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Shirō Itō
Born: 15th Jun 1937 Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 118
Film: 66 (56%)
Television: 52 (44%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror, War, Thriller, Music
Filmography
May 2024 (first aired)
Fukutaro, the former president of a board game company, continues to show up at work even after handing over his position to his son-in-law. Fukutaro ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (5 ep.)
Original title: 大河ドラマが生まれた日
2023
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan, and the 60th anniversary of the Taiga drama, this special depicts the struggles of cre ... view
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Feb 2022 (first aired)
Rakugo has the image of a humorous story, but it is also a treasure trove of “scary stories”. Among them, this work boldly arranges a performance ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: ロバマン
2020
An old man who has been given supernatural powers by a donkey alien plays an active role as a justice hero "Robaman". 68-year-old Yoshimura, who has p ... view
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Original title: ヒキタさん! ご懐妊ですよ
2019
A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she ... view
Character:
Kazuo Tanobe
Aug 2019 (first aired)
Rinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of the Pacific War. Based on the accounts of actual women ... view
Character:
Renji Tamiya (1 ep.)
Oct 2018 (first aired)
Shogo Kai is a lawyer at one of the big 4 law firms in Japan. He is good at his job, but he is arrogant. Shogo Kai only thinks about winning and he th ... view
Character:
Akio Hasumi（蓮見 昭雄） (3 ep.)
Apr 2018 (first aired)
The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the Nat ... view
Character:
Tetsuharu Ikari (21 ep.)
Tetsuji Ikari (0 ep.)
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Detective Aya’s routine at the Kanagawa Police is disrupted when Yuriko, a former office worker from Tokyo's Metropolitan Police, unexpectedly joins ... view
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Takao Kariya (7 ep.)
Jul 2017 (first aired)
Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents, she also works as a hostess at a club in Ginza. ... view
Character:
Shoji Hasegawa (8 ep.)
Original title: おかしな刑事15
2017
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting i ... view
Character:
Shinichi Kamoshida
Original title: おかしな刑事14
2016
The dead body of Maki Tsujimoto, a popular stage actress, is discovered in a theater in Oji. After striking her in the back of the head with a bronze ... view
Character:
Shinichi Kamoshida
Oct 2015 (first aired)
Sato Ikuo is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother, who brought him up as a single mother, he ob ... view
Character:
Kawamura Ryuutarou (9 ep.)
Original title: 鬼と呼ばれた男〜松永安左エ門
2015
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve ... view
Character:
Yoshida Shigeru
Aug 2015 (first aired)
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK. ... view
Character:
Yoshida Shigeru (5 ep.)
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Yoshizaki Kaoruko, who had been a clinician at a university hospital, takes up a post at a medical examiner’s office after she is told by her profes ... view
Character:
Shuhei Yanagita (9 ep.)
Original title: 家政婦は見た！
2014
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact us ... view
Character:
Hidemitsu Uehara
Original title: 映画 謎解きはディナーのあとで
2013
Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain ded ... view
Character:
Karasawa
Original title: 十万分の一の偶然
2012
Tamura Masakazu plays Shohei Yamauchi, a freelance reporter obsessed with finding out the truth about a traffic accident in which his beloved daughter ... view
Character:
Furuya
Oct 2012 (first aired)
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to ho ... view
Character:
Ryunosuke Busujima（毒島 隆之介） (10 ep.)
Apr 2012 (first aired)
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan. ... view
Character:
Jinpei Utsunomiya (1 ep.)
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a samu ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (0 ep.)
Original title: サラリーマンＮＥＯ 劇場版（笑
2011
Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to ca ... view
Character:
Kojo Neo
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Feb 2011 (first aired)
Two weeks after her adoptive mother, Atsuta Otomi, passed away, Endo Yuriko returns to her family home. She is not visiting because she feels anxious ... view
Character:
Atsuta Ryohei (4 ep.)
Jul 2010 (first aired)
Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Most of the time, Taiga only ... view
Character:
Kotaro Kusunoki (10 ep.)
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Shinagawa Daichi used to be a good student who has now become a delinquent, while class president Adachi Hana was a delinquent who is now trying to mo ... view
Character:
Tatsuo Adachi (10 ep.)
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniver ... view
Character:
Roppa Furukawa (3 ep.)
Original title: ゴールデンスランバー
2010
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from ... view
Character:
Hirakazu Aoyaki
Nov 2009 (first aired)
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes ... view
Character:
秋山久敬 (5 ep.)
Original title: 引き出しの中のラブレター
2009
A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very ... view
Character:
Ganjiro Ryoki
Oct 2009 (first aired)
Iki Tadashi is a military leader named who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years ... view
Character:
Seizo Hisamatsu (19 ep.)
Original title: さまよう刃
2009
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice be ... view
Character:
Shinichi Mano
Oct 2008 (first aired)
A woman searching for "phantom soup" and a quiet chef who lost her family. The mystery surrounding them is slowly unraveled ...Based on an original st ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 天国のスープ
2008
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to ... view
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Original title: 築地魚河岸三代目
2008
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish M ... view
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May 2008 (first aired)
CHANGE is a Japanese television drama which aired on Fuji TV starting May 12, 2008. ... view
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Reigning Prime Minister (10 ep.)
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Tachibana Makoto, a manager of an omusubi cafe. One day, she meets Sanshiro, a secretary at a paper shredder company, and half a year later, they alre ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Original title: 舞妓Haaaan!!!
