Frankie Sakai Movies

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Masahiro Takashima

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yukari Asai

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Genre: War

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zero Mostel

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Kayama

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frankie Sakai

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

Genre: Music

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Japanese musical.

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.

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Cast: Kenichi Okamoto

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junkyu Moriyama

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...

Genre: War

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Japanese comedy film.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Remake of the 1957 film "The Stormy Man".

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Cast: Masahiko Kondo

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Genre: Action

Cast: Naoto Ogata

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Ogata

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Ensemble comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Shōhei Hino

1968 film

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

1963 Japanese movie

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

1953 Japanese movie

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta