Eiji Okuda

Born: 1950-03-18

Eiji Okuda (奥田瑛二 Okuda Eiji, born 18 March 1950) is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in Sen no Rikyu. He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awards for Like a Rolling Stone.


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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

as Aritomo Yamagata
Released: 2012-08-25

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an...

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Bedtime Eyes

as uncredited
Released: 1987-04-25

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship...

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The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting

as Matsuzaki
Released: 1994-11-19

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda), a racing tipster for a sports paper. In...

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Yamato

as uncredited
Released: 2005-12-17

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the...

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Detective Chinatown 3

as Watanabe Masaru's father
Released: 2021-02-12

Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in...

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Detective Chinatown 3

as uncredited
Released: 2021-02-12

Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in...

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Minazuki

as uncredited
Released: 1999-10-23

Akira's wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only...

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Diner

as Coffie
Released: 2019-07-05

A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of...

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An Adolescent

as Tomokawa
Released: 2001-09-28

Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend...

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May Love Be Restored

as Seijun Kunugida
Released: 1980-04-29

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

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If Cats Disappeared from the World

as Postman's Father
Released: 2016-05-14

A postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. A devil...

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1921

as uncredited
Released: 2021-07-01

Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the...

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A Spoiling Rain

as Sawai Seiji
Released: 2023-11-10

The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an...

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Falling Camellia

as uncredited
Released: 2018-09-28

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the...

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One in a Hundred Thousand

as Haruo Sakuragi
Released: 2020-11-27

Rino Sakuragi (Yuna Taira) is a high school student. She is good friends with Ren Kiritani (Alan...

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Peaceful Death

as uncredited
Released: 2020-07-25

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Black Kiss

as Inspector Minezaki
Released: 2004-10-01

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small...

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スペシャルドラマ 必殺仕事人

as uncredited
Released: 2018-01-07

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Milocrorze: A Love Story

as Nakyamura
Released: 2011-02-18

Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead...

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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

as uncredited
Released: 1979-04-28

Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an...

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Villain

as uncredited
Released: 2012-11-30

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The Pianist

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-31

Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese...

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64: Part 2

as Arakida
Released: 2016-06-01

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is...

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Death of a Tea Master

as Honkakubo
Released: 1989-10-07

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve...

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Black Jack

as uncredited
Released: 2024-06-30

Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"

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Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

as Jack (voice)
Released: 1985-06-22

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his...

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64: Part 1

as Arakida
Released: 2016-05-07

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is...

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The Sea and Poison

as Suguro
Released: 1986-10-17

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity...

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Beyond the Shining Sea

as Aro Imaizumi
Released: 1986-07-12

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...

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Blood Bead

as uncredited
Released: 2015-08-28

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a...

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Snowland Revisited

as Kunio Shibano
Released: 2002-01-19

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets...

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Runin: Banished

as uncredited
Released: 2004-10-01

In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society....

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Before the Vigil

as uncredited
Released: 2013-01-15

Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even...

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Stay Mum

as uncredited
Released: 2024-06-07

Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living...

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No More Easy Life

as Hashimoto
Released: 1979-12-25

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more...

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Akira and Akira

as Kazuo Haneda
Released: 2022-08-26

Akira Yamazaki and Akira Kaido are new employees at Industrial Central Bank. They are both...

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Body and Soul

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-18

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share...

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The Wicked Reporter

as uncredited
Released: 1993-07-19

More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his...

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Be Sure to Share

as Tetsuji Kita
Released: 2009-06-01

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he...

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A Yakuza in Love

as Kenichi Tasaka
Released: 1997-09-06

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely...

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Deep River

as Otsu
Released: 1995-04-01

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

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Luminous Moss

as Ishikawa
Released: 1992-04-25

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before...

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Goodbye Cruel World

as uncredited
Released: 2022-09-09

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the...

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Wheels and Axle

as Yoshio
Released: 2023-08-03

Manami was born into a wealthy family, but she hates her family lineage as fake. She meets Jun,...

