Frankie Sakai
Acting
Biography
Frankie Sakai, born Masatoshi Sakai (堺 正俊; 13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996), was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
Born: February 13, 1929
Place of Birth: Kagoshima, Japan
Known For
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 husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
Seishun wo warera ni
I Want to Be a Shellfish
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 husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
Frankie the Milkman
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.
Shōgun
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
You Can Succeed, Too
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Dynamite Don-Don
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?
A Geisha's Diary
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.
Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Filmography
as Photographer
as Tsutaya
as Tadashi Ono
as Isenokami
as Yuji Aso
as Nakajima Ise
as Yabu
as Inspector Kawai
as Frank Ômori
as Tokuemon
as Captain Yamada (as Furankî Sakai)
as 梅野長太郎
as Honiden Matahachi
as Seizo
as Fukuzo
as Kapi (voice)
as 並木大作
as Pecoro dos Araki (2nd-gen Japanese Brazilian)
as Pekero Dos Araki (Third-gen Brazilian)
as Jiro Sakai
as Ruiji Annaka
as Annaka Ruiji (Chiol Japan Manager)
as Professor Sakai / Mr. Sakai
as Jiro
as Tsuyoshi Kemachi (Sales Section Chief)
as Zenta Yamakawa
as Hayato Hinatayama
as Sakai
as George Okitsu (Third-generation Japanese-American)
as George Okitsu (3rd-gen Japanese American)
as Shinichi Tamaki
as Willie Tanaka (Jupiter Secretary)
as Nobuo Koyama (Kimono shop heir)
as Goro
as Mokichi Tamura
as Heita Sakurai
as Senichiro 'Sen-chan' Fukuda
as Nozaki
as Junpei Tanabe
as Keima Sunagawa
as Taro Fujikawa
as Goro Yoda
as Tomimatsu Shimizu
as Army Captain Prince Tamenaga
as Shimizu Toyomatsu
as Kinichi Koyama
as Tetsuo Matsumoto
as Seiji, the Farher
as Inokori Saheiji
as Santaro Monma
as Kunio Yamato
as Rukuheita Sakai / Kogorô Sakai
as Tachibana's Old Friend A
as 茶刈デンスケ
as Moriyama
as Clown
as Kamenosuke Dewa-no-kouji
as Jazz Tanuki