Akaji Maro — Actor (30)
Circus Boys (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
二十世紀少年読本
director: Kaizo Hayashi actor: Hiroshi Mikami / Moe Kamura
other title: 二十世紀少年読本
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
The Dropout (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
野獣刑事
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Ken Ogata / Ayumi Ishida
other title: 野獣刑事 / Yaju-deka
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho
other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) [Movie]
新宿泥棒日記
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Tadanori Yokoo / Rie Yokoyama
other title: Diario di un ladro di Shinjuko / Diário de um Ladrão
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
Yakuza Weapon (2011) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
極道兵器
director: Yudai Yamaguchi / Tak Sakaguchi actor: Tak Sakaguchi / Jun Murakami
other title: 極道兵器
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.
Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground
director: Anna Broinowski / Andrew Sully actor: Akaji Maro / Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama
An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the homeless.
Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama (2022) [TV] TMDB
星新一の不思議な不思議な短編ドラマ
other title: 星新一の不思議な不思議な短編ドラマ
Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read today. His stories often feature mystery, science fiction, or fantasy elements. A sometimes "humorous" and sometimes "cynic" look at society and mankind. Always short, but always surprising and unpredictable. Is it a poisonous allegory or a wake-up call? See some of his greatest gems come to life in this 2022 live-action adaptation
The Emperor in August (2015) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
日本のいちばん長い日
director: Masato Harada actor: Koji Yakusho / Masahiro Motoki
other title: The Emperor In August / 日本のいちばん長い日
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.
Ox-Head Village (2022) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
牛首村
director: Takashi Shimizu actor: Kōki / Riku Hagiwara
other title: La Aldea Siniestra / 牛首村
Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…
Utsushimi (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
うつしみ
director: Sion Sono actor: Yukiko Sawada / Nobuyoshi Araki
other title: うつしみ
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
The City of Lost Souls (2000) [Movie] TMDB Douban
漂流街 THE HAZARD CITY
director: Takashi Miike actor: Teah / Michelle Reis
other title: 漂流街 THE HAZARD CITY / City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb
遙かな時代の階段を
director: Kaizo Hayashi actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Haruko Wanibuchi
other title: 遙かな時代の階段を
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Shangri-La (2002) [Movie] TMDB
金融破滅ニッポン 桃源郷の人々
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Shirō Sano
other title: Shangry-La / 金融破滅ニッポン 桃源郷の人々
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
The Room (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
部屋
director: Sion Sono actor: Akaji Maro / Yoriko Doguchi
other title: 部屋
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.
Into a Dream (2005) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
夢の中へ
director: Sion Sono actor: Tetsushi Tanaka / Yûna Natsuo
other title: 夢の中へ
Low-profile theatre troupe actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey home, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.
Drive (2002) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
ドライブ
director: SABU actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi / Ren Osugi
other title: ドライブ / 驾驶
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
9 Souls (2003) [Movie] TMDB
ナイン・ソウルズ
director: Toshiaki Toyoda actor: Yoshio Harada / Ryuhei Matsuda
other title: ナイン・ソウルズ / 9 souls
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Pornostar (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ポルノスター
director: Toshiaki Toyoda actor: Chihara Junia / Rin Ozawa
other title: ポルノスター
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?