Kane Kosugi

Kane Kosugi

Born: October 11, 1974
in Los Angeles, U.S.A
Kane Takeshi Kosugi (ケイン・健・コスギ, Kein Takeshi Kosugi, born October 11, 1974) is an American martial artist, actor and media personality of direct Chinese and Japanese descent.

The son of martial arts film star Sho Kosugi, Kane began his career as a child actor starring opposite his father in films like Revenge of the Ninja and Pray for Death. He first gained recognition in Japan for his starring role as Jiraiya (Ninja Black) in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, being the second American-born sentai senshi. He has appeared in over 30 films and television series, including the video game adaptations DOA: Dead or Alive and Street Fighter Alpha. He competed on five seasons of the obstacle challenge program Sasuke, where he was the first American competitor.

Like his father, Kosugi has appeared in both Japanese and American media. In Japan, Kane is considered gaijin tarento (foreign talent) due to his Nisei (second generation) foreign born heritage.

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筋トレサラリーマン 中山筋太郎
Title: 筋トレサラリーマン 中山筋太郎
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
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Good Morning, Sleeping Lion 2
Title: Good Morning, Sleeping Lion 2
Released: April 12, 2023
Type: Movie
In this sequel, Kazuma Kujo returns as he transitions from entertainment manager to an "apprentice chef", who now works in a food truck! He helps a girl named Akane Yuzuki achieves her dream to become a first class chef, thus forming this new comical, but fiery duo!
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Kamen Rider Revice The Movie Spin-Off: Birth of Chimera
Title: Kamen Rider Revice The Movie Spin-Off: Birth of Chimera
Character: Azuma
Released: July 22, 2022
Type: Movie
The origin story of Nozomu Otani, a young man who inherits the powers of Kamen Rider Chimera from his friend Ryu Mukai. This special serves as a prequel to the events of Kamen Rider Revice: Battle Familia.
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Kamen Rider Revice The Movie: Battle Familia
Title: Kamen Rider Revice The Movie: Battle Familia
Character: Azuma
Released: July 22, 2022
Type: Movie
The Igarashi siblings travel to the forbidden Area 666 to rescue airjacking victims (including their parents!) from the dangerous criminal known as Azuma, who wishes to judge the fate of humanity himself.
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One Night in Bangkok
Title: One Night in Bangkok
Character: Japanese Fixer
Released: August 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop, it's too late to walk away. Meanwhile, an offbeat police detective races to decode the string of slayings before more blood is spilled.
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Title: The Art of Action
Character: Self
Released: June 28, 2020
Type: TV
International action star Scott Adkins talks with some of the world's most renowned names in the action and martial arts film industry to discover what it takes to make good action movies and how to film fights.
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The Driver
Title: The Driver
Character: The Rider
Released: November 25, 2019
Type: Movie
After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons a swarm of the undead. They escape and must seek out the Haven, a rumored sanctuary up north, while the father teaches his daughter to shoot, drive, and survive before time runs out.
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Terra Formars
Title: Terra Formars
Character: God Lee
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
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Zero Tolerance
Title: Zero Tolerance
Character: Kane
Released: September 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Johnny and Peter, former paramilitary operatives, search Bangkok - leaving carnage in their wake - to find the men who killed Johnny's daughter, Angel.
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Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge
Title: Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge
Character: Kazuya
Released: August 21, 2014
Type: Movie
A young man, Kazuya Mishima, wakes up alone in an unfamiliar hotel room without any recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tormented by flashes of his past and by the face of an ominous stranger. The next thing he knows, Kazuya is ambushed and kidnapped by an underground crime organization and, soon after, turned into a ruthless assassin. During a mission to assassinate a man named Brian Fury, Kazuya finds that his target harbors clues to his true identity. With the help of Fury and a female assassin, Kazuya follows the clues, leading him to the lab of his reoccurring flashbacks. Here, he will finally confront his past and the ominous man of his nightmares - Heihachi Mishima, face the ultimate betrayal, and learn the truth about who, and what, he really is.
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
Title: Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
Character: Nakabara
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
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Fight the Fight
Title: Fight the Fight
Character: Mo Tin Siu Cho / Takeda Shosa
Released: March 31, 2011
Type: Movie
Having taken his father's advice, one man decides to return home in pursuit of a fresh start. While training at his father's martial arts school, he learns that his father has given consent to sell the school to a rival martial arts school.
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Coweb
Title: Coweb
Character: Song Li-Shan
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Mandy slaves away at two jobs struggling to support her family while dreaming about resurrecting her father's martial arts academy, a once famous school now forgotten since an accident took his leg.
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Baton
Title: Baton
Character: Saturn (voice)
Released: April 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
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Title: Baton
Character: Saturn (voice)
Released: April 28, 2009
Type: TV
On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by Apollo, a robot that looks like a human; and Mikaru, a human that looks like a robot. The stowaway had in his possession a memory chip containing the latest in camouflage software, the mysterious "Cipher" OS. Apollo takes the Cipher chip simply for fun, but has no idea what he's getting himself into. He suddenly starts acting strange, but Mikaru has no idea what's wrong or that Cipher is behind it. What exactly is Cipher? What sort of secrets does it hold? Apollo and Mikaru will unravel a mystery encompassing the past, present, and future to find out.
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War
Title: War
Character: Temple Garden Warrior
Released: August 24, 2007
Type: Movie
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
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DOA: Dead or Alive
Title: DOA: Dead or Alive
Character: Ryu Hayabusa
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Four beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament join forces against a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior trained by martial-arts masters. Tina Armstrong is a wrestling superstar. Helena Douglas is an athlete with a tragic past. Christie Allen earns her keep as a thief and an assassin-for-hire.
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Godzilla: Final Wars
Title: Godzilla: Final Wars
