Movies with Hideo Sakaki

Ju-on: The Grudge

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Yuya Ozeki, Takako Fuji, Takashi Matsuyama, Hideo Sakaki, Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara

Directors: Takashi Shimizu

Country: Japan

Year: 2002

Available Quality: Hi Def

In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.

Versus

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Tak Sakaguchi, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda, Yuichiro Arai, Minoru Matsumoto, Kazuhito Ohba

Directors: Ryuhei Kitamura

Country: USA, Japan

Year: 2000

Available Quality: Hi Def

Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

Genres: Drama

Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi Lopez, Min Tanaka, Manabu Oshio, Takeo Nakahara, Hideo Sakaki

Directors: Isabel Coixet

Country: Spain

Year: 2009

A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.