Frankie Sakai
Born: 1929-02-13 in Kagoshima, Japan
Died: 1996-06-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frankie Sakai, born Masatoshi Sakai (堺 正俊; 13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996), was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
Filmography
1997
- Moonlight Serenade as Photographer
1993
1991
- Waiting for the Flood as Tadashi Ono
1986
- The Greatest Man in the World as Isenokami
1985
- Ponytail Won't Look Back as Yuji Aso
1981
- Edo Porn as Nakajima Ise
1979
- Vengeance Is Mine as Inspector Kawai
1978
- Dynamite Don-Don as Tokuemon
- Have Wings on Your Heart
- Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon as Frank Ômori
1976
- Mastermind as Captain Yamada (as Furankî Sakai)
- Greatest Game Ever Part II
- Bridal Cruise
1975
- Greatest Game Ever as 梅野長太郎
1973
- Miyamoto Musashi as Honiden Matahachi
- Kigeki: Otoko no nakidokoro as Nagato Kinoshita
- Love Is After School
- 喜劇・日本列島震度0 as Kiyozo Fukuda
1971
- Price of Life as Seizo
- Kaiun ryokō
1970
- Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi as Kapi (voice)
- The Walking Major
- Woman Boss
- 与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
- Oh, My Comrade! as Fukuzo
1969
1968
1967
- Exploration in Front of the Station
- Mahjong Madness
- Ambassador Ramen
- Discover Japan with the 5 Gents as Pekero Dos Araki (Third-gen Brazilian)
- Five Gents Prefer Geisha as Pecoro dos Araki (2nd-gen Japanese Brazilian)
1966
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Manga as Jiro Sakai
- A Company President's Life Story as Annaka Ruiji (Chiol Japan Manager)
- Five Gents on the Spot as Ruiji Annaka
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
1965
- Five Gents' Trick Book
- Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi as Jiro
- The Man Who Killed Six Women
- President's Ninja Trick Book Part II as Tsuyoshi Kemachi (Sales Section Chief)
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: University as Professor Sakai / Mr. Sakai
1964
- Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
- You Can Succeed, Too as Zenta Yamakawa
- Hail the 3 Gents as Hayato Hinatayama
- 3 Gents in the Snow Country
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Landlady
- Hot Spring Ghost
1963
- Devices Stronger Than Women as Nobuo Koyama (Kimono shop heir)
- Travel Stories of a Company President Part II as Willie Tanaka (Jupiter Secretary)
- A Naughty Angel
- Travel Stories of a Company President
- Jolly Barbers as Sakai
- The Maid Story
- Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai as Shinichi Tamaki
- Aloha 3 Gents as George Okitsu (Third-generation Japanese-American)
- Nonsense Boys
- Kawachi fudoki oiro ke hanjō-ki
- 3 Gents In Hawaii as George Okitsu (3rd-gen Japanese American)
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Teapot
1962
- Chûshingura
- Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
- This Madding Crowd as Goro
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant as Shu
- Shimizu Port Salaryman
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
- Shin kitsune to tanuki
- The Dangoro Party in the Sky
- Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
- Local Reporter
- Pachinko
- Hagure kigeki mandara
- Heso no taisho
1961
- Romance Express
- Mothra as Senichiro 'Sen-chan' Fukuda
- The Last War as Mokichi Tamura
- A Geisha's Diary as Nozaki
- The Weaker Sex
- A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox as Ichiro
- An Urban Affair as Heita Sakurai
- Snow in the South Seas
- Aces Wild
1960
- Hito mo arukeba as Keima Sunagawa
- Westward Desperado
- The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night as Junpei Tanabe
1959
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Tomimatsu Shimizu
- Room for Let as Goro Yoda
- Temptation on Glamour Island as Army Captain Prince Tamenaga
- The Bride from Japan as Taro Fujikawa
1958
- I Want to Be a Shellfish as Shimizu Toyomatsu
- Romance and Rhythm
- The Hotelman's Holiday as Kinichi Koyama
- Go and Get It as Tetsuo Matsumoto
- A Boy and Three Mothers as Seiji, the Farher
- The Husband Wore the Apron as Narrator (voice)
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Inokori Saheiji
- Man Who Causes a Storm
- Dancing Sisters as Kunio Yamato
- Frankie's Aliens
- Frankie Bûchan no Aa gunkanki as Santaro Monma
1956
- Frankie the Milkman as Rukuheita Sakai / Kogorô Sakai
- How Sorrowful
- Drums Love and Dreams as Hula Ko
- Jazz on Parade (1956): The Tomboy from the Backstreets as Hiroshi
- Hungry Soul, Part II as Tachibana's Old Friend A
- Phoenix
- Seishun wo warera ni as Moriyama
- The Happy Dancers as Jet Kid Jiro
- Densuke no senden kyō as 茶刈デンスケ
1955
- The Green Music Box as Clown
- Burden of Love as Kamenosuke Dewa-no-kouji
- Cheers to the Jazz Girl as Fura-san
1954
- Quick Change Tanuki Palace as Jazz Tanuki
- A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival as Daisuke Matsumoto