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Masanori Murakawa

Masanori Murakawa

Born: 1969-07-18 • Morioka, Iwate, Japan

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.

Filmography
NJPW Purge Night of Torture poster
NJPW Purge Night of Torture
2025 • The Great Sasuke
NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous poster
NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous
2025 • The Great Sasuke
JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania poster
JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania
2022 • The Great Sasuke
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1 poster
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14: Night 1
2020 • The Great Sasuke
GCW Tournament Of Survival 4 poster
GCW Tournament Of Survival 4
2019 • Great Sasuke
Ring of Dreams poster
Ring of Dreams
2017 • Himself / "Great Sasuke"
The Great Sasuke poster
The Great Sasuke
2016 • The Great Sasuke
ECW - Unreleased Vol. 2 poster
ECW - Unreleased Vol. 2
2013 • Great Sasuke
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CHIKARA King Of Trios 2011 - Night 3
2011 • The Great Sasuke
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The Best of Eddy Guerrero
1999 • The Great Sasuke
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Battlarts Battle Fiction
1998 • SASUKE
ECW House Party 1998 poster
ECW House Party 1998
1998 • The Great Sasuke
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Michinoku Pro 4th Anniversary
1997 • The Great Sasuke
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede poster
WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
1997 • Great Sasuke
ECW Barely Legal 1997 poster
ECW Barely Legal 1997
1997 • Great Sasuke
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ECW Fan Cam: February 14, 1997
1997 • The Great Sasuke
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FMW Year End Spectacular 1996
1996 • The Great Sasuke
Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days poster
Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days
1996 • The Great Sasuke
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NJPW Skydiving J
1996 • The Great Sasuke
World Wrestling Peace Festival poster
World Wrestling Peace Festival
1996
NJPW Battle Formation '96 poster
NJPW Battle Formation '96
1996 • The Great Sasuke
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NJPW V-Mania Vol. 3
1994 • The Great Sasuke
AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe poster
AJW Big Egg Wrestling Universe
1994
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NJPW Summer Struggle 1994 - Day 8
1994 • The Great Sasuke
NJPW Super J-Cup 1994 poster
NJPW Super J-Cup 1994
1994 • The Great Sasuke