Masumi Okada
Birthday: 1935-09-22
Place of Birth: Nice, France
Biography: Masumi Okada (岡田眞澄, Okada Masumi, September 22, 1935 – May 29, 2006) was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen. Masumi Okada was the younger of two sons; his older brother, Taibi "Erick" Okada, was also an actor and presenter—known professionally as E. H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles' 1966 concert in Tokyo.
Movies
The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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The Hunted
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of dange...
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The Blazing Continent
A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love....
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Sometime, Somewhere
The story follows Mamoru Masaki, a resort developer, and Koai, a career woman at a rival company. Th...
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The Devil's Messenger DEATH MESSENGER
A man with darkness in his eyes has returned from hell for revenge....
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Getting Any?
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and en...
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Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are...
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To Love
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One d...
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Goryokaku
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
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Fan of Hong Kong star
The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a f...
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Toka...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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Living Skeleton
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape ...
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The Perfect Game
College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the mon...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a ...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him i...
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Sayonara Jupiter
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far c...
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Streetlights
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropp...
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Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
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Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing n...
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only buildin...
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The Sea and Poison
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during...
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I Will Challenge
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his ...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl...
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Song of Dawn
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she i...
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Passport to Darkness
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the ...
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Red Pier
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man di...
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Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, bo...
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The Sand City in Manchuria
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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On the Road
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima'...
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Akagawa Jiro's Vampire is Coming of Age
Erica, a member of the vampire tribe, suspects her father when the female students at the school are...
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Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a g...
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Season of the Sun
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking...
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....
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Lunar Eclipse
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ish...
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Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of ...
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Kaito Ruby
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman name...
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The Green Music Box
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doe...
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Four Seasons: Natsuko
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of...
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Daring Girls
Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale ...
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Waru: The End
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo....
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Love on the Rainbow
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple....
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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a m...
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Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie
It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has ov...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for ...
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Gun Number Zero
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was...
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Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to T...
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Marco
A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the myster...
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Vampire Dracula appears in Kobe
Eriko Miura, who works at a western goods store in Kobe, dreams of marrying Dracula. At the same tim...
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美人母娘３人 ああ華麗なる結婚サギ
Three beautiful mothers and daughters, oh, the splendid marriage scam...
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a s...
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Pacific Porters
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Capta...
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Showdown in the Storm
A lively coming-of-age movie about the activities of Mr. Yu-chan, a teacher who helps the weak and d...
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Kamen no Onna
A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in ago...
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The Stars Know Everything
Saga Shiori, who had been held up as a genius writer, runs away to a nightclub to deceive her manage...
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Umi e, See You
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousan...
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Her Name Was Sakura
Sakura (nicknamed Sally), a 12 year old biracial girl, ran away from her adoptive family in America ...
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六三制愚連隊
I'm going to help that rebel guy! Young people burst into rage, roaring with dreams and hopes! The s...
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Proud Ambition 2
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura...
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Proud Ambition 3
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of th...
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39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"
Film adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Edogawa Rampo Award-winning novel Kao ni Furikakaru Ame....
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The 6th Suspect
Police investigate the murder of a private eye/blackmailer who had numerous enemies, including six p...
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Western-style Village Murder Case
Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, and their English teacher, Susumu Odagiri, go to the Cross-shape Vi...
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