Masahiro Motoki
Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 Motoki Masahiro, born December 21, 1965 in Okegawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned him the Award for Best Actor at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize.
Touch
as TakahashiSoon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the...
Movie pageDepartures
as Daigo KobayashiDaigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small...
Movie pageTekkonkinkreet
as Snake (voice)Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure...
Movie pageShall We Dance?
as Hiromasa KimotoA bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He...
Movie pageThe Bird People in China
as WadaWada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine....
Movie pageGemini
as Yukio DaitokujiWhen his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...
Movie pageThe Emperor in August
as Emperor ShowaIn July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration....
Movie pageGonin
as Junichi MitsuyaFive men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as...
Movie pageThe Long Excuse
as Sachio KinugasaA recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack...
Movie pageHeat Wave
as Ichitaro KosugiRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
Movie pageFancy Dance
as Shiono YoheiYohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though...
Movie pageNowhere Man
as uncreditedSukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a...
Movie pageSumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Shuhei YamamotoA college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He...
Movie pageSpy Sorge
as Hidemi OzakiA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
Movie pageThe Mystery of Rampo
as Kogoro AkechiEdogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing...
Movie pageFour Days of Snow and Blood
as Hisashi KonoBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
Movie pageSilence of the Sea
as Ryuji TsuyamaThe day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work...
Movie pageTokiwa: The Manga Apartment
as Hiroo TeradaThere still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka...
Movie pageThe Longest Night in Shanghai
as Naoki MizushimaA successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this...
Movie pageThe Big Bee
as MishimaSet in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant....
Movie pageThe Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
as NeighbourAn eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months,...
Movie pagePlaytime Never Ends
as HirataA serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank...
Movie pageRyuukou Kanbou
as uncreditedThe novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is...
Movie pageHeadphone Lullaby
as Rei KazamaThe story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
Movie pageBeppin Town
as Shuji SayamaAn amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a...
Movie pageBlack Jack
as Black JackMatsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a...
Movie pageCome On Girls!
as DaisukeThree high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.
Movie pageDioxin from Fish!
as uncreditedA black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
Movie pageMIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
as uncreditedMusical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Movie pageRaffles Hotel
as Takeo YoukiActress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles...
Movie pageLast Song
as Shukichi YasumiA drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one...
Movie pageMaking of "Departures"
as HimselfA documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
Movie pageBalloon
as uncreditedYoungsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Movie pageGanryujima
as Musashi MiyamotoThe legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to...
Movie pageMy Santa Boy
as uncreditedThis suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.
Movie pageTales of the Bizarre
as Segawa (segment "Midnight Call")Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
TV Show pageAwaiting Kirin
as Saitou Toshimasa / Saito Dousan [the "Viper of Mino"]After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring...
TV Show pageOn the Single Bed Tonight
as Tomonaga AkiyukiTomonaga Akiyuki and his wife Yu have been married seven years. Akiyuki is a graphic designer,...
TV Show pageKimi to Deatte kara
as uncreditedThe drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how...
TV Show pageAsura
as Takao SatomiIn 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy...
TV Show pageClouds Over the Hill
as 秋山真之Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years...
TV Show pageGiri/Haji
as FukuharaSoulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder...
TV Show pageDakishimetai!
as uncreditedAsako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's...
TV Show pageThe Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing
as Takagi KoichiThe story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in...
TV Show pageMan of Destiny
as Ryota YuminariA newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and...
TV Show pageWhite Love Story
as Aoki KosukeA tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after...
TV Show pagePrince Shotoku
as Umayado no oujiIn the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of...
TV Show pageNatsumeke no Shokutaku
as uncreditedA Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...
TV Show pagePrince of Happiness
as Narukawa ShuheiThis is the tragic love story of Shuhei and Umi. Shuhei is the only surviving son of a hospital...
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