Masato Sakai — Actor (6)
Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban (2009) [Movie] IMDb
人間失格 ディレクターズカット版
director: Morio Asaka actor: Masato Sakai
other title: 人間失格 ディレクターズカット版
A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film will re-edit the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) novel, which have character designs inspired by manga artist and novel illustrator Takeshi Obata. This "director's cut" will include new "navigation" footage which is being created specifically for the film with narrator Masato Sakai.
Summer for Bureaucrats (2009) [TV] IMDb TMDB
官僚たちの夏
actor: Koichi Sato / Masato Sakai
other title: 官僚たちの夏
It is 1956, and Japan has officially declared the “post-war” period over. In the decade or so that will follow, the country will grow to be the second largest economy in the world. But what was the driving force behind this economic miracle? This drama depicts the intense drama and battles played out among Japan’s leading bureaucrats in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, focusing on Shingo Kazakoshi, the man dubbed “Mr. MITI” who selflessly and utterly devoted himself to his country’s industrial development.
Legal High (2012) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
リーガル・ハイ
director: Hideki Inada / Junichi Ishikawa actor: Masato Sakai / Yui Aragaki
other title: リーガル・ハイ
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.
Hanzawa Naoki (2013) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB
半沢直樹
director: Jun Ikeido actor: Masato Sakai / Aya Ueto
other title: 半沢直樹
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.
Yukikaze (2002) [TV] IMDb
戦闘妖精雪風
actor: Masato Sakai / Jouji Nakata
other title: 戦闘妖精雪風
Thirty-three years ago, an alien force known as the "JAM" invaded Earth through a dimensional portal over Antarctica. Earth’s forces managed to drive the JAM away to a distant planet designated as "Fairy." While the majority of Earth’s population is unaware of the JAM’s presence, the war continues on Fairy, where Rei Fukai is an SAF (Special Air Force) pilot assigned to pilot "Yukikaze"—an advanced reconnaissance fighter plane equipped with a near-sentient A.I. that detects the presence of the JAM within its path.
Vivant (2023) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
VIVANT
director: Katsuo Fukuzawa actor: Masato Sakai / Hiroshi Abe
other title: VIVANT
Yusuke Nogi of Ryosho's Energy Development Division said that 10 times the official down payment was mistakenly sent to GFL, a local infrastructure company involved in a solar energy plant to be built in the Balkan Republic in Central Asia. Suspected of involvement, he heads to the Balkan Republic to collect the difference of $90 million. With the cooperation of his CIA friend Sam, Nogi obtained information that the terrorist al-Zaer had laundered the full amount of the contract money into diamonds and brought it out.