Known For
Complete Filmography

My Teacher
2017
as Shoichi Hashiba
Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—although surrounded by love "experts"—until one day ...
Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata
2017
as Detective Nishimoto
Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former c...

Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains
2017
as Detective Nishimoto
Detective Kamei of the First Investigation Division receives a request from lawyer Shinichi Nakamura, the son of his deceased close friend, to re-inve...

Tenshi no Iru Toshokan
2017
as Soichiro Tanaka
Sakura, who just graduated from a university, begins to work at a library in Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture. She is flustered with her new job and unfamil...

Black Widow Business
2016
as Taiji Tsumura
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marri...

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route
2016
as Detective Nishimoto
The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apar...
Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri
2015

Revenge Court
2015
as Shunichi Naka

Memories of Mom
2014
as Shiro Omori
After years of trying, Kyoko and her husband Takehiro are finally pregnant. But their joy at the prospect of becoming parents ends suddenly when they ...

About Her Brother
2010
as Doctor Endo
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to ...

Genkai in a Black Company
2009
as Sakushi Kuroi
After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He la...

Kanikôsen
2009
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not co...

Romantic Prelude
2009
as Tea Shop Manager Hori
An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls...

はじめましてトーマスシリーズ いつもなかよしふたごのきかんしゃ
2009

Operation Love Special
2008
as Takanori Yoshida

Ochanoma Transformation
2007
A short film with live-action special effects made as a parody of the American live-action movie version 'Transformers'.

Gakkou no Kaidan
2007

LoveDeath
2006
A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A viole...

Forbidden Siren
2006
as Shinichi Amamoto
A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give the...

Hold Up Down
2005
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, inclu...

In the Pool
2005
as Professor Samata
A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

2004
as Mysterious Man
A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.

天国のダイスケへ〜箱根駅伝が結んだ絆〜
2003

Bonobono: Secret of the Kumomo Tree
2002
as Sunadorineko-san
Bonobono: Kumomo no Ki no Koto was the second theatrical Bonobono movie, released by Amuse Pictures in theaters in Japan on August 10, 2002. It was do...
Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
2001
as Detective Nishimoto
While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Stat...
The Woman Who Disappeared From Her Red Car
1998
as Detective Nishimoto
Katsura Aya (Shiratori Yasuyo), a young and popular actress, is kidnapped. Igarashi (Honda Hirotaro), the president of the production company, calls T...

Love & Pop
1998
as Hiromi's Father
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. ...

Kids Return
1996
as Homeroom Teacher
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer,...

Trouble-Shooters
1995
A man (Koji Matoba) working for a group that solves others' problems searches for the men that raped two young women.

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
1993
A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.
さらわれたい女
1992
A man who left his corporate job to start a handyman business. He helps a customer stage a fake kidnapping, and ends up being pursued as a murderer.

Mr. Moonlight
1991
Time Traveling Samurai

Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
1991
as The Man in the Kiyasuyado
During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo...

Kim's War
1991
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the pre...

I Want To Grow Up: Too Many Rules
1991

Megumi no Sekai
1990
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is qu...

A Sandcastle Model Family Home
1989
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their ho...

Dogra Magra
1988
as Journalist
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious d...

Mystery of the Coral Seas
1988
as Yosuke Hasuda
A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole ti...

This Story of Love
1987
Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honneamise
1987
as Shirotsugh Lhadatt (voice)
On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage w...

Murder on Raicho 9
1987
as Detective Nishimoto
Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins an...

Whisper of the Spirits
1987

Black Board
1986
as Police
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns ou...

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985
as Man of Shopping Bag
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, ...

F2 Grand Prix
1984
as Yukihiro Murakami
Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.

Doctor Mambo & Kaitou Jibako: Uchuu yori Ai wo Komete
1983
as 怪盗ジバコ
The dashing Dr. Mambo and his unlikely sidekick, Jibako the thief, help Princess Laura, former ruler of Eden, to regain her birthright from the usurpi...

Distant Thunder
1981
as Tetsuo Wada
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to k...

Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-r...
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Another Side
1980
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" ...

Heaven Sent
1979
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a s...

No More Easy Life
1979
as Tsuneo
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs tha...

The Strangling
1979
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi...

Youth - Part II
1979
Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and bea...

New - No Longer Human
1978
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern J...
Tokyo kara kita onna no ko
1978

Orange Road Express
1978
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the...

Aspiration
1977

Tsuma to onna no aida
1976
as Mitani

Preparation for the Festival
1975
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
1975
as Criminal
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
Onna no Natsu
1975
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.

My Way
1974
as Dr. Gondo
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy...

Bitterness of Youth
1974
as Seijiro Ono
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Second Chance
1973
A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.

Suzume Iro Doki
N/A
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her d...