
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A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Title: A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.
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Yoshie Zero
Title: Yoshie Zero
Character: Kisaragi
Released: August 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A short film prequel to Mutant Girls Squad.
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Mutant Girls Squad
Title: Mutant Girls Squad
Character: Kisaragi
Released: May 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
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Tokyo Gore Police
Title: Tokyo Gore Police
Character: Koji Tanaka
Released: October 4, 2008
Type: Movie
In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
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Samurai Zombie
Title: Samurai Zombie
Released: June 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A family travelling in a minivan are taken hostage by two fugitives. When the minivan gets a flat tire, they stumble upon a village infested by zombies in samurai armor.
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Be a Man!! Samurai School
Title: Be a Man!! Samurai School
Character: Momotaro Tsurugi
Released: January 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
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United Red Army
Title: United Red Army
Released: August 26, 2007
Type: Movie
The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Title: Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Character: Romeo's thug
Released: September 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
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Death Trance
Title: Death Trance
Character: Grave
Released: December 9, 2005
Type: Movie
In an unknown place and unknown time, a lone Samurai known only as Grave thirsts for the ultimate battle.
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Title: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Character: Yasha-maru
Released: September 17, 2005
Type: Movie
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as the leader of the five to represent their respective villages.
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Azumi 2: Death or Love
Title: Azumi 2: Death or Love
Character: Tsuchi-Gumo
Released: March 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi.
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Cromartie High School: The Movie
Title: Cromartie High School: The Movie
Character: Ichiro Yamamoto
Released: February 25, 2005
Type: Movie
When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
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Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rocket & Super Detective
Title: Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rocket & Super Detective
Character: Tebana Sankichi
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
From prominent Japanese filmmaker Yudai Yamaguchi comes this off-the-wall anthology of three experimental vignettes showcasing the style and wit that are the director's stock-in-trade. Recorded on digital video, these genre-bending short films -- starring then up-and-comer Tak Sakaguchi -- are awash with farce, Yamaguchi's pubescent sense of humor and electrifying rock 'n' roll.
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Godzilla: Final Wars
Title: Godzilla: Final Wars
Character: Xilian
Released: December 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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Hole
Title: Hole
Released: July 10, 2004
Type: Movie
An omnibus film consisting of four stories on the theme of "holes" by four directors.
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Be-Bop High School
Title: Be-Bop High School
Character: Toshimitsu Yamada
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
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Battlefield Baseball
Title: Battlefield Baseball
Character: Yakyu Jubei
Released: July 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
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Alive
Title: Alive
Character: Zeros
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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Most Dangerous  Deka Matsuri
Title: Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
Released: May 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"
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Azumi
Title: Azumi
Character: Sajiki brother #2
Released: May 10, 2003
Type: Movie
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.
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Aragami
Title: Aragami
Character: The Future Challenger
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsman and a mysterious young woman. One samurai awakes to find that not only has his comrade died, but that his wounds have miraculously healed. He discovers that he has been given the power of immortality by the swordsman, a man once known as the legendary Miyamoto Musashi, who now lives an endless existence as Aragami, a "god of battle".
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Jam Films
Title: Jam Films
Released: December 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
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Versus
Title: Versus
Character: Prisoner KSC2-303
Released: October 23, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Reiji Nogi
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.