Frankie Sakai Movies

1968 film

Comedy of a phony doctor.

This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Shōzō, heir to a tonkatsu shop and ice hockey star, faces a series of challenges when his team’s fundraiser goes wrong. Amid rivalry,...

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

Documentary following the travels of the Waseda University Middle-Africa Expedition Team and their encounters with the beauty of the African...

Japanese musical.

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true talent in making excellent, tasty and somewhat spicy...

A cobbler gets selected as heading his neighborhood association for measures against the impending earthquake hitting Tokyo.

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.