Akira Emoto

Q: Has Akira Emoto won any awards?

Yes, Akira Emoto has received several accolades for his acting, including awards from the Japan Academy Prize and various film festivals, recognizing his contributions to Japanese cinema.

Q: What was Akira Emoto's first film?

Akira Emoto made his film debut in 1980 with 'Kagami no Naka no Fūrin,' marking the beginning of a prolific acting career that spans over four decades.

Q: What is Akira Emoto's estimated net worth?

As of now, Akira Emoto's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television.

Q: What type of roles does Akira Emoto typically play?

Akira Emoto often portrays complex characters, frequently appearing in dramatic roles that showcase his range and depth as an actor.

Q: Is Akira Emoto involved in television?

Yes, Akira Emoto has had a successful career in television, appearing in numerous dramas and series that have further established his reputation as a versatile actor.

Q: How many children does Akira Emoto have?

Akira Emoto has two children, although their names are not publicly known, as he tends to keep his family life private.

Q: What is a notable aspect of Akira Emoto's acting style?

Akira Emoto is known for his distinctive voice and ability to convey deep emotions, which adds a unique layer to his performances in both film and theater.

Known for

Shoplifters (2018)

IMDb 7.9 / 10

2018 / Crime, Documentary / 115mins

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter...

Rental Family (2025)

2025 / Comedy, Drama / 103mins

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in...

Shin Godzilla (2016)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2016 / Action, Adventure / 120 min

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team...

Name

Akira Emoto

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

22 February 1958, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Spouses

Yoko Emoto (2001–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Masashi Emoto, Yoshiko Emoto

