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Complete Filmography

Dollhouse
2025
A child disappears from home and there is no explanation. The girl's parents search for her endlessly, to no avail. One day, the mother finds a large ...

Mountain Woman
2023
Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of ...

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Final Alchemy
2022
as King Xerxes
The Elric brothers’ long and winding journey comes to a close in this epic finale, where they must face off against an unworldly, nationwide threat.

Ring Wandering
2022
as Kota Kawauchi (old age)
In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t...

Missing
2022
as Mabuchi
Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Santos...

One Summer Story
2021
as Moji's grandfather
Between competitive swim team practice and cramming for classes the anime Buffalo Kotek is Minami’s only respit from her hectic life. So it feels a lo...

A Woman Who Acts
2021
Akira is an old man with little time left to live due to illness. He has a young and beautiful wife, Yoshiko, who tries to take him outside to enjoy h...

Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji
2020
In the series Tokyo Miracle City, we unravel the secrets behind some of the capital's most intriguing wonders. In part one, we delve into Tokyo's fame...

Labyrinth of Cinema
2020
as Musashi Miyamoto
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

Broken Heart of the 56th Year
2020
as The Mysterious Old Man
Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori l...

The Promised Land
2019
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identif...

Diner
2019
as Professor
A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in he...

犬神家の一族
2018
as 大山泰輔

Come On Irene
2018
as Genzo Shishido
Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confron...

When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead
2018
as Yokoyama
When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the bloo...

Hanagatami
2017
as Old Man at Festival
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the se...

Chūzai keiji SP 2017
2017

The Third Murder
2017
as Watanabe
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

Tatara Samurai
2017
as Emon Yutaka
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samur...

Close-Knit
2017
as Saito
After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

The Ice Ruts
2016
as 타키카와 노부오
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is ...

Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
2016
as Takamitsu Kutsuna
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered b...

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
2015
as Mac
Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. H...

The World of Kanako
2014
as (uncredited)
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his inv...

Seven Weeks
2014
as Mitsuo
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Autumn Special
2012

The Dangerous Slope
2012
as 秋場紀一郎
At a companywide meeting, Bunsaku Akiba sees Toshie, an old girlfriend who is now the secretary and lover of Nishijima, the chairman who has control o...

Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012
as Sumio Shinkai
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 C...

Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu
2012
An omnibus drama that delivers suspense with a bad aftertaste, a number of bad endings with a hopeless aftertaste, and indescribable "unbearable" emot...

Soup Opera
2010
as bus dispatcher
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through a...

Silver Rain
2009

Whistling after Dark
2009
Kuroshi Mayama, age 14, lives alone with his mother Namiko. Though he was just under the age of one when he came to this town with his mom, he remembe...

The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
2009
Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special Unit....

I’m a Cat Stalker
2009
as Cat God
Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu dis...

MW
2009
as Minister Yasuo Mochizuki
A live-action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s mature manga masterpiece MW (pronounced “moo,” like a cow), created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Te...

The Slit-Mouthed Woman 0: The Beginning
2008
Young Misato struggles to survive after suffering severe facial trauma. And yet, after the operation, his face will not retain the after-effects of th...

The Clone Returns Home
2008
as Teshigawara
Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists' expectations, he re...

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
2007
as Ōmura
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband ...

Vanished
2006
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon di...

The Vanished
2006
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

Until the Lights Come Back
2005
as Ryotaro's father
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
as 検事総長
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched mur...

Flower & Snake II
2005
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. Hi...

Canary
2005
as Koichi's Grandfather
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas...

The Sun
2005
as Sakomizu
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

Lupin the Third: Swallowtail Tattoo
2004
as Dolcross (voice)
Fujiko and Lupin are kidnapped by Malkovich, a notorious criminal escaped from Alcatraz who forces Lupin to steal the "Bull's Eye," a precious stone.

安楽椅子探偵と笛吹家の一族
2003

Dark Water
2002
as Kindergarten Principal
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark ...

Shintokumaru
1997
The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.