Acting

Masayuki Watanabe

Born January 24, 1956 · Isumi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan (age 70)

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Known For

Supermarket WomanSupermarket Woman · 1996
Supermarket Woman
6.71996
MovieComedyDrama
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
Burst CityBurst City · 1982
Burst City
6.41982
MovieActionMusic
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
KizuKizu · 1988
Kizu
10.01988
MovieCrimeDrama
Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.
Nezumi Kozō kaitō denNezumi Kozō kaitō den · 1984
Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
1984
MovieComedy
Japanese comedy film.
Kigeki kazoku dōmeiKigeki kazoku dōmei · 1983
Kigeki kazoku dōmei
1983
Movie
Yamada Village WaltzYamada Village Waltz · 1988
Yamada Village Waltz
10.01988
Movie
In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go on an arranged marriage. However, they are rejected by the other women because of Yamada Village's too rural character. Then, a beautiful young writer, Ayakoji Reika, who has fallen into a slump, comes to Yamada Village in search of the countryside...
Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkinguBuchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu · 1986
Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu
4.01986
Movie
Paper LanternPaper Lantern · 1987
Paper Lantern
10.01987
MovieActionDrama
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".

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Seven DetectivesSeven Detectives · 2015
Seven Detectives
7.42015
SeriesCrimeDrama
Yū Amagi is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the "graveyard of detectives" and ridiculed as the "banishment room where hardened detectives who cannot be fired are sent." Its assembled detectives Kōsuke Samura, Takumi Yamashita, Keita Nagasawa, Tamaki Mizuta, and Masatoshi Katagiri are elite and yet oddballs. Amagi appears fixated with time which seems to have no relation with a case. Raising questions about the timelines of the perpetrator and victim derived from the estimated time of death, time of crime, time of alibi, and time limit, he searches for the meaning of "blank time" which arises from this. He obsesses over the weight of every minute and second of time because of some incident.