Masaaki Takarai

Masaaki Takarai

Birth : 1975-11-02, Tokyo, Japan

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Masaaki Takarai

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Once Upon a Time in Tokyo
Jiro
Over the course of 24 hours, five characters will face dilemmas suffocating through another day in their dead end worlds. Their lives will intersect as the story builds to a tragic climax for some and liberation for others.
Crazy Samurai Musashi
Yoshioka Clan
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To save their reputation, the Yoshioka family decides to fight back with all 100 family members and hire an additional 300 samurai. Now Musashi sets out to defeat all 400 enemies in his most famous battle.
Osaka Girl
One day, Chiho is asked to collect the rent from her grandmother, who has a bad leg. Chiho easily agrees and regrets it. The inhabitants of the flat are yakuza, host, robber, alcoholic, etc. They are all scum and they don’t pay the rent.
Mrs. Scarlet Rose
Based on the novel by Oniroku Dan.
Swing Girls
Teacher Kubota
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
The Spirit of the Dead
Anyone who touches the doll will be cursed by the "corpse spirit". Will you be slaughtered? Or will you be released from the haunting? The game of survival for life begins!
報復
Detective Tsukimoto kills his partner following a botched robbery and falls deep into debt and despair. After losing everything at the horse races, he is kidnapped by yakuza and offered a chance to clear his debts by putting his life on the line in a game called Cambodia Roulette.
The Dimension Travelers
Yamazawa Norio
A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.
That's Cunning! Shijo Saidai no Sakusen?
Comedy about a group of chemistry students who organize a cheating scam during their final exams. Amuro Namie, the top pop music sensation, plays one of the students.
Shall We Dance?
Farewell Party Participant Dancer
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
August in the Water
Ukiya
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
School Teacher
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Haruo Yamamoto
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.