Akaji Maro
Acting
Biography
Akaji Maro (麿 赤児 Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, butoh performer, and theater director. He is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.
Born: February 23, 1943
Place of Birth: Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Known For
SHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3
The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series.
稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has more affection for insects than people after years of being bullied at school when he was young. Yoshida soon realizes that Asahiyama Zoo is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director Takizawa (Toshiyuki Nishida) has been doing everything in his power to save the zoo from closing down. Moved by Takizawa's passion, Yoshida and other zoo keepers came to share the zoo director's belief that one's dreams can come true, and together they tackle this seemingly impossible task of revitalizing Asahiyama. A breakthrough arrives in the form of “Behavioral Exhibition,†a method that is pioneered by Ashiyama's zoo keepers and which eventually makes the zoo renowned throughout the world.
Kaiju Guy!
Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What unprecedented strategy will he take?
Tonbi
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.
Dreams on Fire
Fleeing to Tokyo with the hopes that she can fulfil her dream of becoming a dancer, Yume is met with the harsh reality that success isn’t something that comes quickly or easily. Whilst juggling her job as a hostess in Tokyo’s red-light district, Yume throws herself headfirst into studying the artform and integrating herself into the underground dance community.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
A former assassin—known only as The Bride—wakes up from a coma after her former boss and lover, Bill, shoots her in the head and steals her unborn child during her wedding rehearsal. She soon embarks on a bloody quest for revenge, hunting down her ex-colleagues of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. Quentin Tarantino’s complete Kill Bill, a combination of Volumes 1 and 2, previously deleted scenes, alternate takes, a full-color remaster of the Crazy 88 fight, a 7-minute anime sequence by Production I.G., and a built-in intermission.
Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
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
Filmography
as Ken Hirayama
as Ryûjin Maro
as Tasuku Enishi
as Kaiun
as Kanon's Grandfather
as Iwao Mikumo
as Grandfather
as Saburo
as Yamashita Tarosuke
as Tetsuhiko Todoroki
as Narration (voice)
as Wanyudo
as Iwao Mikumo
as Akira
as Sojyuro Saionji
as Shinjiro Tatsumi
as On (segment "Kuu")
as Ishin Shimazu
as Katsuragi
as Gondo
as Man on Duty
as 모리오카 아버지
as Fujita Denzaburo
as Admiral Hisanori Fujita
as Seisetsu
as Oka
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
as Akira Nitanai
as Yonosuke Matsudaira
as Yo-Chan
as Mizuki Yozo
as Oka
as Boss Ozawah
as Kenzo Iwaki
as Monk
as Rin's Master
as Heihachi Edajima
as Makai Priest Amon
as Shinjuku-San
as Shopkeeper
as Amon
as Sato's Father
as Amano Rokusuke
as A-san
as Boss Ozawah
as Hōan Tatara
as Triangular Eyes
as Boss Ozawah
as Owner of Candy Shop
as Ieyasu Tokugawa
as Ōmuta
as Young Man
as Lord Kobari
as Ookura Nagashima
as Susumu Kawahara
as Mr Iwai
as Detective Murata
as Self
as Oda
as Okijima Gang Member
as Daimon
as Homeless Man / Demon
as Kakubê
as Crazy Man
as Yakuza Boss
as Hobo
as Monk
as Den
as Umehara
as Boss of Minato Gang
as Circus performer
as Kibo Boss
as Lt. Nakayama
as Goryu Tachibana
as Lt. Nakayama
as Kanji, Nobuko's father
as Man of dry river bed
as Lt. Nakayama
as Senba
as Sakurai
as Otori-sama
as The Hitman
as Hakugin
as Criminal
as Sakurada
as Himself
as Tattoo Master
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Brokerage Firm President
as Painter
as Homeless
as Hirose Kinzō
as Actor