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Complete Filmography

Tokyo MER: Nankai Mission
2025
as Shusei Kugayama
A massive volcanic eruption has occurred on a remote island in the southern seas, creating an unprecedented disaster. The Nankai MER members must go s...

Cells at Work!
2024
as Doctor
A novice red blood cell and a relentless white blood cell work together to protect their human from invading germs, pathogens and other threats.

Masked Hearts
2023
26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by an older...

The Moon
2023
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room: The Movie
2023
as Akiharu Kugayama
The individuals that comprise the Tokyo MER team rush to on-site disasters and accidents, performing life-saving treatment thanks to the OR equipped w...

Tokyo MER: The Sumida River Mission
2023
as Shusei Kugayama
Half a year has passed since the official approval of TOKYO MER. Kitami is racking his brains over the issue of a second doctor to replace Otowa, who ...

Goodbye Cruel World
2022
Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang ...

Ending Cut
2022
as 渡辺 正人
Sakota Yui is a senior high school student living in a seaside town. Her parents own a beauty salon and she dreams of going to the big city for colleg...

Usogui
2022
as Masahiro Onodera
Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers ...

In the Wake
2021
as Shinonome
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence f...

森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」
2021

Tales of the Bizarre: 2021 Summer Special
2021
An omnibus special comprised of four segments: >> Story 1: "Ato 15 Byo de Shinu" (あと15秒で死ぬ) Pharmacist Mikami Megumi, working late, finds herself fr...

A Madder Red
2021
as Arishima Ko
7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son Jun...

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021
as Chief Uramura
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge...

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
2021
as Kyohei Kamioka
At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to k...

The Sun Stands Still
2021
as Mantaro Kawakami
Kazuhiko Takano and Ryoichi Taoka are industrial spies. A conspiracy exits behind the technology which can shake the political and economic world in J...

Murderous Intent's Journey the Movie
2021
as Yoshiyuki Murooka
Takaki runs a small cardboard processing company. One day, he killed himself. He did this because of Yoshiyuki. Yoshiyuki is the CEO of a company that...

Silent Tokyo
2020
as Takeshi Isoyama
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for th...

Living in the Sky
2020
as Masahiro
In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same apartment bu...

All the Things We Never Said
2020
as Tashiro
Atsuhisa Yamada is an ordinary man, with a wife and a 5-year-old daughter. He is close to his childhood friend Takeda. One day, Atsuhisa Yamada leaves...

Daughters
2020
as Hirotada Namiki
Two women are flat-mates and friends in Tokyo. One is an event manager and the other works in the world of fashion marketing. The result shows that on...

Project Dreams - How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar
2020
Doi of the Maeda Construction Company's Advertising group has little passion for his work. One day the group's leader Asagawa declares, "Let's build t...

The Tragedy of W
2019
The story of a rich family torn apart by the murder of their patriarch, and their heiress being accused of the crime, becomes a play and is acted out ...

Shadowfall
2019
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is fac...

The Flowers of Evil
2019
A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of oth...

When a Tree Falls
2019
as Tadayuki Ishibashi
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into h...

Masquerade Hotel
2019
as Testuro Takura
Three murder cases take place in Tokyo. Numbers are left at the murder scenes, possibly hinting at where the next murder will take place. An investiga...

Journey of the Sky Goddess
2019
as Kaburagi
Takako Kojima works as an announcer in Tokyo, Japan. She is tired of living in Tokyo and she doesn't see a bright future for herself. One day, she is ...

Shiori
2018
as Minoru Takano
Living away from his family, a physical therapist sees his father entering the hospital he works at and watches him getting weaker, as his other patie...

Every Day a Good Day
2018
as Noriko's Father
A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's ther...

Whale-shaped Dream
2018
Kujirai Taichi has been selected to be the leader of the staff at the Taiji Municipal Whale Museum. Despite enlisting the aid of Shiraishi Yui who cam...

Walking with My Grandma
2018
as Takumi Tanaka
Natsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father. Her grandmother Kiyo, who raised her since a young age, ...

Poetry Angel
2017
as Yasushi Tamaki
After Tsutomu Tamaki graduated from high school, he has worked at his family farm and raises ume (plum). He becomes interested in a class for “poetry ...

The Age of Shadows
2016
as Higashi
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explos...

Shin Godzilla
2016
as Yajima : JSDF Vice Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Office
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 of vol...

The Sun
2016
as Seiji Soga
The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were infe...

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016
as Kusakabe
Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza ...

