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Masao Kusakari is a Actor Japonais born on 5 september 1952
Masao Kusakari (草刈 正雄, Kusakari Masao, born September 5, 1952 in Kokura) is a Japanese actor and model.
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Masao Kusakari was born in Fukuoka Prefecture (on the Southern island of Kyushu) to a Japanese mother and an American father who died in the Korean War. Because of his heritage, he was taller than the average Japanese of the time. Considered stunningly good looking, his debut into the public eye began when he became a model for the Shiseido Cosmetics Company in the early 1970s. From there he broke into television and film, where he has worked steadily for over 30 years. He has a broad range, from starring in a television comedy series such as "Tsuhan Man" ("Shopping Hero" about a home shopping network), to singing in musicals such as "Victor-Victoria," "My Fair Lady" and "Cabaret."Usually with
Filmography of Masao Kusakari (8 films)
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Ultraman: The Next (2004)
, 1h37Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Superhero films
Actors Masao Kusakari, Katsuyuki Konishi, Hideyuki Tanaka
Roles President Manjime
Rating62%
First Lieutenant Shunichi Maki of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force is a prestigious F-15 Eagle jet pilot. A lifelong fan of flying since he was a child, being a pilot is his ultimate dream. Unfortunately, his duties distance himself from his wife, Yoko, who feels neglected, and his son, Tsugumu, who has a possibly terminal congenital blood disease.
The Enchantment (1989)
, 1h49Directed by Shunichi Nagasaki
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Kumiko Akiyoshi, Renji Ishibashi, Masao Kusakari, Tsutomu Isobe, Takashi Naitō, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Roles Kazuhiko Sotomura
Rating60%
Why Not? (1981)
, 2h31Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Kaori Momoi, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Izumiya, Yūko Tanaka, Mitsuko Baishō, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Roles Itoman
Rating67%
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Virus (1980)
, 2h36Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Social science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Bo Svenson, Glenn Ford, George Kennedy, Masao Kusakari, Olivia Hussey
Roles Doctor Shûzô Yoshizumi
Rating62%
In 1982, a shady transaction is occurring between an East German scientist, Dr. Krause, and a group of Americans. It is revealed that MM88 is a deadly virus, created accidentally by an American geneticist, that amplifies the potency of any other virus or bacterium it comes into contact with. The Americans recover the MM88, which was stolen from a lab in the US the year before, but the virus is released, creating a pandemic initially known as the "Italian Flu".
G.I. Samurai (1979)
, 2h19Directed by Kōsei Saitō
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, War, Fantastic, Action
Themes Time travel films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Noriko Honma, Kōji Naka, Tsunehiko Watase, Haruki Kadokawa, Hiroshi Katsuno
Roles Masakichi
Rating63%
On their way to a maneuver, a wildly mixed group of Japanese soldiers with a tank, an APC, a patrol boat and a helicopter suddenly find themselves stranded 400 years in the past and under attack by samurai forces. Their designated leader, Lieutenant Yoshiaki Iba (Sonny Chiba), befriends and joins forces with Nagao Kagetora, the war leader of lord Koizumi. Seeing the stranded soldiers' war machinery in action, Kagetora persuades Iba to aid him in his struggle for supremacy in Japan.
Brother and Sister (1976)
, 1h28Directed by Tadashi Imai
Genres Drama
Actors Kumiko Akiyoshi, Hideji Ōtaki, Masao Kusakari, Atomu Shimojō, Keizō Kanie, Kamatari Fujiwara
Roles Inokichi
Rating67%
Himiko (1974)
, 1h40Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Shima Iwashita, Rentarō Mikuni, Jun Hamamura, Masao Kusakari, Yoshi Katō
Roles Takehiko
Rating69%
In an unnamed forest, a group of women with white-painted faces and robes wander to a ritual site. One of the women, Himiko, the shaman and translator of the Sun God, lies on the ground while another holds a bronze mirror up which reflects the sun's light. Himiko starts to convulse and moan, imitating an orgasm which symbolizes the Sun God penetrating her body. We see several different tribes, one of the Land People, and one of the Mountain People. The Mountain People are a raggedy, unsightly group, all conjoined together by a single rope, and donned with haunting makeup consisting of heavy paint, cobwebs and strings. They wander around the mountain like insects, twitching and in almost no control of their own limbs and muscles. A lone traveler appears, named Takehiko, from the far side of the mountain and enters the forest.
ESPY (1974)
, 1h34Directed by Jun Fukuda
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Eiji Okada, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Yūzō Kayama, Masao Kusakari
Roles Jiro Miki
Rating56%
The film deals with the recruitment of racecar driver Jiro Miki (Kusakari) and his dog, Cheetah, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime. The major villain is Wolf (Wakayama), whose behavior stems as a result of the prejudicial murder of his father over his father's psychic abilities.