Masato Sakai
Acting
Biography
Masato Sakai (堺雅人) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio and The Chef of South Polar and the award for best supporting actor at the 2008 Nikkan Sports Film Award, at the 33rd Hochi Film Award and at the 51st Blue Ribbon Awards. He also received a nomination for best supporting actor at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize. He is married to Japanese actress and J-pop singer Miho Kanno.
Born: October 14, 1973
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Known For
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy is a 2004 production, and the 19th installment in the Ultra Series that was broadcast in Japan in 2004. It is a sequel to Ultra Q, the first of the Ultra Series. It retains the same swirling effect for the titlecard, but with the words "Dark Fantasy" added underneath, the title also remains black and white.
Golden Bowl
Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa's favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better than the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins? --NTV
Atsuhime
The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Flower of Ice
Seno Kyoko is a pianist who receives an inheritance from her uncle, and begins living happily with her husband. But one day, she receives a phone call from a woman claiming to be her husband's pregnant mistress, and she is soon driven to murder.
Dr. Coto's Clinic
Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning over the wary locals.
Legal High
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.
Tsukahara Bokuden
Takahara is a legendary figure in the Warring States Period of Japan. He was born in Kagoshima, the sacred place of sword. He learned the art of Taidao in Kagoshima from childhood. He had faced many life-and-death battles in his life, but he had never been injured at one time. In this new play, the story will be unfolded centering on the youth period of Sakahara, which has never been shown on the big screen before.
Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
A Moon in the Ordinary
Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in 35 years. On the second floor window sill of a small apartment. Yoko was leaning against the window and looking up at the moon in the night sky, then Kensho was watching her from outside. Kensho “What were you thinking back then?” Yoko “...Something like a dream. Just about something like a dream.” The two of them are naturally attracted to each other for the first time at the age of 50. They eventually start talking about the future...
Filmography
as 青砥健将
as MC
as Yusuke Nogi
as Lord Benimaru
as Kei Narumi
as 人間代表
as Tadashi Kinusaki
as Hanzawa Naoki
as Kray Foresight (voice)
as Kray Foresight (voice)
as Shujiro Ezure
as Masakazu Isshiki
as Narrator
as Sanada Yukimura
as 日野伦太郎
as Kensuke Komikado
as Gen Suzuki
as Naoki Hanzawa
as Komikado Kensuke
as Shoji Kanzaki
as Emonnosuke
as Kenichi Nakamura
as Madenokouji Arikoto
as Sakurai
as 古美門研介
as Shinemon Tsukahara
as Haruhiko Himuro
as Mikio Takazaki
as Major Shirou Mashiba
as Technical Staff
as Chapra (voice)
as Yoshiaki Miyamae
as Naoyuki Inoshiyama
as Kazuyoshi Date
as Masaharu Aoyagi
as Youzou Ooba
as Ryoushuu, Sensei
as Sensei
as Ōba Yōzō
as Moerus
as Shirimaru
as Captain Kuhio
as Saji
as Jun Nishimura
as Niwano Takahisa
as Kurosawa
as Koichi Hayami
as Shimano Takaya
as Yasushi Enomoto
as Takayuki Seno
as The Son
as Tatsuya Sayama
as Kimura
as Tokugawa Iesachi
as Minoru Date
as Shigemori
as Ren Keguang
as 蒔田二郎
as 片岡航
as 鈴木光明
as Shuji Hanamoto
as Shuji Tamura
as Sankuro
as Yamanami Keisuke
as Kohei Yamashita
as Torii Motoichiro
as 杉本大樹
as Yamanami Keisuke
as 鳴海慧
as 石倉
as Okita Soji
as 関川勝
as サトシ
as Fukai Rei
as 太宰衛
as 徳次郎
as Hisao Shima
as 中原テツシ
as 山岸俊輔
as 江藤麦太
as Etsuro Maeno
as Yasuo Arakawa
as 杉本英記
as Roadside Noodle Eater
as Yuichi Hirano
as 村瀬優
as Toshi Nakajima
as Hiroki Ogasawara
as 白鳥麗次〈初代〉
as 古美门研介