Hana's Miso Soup
2015
as doctor Kayama
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and the...

Orange
2015
as Koji Nakano
A girl mysteriously receives advice from her future self and as a result her group of friends, along with a newly arrived, troubled classmate, learn h...
Ghost Writer's Homicide Coverage 2 - Writing About a Celebrity's Crime
2015

Gattan Gattan Soredemo Go
2015
as Morita Tetsuharu
Upon the death of her mother, Ito Kana, who is currently working for a living in Tokyo, decides to return to her hometown of Okuhida, Gifu. Due to her...

Gonin Saga
2015
as Shigeru Hisamatsu
Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occur...

Deadman Inferno
2015
as Takashi
Hiroya Munakata is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger broth...

Shanti Days: 365 Days, Happy Breath
2014
as Chief Editor Wakao
21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two ...

The Place Where the Sun Sits
2014
as Nojima
Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reuni...

The Vancouver Asahi
2014
as Tony Shishido
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of thei...

My Hawaiian Discovery
2014
Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii. Aft...

Kikaider REBOOT
2014
as Gilbert Kamisaki / Hakaider
In the near future, the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots. Dr. Komyoji, t...

Our Family
2014
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal can...
Saitama Kazoku
2013
A Japanese drama directed by Keihiro Kanyama.

The Great Passage
2013
as Murakoshi
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage....

Kamen Rider Fourze: FINAL EPISODE
2013
as Mitsuaki Gamou
Kamen Rider Fourze: FINAL EPISODE is the director's cut version of the combined episodes 47 & 48 with an additional audio commentary from Ryuki Takaha...

Kamen Rider Fourze: Final Stage
2013
as Mitsuaki Gamou
Later released on DVD, Kamen Rider Fourze: Final Stage is the final stage show of Kamen Rider Fourze.

By Rule of Crow's Thumb
2012
as Higuchi
Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to g...

Fly with the Gold
2012
as Suenaga
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold ...

Kamen Rider Fourze: Climax Episode
2012
as Mitsuaki Gamou
After the 39th and 40th Astroswitches are developed, Amanogawa and Subaruboshi High Schools hold a test transfer of some of AGHS's students to SBHS, w...

Kamen Rider Fourze The Movie: It’s Space Time, Everybody!
2012
as Mitsuaki Gamou
The Earth is threatened by the mysterious Space Ironmen brothers, and the Kamen Rider Club goes to the space to avoid them to be awakened. However, an...

My Uncle
2012

The Wings of the Kirin
2012
as Yukio Kodake
A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconsc...

My Way
2011
as Takakura
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in...

Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO Movie Wars Mega Max
2011
as Mitsuaki Gamō
Movie War Mega Max featured the first seven Kamen Riders (Kamen Rider 1, 2, V3, Riderman, X, Amazon, and Stronger) to commemorate the franchise's 40th...

Life Back Then
2011
as Huruta
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments....

Hayabusa
2011
as Osamu KIta
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples fr...

Brutus's Heart
2011
as Shinichi Munakata
An elite researcher (Tatsuya Fujiwara) dreams of committing the perfect crime.

Yakuza Weapon
2011
as Kurawaki
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulti...

Happy Together –All About My Dog–
2011
as Shinichi Yanagita
A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.

Flarella
2010
The experiences of a woman as she passes through several life stages.

X Game
2010
as Professor Akama
After a childhood friend's suicide, Hideaki and his former classmates reunite to pay their respects. Soon after, a DVD, marked X arrives revealing a m...

Tokyo Island
2010
as Takashi
Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.

影の交渉人2 ナニワ人情列伝 秘密を知る男
2010

Randebû!
2010
Meguru, a young woman, comes to the big city in pursuit of her acting dreams. On her way to an audition, she stumbles on a ringing cell phone lying in...

MW
2009
as Matsuo
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...

Non-ko
2008
as Udagawa
Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-d...

Nekonade
2008
as Koshiro Tatsumi
The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.

Death Note: L Change the WorLd
2008
as Kimihiko Nikaido
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are onl...

Wish Upon a Star
2005
as Hiroshige
Japanese TV film

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005
as Kazemoto
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected,...

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
2005
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutosh...

The Lakeside Murder Case
2004
as Takashi Sekiya
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam...

Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
2003
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However...

Gozamareji
2003
Director

Ginji - The Slasher
2003
as Muneyasu Kuroda (young)
In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji Sonesaki (Riki Takeuchi) is given the nickname of Gi...

