Kotaro Shiga
Kotaro Shiga (志賀 廣太郎, Shiga Kōtarō, August 31, 1948 – April 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor and theater educator who was active since the 1990s until around 2020. Kotaro was born in Hyogo, Japan. He was a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art, majoring in theater. He was a member of Japanese theater company Seinen-dan (青年団). He was affiliated with l'être.
After Life
as Kenji YamamotoOn a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services...
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Gintama
as uncreditedIn an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work...
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Kiki's Delivery Service
as Zoo DirectorA young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She...
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Survive Style 5+
as Taxi DriverFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined,...
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The Taste of Tea
as Teacher GashiA spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary...
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I Give My First Love to You
as English teacherTakuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting...
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Judge!
as Karaoke ManagerAfter taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
as MinamiAn outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around...
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Rose Color's Buko
as President of TakahimayaSachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about...
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Haruta & Chika
as Toshio IwaiHaruta is handsome and smart, Chika is bright and naive. When they were children, they were...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
as uncreditedIn 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective...
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Go Find a Psychic!
as Mr. SaotomeOnce a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party,...
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Summer Blooms
as Yukio Kazama27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three...
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Wandering Home
as ItoWar photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children....
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The Curtain Rises
as uncreditedSaori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school....
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Hirugao
as Professor SakagamiSet 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where...
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Au revoir l'été
as City CouncilorAfter failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer...
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When You Love And When You Are Loved
as uncreditedAn entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields...
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Sing My Life
as Jirou NakataKatsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks....
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Flower of Shanidar
as uncreditedA strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that...
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Yellow Tears
as HayashidaThe movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up...
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Sawako Decides
as TadaoAfter 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her...
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Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy
as Shigeo ShibaJiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and...
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Theatre 1
as HimselfTheatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts...
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Kamen Teacher: The Movie
as uncreditedSet in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate...
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Odayaka
as ShinjiSaeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku...
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Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
as uncreditedWith the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by...
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Human Comedy in Tokyo
as uncredited'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents....
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
as uncreditedIn this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with...
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Smap Short Films
as uncreditedShort films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME...
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The SanMei-sama Spin-off: Seven quotes from the parfait old man to save you in life's pinch.
as uncreditedA family restaurant late at night. The customers visiting the restaurant are faced with a...
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Okaimono
as uncreditedIn a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a...
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Kohaku
as uncreditedYoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day,...
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The SanMei-sama
as uncreditedA unique film in which three freelancers talk about unimportant things in a family restaurant....
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The SanMei-Sama: Our Summer Wind
as uncreditedJumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant...
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The SanMei-Sama: With all due respect, i love you
as uncreditedThe three freelancers Mickey, Matsun and Jumbo start dabbling as usual. For some reason, the...
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The SanMei-sama: 5 seconds before they go wow.
as uncreditedThe seventh in a series of sitcoms in which Matsun, Mickey and Jumbo dabble in family...
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Solitary Gourmet
as 店員1Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for...
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Time Limit Investigator
as Tanaka-shachoShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have...
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The Brave 'Yoshihiko'
as uncreditedThe story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A...
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as NakatsukaIn an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
as Goro 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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Innocence, Fight Against False Charges
as Kazuto YufuinThis work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons,...
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Antarctica
as Kennosuke TaniSet in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied...
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The God of Risk
as Eiichi TakarabeSatoshi Saigyouji worked in crisis management for General Electric in the USA and the Japanese...
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Rikuoh
as Genzo TomishimaKoichi Miyazawa runs a small, but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese...
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You are my only Madonna
as Prof. Shingo TatebayashiBoku dake no Madonna, sometimes shortened to BokuMado, is a drama series that aired in Japan on...
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Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan
as uncreditedThe adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends.
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Unfair
as Yasumoto MasahiroA no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal...
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War of Money
as 赤松大介Tomio Shiraishi graduated from a prestigious university and now works for foreign securities...
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Tokyo Dogs
as Mitsuo SuzukiKanade Takakura is an elite detective from the New York Police department. He has a very keen...
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Steel Frame
as uncreditedSharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common...
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Evil People
as JudgeToyomi Terajima (Ryoko Yonekura) chose to become a nurse because she had no interest in marriage...
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Power of Love
as Kusunoki TateakiToko (Fukatsu Eri), decides after she turns 30 that she is all but ready to give up on any...
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Kamen Teacher
as Kentaro SugaharaGota Araki begins work at a new high school. He is assigned to the school's notorious 2nd Year,...
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Reverse
as Tadashi HirosawaKazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only...
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dinner
as Hamaoka KotaroThis drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday...
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Hana's Lazy Meals
as Hana's FatherThe story is about the daily life of a 30-year-old new wife, Hana, who cooks “Zubora Meshi”,...
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Clone Baby
as Hazuki ShoichirouRevolving around human cloning, the story is described as a suspense and mystery story set in a...
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