Mako Sakurai

Mako Sakurai
Total Credits at Criticker: 70 (Actor)
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Bulletproof Monk
The Monk (Yun-Fat) is a Zen-calm martial arts master whose duty has been to protect a powerful ancient scroll. Faced with finding the scroll's next guardian, the Monk's quest brings him to New York City, where, to his disbelief, it appears his successor is a smart-mouthed pickpocket named Kar (Scott). (MGM)
Seven Years in Tibet
Brad Pitt stars in the soaring adventure and incredible true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who is transformed by his friendship with the young Dalai Lama. (Sony)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Saguri. Beautiful and accomplished, Saguri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man beyond her reach. (Sony Pictures)
Conan the Barbarian
The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe (imdb)
Conan the Destroyer
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess
Rising Sun
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead (imdb)
The Bird People in China
A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more then they expected. (imdb)
Crying Freeman
A lethal Samurai assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills... (imdb)
Testament
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. (imdb)
Under the Rainbow
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend... (imdb)
RoboCop 3
Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land. (imdb)
Sidekicks
Barry is an asthmatic kid having trouble in life. He lives with his father, a computer programmer, in Texas. Barry is struggling to get by in life, dealing with his rough school life, bullies, as well as his health. Barry's only source of enjoyment is fantasizing that he is with Chuck Norris. Barry becomes sick of getting picked on by the bigger guys, and decides to learn karate, in hopes of one day meeting the great Chuck Norris. (imdb)
The Sand Pebbles
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy sybiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. (imdb)
The Bushido Blade
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it. (imdb)
An Eye for an Eye
Sean Kane (Chuck Norris) is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes beserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places. (imdb)
Highlander: The Final Dimension
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod awakens from a peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician comes seeking the Highlander. (imdb)
The Killer Elite
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend. (imdb)
Pacific Heights
A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords. (imdb)
Kung Fu: The Movie
In his travels, Caine meets up with an old man who has several surprises for him. The first being the destruction of the Shaolin order, the second being that the man is the father of the Emperor's nephew whom he killed in China, and the third is that he seeks his revenge using the son Caine never knew he had sired as the instrument of his death. It will take all of Caine's skill and wisdom to find a solution to this deadly predicament. (imdb)
TMNT
The continued adventures of the four adolescent mutated turtles gifted in the art of the ninja, as they attempt to stop a mysterious evil that threatens to end the world.
Chinmoku
Mako stars in this action packed drama about a man's struggles.
Red Sun Rising
As the Japanese Mafia, the Yakuza, threatens to rip apart Los Angeles one cop crosses the Pacific to track down its most lethal killer. (Rotten Tomatoes)
The Private Navy of Sgt. O\
O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the beer turns up missing, he calls an all-out search for the suds... (All Movie Guide)
Talk to Taka
Talk to Taka (2000) - Short Film
A friendly sushi chef loves giving romantic advice to his customers. But his advice is awful, and his customers leave without paying the bill. His scary Boss tells Taka to quit talking to the customers or he'll be fired. (imdb)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own. (imdb)
Rise: Blood Hunter
Supernatural thriller in which a female reporter wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She vows revenge against the sect that put her there and hunts them down. (imdb)
Taking Care of Business
Jimmy Dworski is a criminal serving the last 48 hours of a jail sentence. He wins a couple of baseball tickets by calling a radio quiz show. With help of other inmates, he escapes to go watch the game, when by chance he finds the filofax of executive Spencer Barns who's lost it while traveling on a business weekend... (imdb)
Battle Creek Brawl
Set in the USA in the 1930s, Chan must fight in a contest at Battle Creek in order to free his brother's fiancee who has been kidnapped by a mob. (Hong Kong Cinemagic)
Armed Response
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible. (imdb)
The Island at the Top of the World
Four turn of the century explorers embark on an airship expedition to the high arctic. Where upon they find a lost colony of Vikings. (imdb)
The Green Hornet
Several episodes of the 1966 TV series "The Green Hornet" edited together and released as a feature. (imdb)
Owls\
As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of the survivors has hired a young but skilled assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission: to sneak into the most heavily guarded castle in Japan, and kill the supreme ruler of the country. (imdb)
The Challenge
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island. (imdb)
The Great Bank Robbery
Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880. (imdb)
The Hawaiians
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties. (TCM.com)
The Perfect Weapon
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend. (imdb)
Death Ride to Osaka
Based on true events in the life of actor Tom Allard, whose girlfriend answered an advertisement for American singers to entertain in Japan and found herself trapped in a prostitution-slavery ring operated by the yakuza. (imdb)
Sworn to Justice
After attackers kill her sister and nephew, a female psychologist becomes a defense witness by day and avenger by night. (imdb)
Balance of Power
A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. (imdb)
Blood for Blood
When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer (James Lew) starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer (Lorenzo Lamas) to fight back.
