Masayuki Imai

Masayuki Imai

Born: April 21, 1961
Died: May 28, 2015
in Hyogo, Japan
Masayuki Imai was a Japanese playwright and actor.

Movies for Masayuki Imai...

Kagura Me
Title: Kagura Me
Released: October 24, 2015
Type: Movie
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
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Title: 出張鑑定人 宝来伝吉
Released: April 25, 2014
Type: TV
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Don's Road 10
Title: Don's Road 10
Released: January 9, 2014
Type: Movie
The tenth 'Don's Road' film.
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Title: オリンピックの身代金
Released: November 30, 2013
Type: TV
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Yakuza Ladies Neo
Title: Yakuza Ladies Neo
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.
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Come On, Happiness
Title: Come On, Happiness
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: Movie
In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film. In 2011, Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films.
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The Assistant Doctor
Title: The Assistant Doctor
Released: December 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.
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Treasure of the Black Jaguar
Title: Treasure of the Black Jaguar
Character: Katsu Taka
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary.
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Scenery to Remember
Title: Scenery to Remember
Released: November 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
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Title: Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
Character: Minami Takao
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: TV
Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on November 11th; his roll call number at school was #11; and 11 years ago, he and his wife, Mizuho, went through a divorce. Debt-laden and feeling unneeded to the world, he sells off all his belongings and plans for his death date. However, on the 1st day, he meets Yashiro Heita as well as numerous other characters who will cause him to experience the most eventful 11 days of his life.
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
Title: Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
Released: February 14, 2004
Type: Movie
With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.
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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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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Title: True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Character: Izawa
Released: April 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
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Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse
Title: Cursed Spirit Black Cat's Curse
Released: August 21, 2000
Type: Movie
2000 horror original video.
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Friendship and violence
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Title: Omiai kekkon
Character: Tanuma Kensuke
Released: January 11, 2000
Type: TV
This comedy-romance is about the arranged marriage between an ex-cabin attendant suffering from the pain of lost love, and an elite employee of a trading company. After resigning from her job as a cabin attendant to get married, Setsuko’s would-be fiancé runs off. Following this tragedy, Setsuko spends her days chain-smoking and drinking heavily to escape her broken heart. Meanwhile, Kotaro, an employee of a big trading company, is offered an assignment in Milan. Although Kotaro wanted the job, he had one problem: the conditions state that he needs a wife. Hastily, a date is set for the two to meet for a potential arranged marriage. Despite the fact that neither of them is looking forward to the meeting, fate has a way of bringing two doubtful souls together
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My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness
Title: My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but...
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Naniwa Chūshingura
Title: Naniwa Chūshingura
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: ナースな探偵
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: TV
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Another Lonely Hitman 2
Title: Another Lonely Hitman 2
Released: July 4, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima
Released: May 23, 1997
Type: TV
a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima
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Title: Gift
Character: Sadayuki Yanagase(野長瀬 定幸)
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: TV
Gift is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from April 16, 1997 to June 25, 1997 every Wednesday. It features music by Bryan Ferry and Howard Jones. It raised several issues in Japanese society, due to its casual use of a butterfly knife and its resulting violence.
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Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Title: Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku
Character: Sho Saimon
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Title: Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Character: Sho Saimon
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
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Seductive Rape
Title: Seductive Rape
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Pinku film released in 1996
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A Quiet Life
Title: A Quiet Life
Character: Arai
Released: September 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Title: Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Character: Sho Saimon
Released: July 23, 1995
Type: Movie
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
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Winds of God
Title: Winds of God
Character: Makoto Tashiro
Released: May 29, 1995
Type: Movie
After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.
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Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô
Title: Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.
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Rape
Title: Rape
Character: Masato Ohkubo
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally wanted to be a writer of children's stories, but the violence novel he wrote to fill in the blanks became a big hit and became a popular author. The content of his works is so extreme that even his wife Yasuko's reality is so different from Masayuki's actual image. One day, while Masayuki is away, Yasuko receives a call from a woman who calls herself Tomoko Abe. She says that the woman was raped by Masayuki, so Yasuko decides to meet Tomoko. Yasuko is relieved by her story, which has no basis or evidence, but Tomoko's harassment of her escalates, and she finally puts her self-made scenario into action. Masayuki, who doesn't know anything, falls into her temptation and ends up writing the experience into a novel as planned...
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
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Title: Okane ga Nai!
Released: July 6, 1994
Type: TV
Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kentaro works for, though, goes bankrupt on pay day and Kentaro finds himself out of a job and with even less money. The brothers are thrown out of their apartment and Kentaro, a born optimistic until then, decides that he must aggressively pursue "money". This drama depicts the success story of Kentaro in his search for money and a better life.
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Title: The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Released: October 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
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About Love, Tokyo
Title: About Love, Tokyo
Character: Hitoshi
Released: September 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Looks at the lives of Chinese people in Japan.
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Playtime Never Ends
Title: Playtime Never Ends
Released: October 5, 1991
Type: Movie
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
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ポップコーンLOVE
Title: ポップコーンLOVE
Character: 中村安男
Released: July 21, 1990
Type: Movie