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Dare to Stop Us

as Kinshiro Kuzui
Released: 2018-10-13

In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes...

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Chicken Phoenix

as uncredited
Released: 2022-04-15

Childhood friends Sota, and Rakuto are on a journey to find the Phoenix, which shouldn't exist....

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Les Misérables

as uncredited
Released: 2019-01-06

This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of...

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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark

as uncredited
Released: 1993-10-08

Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

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A Long Walk

as Detective Iwai
Released: 2006-04-01

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old...

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Last Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1995-06-03

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII....

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The Sea Is Watching

as Ginji
Released: 2002-07-27

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers....

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The Last Hero

as Muneyuki Ogata
Released: 1982-12-18

The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on...

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Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History

as uncredited
Released: 2003-06-14

The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother...

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The Old Capital

as uncredited
Released: 2016-12-03

Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned...

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The Mother Returns? AI's Will

as Noda Seiji
Released: 2019-01-05

Naoto wants to end his relationship with his stepfather Seiji legally. With this purpose in...

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Born Bone Born

as Nobutsuna
Released: 2018-07-21

A visibly pregnant Yuko returns home to find her family still grappling with the recent passing...

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Prison Gate Island

as Priest Ryonen
Released: 2016-11-19

In 1946, on a fictional island called Gokumon-tou, located in the Inner Sea of Seto, the famous...

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This Country’s Sky

as uncredited
Released: 2015-08-01

Set in Tokyo, Japan near the end of World War II. 19-year-old Satoko (Fumi Nikaido) lives with...

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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor

as Kiichi Haze
Released: 2016-10-05

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the...

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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie

as Shuichi Otomo
Released: 2021-12-30

Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal...

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An Artist of the Floating World

as Matsuda
Released: 2019-03-30

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art...

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修羅の花道

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-14

A period of rapid economic growth. The Sanno-kai, a giant organization in the Kansai region, has...

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Through the Night

as uncredited
Released: 2002-11-02

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the...

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Dirty Hearts

as Coronel Watanabe
Released: 2012-07-21

In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong....

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Yokohama Story

as Yoshinori Tanabe
Released: 2013-11-16

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the...

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Bad Guy Beach

as Father
Released: 1995-10-27

A private detective called "Kiss Shiro", One day, he is shocked to see a rape video brought by...

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The Wicked Reporter 3: The One That Got Away

as uncredited
Released: 1996-06-22

A couple years have passed, Matsuzaki is divorced and has a daughter and is still up to his old...

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Shikibu monogatari

as Toyoichi Otomo
Released: 1990-10-06

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial...

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Oshin

as uncredited
Released: 1984-03-17

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields...

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Wet Red Thread

as uncredited
Released: 2005-08-06

Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.

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Pride

as Ichirou Kiyose
Released: 1998-05-23

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime...

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Like a Rolling Stone

as uncredited
Released: 1994-10-01

Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been...

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300 Million

as uncredited
Released: 2010-07-03

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is...

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The Cold-Hearted Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1984-11-17

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

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Onibi: The Fire Within

as Myojin
Released: 1997-04-19

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight....

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Lost Paradise in Tokyo

as Soichi Komada
Released: 2010-09-18

Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just...

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Kamachi

as Shuichi Yamada
Released: 2004-03-13

Biopic of poet and painter Kamachi Yamada.

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Kitanai yatsu

as uncredited
Released: 1995-08-12

Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.

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A Story of Modern Chivalry

as Katsumi Koba
Released: 1997-10-08

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of...

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修羅の花道2

as uncredited
Released: 2012-03-25

Takamasa Ishida returned to Yokosuka after the war. Ishida, who met the boss Gihachiro Oshizuka...

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Majutsu wa Sasayaku

as uncredited
Released: 2011-09-09

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three...

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Jesus is My Boss

as Toshio Shima
Released: 2001-09-01

A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the...

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Kumo to Saru no Kazoku

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-01

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Déracine

as Jouji
Released: 2004-11-27

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless...