Enemy
A CIA agent posing as a journalist assassinates a North Vietnamese official, then escapes into the jungle, where he comes across a beautiful female spy. At first they're enemies, but come to the realization that they must work together if they want to get out alive. (imdb)
Attack Force \
Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong. (imdb)
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
The made-for-television Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes recounts the August, 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima through the eyes of a number of survivors, including Japanese soldiers, citizens, and American prisoners of war. The film is partly based on Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary. (imdb)
A Dangerous Place
When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspects foul play stemming from Greg's recent involvement with a martial arts team called the Scorpions. Ethan is also accomplished at martial arts, and he determines to join the Scorpions as a means of learning what really happened to Greg. (imdb)
Silent Assassins
The evil criminal leader Kendrick has kidnapped an elderly biochemist who holds the secret to creating a biological superweapon. The only person who can possibly stop Kendrick and his gang is L. A. cop Sam Kettle and martial arts master Jun Kim (uncle of a little girl also kidnapped by Kendrick). Together, they go to war against an army of ninjas to rescue the hostages and bring their kidnappers to justice. (imdb)
Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial centre Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret - the former abbot died of unnatural causes. After a number of mysterious events and more cases of murder Dee tracks down the true villain. (imdb)
The Last Ninja
A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcement agent approaches the dealer (Beck). Mr. Cosmo, the agent believes the dealer to be linked to the ninja responsible for tracking down criminals and serving them justice. Mr. Cosmo hopes that the ninja's seemingly supernatural skills will remedy this impossible hostage situation. (imdb)
If Tomorrow Comes
In California, a young Caucasian girl and a Japanese-American boy defy local prejudices and secretly marry--on Dec. 7, 1941, minutes before Pearl Harbor is attacked. (imdb)
McHale\
The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force. (imdb)
Columbo
Columbo (1971) - TV Series
Kyrie Eleison
A medical researcher working with a blind, mute quadriplegic patient begins to experiment with hypnotherapy as a means to fix his seemingly non-physical ailments. Unfortunately, results are almost impossible to measure on the crippled subject, so she begins monitoring other, healthy text subjects... and even tries hypnosis on herself! What she's unlocking in the human brain may forever change medical science forever, but will she be remain sane enough - or even alive! - to present her findings? (ADC)
Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
In ancient Japan, a samurai warrior embarks on a mission to defeat the evil wizard Aku. Before completing his task, he is jettisoned thousands of years into the future. Suddenly, he discovers he is in a world where Aku now enjoys complete power over every living thing. Taking on the name Jack, he sets out on a quest to free the future from Aku's grasp and to find a way back to his own time so he can destroy the evil for good. (imdb)
Alegria
Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta's father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. (imdb)
The Wash
The story of a newly separated nisei couple, husband Nobu and wife Masi, and their individual and collective struggles with their past, which along with their marriage centered on Japanese tradition, despite their residing in the United States. (Wikipedia)
Kamichu!
Kamichu! (2005) - TV Series
Yurie Hitotsubashi was just an average middle school student living in the city of Onomichi on Japan's inland sea in the easygoing times of the 1980s. She spent her days worrying about exams and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her. Then during lunch one day she suddenly announces to her friend Mitsue that the night before she had become a goddess. (myanimelist.net)
Strawberry Road
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community, which includes Japanese-Americans of both lengthy and brief residence.
Black Sash
Black Sash (2003) - TV Series
Tom Chang, a disgraced ex-cop, attempts to rebuild his life as a martial-arts teacher and mentor to his teen students.
School Rumble San Gakki
School Rumble San Gakki (2008) - Direct-to-Video
Karasuma goes to America after then end of the third term. Will Harima finally confess? What will happen with Tenma and Karasuma? (MyAnimeList)
Farewell to Manzanar
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar, in California.
The Time Tunnel
The Big Valley
The Big Valley (1965) - TV Series
The Accomplice
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought the Japanese yakuza organization to its knees. He breaks out of prison while being transported back to Brazil and then begins to seek to get even with the organization.
A Fart of Monk
The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the human condition of a downtown area undergoing development and the efforts of men and women who rebel against it.
Kung Fu
Kung Fu (1972) - TV Series
The Blue Spirit
When Aang is captured by the Fire Nation, his only hope is a mysterious masked figure. (imdb)
Maid_in_Akihabara
Maid_in_Akihabara (2006) - TV Mini-Series
Shinohara Saki is an ex-bar girl on the run from a group of yakuza. Homeless and out of a job, she takes a position at a maid café and starts living in a 24-hour Internet café. (imdb)
Chitose Get You!!
Chitose is an energetic yet slightly precocious elementary schooler. Chitose has the biggest crush on a guy she like to call "oniichan" who works at a town hall next to Chitose's school. Poor oniichan gets hassled endlessly by Chitose. Will oniichan ever get a day of peace?!?! (JManga)