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
2002
as Mitsuru Fukuda
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for he...

Gun Crazy: Episode 1: A Woman from Nowhere
2002
as Mr. Tojo
A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place.

Conflict of Aomori
2002
A Yakuza war breaks out to control the Tohoku region.

Vengeance for Sale
2002
as Shinkuro Wakiya
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Suker...
Gift of the Magi
2001
Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

TOKYO G.P.
2001
Two musician friends must deal with yakuzas during one long night.
Forensics Classroom Incident Files 13
2001
as Shu Tomonaga
Izumi, a woman who is troubled by dreams of the same murder every night... Saki is asked to conduct an autopsy on the body in that dream! In her dream...

Kaza-hana
2001
as Shigeyuki Tomita
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

Dogfight: Stray Dogs' Elegy
2000
A cocaine deal is about to go down between yakuza and Hong Kong triad gangsters and a small time porn peddler is used as a mole by a dirty cop.

Freeze Me
2000
as Atsushi Kojima
A woman named Chihiro who was raped by several men five years earlier learns that the perpetrators intend to repeat the crime.

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.

Hysteric
2000
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a shor...

Bad Money Hunting
2000
A man disappears, leaving a large amount of debt.

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 4
2000
The second of three V-Cinema sequels.

Dead or Alive
1999
as Chen
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to brin...

Black Angel 2
1999
as Mama
Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the wa...

Cash Hunt: The Last Exit
1999

Shura ga Yuku 10
1999

Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!
1999
Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if he...

The Washing Machine
1999
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works pa...

The Fox with Gentle Shoulders
1999
The former legendary assassin, now living as a bartender after washing his hands of a violent past, unleashes the hidden violence within. Known as th...

Black Angel
1998
as Narusawa
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained...

Mobsters' Confessions
1998
as Jay
Small-time con man Jiro makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko, a refugee...

The Spiral
1998
as Miyashita
A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death...

Naniwa Chūshingura
1997

Moon Affair: Mysterious Moonlit Night File
1997
A two-story omnibus that tells a mysterious story that happened on a moonlit night.

Haunted School
1997
A male student tries to rape his female teacher in the science room. She uses chemicals to fight him off but they mix and cause her body to disappear....

One More Time, One More Chance
1996
as Rihito
A romance that takes place one summer in the countryside between an out-of-job musician, Hanabi, and a girl, Hibana.

I Am Juice
1996
as Shinji Ichijyo
Two female lovers meet in a college class. After graduation, they run a temp company which is the front for a detective agency dealing in blackmail in...

Gonin 2
1996
as Yoichi
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and...

Symphony of the Sensual Wife Karuizawa
1996
Etsuko, the wife of the conglomerate Okazaki family, has come to Karuizawa to escape the summer heat. Her love for her husband has cooled down and she...
Killing Angel Muhan
1995
The story follows Muhan, the female assassin introduced in 1985's Dream Crimes, who was originally based on Takashi Ishii's manga character (unlike in...

Gonin
1995
as Shigeru Hisamatsu
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by co...

Angel Guts: Red Flash
1994
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, havin...

Hero Interview
1994
as Toshio Ishii
Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she...

Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
1993
A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to f...

Patio
1992
As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to the southern island, but Shinichi suddenly disappear...

Patio: Part 2
1992
as Masaki Terada

Patio: Part 1
1992
as Masaki Terada

One Bowl of Kakesoba
1992
as Elder brother
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One ...

Two Magical Nights
1991
This 'Young V-Cinema' film was created for young people, turning from the action of Toei V-cinema. A pop love story featuring a veteran actor and a u...

Shirayuri Girls' Academy Western Archery Club: A Silver Target
1991
An archery club on retreat in Hokkaido is forced to rescue their teacher who is kidnapped.

Strawberry Times 3: Koi no sanda bōru sakusen
1990
as Nakagawa

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
as Taro Takahashi
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
Hanabi migawari kubi no otoko
1988

Last Romance
1988
as Sung Ga Ming
Best friends So-so and Nancy fall in love with the same handsome Japanese boy, who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.

The West Tako Cheerleaders
1987
as Takaaki Gamo
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.

Ellie My Love
1987
Based on the comic by Mako Takami.

Immortal Story
1986
as Nakamura
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. ...

The Sound of the Waves
1985

Tokimeki Coast Story
1984
Set in the fishing port of Shingu, Nankishu, it depicts a young man aiming to become a professional surfer.

Dreamy Fifteen
1980
as Yusuke Tashiro
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school ...

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