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Masayuki Suo is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Second Assistant Director Japonais born on 29 october 1956 at Tokyo (Japon)

Masayuki Suo

Masayuki Suo
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Nationality Japon
Birth 29 october 1956 (67 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Masayuki Suo (周防 正行, Suo Masayuki, born October 29, 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.

Biography

Masayuki Suo fait ses études à l'université Rikkyō.

Il est marié à l'actrice Tamiyo Kusakari depuis 1996.

Usually with

Naoto Takenaka
Naoto Takenaka
(4 films)
Misa Shimizu
Misa Shimizu
(3 films)
Kōji Yakusho
Kōji Yakusho
(3 films)
Tamiyo Kusakari
Tamiyo Kusakari
(3 films)
Fumiyo Kohinata
Fumiyo Kohinata
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Masayuki Suo (9 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
, 1h
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Masayuki Suo
Roles Apartment Manager
Rating50% 2.5219152.5219152.5219152.5219152.521915
A young girl, Akiko, in a tenement block in Tokyo's Kandagawa area, uses a telescope to spy on her neighbors in between lovemaking sessions with her boyfriend. When she finds what seems to be an incestuous relationship between a mother and son, she decides, with her boyfriend and her friend Masami, to rescue the son from this predicament and introduce him to a "healthy sex life".

Director

I Just Didn't Do It
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
, 2h23
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Ryō Kase, Asaka Seto, Kōji Yakusho, Koji Yamamoto, Ranran Suzuki, Fumiyo Kohinata
Rating75% 3.7907853.7907853.7907853.7907853.790785
Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was confirmed innocent after a five-year legal battle.
Shall We Dance?
Shall We Dance? (1996)
, 2h16
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Masahiro Motoki, Eriko Watanabe, Yu Tokui
Rating76% 3.8458753.8458753.8458753.8458753.845875
The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear", from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballroom dancing is treated with suspicion.
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
, 1h43
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Robert James Hoffman III, Mutsuko Sakura
Rating71% 3.58813.58813.58813.58813.5881
In order to graduate from college in a timely manner, and to gain the job waiting for him due to his family connections, Shuhei must join the school's sumo team to please his professor. Shuhei and the other reluctant sumo wrestlers on the team are inspired by the professor's determination into doing their best for the school.
Abnormal Family
Abnormal Family (1984)
, 1h2
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Drama, Comedy, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Ren Osugi, Shirō Shimomoto
Rating54% 2.7026652.7026652.7026652.7026652.702665
The plot revolves around the complications brought to a middle-class family when older brother Kōichi brings home his new sexually voracious bride Yuriko. Younger brother Kazuo looks to the new arrival as a source of sexual release while sister Akiko surreptitiously works in a soapland and Father lusts after a bar proprietess.

Scriptwriter

I Just Didn't Do It
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
, 2h23
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Ryō Kase, Asaka Seto, Kōji Yakusho, Koji Yamamoto, Ranran Suzuki, Fumiyo Kohinata
Roles Writer
Rating75% 3.7907853.7907853.7907853.7907853.790785
Based on a true story, the film focuses on the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, he was confirmed innocent after a five-year legal battle.
Shall We Dance?
Shall We Dance? (2004)
, 1h46
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Ann Walter, Richard Jenkins
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating62% 3.10233.10233.10233.10233.1023
John Clark (Richard Gere) is a lawyer with a charming wife (Beverly, played by Susan Sarandon) and loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home through Chicago, John sees a beautiful woman staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for ballroom dancing lessons, hoping to meet her.
Shall We Dance?
Shall We Dance? (1996)
, 2h16
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Masahiro Motoki, Eriko Watanabe, Yu Tokui
Roles Author
Rating76% 3.8458753.8458753.8458753.8458753.845875
The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear", from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballroom dancing is treated with suspicion.
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
, 1h43
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Robert James Hoffman III, Mutsuko Sakura
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.58813.58813.58813.58813.5881
In order to graduate from college in a timely manner, and to gain the job waiting for him due to his family connections, Shuhei must join the school's sumo team to please his professor. Shuhei and the other reluctant sumo wrestlers on the team are inspired by the professor's determination into doing their best for the school.
Abnormal Family
Abnormal Family (1984)
, 1h2
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Genres Drama, Comedy, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Ren Osugi, Shirō Shimomoto
Rating54% 2.7026652.7026652.7026652.7026652.702665
The plot revolves around the complications brought to a middle-class family when older brother Kōichi brings home his new sexually voracious bride Yuriko. Younger brother Kazuo looks to the new arrival as a source of sexual release while sister Akiko surreptitiously works in a soapland and Father lusts after a bar proprietess.

Producer

Give It All
Give It All (1998)
, 2h
Directed by Itsumichi Isomura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rena Tanaka, Itsumichi Isomura, Tomoko Nakajima, Hakuryu, Mutsuko Sakura, Fujiko
Roles Producer
Rating70% 3.5221653.5221653.5221653.5221653.522165
De nos jours, sous une pluie battante, des entrepreneurs inspectent un vieil hangar. Ils passent sans y prêter attention devant une photo jaunie par le temps et l'humidité, une photo d'une équipe féminine d'aviron... À Matsuyama, peu de temps après la rentrée des classes de l'année 1976, Etsuko Shinomura, une élève sans grande passion décide de faire de l'aviron mais se voit éconduite ; l'équipe de l'école Higashi est essentiellement masculine. Malgré cela, Etsune se met en tête de monter sa propre équipe. Et en Hime, Dakko, Ri et Imochi, elle a trouvé les quatre autres membres de son équipe, mais aussi et surtout, quatre grandes complices.