Frankie Sakai — Actor (16)
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Dynamite Don-Don (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ダイナマイトどんどん
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Bunta Sugawara / Junko Miyashita …
other title: ダイナマイトどんどん
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?
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Frankie the Milkman (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
牛乳屋フランキー
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Frankie Sakai / Sumiko Minami …
other title: 牛乳屋フランキー
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
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The Green Music Box (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
緑はるかに
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Minoru Takada …
other title: 緑はるかに
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
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Aces Wild (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
縞の背広の親分衆
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Hisaya Morishige / Frankie Sakai …
other title: 縞の背広の親分衆
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
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Romance Express (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
特急にっぽん
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Reiko Dan …
other title: 特急にっぽん
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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Room for Let (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
貸間あり
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Frankie Sakai / Chikage Awashima …
other title: 貸間あり
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
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A Geisha's Diary (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
女は二度生まれる
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Ayako Wakao / Jun Fujimaki …
other title: Les femmes naissent deux fois / Onna wa nido umareru …
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.