Masato Sakai (Actor)

Masato Sakai

Masato Sakai is a Japanese actor from Miyazaki.

Native name
堺雅人 (SAKAI Masato)
Occupation
Actor
Birthplace
Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture (grew up in Miyazaki, Miyazaki)
Born
October 13, 1973 (age 42)
Height
5' 8" (172 cm)
Blood type
O
Debuted
1992
Spouse
Miho Kanno (2013-)
Genres
Films, TV dramas

Filmography as actor

Year Movie Role
2013 7 Days of Himawari and Her Puppies Shoji
2012 The Castle of Crossed Destinies Emonnosuke
2012 The Samurai That Night Kenichi Nakamura
2012 Key of Life Takeshi Sakurai
2011 My S.O. Has Depression Mikio Takasaki
2011 The Legacy of the Sun
2010 Abacus and Sword
2010 Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha
2010 Golden Slumber
2009 The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
2009 The Chef of South Polar Jun Nishimura, the cook
2009 The Triumphant General Rouge Koichi Hayami
2008 The Two in Tracksuits
2008 Climber’s High Tatsuya Sayama
2007 Sukiyaki Western Django Taira no Shigemori
2006 The Wall Man Nishina
2006 Honey and Clover Shuji Hanamoto
2003 Sky High
2003 When the Last Sword Is Drawn Okita Soji
2001 Being Here Maeno, Etsuro

Latest news

  • Mao Inoue at the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival

    Mao Inoue, Koki Mitani win awards in the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival

    On Sunday, the awards for the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival were presented to the winners at a ceremony in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The awards are voted on by cinema staff members from all over...

    4 years ago
  • masato-sakai-pic

    Masato Sakai to star in “Nichirin no Isan”

    Earlier today, it was announced that Nichirin no Isan, a 1993 novel by Naoki Award-winner Jiro Sato (58) will be made into a film starring Masato Sakai (36).The novel, which has sold over 500,000...

    6 years ago
  • Masato Sakai and Yukie Nakama

    Masato Sakai and Yukie Nakama to star in “Samurai Book-Keeper”

    Masato Sakai and Yukie Nakama will be co-starring together for the first time in Yoshimitsu Morita’s Bushi no Kakeibo (Samurai Book-Keeper), an adaptation of a jidaigeki novel by history scholar...

    6 years ago
  • Masato Sakai in A Life

    Kotoro Isaka’s ‘A Life’ getting adapted to film

    Best-selling author Kotoro Isaka is getting yet-another one of his novels adapted to film, this time by a team of four young directors from the Graduate School of Film and New Media of Tokyo...

    7 years ago
  • The Two in Tracksuits flyer

    Yoshihiro Nakamura explores the comically mundane in “The Two in Tracksuits”

    When I saw the first teaser for Jersey no Futari (The Two in Tracksuits) a few months back, which basically consisted of Sheena & The Rokkets guitarist Makoto Ayukawa being completely baffled by his...

    8 years ago

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Last Updated 09 Dec 2014 at 03:40