Kōki Mitani

Q: Has Kōki Mitani won any awards?

Yes, Kōki Mitani has received several awards for his contributions to film and theater, including the Japanese Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

Q: What was Kōki Mitani's first film?

Kōki Mitani made his film debut in 'The Last Supper' in 1992, which marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

Q: What is Kōki Mitani's estimated net worth?

Kōki Mitani's estimated net worth is around $10 million, largely from his successful career in acting, directing, and writing.

Q: What genres does Kōki Mitani typically work in?

Kōki Mitani is primarily known for his work in comedy and drama, often blending humor with emotional storytelling in his films.

Q: Does Kōki Mitani have any children?

Yes, Kōki Mitani has two children, although their names are not publicly disclosed.

Q: What is Kōki Mitani's background?

Kōki Mitani was born in Tokyo, Japan, and began his career in theater before transitioning to film, where he gained widespread recognition.

Q: What are some notable milestones in Kōki Mitani's career?

Notable milestones include his breakout role in 'The Magic Hour' and his successful transition to directing and writing, contributing significantly to Japanese cinema.

Known for

The Magic Hour (2008)

2008 / Comedy, Crime / 136mins

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by...

Name

Kōki Mitani

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

16 June 1972, Tokyo, Japan

Spouses

Kōki Mitani (2003–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Kōki Mitani (father), name not publicly known (mother)

