Masato Hoshi
Actor · b. 1954 · Tokyo, Japan
Movies9
Movie7.0ActionDramaIn 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.
Movie7.7CrimeDramaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Movie5.1RomanceDramaA sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
Movie6.5ActionDramaTeruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.
Movie10.0
Movie1.0DramaCrimeBased on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.
MovieDramaBased on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.
Movie4.0DramaTwo innocent high school girls, Aki Shindo, nicknamed Ako, and Mineko Mayama, nicknamed Neko, run away from home and, along with Kaori Yashiro, whom they meet while hitchhiking, arrive at a certain beach. There, at a yacht harbor, they find Daisuke Sakuma, whom they met in town. Daisuke had come there to head to the Galapagos Islands at the request of his seniors, Yamamuro and Akira Kanno.
MovieCrimeBased on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.