The best Masatō Ibu’s comedy movies

Masatō Ibu

Masatō Ibu

28/03/1949 (75 años)
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Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I
7.1/10
Chiaki is an aspiring conductor who faces the challenge of leading an orchestra which is made up of substitutes. Nodame gives her support to her beloved as she works hard towards achieving her dream to pass a promotion exam at their music conservatory. Will Chiaki be able to revive a broken down orchestra and launch his musical career? What will become of Nodame and Chiaki's relationship?

Cyborg She

Cyborg She
6.9/10
Cyborg She follows the burgeoning romance between an ordinary college student and his sassy love interest - who happens to be a time-traveling cyborg with superhuman powers. One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even though the cyborg starts to like him, she can’t truly feel emotions, so the boy has no choice but to say goodbye. Missing her, he continues his lonely existence. One day, a disastrous earthquake hits Tokyo and the cyborg girl saves his life. In that moment, she starts to have feelings like a real human being.

YMCA Baseball Team

YMCA Baseball Team
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/10/2002
  • Character: Hidenori Nomura
During the time Korea was invaded by Japan soldiers, Hochang lived the life of a scholar destined to follow the path of his father as being a tutor at school. One day, while playing soccer he meets an American missionary who was playing an alien game that immediately got his attention, it was Baseball. Taught by the beautiful Jungrim, a Korean traveling women who was accompanying the missionary at the time, Hochang will soon develop a natural talent at being a very good hitter. Jungrim will then decide to form the first baseball team of Korea history, the YMCA.

By Players-What if 100 famous side roles make a movie-

By Players-What if 100 famous side roles make a movie-
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/04/2021
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actor who get involved in misadventures while on set.

Dangerous Cops Again

Dangerous Cops Again
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 02/07/1988
  • Character: Nagamine
Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

The Woodsman and the Rain

The Woodsman and the Rain
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/10/2011
  • Character: Ishimaru
Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko helps against his will.

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 20/09/2008
  • Character: Akio Kikuta
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks. Machisu, the only son of a rich collector, has a childs love for painting. Praise from a famous artist friend of his father inspires the young boy to dream of becoming a painter himself. s a young man, poor loner Machisu manages to attend art school with money earned from working. He is introduced to an unconventional world of bold creativity but he also gets his first bitter taste of harsh criticism from a dealer. Encouragement comes in the form of attractive clerk Sachiko who is convinced that she alone understands him. Marriage is soon followed by a daughter, as love and hope drive Machisu to commit even more deeply to his art ...

Dr. Akagi

Dr. Akagi
7.2/10
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/07/2005
  • Character: Nakanishi
Suzume Katagura is an bored housewife, she spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husbands pet turtle. One day she sees an wanted ad for spies, hoping for some excitement she decides to give them a call.

KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!

KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/2011
  • Character: Daijiro Ohara
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.

Scabbard Samurai

Scabbard Samurai
6.8/10
Nomi Kanjuro (Takaaki Nomi) is a master less samurai on the run after throwing away his sword for good. He has with him his headstrong 9-year-old daughter Tae (Sea Kumada). A bounty is soon placed on Nomi Kanjuro and 3 assassins go after the score. When Nomi Kanjuro is eventually captured and placed in front of the local feudal lord (Jun Kunimura) he is given a choice. A boy prince has been grieving ever since the death of his mother. Nobody has been able to make the boy smile. Nomi can attempt to make the boy smile within 30 days or he must commit seppuku (suicide).

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitō Pennant Race

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Gekitō Pennant Race
The second of three anime films based on the Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! manga series.

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/06/1985
  • Character: Mystery Man (voice)
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II

Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II
7.1/10
Nodame and Chiaki mutually decide that it would be for the best if they parted ways for a while so Nodame can practice for an upcoming competition. However, when things don’t go her way, she gets impatient and depressed. While Nodame is away, Chiaki’s former pianist Rui Son returns to take her place. To make matters worse, Rui and Chiaki are set to play the song Nodame dreams of playing with Chiaki herself: Ravel’s “Concerto in G Minor”.

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust
6.7/10
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.

Train Brain Express

Train Brain Express
6.1/10
Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers, but their romantic fortunes do not go as smoothly. Will the awkward Kodama and the indecisive Komachi find the loves of their lives?

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

The Gentlemen’s Alliance
5.2/10
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

Hold Up Down

Hold Up Down
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/2005
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Ā Tsuppari Jinsei

Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! Ā Tsuppari Jinsei
The third and final anime film based on the Ganbare!! Tabuchi-kun!! manga series.

Drugstore Girl

Drugstore Girl
6/10
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.

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