Known For
Complete Filmography

夏の砂の上
2025

The Young Strangers
2024
Ayato Kazama is repaying his deceased father's debts and caring for his mother, who suffers from a serious illness, while working at a construction si...

Kami no Ko wa Tsubuyaku
2023
One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an avi...

闇に咲く花
2023

Sorezore no Hana
2022

Roleless
2022
Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only p...

VAMP SHOW
2022

海の見える理髪店
2022

Asakusa Kid
2021
as Hachiro Azuma
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.

Gift of Fire
2021
Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing r...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who g...

Seijo Story: 60 Years of Making Films
2019
as Self
After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce acclaim...

The Master of Funerals
2019
as Shingo Ogata
Alumni of Ibaraki High School learn that one of their classmates is killed in an accident on the tenth anniversary of their graduation, necessitating ...

Evil and The Mask
2018
Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect his ...

Innocent Curse
2017
A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious...

March Goes out Like a Lamb
2017
as Issa Matsumoto
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an u...

March Comes In Like a Lion
2017
as Issa Matsumoto
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by hims...

Cruel Opera Litchi Hikari Club Stage Play
2016
as Nico
This is the second theatrical play adaptation of the popular manga series “Lychee Light Club.”

The King of Minami Returns: Scholarship and Oreore Fraud
2016
Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money.

Chateau de la Reine
2015
as Mitsuo Togawa
The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel there. The hotel has been in existence for 300 years. ...
A Woman from Ashio
2014
A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident i...

RoomMate
2013
as Shinichi Hasegawa
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move...

How Selfish I Am!
2013
as Hideki
Even though Kumiko realizes that she won’t be able to patch things up with her former lover, she ends up preparing a meal for him. Though she lives on...

Song of the Beginning
2013
Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to g...

Why Don't You Play in Hell?
2013
as Detective Tanaka
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.

I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow
2013
as Hige
41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his ...

Kyokyo Jitsujitsu
2012
At a job interview, Makoto tries to impress the interviewer by telling a lie: "I rode around Japan on stilts. His girlfriend, Nozomi, runs out of pati...

Peak: The Rescuers
2011
Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experi...

Patisserie Coin De Rue
2011
as Chihiro Umi
A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is det...

Fireworks from the Heart
2010
as Atsushi Kobayashi
On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for ...

Dead Rising: The Movie
2010
as Dan
Live action film "Shibyo Osen Dead Rising" based on the zombie action game "Dead Rising." Set in Japan and directed by Keiji Inafune. Produced by Capc...

Making of Love Exposure
2010
as Self
Making of documentary for Sion Sono's magnum opus "Love Exposure".

Rookies the Movie: Graduation
2009
as Shinobu Imaoka
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Compo...

Love Exposure
2009
as Takahiro
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn in...

Peeping Tom
2008
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was hi...

After School
2008
A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappea...

Be a Man!! Samurai School
2008
as Hidemaro Gokukoji
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts be...

Kitokito!
2007
as Masato
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.

The Letters
2006
as Yusuke Terao
How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime ...

Rainbow Song
2006
as Jiro Hattori
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollectio...

Vanished
2006
as Nobuhisa
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...

Pacchigi!
2005
as Jae-dok Park
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a ra...

School Wars: Hero
2004
Set in the mid-1970s, the film is based on the true story of Yoshiharu Yamaguchi, a teacher and former Japanese international rugby union player, who ...