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.
Departures
as Daigo KobayashiDaigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small...
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Tekkonkinkreet
as Snake (voice)Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure...
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Gemini
as Yukio DaitokujiWhen his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...
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The Bird People in China
as WadaWada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine....
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Shall We Dance?
as Hiromasa KimotoA bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He...
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The Long Excuse
as Sachio KinugasaA recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack...
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Gonin
as Junichi MitsuyaFive men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as...
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Shuhei YamamotoA college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He...
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The Emperor in August
as Emperor ShowaIn July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration....
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Heat Wave
as Ichitaro KosugiRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
as uncreditedMusical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
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Spy Sorge
as Hidemi OzakiA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
as Hiroo TeradaThere still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka...
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The Longest Night In Shanghai
as Naoki MizushimaA successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Hisashi KonoBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Playtime Never Ends
as HirataA serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank...
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Touch
as TakahashiSoon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the...
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Black Jack
as Black JackMatsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a...
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Fancy Dance
as Shiono YoheiYohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though...
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Ryuukou Kanbou
as uncreditedThe novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is...
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The Mystery of Rampo
as Kogoro AkechiEdogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing...
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The 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,...
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Headphone Lullaby
as Rei KazamaThe story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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Beppin Town
as Shuji SayamaAn amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a...
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Dioxin from Fish!
as uncreditedA black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
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The Big Bee
as MishimaSet in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant....
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Come On Girls!
as DaisukeThree high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.
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My Santa Boy
as uncreditedThis suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.
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Ganryujima
as Musashi MiyamotoThe legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to...
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Balloon
as uncreditedYoungsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
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Last Song
as Shukichi YasumiA drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one...
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Raffles Hotel
as Takeo YoukiActress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles...
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Giri/Haji
as FukuharaSoulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as Segawa (segment "Midnight Call")Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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Awaiting 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...
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Dakishimetai!
as uncreditedAsako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's...
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Man of Destiny
as Ryota YuminariA newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and...
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On the Single Bed Tonight
as Tomonaga AkiyukiTomonaga Akiyuki and his wife Yu have been married seven years. Akiyuki is a graphic designer,...
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White Love Story
as Aoki KosukeA tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after...
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Kimi to Deatte kara
as uncreditedThe drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how...
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The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing
as Takagi KoichiThe story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in...
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Clouds 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...
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Prince Shotoku
as Umayado no oujiIn the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of...
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Prince 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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Natsumeke no Shokutaku
as uncreditedA Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love...
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