Hidetoshi Nishijima
Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hidetoshi Nishijima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Wind Rises
as Honjô (voice)A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied...
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Shin Ultraman
as Kimio TamuraThe Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly...
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Drive My Car
as Yūsuke KafukuYusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss...
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Dolls
as MatsumotoDolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action...
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Penguin Highway
as Aoyama's Father (voice)A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in...
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Creepy
as Takakura KoichiAfter having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective...
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Genome Hazard
as Ishigami TaketoIshigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call...
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Casshern
as Lieutenant Colonel KamijoFifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia -...
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House of Himiko
as HosokawaSaori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned...
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Tony Takitani
as NarratorWhen technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for...
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The Last Recipe
as Naotaro YamagataA famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
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Goodbye, Someday
as YutakaHigashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months,...
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Voices in the Wind
as MorioIn her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the...
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Kubi
as Akechi MitsuhideLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against...
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
as Ryota Akitsu, Captain of IbukiThe story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing...
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Pacchigi! Love & Peace
as uncreditedIn 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
as Shiro KakeiKenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his...
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Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car
as SelfSpanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members...
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Falling Camellia
as Uneme SakakibaraDuring the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the...
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Strawberry Night
as Kazuo KikutaReiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department....
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Su-ki-da
as YosukeTwo youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically,...
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
as Shingorou IkushimaThe year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun,...
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Cut
as ShujiShuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that...
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Serpent's Path
as uncreditedFrench-language remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film of the same name
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Oz Land
as Yoshiko OzukaKurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is...
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While the Women Are Sleeping
as uncreditedKenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to...
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Loft
as Koichi KijimaA writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is...
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Sayonara Midori-chan
as YutakaNaive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a...
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
as Yuhki Isayama / YujiAt the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the...
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
as uncreditedThere is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with...
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Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
as Koichi HayamiPhysician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon...
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License to Live
as Yutaka YoshiiYutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years...
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Mozu The Movie
as Naotake KurakiLone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of...
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
as Kazumasa HarimaKaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once...
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Canary
as Akira IzawaTwo children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas...
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Prodigy
as Koichiro NaruseNaruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even...
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Last Scene
as Ken Mihara (1965)Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely...
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Zero Focus
as Kenichi UbaraSpurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn...
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Poison Berry in my Brain
as Chairman YoshidaIchiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even...
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Strawberry Night
as Kazuo KikutaReiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department....
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MARKS
as Yoshitaka MoriAssistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member....
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Memories Corner
as uncreditedYoung French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big...
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Silent Tokyo
as Shinobu SetaOn Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set...
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Tokyo.Sora
as Editor MichiharaSix women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
as uncredited***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase...
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Love/Juice
as SakamotoTwenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko....
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Chloe
as DoctorKotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment....
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
as Moriya JunThis is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly...
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
as RenjiA married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and...
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Kanikôsen
as AsakawaOn board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under...
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Ghost Pub
as KoichiOne night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise...
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All About Suomi
as uncreditedSuomi, the wife of a wealthy man, suddenly disappears. After learning of Suomi's disappearance,...
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Goodbye Cruel World
as uncreditedAnzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the...
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The Cold-Blooded Trap
as uncreditedPsycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
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More Painful than Rain
as KurasawaAyami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and...
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Peeping Tom
as uncreditedTwo holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer,...
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Mario
as MarioIt's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
as uncreditedThe super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest...
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Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
as uncreditedA romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs...
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Three Year Delivery
as ToruFuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her...
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
as Jun MoriyaTwo men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
as Kyohei NagumoHiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal...
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Umi de no hanashi
as Hiroshi HironoKaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She...
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Going Home
as HaruoHaruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his...
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Broken Heart
as YosukeEight love stories start and end in an amusement park.
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2/Duo
as KeiThe slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.
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Fish on Land
as SeijiA college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip...
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The Artful Dodgers
as uncreditedThree young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York
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Seraphim Night
as uncreditedDirected by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a...
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
as Toshio IwasakiIn the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional...
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People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
as MasuoIt's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of...
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The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
as himselfNHK TV Special
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A Painful Pair
as RyoRyo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their...
