Filmography from Shoichiro Masumoto

Writer :

Aragami, Ryûhei Kitamura, 2003
Ancient Japan. Fleeing from enemies, two wounded samurai arrive at a strange old temple in a remote location in the mountains. The doors to the place are opened by a beautiful and exotic woman, who beckons them inside. Unable to walk any further, they collapse from exhaustion. One of the samurai awakens to find himself miraculously healed. He meets his saviour, a mysterious man who tells him that his friend died from his wounds. The samurai is...

Actor :

Goemon, Kazuaki Kiriya, 2009
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Senritsu meikyû 3D, Takashi Shimizu, 2009
The film’s central setting is inspired by the Labyrinth of Horrors attraction at Fuji-Q High Land amusement park, near the base of Mount Fuji. The attraction set the Guinness world record for the largest haunted house in the world. Much of the film is being shot on location during the park’s off hours....

Kurôzu zero II, Takashi Miike, 2009
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Ichi, Fumihiko Sori, 2008
Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains. ...

Tôkyô zankoku keisatsu, Yoshihiro Nishimura, 2008
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Kurôzu zero, Takashi Miike, 2007
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Rinne, Takashi Shimizu, 2005
Nagisa Sugiura (Yuka) is a young Japanese actress who comes face to face with a slew of ghosts. These restless spirits begin to appear when she signs on to star in a horror film which tells the true story about a crazed, local professor whose murderous rampage at a hotel left 11 guests dead, including his young son and daughter. The movie is being filmed at the very site where the killings took place....

Meatball Machine, Yûdai Yamaguchi (as Yudai Yamaguchi), Jun'ichi Yamamoto, 2005
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Godzilla: Final Wars, Ryûhei Kitamura, Kôji Hashimoto (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Shûsuke Kaneko (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Toshio Masuda (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Takao Okawara (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Masaaki Tezuka (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Kenshô Yamashita (earlier film clips) (uncredited), Kazuki Ômori (earlier film clips) (uncredited), 2004
Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish the monsters and aliens to rescue the world in the ultimate "Save the Earth" battle....

Azumi, Ryûhei Kitamura, 2003
In Japan in times of war among clans, the master samurai Gessai raises ten orphans in the mountains, one of them the girl Azumi, and they become experts in martial arts. When they are teenagers, the master assigns them to a mortal test, and then the five survivors travel with him with the mission of killing three evil warlords of clans and keeping their nation united without plunging again into a bloody war....

Jigoku Kôshien, Yûdai Yamaguchi (as Yudai Yamaguchi), 2003
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Versus, Ryûhei Kitamura, 2000
A pair of escaped convicts meet up with a group of gangsters by a remote forest road. After an arguement over a girl the mobsters have kidnapped, shots are fired and one of the gangsters is killed. The standoff is cut short, however, when the dead man suddenly springs to life and starts trying to kill his former friends. The zombie eventually goes down in a hail bullets, but their problems aren't over. It seems the gangsters have been using this...