Character: Katsunori Kazama
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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Muscle Heat
Title: Muscle Heat
Character: Joe Jinno
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug.
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Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie
Title: Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie
Character: Ryû (voice)
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Increasingly disturbed by the dark energies building within him, Ryu is confronted by Shun, a boy claiming to be the brother he never knew. But before Ryu can consider whether Shun's timely appearance might be more than coincidental, Shun is kidnapped by Shadowlaw. To recover Shun, Ryu must undertake the ultimate journey of self-discovery and learn to control the power threatening to consume him.
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Who Am I?
Title: Who Am I?
Character: Takeshi
Released: January 17, 1998
Type: Movie
A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.
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Cat's Eye
Title: Cat's Eye
Character: Black Flag
Released: August 30, 1997
Type: Movie
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.
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Title: Seiryuu Densetsu
Released: October 19, 1996
Type: TV
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Chouriki Sentai Ohranger: Olé vs Kakuranger
Title: Chouriki Sentai Ohranger: Olé vs Kakuranger
Character: Jiraiya / Ninja Black
Released: March 8, 1996
Type: Movie
The team-up between Choriki Sentai Ohranger and Ninja Sentai Kakuranger. Its footage was used for the Power Rangers Zeo episodes Rangers of Two Worlds I & II.
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Zero Woman
Title: Zero Woman
Character: Ken
Released: September 5, 1995
Type: Movie
A gang of young thieves try to rob a mob boss, but their heist is interrupted by an officer of the Tokyo Police Department's elite Zero Division. They get away with the loot, but the officer, a beautiful, more-than-slightly psychotic young woman who also happens to be an excellent shot, is tracking them down. To bring the case to a successful conclusion, she must deal with rival crime gangs, small- time crooks, and the wavering loyalties of her own partner.
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Super Video: The Hidden Scroll
Title: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger Super Video: The Hidden Scroll
Character: Jiraiya / Ninja Black
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The video has the five Kakurangers listing off the five keys of being a ninja as found in a hidden scroll locked in their secret headquarters.
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Super Sentai World
Title: Super Sentai World
Character: Ninja Black (voice)
Released: August 6, 1994
Type: Movie
The film involves the team-up of five different Super Sentai teams (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Gosei Sentai Dairanger, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, Chōjin Sentai Jetman, and Chikyū Sentai Fiveman), who must defend the planet Earth from the evil demon Emperor Daidas. In addition to the five Sentai teams, the film also features Shiro Izumi, who played Yūma Ōzora in Dengeki Sentai Changeman and Burai in Zyuranger, as Masato, a young man who witnesses the Emperor's weak point with his sister Ayumi. Masato and Ayumi also appear in Kamen Rider World, linking the two movies. The narration was provided by Hironori Miyata, the narrator from Dairanger.
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The Fighting King 2
Title: The Fighting King 2
Released: June 10, 1994
Type: Movie
An even more radical battle takes place!
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Movie
Title: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Movie
Character: Jiraiya / Ninja Black
Released: April 16, 1994
Type: Movie
When a young boy is kidnapped, his older sister asks the Kakuranger to rescue him.
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The Fighting King
Title: The Fighting King
Released: March 11, 1994
Type: Movie
A drama filled battle that goes beyond acting unfolds!
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Title: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger
Character: Jiraiya / Ninja Black
Released: February 17, 1994
Type: TV
It's been a long time since the great war between the Three God Generals and the Youkais, an ancient race of monstrous spirits. Since then, imprisoned in a cave protected by the mystical Seal Door, their leader Daimaou and his Youkai army wait, planning for the day they can finally strike. That day has arrived and it is up to the Kakurangers, along with the Three God Generals, to defeat the Youkais, before Daimaou's villainy destroys Earth!
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Title: Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero
Character: Ken-ichi Kai / Ultraman
Released: December 16, 1993
Type: TV
The members of WINR (pronounced "Winner") respond when members of the alien Baltan race attack Earth, but the Baltans are only fended off when a gigantic alien, Ultraman Powered, joins with WINR member Kenichi Kai and gives him the power to metamorphose into Ultraman in times of danger. At the end of the first episode Ultraman declares that the Baltans were not completely defeated and that he will remain on Earth to continue the fight. WINR and Ultraman destroy numerous other monsters, but WINR learns that the Baltans were arranging all the battles to learn Ultraman's strengths and weaknesses
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Journey of Honor
Title: Journey of Honor
Character: Yorimune
Released: April 27, 1991
Type: Movie
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
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Black Eagle
Title: Black Eagle
Character: Brian Tani
Released: May 1, 1988
Type: Movie
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tani, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
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9 Deaths of the Ninja
Title: 9 Deaths of the Ninja
Character: Kane
Released: April 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A trio of specialized soldiers is called in to stop a group of drug traffickers who have hijacked a busload of tourists in the Philippines and threaten to kill them all if one of their companions is not released from jail and the government does not stop its anti-drug policies.
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Pray for Death
Title: Pray for Death
Character: Takeshi Saito
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins....
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Title: The Master
Released: January 20, 1984
Type: TV
An aging ninja master and his young pupil travel in a custom van helping people in need along the way.
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Revenge of the Ninja
Title: Revenge of the Ninja
Character: Kane Osaki
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: Movie
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds out that his friend has betrayed him, Cho must prepare for the greatest battle he has ever been involved in.
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles
Title: Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles
Character: Jiraiya / Ninja Black
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Kakurangers are now middle-aged adults in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger's 30th anniversary special!