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Kyoto Hippocrates In the late Edo period, when traditional Chinese medicine (Kampo) was mainstream, a Dutch-style Western doctor, Taikichi, devoted himself to...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	TV Convenience Store Kyodai At a lively Mojiko convenience store, a charming manager and his mysterious brother turn everyday chaos into comedy, while a...	Umeda Shohei	Not rated
2026	TV 無垢なる証人 A corporate lawyer defending a housekeeper accused of murder must navigate the testimony of the only witness, a young girl...	Hiroki Oyagi	Not rated
2026	Movie The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat It is the year 1988. Yamabuki is an eight-year-old little boy growing up in a traditional family where every family...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie One Last Throw Shintaro Yokota, at 18, fulfilled his childhood dream with a dazzling pro debut. Embraced by a loving family and his...	Kawato Kozo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie Rental Family An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental...	Kikuo Hasegawa	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2025	TV Scandal Eve The head of a talent agency races to stop an exposé that could end her client's career — pitting her...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie The Final Piece Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in the midst...	Motoji Kanesaki	TMDB 9.4 / 10
2025	Movie The Way of The Prison Guard This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Boy and the Dog 6 months after the earthquake disaster in Sendai City, Nakagaki Kazumasa is a young man who has lost his job....	Yaichi Katano	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2025	Movie Samurai Fury Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2024	Movie The God of Curling Kasumi, a high school student, has lived her life with curling in a scenic town near Karuizawa, home to the...	Susumu Komiyama	Not rated
2024	Movie Maru Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an...	Teacher	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2024	TV Shinjuku Field Hospital A gripping medical drama centered around a hospital in Kabukicho. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, including those from male...	Keisuke Takamine	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2024	Movie Rotting Taro and Chie Yoshida live on the fifth floor of an apartment complex with no elevator. 76-year-old Taro, confined to...	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	TV JK to Roppozensho Sakuragi Miyabi is a high school student in Aomori. She lives with her lawyer grandfather and receives special education from...	桜木倫太郎	Not rated
2024	Movie Don't Lose Your Head! In 1701, an insult led to a sword slash between the heads of the Ako clan and the Kira clan...	Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	Movie The Innocent Game Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2023	TV 満天のゴール	トクじい	Not rated
2023	Movie September 1923 Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.	Teiji Igusa	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	Movie Goal of the Sky A single mother who returned to her hometown at the lowest point of her life, and a doctor who is...	Unknown character	Not rated
2023	Movie Ripples Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, devoting herself to the group...	Taro Kadokura	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	Movie Hard Days After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control when he starts...	Yutaka Senba	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	Movie Touken Ranbu 2 In the year 995, due to a secret talk between Michinaga Fujiwara (Akira Emoto) and Seimei Abe (Terunosuke Takezai), Yorimitsu...	Fujiwara no Michinaga	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2023	Movie Do Unto Others A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are...	Shosaku Shiba	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2023	Movie Yudo: The Way of the Bath Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father;...	regular customer	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2023	Movie Shylock's Children Masahiro Nishiki is a veteran bank clerk, working at the Nagahara branch for Tokyo Daiichi Bank. One day, a cash-lost...	Hajime Sawazaki	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	Movie Egoist A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everything. Based on the novel by...	Yoshio Saito	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie Umami Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life...	Salaryman	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	TV Get Ready! This dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified black-market doctors who undertake...	Hiroshi Bojo	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	Movie A Man Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a...	Norio Komiura	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Setting Sun	Dr. Miyake	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	TV Japanese Style 30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no...	Hifuji Umekoshi	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	Movie No Place to Go Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at...	Bomber	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	TV Goodbye My Dear “Who is the last person you would like to see？” When junior high school teacher Sakuraba Ayako wakes up, she...	Hiroshi Yamawaki	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors A story about a high school full of delinquents, and its elite class that has clones of famous warlords from...	Yotaro Befunokami	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2022	TV 混声の森	Unknown character	Not rated
2022	TV Lost Man Found Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his...	Himself	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Wandering Moon In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a soaking wet 10-year-old...	Agata	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2022	Movie Barber Shop with a View of the Sea Set in a barbershop in a small town by the sea, this is a story about a quiet but passionate...	老店主	Not rated
2022	TV Teen Regime In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a...	Washida Tsuguaki	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV Ten Count to the Future When Kirisawa Shogo was a high school student, he was a brilliant amateur boxer. He won 4 boxing tournaments and...	Kenzo Ashiya	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie Noise Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries....	Shoji	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2021	Movie Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun A documentary featuring actor Akira Emoto, film scholar Chika Kinoshita, Somai biographer Tatsuya Kimura and Sailor Suit assistant director Koji...	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi...	Shop Owner	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2021	TV Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses Police dog handler Ippei Aoba has a problem. It's called Oliver. To others, Oliver is a genius police dog that...	Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)	Not rated
2021	Movie 祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie The Great Yokai War: Guardians Fifth grader Kei Watanabe has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from destruction, Kei challenges...	Old Man	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2021	Movie The Great Yokai War: Guardians Fifth grader Kei Watanabe has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from destruction, Kei challenges...	old man	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2021	Movie Utsusemi no mori Three months after her disappearance, Yuko is found alive with no memory of what happened. When she returns home, her...	Police Inspector Kariya Shinichi	Not rated
2021	TV Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later Six months ago, life went dark for the underworld negotiator Kida when his lifelong friend and fellow former outcast Makoto...	Kawabata	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2021	Movie The Master Plan Kida and Makoto grew up together because they have it in common that they don't have parents. And a transfer...	Kawabata	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2021	TV てにあまる	Unknown character	Not rated