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Bastoni: The Stick Handlers

as uncredited
Released: 2002-03-16

Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese...

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Apron Stage

as uncredited
Released: 1996-02-10

About a group of itinerant actors.

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Goaisatsu

as uncredited
Released: 1991-01-23

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

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Arigatou

as uncredited
Released: 1996-07-20

Erotic drama based on the comic by Naoki Yamamoto.

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巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的

as 羽瀬喜一 東京地検特捜部・副部長
Released: 2017-10-04

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Surgical Designs in Flames

as uncredited
Released: 1986-05-24

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...

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Death on Gokumon Island

as Ryouzen
Released: 2016-11-19

Shortly after the end of the war, Kindaichi Kōsuke, visiting a remote island in the Seto Inland...

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Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam

as Tamio Koizumi
Released: 2015-10-17

After Misao divorced, she moved to Vietnam. She has always admired the country. There, she works...

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Investigation of a Typical Love

as Detective
Released: 1992-03-21

The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who...

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Revival Blues

as Yosuke
Released: 2004-10-08

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Noukagaku Bengoshi Kaidou Azusa Doubt

as Kashima Kentaro
Released: 2021-04-12

The story describes how Kaidou Azusa, a practising lawyer and a special appointment associate...

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Himawari

as 赤松元基
First aired: 1996-04-01

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Hana no Ran

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-04-03

The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin...

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水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

as 本位田又八
First aired: 1984-04-04

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Burning Flower

as uncredited
First aired: 2015-01-04

Fumi becomes Genzui Kusaka’s wife. During the turbulent times of the closing days for the...

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Yae's Sakura

as Shōzan Sakuma
First aired: 2013-01-06

Yae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story...

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Black Leather Notebook

as Kenji Narabayashi
First aired: 2017-07-20

Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents,...

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99.9 Criminal Lawyer

as Shuichi Otomo(大友 修一)
First aired: 2016-04-17

Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little...

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Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~

as uncredited
First aired: 2016-10-22

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Dear Father

as Tsuyama
First aired: 2007-01-11

Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of...

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Garden of the Wind

as Tatsuya Futakami
First aired: 2008-10-09

The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was...

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Destiny-Like Love

as Fukami Yoshitaka
First aired: 2016-09-23

During their childhood, a little girl and a boy made a pledge to meet again. Now at the age of...

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Keijirō Engawa Nikki

as Mamushino Yoshitsugu
First aired: 2004-08-27

The time is the early 1800s. Keijiro Moriguchi loses his only daughter, Michiyo, in an...

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Dakishimetai!

as uncredited
First aired: 1988-07-07

Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's...

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Unexploded Bomb

as uncredited
First aired: 2018-06-10

A press conference is held by a large electrical manufacturer. The press conference discusses...

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Enban Sensou Bankid

as Noboru Tenma / Bankid Pegasus
First aired: 1976-10-03

Enban Sensou Bankid is the title of a tokusatsu series of classic made by Toho. The series,...

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The Tempest

as Son Shishi
First aired: 2011-07-17

Set in the Ryukyu Kingdom during the latter days of the Tokugawa shogunate, a woman takes the...

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Black Leather Notebook

as Kenji Narabayashi
First aired: 2017-07-20

The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.

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Keisei Saimin no Otoko

as Iwashita Kiyochika
First aired: 2015-08-22

A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...

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Haru: Sogo Shosha no Onna

as uncredited
First aired: 2019-10-01

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Reed of Glass

as Kiichiro Koda
First aired: 2015-02-21

Setsuko Koda is a woman who is married to her mother's ex-lover. Events unfold as her husband...

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金曜日には花を買って

as uncredited
First aired: 1986-10-10

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Flat Broke Mom

as Toshiaki Tenma
First aired: 2017-08-01

Yuzuko Nanakusa was betrayed by her husband. She now raises her son and daughter as a single...

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Kanzen Muzai

as Hirayama Satoshi
First aired: 2024-07-07

A lawyer is selected to be in charge of a retrial for a case surrounding the abduction and...

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