Portrait of Masanori Murakawa

Masanori Murakawa

Acting

Biography

Masanori Murakawa (村川 政徳 Murakawa Masanori), is a Japanese professional wrestler who is best known by his stage name The Great Sasuke, as well as a former Iwate Prefectural Assembly legislator. He has wrestled in Japan and in the United States in various wrestling promotions. He is said to have an incredible tolerance for pain, mainly in reference to the injuries he has had including a cracked skull on two occasions.

Born: July 18, 1969

Place of Birth: Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Filmography

2025
NJPW Purge Night of Torture

as The Great Sasuke

2020
2019
2017
Ring of Dreams

as Himself / "Great Sasuke"

2016
The Great Sasuke

as The Great Sasuke

2013
1998
ECW House Party 1998

as The Great Sasuke

1997
ECW Barely Legal 1997

as Great Sasuke

1996
NJPW Battle Formation '96

as The Great Sasuke

1994
NJPW Super J-Cup 1994

as The Great Sasuke

1993
Raw

as Great Sasuke

1993
Raw

as The Great Sasuke