Toru Masuoka
Acting
Biography
Tôru Masuoka was born on 23 August 1956 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. He is an actor, known for Kamen Rider Movie War Mega Max: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO (2011), My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999) and K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008).
Born: August 23, 1956
Place of Birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Known For
YUKIKAZE
Just 80 years ago, the peaceful sea was a battlefield. Soldiers continued to fight, dreaming of returning home, and their families continued to pray and wait for their safety. What stories were there in each of their lives, and what were they each thinking?
AIBOU: The Movie IV
A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group then targets a victory parade of a world sports game to commit indiscriminate terror.
Dear Radiance
Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Genji,' transcending a thousand years during the Heian period. She weaves the story of Hikaru Genji, fueled by her love for Fujiwara no Michinaga (Emoto Tasuku), with her hidden passion and incomparable imagination. It is a tale of a woman who lived with unchanging love in an ever-changing world. (From TV JAPAN)
Gold Sunset
Hanzawa Naoki
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's branch manager is Asano. He is an ambitious man and tries to shift the blame to Hanzawa. Hanzawa then attends an inquiry about the loan failure at the bank's headquarters in Tokyo. Hanzawa denies fault and promises to retrieve the 500 million yen loan. He did this because it's the only way for Hanzawa to survive as a banker.
Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows
Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the first time in 35 years, the two drink and talk about their past, without revealing their current lifestyles, Matsuzou then recounts an odd story... The doomed reunion slowly steers the old bandits toward a life-changing event.
One Day in January
Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles topped with grated spicy daikon radish. Even regulars refrain from coming to the restaurant because of the extra spicy soba. But on year, a stranger comes in and finishes the bowl, announcing that it tastes familiar. The man begins to visit every year on the 4th of January to eat Sanada Soba. Shobei develops a warm feeling towards the peculiar customer he interacts with once a year.
Gokenin Zankuro
Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
The Copycat Criminal
Based on the novel "Mohouhan" by Miyuki Miyabe. Journalist Maebata Shigeko, young Tsukada Shinichi and elderly Arima Yoshio all suffer from and become involved in a serial kidnap and murder case. Shinichi first discovers a cut arm and handbag from the murder case. Elderly Yoshio's granddaughter is a murder victim.
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day, a couple asks the detective agency to find a man named Sakagami. The man killed the couple's son and served at a youth detention center. Kogure Masato is the director of the detective agency. He tells Shuichi to work on the case. Shuichi is also part of a victim's family. When he was a child, his older sister was murdered. While Shuichi watches Sakagami, the couple asks him to find some materials which will allow them to forgive Sakagami or not.
Filmography
as Kazumasa's Father
as Hiroshi Maruyama
as Minamoto no Masanobu
as Nakajo Koji
as Kunihiko Kariba
as Takashi Rokko
as Toshimichi Ishiwatari, Chief Cabinet Secretary
as Tamakura Shigenari
as Kensaku Sahashi
as Kanzaki
as Masaru Uozumi
as Akira Ichinose
as Mitsuhide Oka
as Keiichi Godai
as Mutta & Hibito's father
as Hiroshi
as 勅使河原重之
as Toshio Tamura
as 五代恵一〈50〉
as Doctor
as Okinori Kaya
as Inspector Namikoshi
as Shujiro Katsuragi
as Shiroyama
as Koichiro Aoyama
as Seiichiro Tamura
as Takao Asano
as Theater Manager
as Ouma
as Kosaku Uehara
as Shinpei Tsuda
as Hayashi Ushinosuke
as 羽根井豊
as Tetsuto Natsuyagi
as Kentaro Tsugawa
as Ogata
as Takeshi Tsuruta（鶴田 猛）
as Hitoshi Hayakawa
as Kohei Okamura（岡村 公平）
as Takashi Yamada (voice)
as Jiro Tanikawa
as Prosecutor
as Kosuke Noguchi
as Nishio Denzaburō
as Kobayashi
as Kosuke Noguchi
as Yagyu Kurando
as Tatsuo Tanba
as Kosuke Noguchi
as Kenkichi Aizawa
as Ninomiya
as Young Housekeeper
as Mishima
as Noguchi
as Yoshioka
as Golden Flame
as Taro
as Gaiki
as Kouten
as Teruichi Tanaka