Personal Info
Birth date
1935-09-22 (89 Years)
Day of death
2006-05-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nice, France
Also known as
ファンファン
Fanfan
Otto Sevaldsen
冈田真澄
Masumi Okada
Masumi Okada
Biography
Masumi Okada (岡田眞澄, Okada Masumi, September 22, 1935 – May 29, 2006) was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen. Masumi Okada was the younger of two sons; his older brother, Taibi "Erick" Okada, was also an actor and presenter—known professionally as E. H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles' 1966 concert in Tokyo.
Filmography
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
8.2
Overview:
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.Shōgun
7.667
Overview:
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.Divorce Lawyer
6
Overview:
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business, but soon her former firm is putting up obstacles and interfering, causing Takako's employees and clients to drift away. She finally puts together a new staff consisting of a college student who knows little about the law, a girl who applied for the job in hopes of meeting a rich guy, a hard-nosed lawyer, and a paralegal who hasn't passed the bar exam yet. Takako reluctantly handles divorce cases with her incompetent crew. For an elite lawyer like her, divorce cases are the most boring and unrewarding cases that exist. Through clashing with her employees and clients, Takako soon becomes a very mature and tough lawyer. "Divorce Lawyer" also tells the story of how difficult it is to judge love and relationships in legal terms.A Sleeping Forest
6.7
Overview:
Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998. It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, starring Miho Nakayama and Takuya Kimura, and features music by Mariya Takeuchi and U2.Trick
7.2
Overview:
Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. After being fired once again, her boss shows her an ad of a physics professor, a non-believer of all things magical, offering money to anyone who can prove to him that magic is real. Desperately needing the money, Naoko accepts the challenge, which is how she comes to meet Professor Ueda. Falling prey to her simple magic tricks, Ueda is impressed, and enlists Naoko to help him uncover the tricks behind a local cult. Their hilarious antics, along with those of police officer Yabe, leads them onto further mysteries, all with tricks needing to be solved in sort of an "X-Files" meets "Scooby-Doo"...San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku
8
Overview:
A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each time. As the narration at the beginning of the show says: "If you think you can create the same work with the same script, you don't know drama". This is a drama that clearly shows how the atmosphere of a work changes depending on the direction, making it ideal for those who aspire to become directors.Three Sisters Investigate
NYR
Overview:
Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.Battle Royale
7.284
Overview:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.水曜ドラマスペシャル
NYR
Overview:
“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:00 to 22:54 (JST) from October 2, 1989 to March 19 , 2001 . program.A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
5.6
Overview:
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.Getting Any?
5.7
Overview:
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.Battle Royale II: Requiem
4.956
Overview:
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.2
Overview:
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.Crazed Fruit
7.1
Overview:
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.My Sweetheart
NYR
Overview:
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.The Hunted
5.7
Overview:
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are the targets of assassins hired by the ruthless Kinjo. To survive, Racine must join forces with a powerful samurai and together they will fight the force of evil in an awesome battle rooted in centuries of brutal conflict.Winter's Flower
6.2
Overview:
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!Goryokaku
NYR
Overview:
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.Four Seasons: Natsuko
6.2
Overview:
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.The Sea and Poison
6.9
Overview:
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.Hakuchi: The Innocent
5.8
Overview:
