Screenplay: Hisao Maki
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hisao Maki. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Bodyguard Kiba
1993 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Hisao Maki · Masaru Matsuda · Daisuke Nagakura · Ren Osugi
Plot A ex-prisoner hires the invincible bodyguard Kiba to protect him from vengeful Yakuza, while he travels cross-country to the location of some hidden loot.
5.7
57 votes
5.7
57 votes
Silver
1999 · Movie · 79 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Atsuko Sakuraba · Kenji Haga · Shinobu Kandori · Rumi Kazama
Plot Jun Shirogane's (Atsuko Sakurba) entire family was murdered by a criminal group called Paradise. The sole survivor, she lives for revenge. With her Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), her fellow co-worker...
5.1
56 votes
5.1
56 votes
Waru
2006 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Sho Aikawa · Nagare Hagiwara · Yoshihiko Hakamada · Ryo Ishibashi
Plot This time Ryo Ishibashi (of 'Audition') returns to star alongside Sho Aikawa (of 'Rainy Dog', 'Dead or Alive', 'Gozu' and 'Zebraman'), in 'Waru' written by Hisao Maki - based on...
4.6
40 votes
4.6
40 votes
Bodyguard Kiba 2: Apocalypse of Carnage
1994 · Movie · 64 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Takanori Kikuchi · Takeshi Yamato · Megumi Sakita · Noriko Arai
Plot "Bodyguard Kiba" sequel.
4.5
34 votes
4.5
34 votes
Family 2
2001 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Kojiro Hongo · Naoko Inoue · Kôichi Iwaki
Plot In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia:...
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Waru: kanketsu-hen
2006 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Sho Aikawa · Yoshihiko Hakamada · Ryo Ishibashi · Tamio Kawaji
Plot The first lady of America gets kidnapped, leading Detective Sakuraki to places that shouldn't exist!. Sequel to the film "Waru" also directed by Takashi Miike.
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Family
2001 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Kojiro Hongo · Naoko Inoue · Kôichi Iwaki
Plot When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden...
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Bodigaado Kiba: Shura no mokushiroku 2
1995 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Masaaki Asato · Takanori Kikuchi · Hisao Maki · Megumi Sakita
Plot In the third and final part of the trilogy Bodyguard Kiba, Ryo becomes the protagonist and has the mission to protect a Taiwanese, specifically celebrity Shang Lee. This will be...
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A Human Murder Weapon
1992 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Megumi Kudô · Yoshika Maedomari · Hisao Maki · Chika Matsui
Plot The Human Murder Weapon of the title is a young fighter nicknamed - believe it or not - Karate Kid, who is forced at gunpoint by a seedy, scarfaced promoter...
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