2020	Movie Underdog: Part One Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the...	Sakuro	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	Movie Underdog: Part Two Suenaga finds his life on the verge of collapsing as violence consumes those around him. However, he finds a worthy...	Sakuro	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Wonderful Paradise In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the...	Homeless	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie Living in the Sky In the time after Naomi's parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito...	Concierge Kondo	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	Movie Nosari: Impermanent Eternity A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them...	Unknown character	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2020	Movie I Never Shot Anyone Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a...	Takashi Renjo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Stardust over the Town Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the...	Kumabe Rokuzo	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	Movie Finding Light at the Darkness Festival A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year...	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	Movie The Promised Land A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in...	Goro Fujiki	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	Movie Show Me the Way to the Station A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	Movie They Say Nothing Stays the Same Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing...	Toichi	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV Banjo no Himawari	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	Movie It Feels So Good When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married...	Kenji's Father (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie Iwane: Sword of Serenity Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic...	Urakusai	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2019	TV Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day, a...	铃本茂树	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2019	Movie Godot of the Emotos The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	TV In Hand Tetsu Himokura is a parasitologist. He enjoys researching the lives of parasites at his home laboratory and he barely leaves...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2019	Movie Castle of Sand A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned...	Chiyokichi	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2019	Movie BON-UTA, A Song from Home Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after their...	(voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	Movie Oz Land Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to...	Boss	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2018	TV Good Doctor Minato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Minato was...	Akira Shiga	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2018	Movie Recall A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight...	Seiji Nomura	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Shoplifters In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and...	Yoritsugu Kawado	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2018	Movie Color Me True Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.	Tadashi Honda	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2018	Movie Evil and The Mask Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki...	Detective Aida	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2018	TV Segodon Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain...	Ryu Samin	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2017	Movie Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2017	TV Home Sweet Tokyo Englishman Bryan Jenkins was living peacefully with his Japanese wife Itsuki and daughter Alice in London, when his Japanese mother-in-law...	[Ramen Shop Owner]	Not rated
2017	Movie Mukoku Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security...	Seppo Mitsumura	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2017	Movie Neko Ninja Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy samurai. He succeeds,...	Kariyazaki	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2017	Movie Lu Over the Wall In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.	Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie The Dog Bridegroom Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal...	Kenkichi Okumura	Not rated
2017	TV Frankenstein's Love A monster was created from an incident that took place 100 years ago. He possesses super physical ability and can...	Tsurumaru	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie Survival Family A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki...	Sasaki Shigeomi	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2017	Movie Random Lives Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved...	Hanamura	Not rated
2017	TV A Life When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his...	Danjo Toranosuke	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	TV Silver and Gold Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named...	Hitoshi Kuramae	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie Shippu Rondo An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because...	Masaomi Togo	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Sniper Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in...	Tatsuyuki Miyata	Not rated
2016	Movie Black Widow Business Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer...	Jun Sakurada	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2016	Movie A Grain of Wheat “A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden visit...	Honda	Not rated
2016	Movie Shin Godzilla When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its...	Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	Movie The Mohican Comes Home Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several...	Osamu Tamura	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2016	TV Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen...	Sfar	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2016	TV Arashi no Namida Satoko lives happily with her husband, baby daughter Haruko and parents-in-law. One day, Satoko loses her husband and daughter in...	Unknown character	Not rated
2016	TV Love That Makes You Cry Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the...	Masahiko Hayashida	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2016	Movie A Living Promise Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding...	Zenzo Takeda	Not rated
2015	Movie Journey to the Shore Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki...	Hoshitani	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	Movie The Big Bee Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company,...	Murofushi	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie The Pearls of the Stone Man Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in...	Kumaji Ueda	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2015	Movie Vampire in Love Kiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her ultimate...	Sojiro	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	Movie GARO: Gold Storm Flight Ryuga and Makai Priest Rian attempt to cleanse the Golden Armor when they are confronted by living weapons- the Madou–...	Priest Soutatsu	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Living Rights The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a...	Unknown character	Not rated
2015	Movie Present for You Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run...	Unknown character	Not rated
2015	TV The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2015	TV 新法廷荒らし猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜	Unknown character	Not rated
2014	Movie A House on a Hill Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the...	Yoshitarō Terashima	Not rated
2014	Movie 0.5 mm Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which...	Takeshi Sasaki	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie Cold Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people...	Jin Ichinose	Not rated
2014	Movie Time Trip App In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu...	Ryuzo Yanagita	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Oh! Father Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of...	Hayashi Tomita	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2014	Movie Wood Job! After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off...	Toshiro Yamane	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	TV The Long Goodbye Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji...	Heizo Harada	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	TV A Woman from Ashio A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio...	Unknown character	Not rated
2014	Movie Sleeping Forest A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the...	Daisuke Ota	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	TV Olympic Ransom	Unknown character	Not rated
2013	Movie Fly, Dakota, Fly! In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the...	Unknown character	Not rated
