Saki Takaoka
Birthday: 1972-12-03
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Saki Takaoka (高岡 早紀) is a Japanese actress born as Sakiko Takaoka (高岡 佐紀子). Her uncle is the jazz pianist Yōsuke Yamashita. She won the award for best actress at the 19th Hochi Film Award for Crest of Betrayal.
Movies
Love for Beginners
Hibino Tsubaki is a young teenage girl with a talent for styling other people's hair. Yet, Tsubaki s...
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Kanashiki Tenshi
The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to hi...
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarcer...
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Rika - Jisho 28 Sai no Junai Monster
A dead body in a suitcase is found on a mountain. The body is identified as Takao Honma. 3 years ago...
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Ocean Waves
As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high ...
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The Harimaya Bridge
The Harimaya Bridge is a drama about an American man who must travel to rural Japan to claim some im...
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical ...
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Baian Fujieda the Assassin
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujie...
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Masquerade Night
An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that...
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Seicho Matsumoto Special: Fingers
Fukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own sexuality if...
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Dance with Me
As a child, Kyoko learned latin dance from Jose, a Cuban-American serviceman stationed in Japan. Yea...
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In Love and Deep Water
On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as...
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Desire
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. ...
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Samurai Gangsters
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his ...
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A Long Walk
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apar...
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Just Remembering
A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love stor...
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Female
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Sh...
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Midnight Diner
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series o...
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Swimming Upstream
One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first s...
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Echo of Silence
In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her fath...
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Waiting for Good News
General store manager Akio (Tetsuji Tamayama) lives a carefree live in Okinawa with his dog, Kafu. O...
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2
An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara ...
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Love on Sunday: Last Words
Nagisa, a high school girl who has been given three months to live. Without telling her widowed fath...
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omn...
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The River with No Bridge
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people ar...
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25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are...
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Detective Katherine
Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his offic...
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A Courtesan with Flowered Skin
Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot ima...
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Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror ...
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Monster
A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town t...
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The Lowlife
Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Jap...
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Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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Love Is Five Seven Five
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournamen...
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Snow Flower
A terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love...
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The Housekeeper
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Ina...
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Megazone 23 III - Part 1 - The Awakening of Eve
Years after the events of Megazone 23 II, the only city on Earth is the supposedly idyllic Eden. The...
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Wet Red Thread
Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters....
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Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama...
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Eden
When Miro's transsexual friend Noripee dies, Miro and his friends from the gay bar 'Eden' are once a...
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Happy People
Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nih...
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Memo
Mayuko Motohashi is a high-school student in Tokyo. She suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorde...
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First Love
A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so sh...
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Ravens
Enigmatic, rejected, heartbroken. Masahisa Fukase must rebuild his life, overcome tradition, his inn...
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Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments ...
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Megazone 23 III - Part 2 - Day of Liberation
"Megazone 23 III" The Day of Liberation, a 1989 anime OVA, focuses on Eiji and Eve as they confront ...
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Mieruko-chan
One day, high school girl Miko suddenly gains the ability to see spirits. Surrounded by terrifying a...
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