Sho Aikawa

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Sho Aikawa - what members say

Rainy Dog review by from London, UK

The hooker and the hitman with the heart of gold 12 April 2006
...e to escape from (Interesting from a Japanese film maker). The hit man, Yuuji, (Sho Aikawa) has his life turned upside down by the arrival of his supposed son who is cast... Read customer review

Gozu on DVD (2003)
Starring: Hideki Sone, Sho Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino
Director: Takashi Miike
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This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother's body--which vanished minutes after he was shot--Minami stumbles into a ..read more »

57% from 2,085 members

Dead Or Alive: Final on DVD (2002)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Maria Chen
Director: Takashi Miike
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The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.

55% from 323 members

Dead Or Alive 2 on DVD (2000)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Noriko Aota, Edison Chen
Director: Takashi Miike
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When the assassin Otamoko is hired to make a hit, he is shocked when a rival hitman gets there before him but chooses to take the money anyway and flee from the gangsters who control his life. Returning to the island of his childhood he discovers that the rival hitman was his friend Sawada and the ..read more »

59% from 1,020 member

Ley Lines on DVD (1999)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Samuel Pop Aning, Yukie Itou
Director: Takashi Miike
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LEY LINES is the concluding part of Miike Takashi's thematically linked Triad Society trilogy. It follows the story of three young boys from rural Japan who move to Tokyo in search of excitement and find thrills of a sort when in the notoriously sleazy Shinjuku district. After sliding into a life ..read more »

57% from 666 members

Dead Or Alive on DVD (1999)
Starring: Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Sho Aikawa
Director: Takashi Miike
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yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.

58% from 2,256 members

Onibi - The Fire Within on DVD (1997)
Starring: Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Sho Aikawa
Director: Rokuro Mochizuki
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Kunihiro (Harada) is glad to be back in the outside world after a stretch in prison. He's even more glad to see his old friend Tanigawa (Aikawa) who is more than keen to welcome him back into the yakuza fold. However, tired of the gangster life, Kunihiro wants to go straight but finds that many ..read more »

47% from 53 members

Rainy Dog on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Lianmei Chen, Ming-Jun Gao
Director: Takashi Miike
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RAINY DOG is the second in Miike Takashi's Triad Society trilogy which is linked by theme rather than character. This installment focuses on Yuuji, a loner who works as a triad hitman. His world is turned upside down when his ex-wife dumps a small boy, who may or may not be his son, on his doorstep.

59% from 977 members

The Eel on DVD (1997)
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho
Director: Shohei Imamura
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Yamashita (Koji Yakusho of Shall We Dance?) learns of his wife's infidelity. He seems quietly surprised when he brutally stabs his wife to death, and hums a gentle tune as he bicycles to the police station to turn himself in. Eight years later, he is released, and this is where our story begins. ..read more »

66% from 181 members

Gozu - 3.0 stars
Dead Or Alive: Final - 3.0 stars
Dead Or Alive 2 - 3.0 stars
Ley Lines - 3.0 stars
Dead Or Alive - 3.0 stars

The Eel - 3.5 stars
Dead Or Alive 2 - 3.0 stars
Rainy Dog - 3.0 stars
Dead Or Alive - 3.0 stars
Gozu - 3.0 stars

Onibi - The Fire Within - 2.5 stars
Dead Or Alive: Final - 3.0 stars
Ley Lines - 3.0 stars
Gozu - 3.0 stars
Dead Or Alive - 3.0 stars

Ming-Jun Gao - 1 times - show films
Renji Ishibashi - 1 times - show films
Hideki Sone - 1 times - show films
Misa Shimizu - 1 times - show films
Koji Yakusho - 1 times - show films

Takashi Miike - 6 times - show films
Rokuro Mochizuki - 1 times - show films
Shohei Imamura - 1 times - show films