Masayuki Yui - Actor Profile

Masayuki Yui

31Movies
10.0 Best Rating

Biography

Masayuki Yui was born in 1947 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor and writer, known for Ran (1985), Kagemusha (1980) and Dreams (1990).

Top Rated Movies

★10.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' (2002) movie poster
★10.0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' — Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'

2002•Documentary
★8.7
Tora-san Goes North (1987) movie poster
★8.7

Tora-san Goes North — When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationship

Tora-san Goes North

1987•Comedy
★8.0
Ran (1985) movie poster
★8.0

Ran — Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlor

Ran

1985•Action
★8.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' (2002) movie poster
★8.0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' — Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortr

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

2002•Documentary
★8.0
Cicada (2014) movie poster
★8.0

Cicada — Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is give

Cicada

2014

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2017 Karanukan - ★ 0.0 FLOP
2015 Hokori to Gensou - ★ 0.0 FLOP
2014 Cicada Gankane-san ★ 8.0 HIT
2012 Casting Blossoms to the Sky Zenjiro Hanyu ★ 6.9 HIT
2011 Persimmon Hasegawa ★ 0.0 FLOP
2010 Sword of Desperation Ohba ★ 6.8 HIT
2009 Bicycle Old Man ★ 3.3 FLOP
2002 Through the Night - ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' Narrator ★ 10.0 HIT
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' Narrator ★ 8.0 HIT
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' Narrator ★ 7.0 HIT
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' Self ★ 0.0 FLOP
2002 Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2001 To End All Wars Captain Noguchi ★ 6.4 FLOP
2001 Siberian Express 2 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1998 Tokyo Eyes Manager of Beauty Parlor ★ 6.7 HIT
1996 A Class to Remember II - ★ 6.0 FLOP
1993 Madadayo Kiriyama ★ 7.3 HIT
1990 Dreams Member of Climbing Team ★ 7.7 HIT
1987 Tora-san Goes North - ★ 8.7 HIT
1986 Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies - ★ 6.1 FLOP
1985 Ran Tango Hirayama ★ 8.0 HIT
1980 Kagemusha Ieyasu Tokugawa ★ 7.8 HIT