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie 90 Years Old – So What? Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She...	Taxi driver	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2023	TV The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while...	Mitani	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2021	Movie 72nd NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of...	Moriguchi	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2011	Movie A Flawless Concierge A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.	The Film Director	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2010	Movie Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Episode Competition	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	TV The Three Musketeers	O'Reilly (voice)	TMDB 9.4 / 10
2006	Movie Murder of the Inugami Clan Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal...	Nasu Hoteru Shujin	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2002	Movie Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	TV 裸にしたい男	Unknown character	Not rated
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,...	Man Watching TV	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	Movie いのこりぐみ	Director Directing	Not rated
2026	Movie いのこりぐみ	Writer Writing	Not rated
2025	TV Pray Speak What Has Happened In 1984 Shibuya, four quirky young souls navigate life’s struggles while chasing joy in a city bursting with hope.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2025	Movie 三谷文楽「人形ぎらい」	Writer Writing	Not rated
2025	Movie 三谷文楽「人形ぎらい」	Director Directing	Not rated
2025	Movie Oi, Dazai Set by the seaside, this is a time-slip comedy about a man who adores Osamu Dazai and struggles to transcend...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie Oi, Dazai Set by the seaside, this is a time-slip comedy about a man who adores Osamu Dazai and struggles to transcend...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	Movie 昭和から騒ぎ	Director Directing	Not rated
2025	Movie 蒙古が襲来	Writer Writing	Not rated
2025	Movie 蒙古が襲来	Director Directing	Not rated
2024	Movie All About Suomi The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at the mansion where her husband...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2024	Movie All About Suomi The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at the mansion where her husband...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2023	Movie Warai no daigaku	Director Directing	Not rated
2023	Movie Warai no daigaku	Writer Writing	Not rated
2022	Movie VAMP SHOW	Writer Writing	Not rated
2022	TV The 13 Lords of the Shogun Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2021	Movie Promise of Death Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2020	Movie 劇場の灯を消すな！PARCO劇場編	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Daichi (Social Distancing Version) Recording of the play Daichi (Social Distancing Version) performed on July 11, 2020, at the PARCO Theater in Tokyo's Shibuya...	Theatre Play Writing	Not rated
2020	Movie Daichi (Social Distancing Version) Recording of the play Daichi (Social Distancing Version) performed on July 11, 2020, at the PARCO Theater in Tokyo's Shibuya...	Stage Director Directing	Not rated
2019	Movie Hit Me Anyone One More Time Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital,...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie Hit Me Anyone One More Time Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2018	Movie The Murder of Kuroido March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
2018	Movie Fuunjitachi ~ Rangaku Kakumei-hen Maeno Ryotaku (Kataoka Ainosuke) is a doctor of Buzen Province, Nakatsu domain. Aspiring to learn Western knowledge, he comes across...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
2016	TV Sanadamaru Spanning over 50 episodes, we follow the historical fiction of the Sanada clansmen as they plotted and fought their ways...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Sanadamaru Spanning over 50 episodes, we follow the historical fiction of the Sanada clansmen as they plotted and fought their ways...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Galaxy Turnpike Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie Galaxy Turnpike Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2015	Movie Murder on the Orient Express The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	TV Back of Father A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	TV Back of Father A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Jekyll & Hyde & Tears & Liquor An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" tells the story of Dr....	Stage Director Directing	Not rated
2014	Movie Jekyll & Hyde & Tears & Liquor An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" tells the story of Dr....	Script Crew	Not rated
2014	Movie Airport 2013 When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2014	Movie Airport 2013 When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2013	Movie The Kiyosu Conference After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Kiyosu Conference After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa...	Original Story Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Kiyosu Conference After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie A Flawless Concierge A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2011	Movie A Flawless Concierge A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2011	Movie 三谷幸喜「short cut」 After 10 years of marriage, a couple finds itself walking on a small path in the mountains. Allowing them to...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie A Ghost of a Chance Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2011	Movie A Ghost of a Chance Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	TV The History of Our Family Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11,...	Screenstory Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	TV The History of Our Family Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11,...	Creator Creator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	TV The Three Musketeers	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 9.4 / 10
2009	TV The Three Musketeers	Adaptation Writing	TMDB 9.4 / 10
2009	Movie 東京サンシャインボーイズ『returns』	Director Directing	Not rated
2009	Movie 東京サンシャインボーイズ『returns』	Writer Writing	Not rated
2008	Movie Furuhata Chugakusei Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances....	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie The Magic Hour A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2008	Movie The Magic Hour A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie The Fearless Otojiro's Company In 1897, actor, director, producer and theatre company leader Kawakami Otojiro set off on a tour of the USA with...	Director Directing	Not rated
2007	Movie The Fearless Otojiro's Company In 1897, actor, director, producer and theatre company leader Kawakami Otojiro set off on a tour of the USA with...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2006	Movie Suite Dreams New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Suite Dreams New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2006	Movie Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: Last Dance Kyoko Kagami is a pen name for a pair of twin writers. After one sister kills the other, their technical...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2006	Movie Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: A Fair Murderer Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2006	Movie Furuhata Ninzaburo The Resurrection Of Death Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, but loses faith...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2006	Movie 新選組!! 土方歳三最期の一日 Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with his fellow anti-imperialist group.	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie University of Laughs In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie University of Laughs In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As...	Original Story Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	TV Shinsengumi! Shinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2004	Movie All By His Excellency's Work An employee at a Japanese embassy in a South American country is kidnapped but Furuhata, who is there on holiday,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2002	TV HR A situation comedy set in a fixed-time high school in Tokyo.	Creator Creator	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2002	Movie Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2002	Movie Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for...	Theatre Play Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2001	Movie Vamp Show Five merry men who travel and live all over the country. They all love to sing and for some reason...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2001	Movie All About Our House Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2001	Movie All About Our House Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1999	Movie The Terror of Dr. Kuroiwa Furuhata comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bizarre serial killings which would look like deaths by natural...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1999	Movie Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1998	TV Konya Uchu no Katasumi de Set in New York , three friends fall in love with the same woman, causing their feelings to waver between...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1997	Movie Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	Movie Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone...	Theatre Play Writing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	Movie Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	TV Farewell, Mr. Premier What happens when the Prime Minister of Japan suddenly has the lowest approval ratings in history? Tamura Masakazu plays an...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	TV Farewell, Mr. Premier What happens when the Prime Minister of Japan suddenly has the lowest approval ratings in history? Tamura Masakazu plays an...	Creator Creator	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	Movie Warai no Daigaku	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
1997	Movie Warai no Daigaku	Original Story Writing	Not rated
1996	TV San-ban Tēburu no Kyaku A program that uses a script written by Koki Mitani and is produced by a different cast and crew each...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Ryoma ni Omakase	Writer Writing	Not rated
1996	Movie The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo Famous detective Furuhata Ninzaburo has disappeared, so a TV crew decide to make a documentary about his career interviewing his...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie A Brief Parting The head of a flower arrangement clan murders her overbearing teacher and rival during a flamenco recital. The one thing...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1996	TV Furuhata Ninzaburo Extra: Police Officer Imaizumi Shintaro Furuhata Ninzaburo's goofy sidekick Shintaro vents his frustrations to the uninterested forensic technician Kuwabara.	Creator Creator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV 今泉慎太郎	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
1996	TV 今泉慎太郎	Creator Creator	Not rated
1995	TV 王様のレストラン	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1995	Movie The Laughing Kangaroo A love triangle turns deadly during an awards ceremony in Australia. Unfortunately for the killers, however, Furuhata and Shintaro are...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1994	Movie The Show Must Go On Recorded on 15th April 1994 at Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo. This play is what brought media fame to Koki Mitani back...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1994	Movie The Show Must Go On Recorded on 15th April 1994 at Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo. This play is what brought media fame to Koki Mitani back...	Director Directing	Not rated
1994	TV Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1994	TV Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1994	TV Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in...	Creator Creator	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1993	TV He Is Always There This is a story of two physicians who are complete opposites. Although he's a skilled surgeon, Dr. Shiba does not...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	Movie The Gentle 12 The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1991	Movie The Gentle 12 The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband...	Theatre Play Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1990	Movie After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles 1990 Original Video	Screenplay Writing	Not rated