Masayuki Imai

Japanese playwright and actor

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Masayuki Imai
Born	21 April 1961 (1961-04-21) Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Died	28 May 2015 (2015-05-29) (aged 54) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Playwright, actor
Years active	1986–2015

Masayuki Imai (今井雅之, Imai Masayuki, 21 April 1961 – 28 May 2015) was a Japanese playwright and actor.

Life and career

Born in Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Imai was a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force before starting his acting career in the second half of the 1980s.^[1] The founder of the stage company Elle Company, he was the author and the main actor of the play The Winds of God, a 1991 drama he successfully performed for about twenty years.^[1] Imai was also active in films, TV series and V-Cinema (direct-to-video) releases.^[1]