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.Living Skeleton
5.6
Overview:
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...Sayonara Jupiter
5.3
Overview:
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.Latitude Zero
5.8
Overview:
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.Acting
TBA顔に降りかかる雨 (1 Episode) as Unknown
2013トリック 母之泉篇 腸完全版 as Unknown
2006Waru: The End as Unknown
2006Damejin as Unknown
2004Izo as Chief of the Palace
2004Divorce Lawyer (2 Episodes) as Kichinosuke Konuma
2002Fan of Hong Kong star as Unknown
2000Trick (31 Episodes) as Yamada's father
1999Hakuchi: The Innocent as Head Manager
1998A Sleeping Forest (12 Episodes) as Unknown
1998Can't Hurry for Love (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1998Three Sisters Investigate (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1997To Love as Professor
1996San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1996Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1995The Files of the Young Kindaichi (1 Episode) as Junji Kazamatsuri
1995The Hunted as Lt. Wadakura
1995Getting Any? as Russian Actor
1992Sometime, Somewhere as Ehara
1991Jingi as Unknown
1991The Devil's Messenger DEATH MESSENGER as Unknown
1989cf Girl as Unknown
1988Goryokaku as Unknown
1988Kaito Ruby as Mr. Yamanouchi
1988To the Sea, See You as Ozaki
1986The Sea and Poison as Hattori
1986美人母娘３人 ああ華麗なる結婚サギ as Unknown
1985Akagawa Jiro's Vampire is Coming of Age as Unknown
1985Fufu seikatsu (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1985Yakyuukyou no Uta as Unknown
1984水曜ドラマスペシャル (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984Sayonara Jupiter as Dr. Mohammed Mansur
1983The Key as Unknown
1982On the Road as Unknown
1981Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie as Jose Mendosa
1980Shōgun (5 Episodes) as Brother Michael
1980Four Seasons: Natsuko as Takahito Mori
1979Vampire Dracula appears in Kobe as Unknown
1978Winter's Flower as Shinkichi Mie
1977A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness as Keiko Tadokoro
1973Marco as Ti Wai
1972Woman His Prey as Unknown
1970New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow as Unknown
1969Latitude Zero as Dr. Jules Masson
1969Daring Girls as Unknown
1968The Blazing Continent as Unknown
1968Living Skeleton as Father / Boss
1967Japan's No. 1 Best Man as Unknown
1967My Sweetheart as The Johnnys' manager
1967The Return of the Filthy Seven as Unknown
1965Song of Dawn as Unknown
1965Love on the Rainbow as Shuhei Yuki
1964Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends as Unknown
1963Ōkuma Shigenobu the great as Unknown
1963Element of Surprise as Unknown
1963Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai as Mariusu
1963Life of a Flower (39 Episodes) as Henry Heusken
1961Taiheiyō no katsugiya as Unknown
1961Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon as Unknown
1960The Rambler on a Pearl Farm as Unknown
1960The Sand City in Manchuria as Rosuki
1960The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush as Unknown
1960The Lovelorn Geisha as Unknown
1960Ore wa Ginza no kiheitai as McLane
1960Knock Down as Unknown
1960六三制愚連隊 as Unknown
1960The Guitarist and the Rancher as Unknown
1959Kawaii Hana as Unknown
1959Windy Street as Unknown
1959Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero as Unknown
1959Passport to Darkness as Unknown
1959Gun Number Zero as Unknown
1959Crazy Jailbreak as Kunio Iwakami
1959I Will Challenge as Unknown
1959おヤエの家つき女中 as Unknown
1959Her Name Was Sakura as Unknown
1959Kamen no Onna as Unknown
1959Tsuki wa chikyū o mawatteru as Unknown
1959Immoral Lecture as Unknown
1958The Perfect Game as Kazu Tomita
1958続夫婦百景 as Unknown
1958Showdown in the Storm as Unknown
1958Red Pier as Taabô
1958The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Morihiko Shirafuji
1958The Stars Know Everything as Goro Matsumura
1958The Girl from Osaka as Unknown
1958The Husband Wore the Apron as Unknown
1958Fangs of Night as Unknown
1957Man Who Causes a Storm as Shinsuke, Miyako's brother
1957A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Kisuke
1957Nikutai no hankō as Billy
1957Madam as Unknown
1957Streetlights as 小出英夫
1957Dancing Sisters as Tetsuo Izumi
1956Lunar Eclipse as Unknown
1956Frankie the Milkman as Unknown
1956Hungry Soul, Part II as Tachibana's Old Friend D
1956Crazed Fruit as Frank
1956Season of the Sun as Unknown
1956Funny Friend: The Baby and Express as Unknown
1955Tales of Ginza as Mineo Akaishi
1955The Green Music Box as Moon Prince