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Making of Drive My Car
as SelfProgram about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with...
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Kura
as Takeda RyotaIn spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a...
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Vacation
as Shinichi KanedaThe prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to...
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async - first light
as uncreditedA collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
as uncreditedOne day, Shiro's all-time favorite idol Mami Mitsuya suddenly appears right in front of him!...
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Tokyo Rendezvous
as Takashi NogamiA salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
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Somewhere on Earth
as YutakaYutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment...
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Dogs & Cats
as FurutaSuzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves...
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Diary from the past
as uncreditedA writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written...
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In The Still Of The Night
as 山形A drama depicting the whereabouts of two pairs of lovers who meet at a cafe at night and...
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Junjo Kirari
as Suji TogoThe 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer
as Kyohei Nagumo（南雲 恭平）Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little...
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Welcome Home, Mone
as Asaoka SatoruBorn in September of 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in...
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Kamen Rider Black Sun
as Kotaro Minami/Kamen Rider Black SunThe year is 2022. It is an era of chaos, half a century after the government announced the...
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Toto Nee-chan
as uncreditedIn 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a...
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Strawberry Night
as Kazuo KikutaReiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Devil's Kiss
as uncreditedMisao is studying to be a manga artist, Mariko is a university student but getting money by...
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Team Batista no Eikō
as 速水晃一There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes...
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Guilty Flag
as uncreditedRyōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a...
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Yae's Sakura
as Kakuma YamamotoYae no Sakura is a 2013 Japanese television series. It is the 52nd NHK taiga drama. The story...
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99 Days with the Superstar
as 나미키 코헤이 역She's an attractive superstar that everyone feels very far away from, yet she has a secret...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
as Shiro KakeiKakei Shiro is a lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is a good cook and a meticulous and...
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Sayonara, Maestro!
as Shunpei NatsumeEver since gifted conductor Natsume’s wife and daughter left him five years ago, he has isolated...
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Riding a Unicorn
as Satoshi KotoriDetermined to revive her startup's dwindling success, an innovative young CEO hires a...
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CRISIS: Special Security Squad
as Saburo TamaruInami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation...
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Detective Akechi Kogoro
as Akechi KogoroDangerous hacker group “Phantom 20” is known internationally. They begin an attack on Hikari...
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Painless - Eye Can Diagnose
as 為頼 英介（ためより えいすけ）Eisuke Tameyori is a middle-aged private practice physician. He has the ability to diagnose...
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Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
as Shiro MakiModern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI...
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Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
as uncreditedThe series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The...
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Always Smiling
as Kazuya YuzuharaYumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later,...
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The Ordinary People
as Junichiro MatsuokaUpon entering college, Narumi forms the Asunaro Group along with four other boys and girls. In...
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North Light
as uncreditedA family asks a man to build a house he would like to live in himself. However, when it is...
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Maison de Police
as Soichiro NatsumeHiyori Makino is a rookie detective who is passionate about her work. One day, a video clip...
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Waltz of Her Heart
as Minazuki ShinyaBrought up in an orphanage, Haoto, a young blind girl, was teased and discriminated against, and...
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Blanket Cats
as uncreditedShiina Hideaki has been searching for new owners for the cats that his late wife had reared,...
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Caution, Hazardous Wife
as Yuki IsayamaNami Isayama met a man through a blind date and married him. She and her husband moved to a...
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Keishichou Outsider
as Kagawa EijiKagawa Eiji is a detective who looks more like a gangster. He previously worked at the...
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Chef Is a Great Detective
as Mifune ShinobuMifune Shinobu is a chef for a French restaurant. He learned French cooking at restaurants in...
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MOZU
as Naotake KurakiAn explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One...
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Mountain Woman, Wall Woman
as Iguchi ShoheiMegumi is a top sales person at the handbag section of a department store. Many people admire,...
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Yuukai
as uncreditedThe Prime Minister's granddaughter is kidnapped. The police are at the mercy of the perpetrator,...
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Red Cross
as uncreditedKiyo is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be...
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Mangan
as Itami ShuheiUkawa Taeko withdraws her appeal on a murder case, despite her lawyer's insistence. Taeko is the...
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