2013	Movie The Partner The Partner is a 2013 Japanese-Vietnamese historical telefilm based on the true story of the Vietnamese independence fighter Phan Bội...	Ōkuma Shigenobu	Not rated
2013	Movie Unforgiven An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated...	Kingo Baba	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie Ask This of Rikyu Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	TV Hanzawa Naoki Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes...	Keiji Minobe	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2013	Movie The War and a Woman Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman...	client of woman	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2013	TV Kumokiri Nizaemon During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2013	Movie Yellow Elephant Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works...	Arechi	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	TV Black Kite Yasu's mother passed away when he was very young and his father abandoned him. Yasu's wife, Misako, also lost both...	Kaiun	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2013	Movie Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark	Lawyer	Not rated
2012	Movie Humanoid Monster, Bem Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they...	Kao no nai otoko	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie One Day in January Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles topped with grated spicy daikon...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2012	TV 疑惑	Unknown character	Not rated
2012	TV Platinum Town Tetsuro Yamasaki returns to his hometown to find that it is in financial crisis. He quits his job and settles...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie The Life of Budori Gusuko The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After...	Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie Casting Blossoms to the Sky In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a...	Seijiro Nose	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	TV Folktales from Japan Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. The narration...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2012	Movie A Sower of Seeds Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country...	Shuzo Morikawa	Not rated
2012	Movie Ace Attorney Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney...	Saibancho (Judge)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2011	Movie Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order...	Yoneuchi	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2011	Movie Life Back Then Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying...	Masashi Inoue	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2011	TV Humanoid Monster Bem Bem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually disguise themselves as a human family...	Nameless Man	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Karate-Robo Zaborgar An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save...	Dr. Akunomiya	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	TV HUNTER - Women After Reward Money On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives...	Shogo Ooiwa	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2011	Movie Shikei Kijun Do criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become a lawyer even...	Kyusaku Tsushima	Not rated
2011	Movie In His Chart There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the...	Doctor	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2011	Movie Ninja Kids!!! The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2011	Movie A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start...	wet guy	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2010	Movie Postcard Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is...	Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	Movie Cast Me If You Can An actor, who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father, falls in love...	Homeless guy	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2010	Movie The Lightning Tree Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree...	Kakunoshi Enokido	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	TV Mori no Asagao New prison officer Naoki Oikawa is assigned to the death-row section. When he observes the death row inmate's fear of...	Keizukuri Hukahori	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2010	Movie Sakurada Gate Incident Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke....	Magojiro Kaneko	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2010	Movie Ekeb of Dekye Takahiko Tokito is a doctor at a big medical corporation. He has decided to run away with his lover, the...	Soichi Yanagimachi	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie Heaven's Story A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that...	Souichi	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	TV Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka Adapted from the book with the same title by Ryusho Kadota, a journalist who followed the "Hikari City Mother and...	Unknown character	Not rated
2010	Movie Villain Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via...	Yoshio Ishibashi	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2010	Movie Hutch the Honeybee Hutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch's missing Queen Bee Mother, whom he lost...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2010	Movie A Crowd of Three A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2010	Movie A Lone Scalpel Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a...	Matsuo Okawa	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	Movie Haru's Journey Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant...	Michio Nakai	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	TV Absolute Zero Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police...	Sosuke Kagami	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2010	Movie After the Flowers Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito....	Soan Nagai	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	Movie Golden Slumber When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's...	Hodogaya Yasushi	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Yona Yona Penguin Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" that...	Jii (voice)	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	TV Clouds Over the Hill Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from...	乃木知幸介	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2009	Movie Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any...	Shotaro	Not rated
2009	Movie April Bride On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride,...	Teishi Nagashima	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	Movie Rain Fall A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.	Tatsu Ishikura	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2009	Movie John Rabe A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.	Matsui Iwane	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida...	Itsuro Usui	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2008	Movie Happy Flight A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol...	Saito	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie ICHI Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2008	TV Ties of Shooting Stars Based on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three orphans, whose parents...	Togami Masayuki	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2008	Movie Teacher and Three Children The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he...	Yoshio Ichikawa	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2008	Movie Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or...	Counselor	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie The Cycling Genius Is Coming! Teru has been brought up in a hill town and spent his childhood conquering the slopes on his bicycle. Being...	Unknown character	Not rated
2008	Movie Your Friend While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2008	Movie All Around Us Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and...	kunimasa Yasuda	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2008	Movie The Taste of Fish It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish...	Shojiro Sanada	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Most Beautiful Night In The World Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname...	Journalist	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie The Chasing World A teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by...	Doctor	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2007	Movie The Shadow Spirit A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the...	mimasaka koushirou	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2007	Movie Prodigy Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she...	Hisashi Kikuna	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2007	Movie Life Can Be So Wonderful Five short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.	Haeo	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Three for the Road	Unknown character	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2007	Movie The Go Master The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as...	Kensaku Segoe	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku -...	Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2007	TV 愛の流刑地	北冈耕造	Not rated