2007
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" wi ... view
Character:
Suzuki Taikai (President of Suzuya Ramen)
Original title: しゃべれども しゃべれども
2007
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down ... view
Character:
Taichi Yugawara
Jan 2007 (first aired)
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has somet ... view
Character:
Renzō Miyabe (8 ep.)
Original title: ブレイブ ストーリー
2006
Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one. A ... view
Character:
Monk Rau (voice)
Jan 2006 (first aired)
This story about a detective who has a huge appetite is adapted from a manga by Daisuke Terasawa. ... view
Character:
Chief Yamaguchi/Chief of Holmes Agency (20 ep.)
Original title: THE 有頂天ホテル
2006
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci ... view
Character:
The General Manager
Original title: 日本のシンドラー 杉原千畝物語 六千人の命のビザ
2005
World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began pe ... view
Character:
Yōsuke Matsuoka
Original title: 零のかなたへ
2005
Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain co ... view
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Oct 2004 (first aired)
The story of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (ronin) after their master, Lord Asano was forced to commit ritual suicide for assaulting a c ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: NIN×NIN 忍者ハットリくん THE MOVIE
2004
Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person he ... view
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Aug 2003 (first aired)
The familiar father-daughter duo uncovers the truth behind the murder case and the great evil lurking in the background! ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Apr 2003 (first aired)
Eijiro Saito is a graduate of the prestigious Eidai Medical School and is sent to Eidai Hospital as a trainee doctor. There, under the supervision of ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Jan 2003 (first aired)
The Star Leo is a luxury cruiser shuttling between Japan and Hong Kong. On this cruise, seven top chefs known as "culinary kings" have been invited fo ... view
Character:
Iwata Gengoro (10 ep.)
Character:
Teruo Muto (23 ep.)
Original title: 明智小五郎対怪人二十面相
2002
At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. ... view
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Lieutenant Nakamura
Sep 2001 (first aired)
A TV drama based on Hideo Yokoyama's short story "Gyakuten no Natsu". A first-class suspense depicting the darkness of the mind of a man who has unfo ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 2000 (first aired)
In Edo, a determined young swordsman, Chiba Shūsaku, joins a dojo to pursue his dream. He forges strong friendships with fellow students, including o ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (9 ep.)
Apr 2000 (first aired)
This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, M ... view
Character:
Tatsuo Kitayama (156 ep.)
Apr 1997 (first aired)
After graduating from college, Yuuji lands the job of his dreams at the company that manufactures his favorite running shoes. The complete sincerity a ... view
Character:
Shiroyama Seishichiro (11 ep.)
Original title: スーパーの女
1996
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business. ... view
Character:
Company President
Apr 1995 (first aired)
Arashi Kohei, inherits a pharmaceutical company from his deceased father. Despite the hard work he was doing, six months before his parent's death, ma ... view
Character:
Sugiyama Kenjiro (12 ep.)
Original title: 集団左遷
1994
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are ... view
Character:
Saburo Fujio
Oct 1992 (first aired)
The 48th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Hirari. Story's settings includes Tokyo. Hirari is a young and energetic girl. She loves the sports, sumo, very ... view
Character:
梅若虎男 (151 ep.)
Original title: ミンボーの女
1992
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they c ... view
Character:
Iriejima
Original title: 天河伝説殺人事件
1991
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater ... view
Character:
Josuke Kenmochi
Original title: 銭形平次
1990
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo, leaving few clues as to their leader' ... view
Character:
Manshichi Minowano
Apr 1990 (first aired)
This entertaining drama follows the fun-filled adventures of three prep-school students. Struggling with studies has become a thing of the past for th ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Original title: ウルトラマンをつくった男たち 星の林に月の舟
1989
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya. ... view
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Original title: 会社物語 MEMORIES OF YOU
1988
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passio ... view
Character:
Managing Director Kobayashi
Original title: 極道渡世の素敵な面々
1988
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him. ... view
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Original title: 白昼の悪魔・狙われた人妻
1987
A detective who shoots and kills the younger brother in a sibling robbery becomes mentally ill because he believes his brother is going to kill him. ... view
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Original title: マルサの女
1987
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t ... view
Character:
Pachinko Parlor Boss
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Original title: ビッグ・マグナム黒岩先生
1985
Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students wit ... view
Character:
Cop
Original title: 不信のとき
1984
Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake. ... view
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Original title: 授業参観の女
1984
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised t ... view
Character:
Shiraki
Original title: おしん
1984
Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting anothe ... view
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Character:
Tetsuo Kuroda
Original title: 波の盆
1983
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 an ... view
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Original title: スパルタの海
1983
Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much. W ... view
Character:
Hiroshi Totsuka
Original title: 日本海大海戦 海ゆかば
1983
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait. ... view
Character:
Maruyama
Original title: 俺っちのウエディング
1983
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. ... view
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Apr 1983 (first aired)
Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the l ... view
Character:
Sakuzo (297 ep.)
Original title: 誘拐報道
1982
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. ... view
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Jan 1982 (first aired)
The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
Original title: 正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
1975
Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the ... view
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Original title: ルパン三世 念力珍作戦
1974
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-generation cat-burglar Lupin as an obstacle, countles ... view
Character:
Inspector Heiji Zenigata VII
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Original title: 新座頭市 破れ！唐人剣
1971
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering ... view
Character:
Stooge
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Jan 1969 (first aired)
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora. ... view
Character:
Naya Tatsuzo (52 ep.)
Original title: 女賭博師みだれ壷
1968
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
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Original title: 進め！ジャガーズ 敵前上陸
1968
A plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock band, The Jaguars, leads the group through a series of p ... view
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Ito
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