2007	Movie Starfish Hotel Office drone Arisu finds his own life imitating the mystery novels of his favourite writer when his wife disappears and...	Mr. Trickster	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie The Happiness The story of a vagrant who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair...	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	Movie The Summer of Stickleback Set in Kyoto, 1990. Mizuho Oshima is a high school girl who hates her alcoholic mom, adores her father, and...	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	Movie Japan Sinks In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow,...	Professor Fukuhara	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2006	Movie It's Only Talk Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Memories of Matsuko While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank...	Tsunehiro Kawajiri	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2006	TV Tokumei! Keiji Dongame Toshiyuki Nishida plays the role of Don Kameda, A.K.A “Don-Game”. Don-Game is a cafe owner who loves jazz and long...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	TV Love and Glory Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of...	Hideyoshi Toyotomi	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Scrap Heaven The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked...	Detective Yabuta	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	TV Haru and Natsu As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the...	Kotaro Nakayama	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2005	Movie The Suspect: Muroi Shinji One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched...	Seigo Tsuda	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2005	Movie The Great Yokai War A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2005	Movie For the coming day Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki...	Unknown character	Not rated
2005	Movie Love Is Five Seven Five A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.	Grandfather	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2005	Movie Tetsujin 28: The Movie One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.	Yunosuke Otsuka	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2005	Movie The Lakeside Murder Case Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious...	Tomoharu Fujima	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie Moon & Cherry When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with...	Sakamoto	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2004	Movie The Motive Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as...	Yoshifumi Katakura	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2004	Movie River of First Love 8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki,...	Hidejiro Tasaki	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Chicken Is Barefoot A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie Takada Wataru Teki Folk singer Wataru Takada has been performing for over 35 years. This feature-length documentary follows him closely over the course...	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie Drugstore Girl Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east...	Koji Nabeshima	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2004	Movie Zebraman A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.	Kitahara the Crab Man	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2004	Movie Winning Pass This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at...	Unknown character	Not rated
2004	Movie The Hunter and the Hunted Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his...	Neko	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2004	TV 竜馬がゆく	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	Movie Hana Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain....	Hiroshi Torigoe	Not rated
2003	Movie Doppelgänger Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer...	Murakami	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Worst by Chance Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts around and meanders through life...	Shigeharu Kaneshiro	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2003	Movie Zatoichi Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he...	Pub Owner	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	TV Love & War of a Samurai Based on the jidaigeki novel, Semishigure, written by Fujisawa Shuhei. Duty and honor were the principles of the samurai, but...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	TV Water Boys Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly...	Mama (of a bar)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie Farewell, Kuro Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's...	Shuzo Hanazono	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	Movie Samurai Resurrection Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for...	Nobutsuna Matsudaira	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2003	Movie Teacher's suitcase Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former...	Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Owl A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	TV Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko Based on the novel by Jirō Asada, the TV movie depicts the lives of the Shinsengumi warriors during the turmoil...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	Movie Barber's Sorrow A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2002	TV AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him...	Hyoue Yarikura	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2002	Movie September 11 An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.	Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	TV The Private Detective Mike Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2002	Movie KT This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.	Hiroshi Uchiyama	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	TV Prince Shotoku In the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a...	Anahobe no miko	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2001	Movie Turn Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck....	Matsubara	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2001	Movie Waterboys In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part...	Mama	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2001	Movie Kaza-hana A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.	Hot Spring Inn Owner	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2000	Movie The City of Lost Souls Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he...	Kuwata	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	Movie The Whispered City Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with...	Toyohashi, sculptor	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	Movie Nagisa Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl...	Priest Shinto	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2000	Movie Another Heaven A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull...	Doctor Akagi	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie As the River Flows 2000 live-action Japanese film.	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Kaizokuban Bootleg Film Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.	Tatsuo	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	Movie The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.	Matashichi	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Round About Midnight While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl,...	Totsuka	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1999	TV Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai Masako, a housewife working night shifts at a bento factory, is tired of her cold and conversationless family life. Her...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Will to Live It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of...	Doctor	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1999	TV Genroku Ryoran The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best...	Genshiro	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1998	TV Yanchakure The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word...	水嶋钦一	Not rated
1998	Movie Love Letter A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	Movie Dr. Akagi At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.	Dr. Fuu Akagi	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1997	Movie The Key Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in...	Soichiro Anzai	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1997	Movie Body and Soul A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to build new ones.	Sekiya/Reiko's lover-Aya's ex	TMDB 3.0 / 10
1997	Movie Abduction The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is...	Chief Superintendent Tachibana	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1997	Movie The Eel A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets...	Tamotsu Takasaki	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1996	Movie The Rainbow Seeker A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1996	Movie Free and Easy 8 When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's...	Yukawa	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie Shall We Dance? A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing...	Detective Miwa	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1995	Movie Maborosi A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a...	Yoshihiro	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1995	TV Eighth Shogun Yoshimune The drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the eighth...	Tokugawa Munenao	Not rated
1994	Movie Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King of the...	Major Akira Yuki	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1994	Movie The Friends A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man...	Nagatomo	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1993	Movie I Can Hear the Duck Singing A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	Movie When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang From the 1980s to the 1990s, New Taiwanese Cinema gained international attention for adopting a completely different approach to that...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1993	Movie Private Lessons II Ken, an insecure young man from Japan, meets Sophie, an interesting and sensual woman who teaches him the secrets of...	Oba	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1993	TV Family Court Judge The story centers on the life of Kawata Yoshio, an eccentric judge. The popularity of the series seems to stem...	Shibuya Naomasa	Not rated
1992	Movie Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1992	Movie Manhattan Kiss An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on location in New York....	Unknown character	Not rated
1992	Movie Sumo Do, Sumo Don't A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a...	Professor Tokichi Anayama	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1991	Movie A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed...	Kogoro Katsura	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1991	Movie Dance till Tomorrow Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1991	Movie Goodbye Mama A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	Movie The Last Frankenstein Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which...	Prof. Sarusawa	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1991	TV Taiheiki The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate.	Moronao Kô-no	Not rated
1990	Movie Betrayal Tomorrow A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.	Unknown character	Not rated
1990	Movie Maria's Stomach A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1990	Movie Roar of the Crowd Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1990	TV ホットドッグ	大田原輝	Not rated
1990	Movie Universal Laws A young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return to his hometown...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1989	Movie Fancy Dance Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the...	Masoho's boss	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie Beijing Watermelon Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and...	Mr. Teramoto	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1989	Movie Battle Heater Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon...	Riichi Hama	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1989	Movie Tora-san Goes to Vienna During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up...	Hyoma Sakaguchi	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1989	Movie Harimao A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula...	Army Major	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	Movie Mottomo Abunai Deka Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're...	Maeo	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1988	Movie Revolver When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who...	Keisuke Mineya	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1988	TV あそびにおいでョ!	Unknown character	Not rated
1988	Movie The Silk Road In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1988	Movie The Yen Family Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a...	Shinichi Amemiya	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1988	Movie Angel Guts: Red Vertigo Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst...	Yakuza	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1987	Movie The Great Department Store Robbery	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1987	Movie The Heartbreak Yakuza A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1987	Movie Bedtime Eyes Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1987	Movie A Tale of Young Elopement A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.	Matsuda	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1986	Movie Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1985	Movie Congratulatory Speech	Yasuhei Higashida	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1985	Movie The Second Is a Christian The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one...	Kumashiro	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1985	Movie I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the...	Hirofumi Maruyama	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1985	Movie Capone Cries a Lot Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and...	Ushiemon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1984	TV 水曜ドラマスペシャル “Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:00 to 22:54...	Unknown character	Not rated
1984	Movie Location The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980...	Konno	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1984	Movie Make-Up	Kikuo Tsutano	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1983	Movie Legend of the Cat Monster A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing...	Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1983	Movie Double Bed Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has...	Tôru Yamazaki	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1983	Movie Amagi Pass Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	Movie The Man from Shimizu On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again....	Unknown character	Not rated
1982	Movie Suspicion A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business...	Shigekazu Akitani	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the...	Kondo	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie Lovers Lost A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of...	Ishizuka	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1981	Movie Sailor Suit and Machine Gun A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.	Detective Kuroki	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1980	Movie Disciples of Hippocrates The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1979	Movie Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow...	Kantarô Iwata	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1979	Movie Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie	Unknown character	Not rated
1979	Movie Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again Softcore porn collaboration between Nikkatsu director Shinya Yamamoto and gag manga artist Fujio Akatsuka, utilizing both creators' comedy techniques in...	Daigorô Hatayama	TMDB 6.1 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
1993	Movie Sky Cannot Be This Blue Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman...	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10

Kyoto Hippocrates

2026

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

2026

One Last Throw

2025 / TMDB 7.0

Rental Family

2025 / TMDB 7.7

The Final Piece

2025 / TMDB 9.4

The Way of The Prison Guard

2025 / TMDB 8.0

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Shoplifters (2018)

Rental Family (2025)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

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