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Kazuki Kitamura
Born: 17th Jul 1969 Higashisumiyoshi, Osaka, Japan
Dept: Acting
Kazuki Kitamura is a Japanese film and television actor who won the award for best supporting actor at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for Minazuki, Kyohansha and Kanzen-naru shiiku as well as the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film at JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York in 2014.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 187
Film: 131 (70%)
Television: 56 (30%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, Family, Action & Adventure, Music, Reality, War, Animation, Soap, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Filmography
Original title: ゴールデンカムイ 網走監獄襲撃編
2026
As each group pursues their mission, a fierce battle unfolds over the tattooed prisoners. Who is friend, and who is foe? The fight leads them all to ... view
Character:
Shirōsuke Inudō
Original title: 木挽町のあだ討ち
2026
In January 1810 in Edo, Kikunosuke, the 17-year-old-son of a murdered samurai, takes revenge on his father's murderer, Sakubai, who was his father's f ... view
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Original title: L'Illusion de Yakushima
2025
Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her ... view
Character:
Ryoji Bento Merchants
Oct 2025 (first aired)
A wealthy pharmaceutical CEO's daughter is kidnapped on her 20th birthday, but when the botched abduction leaves one captor stunned, the seemingly obe ... view
Character:
Yagami Keishi (10 ep.)
2025
While visiting Japan, philosopher Sushila and her astrophysicist husband Kenji attend the final performance of the dancer Mako before she retires. Su ... view
Character:
Kenji
Original title: దె కాల్ హిమ్ ఓజి
2025
After vanishing from Mumbai's underworld for a decade, mob boss Ojas Gambheera resurfaces—feared, unstoppable, and with a single goal: to reclaim hi ... view
Character:
Kazao
Original title: でっちあげ 〜殺人教師と呼ばれた男
2025
When a young student shows signs of trauma, his parents act swiftly against his middle school teacher. But all may not be as it seems, leading the sca ... view
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Original title: 看守の流儀
2025
This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards who strive to rehabilit ... view
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Original title: 室町無頼
2025
Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe, a scoundrel whose lethal sword ski ... view
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Original title: グランメゾン東京 スペシャル
2024
Just one year after opening, Hayami Rinko became the first Asian woman to be the chef of a three-star restaurant, but shortly after, the COVID-19 pand ... view
Character:
Akashi Sosuke
Oct 2024 (first aired)
With two map pieces secured, Sugimoto ans Asirpa continue their hunt for the remaining 22 tattooed convicts whose bodies hold the key to hidden treasu ... view
Character:
Inudō Shirōsuke (2 ep.)
Unknown/various (9 ep.)
Sep 2024 (first aired)
Every night, young people with small worries walk through the curtains of Occhan Kitchen, a restaurant popular for its "Tonight's Omakase," skillfully ... view
Character:
Occhan (12 ep.)
Jul 2024 (first aired)
A team of swindlers gets wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and will stop at nothing to pull off their most ambitious scam yet. ... view
Character:
Takeshita (7 ep.)
Original title: 陰陽師0
2024
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange p ... view
Character:
Korimune Korekuni
Original title: ゴールド・ボーイ
2024
It was supposed to be a perfect crime... until it was witnessed. Based on a Chinese drama series with two billion total views, the film depicts a psyc ... view
Character:
Original title: 身代わり忠臣蔵
2024
In 1701, an insult led to a sword slash between the heads of the Ako clan and the Kira clan in Shogun's court. The head of the Ako clan was ordered to ... view
Character:
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
Original title: カラオケ行こ！
2024
Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him. ... view
Character:
Matsuribayashi-gumi Head
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 ‘23秋の特別編
2023
"Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on Novembe ... view
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Oct 2023 (first aired)
Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or subordina ... view
Character:
Domon Kohei (10 ep.)
Original title: ゾン100～ゾンビになるまでにしたい100のこと～
2023
Bullied by his boss, worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel aliv ... view
Character:
Gonzo Kosugi
Apr 2023 (first aired)
Minare Koda, a floor manager at a small restaurant in Sapporo, tries to deal with her bad breakup with an ex-boyfriend. In the process, she drunkenly ... view
Character:
Kanetsugu Mato (8 ep.)
Original title: 世界の終わりから
2023
Hana is a normal high school student, unsatisfied in her daily life. One day she had a dream and met a 10-year-old girl living in Sengoku Era. The gir ... view
Character:
Mugen
Original title: イチケイのカラス スペシャル
2023
Adapted from the manga "Ichikei no Karasu” (イチケイのカラス) by Asami Rito (浅見理都). This special is a sequel to the movie of the sam ... view
Character:
Oyabu Shigeyuki
Original title: ガリレオ 禁断の魔術
2022
Four years before Silent Parade (2022), Yukawa and Kusanagi investigate the murder of a writer after a video found in his possession piques Yukawa's i ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: 沈黙のパレード
2022
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: ヘルドッグス
2022
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members. ... view
Character:
Tsutomu Toki
Jul 2022 (first aired)
The protagonist Hiroshi Kokusho was an ace rugby player in his high school days attracting national attention, but his forceful play led to an injury. ... view
Character:
Junichi Yame (11 ep.)
Mar 2022 (first aired)
One day, people were informed that a meteorite is approaching the Earth, and it caused the world to fall into chaos. As research progressed the distan ... view
Character:
Watarai Minoru (23 ep.)
Original title: 妖怪大戦争 ガーディアンズ
2021
Fifth grader Kei Watanabe has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from destruction, Kei challenges a war against the yōkai ... view
Character:
Tsuna Watanabe
Original title: るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning
2021
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who ca ... view
Character:
Tatsumi
Original title: るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final
2021
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge ... view
Character:
Tatsumi
Original title: バイプレイヤーズ もしも100人の名脇役が映画を作ったら
2021
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who g ... view
Character:
Original title: 劇場版 シグナル 長期未解決事件捜査班
2021
The story continues from the Japanese SIGNAL drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway, and a high-level governme ... view
Character:
Takeshi Ōyama
Original title: 桶狭間～織田信長 覇王の誕生～
2021
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory, no ... view
Character:
Oda Nobuhide
Jan 2021 (first aired)
Ayako is a 35-year-old detective who is hardworking and has a strong sense of justice. However, she is inflexible and works too hard, which causes her ... view
Character:
Kawahara Mitsuo (10 ep.)
Dec 2020 (first aired)
A family asks a man to build a house he would like to live in himself. However, when it is completed, the family disappears without moving in. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: 帰郷
2019
Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A travel ... view
Character:
Nov 2019 (first aired)
Tabi Fukuyama - Travel show of Masaharu Fukuyama ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 2019 (first aired)
Who is the killer? Who stole the $10 million? The doubts, lies, suspicion, and betrayal are unstoppable as one detective launches an evil mutiny in th ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Sep 2019 (first aired)
Born in 1937 in Osaka as the eldest daughter, Kawahara Kimiko moves to Shigaraki with her family at the age of 9. She works to support her family from ... view
Character:
Kawahara Joji (150 ep.)
Original title: 봉오동 전투
2019
Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia ... view
Character:
Yaskawa Jiro
2019
On a quest to find the comic book he’s been searching for his entire life, an adventurous 17 year-old travels to Tokyo and discovers a world in whic ... view
Character:
Yuuki
Original title: コンフィデンスマンJP 運勢編
2019
How much of a role does luck play in a person's life? Some people believe you create your own luck. Kingpin Akutsu Akira relies only on himself to get ... view
Character:
Original title: 億男
2018
A man, who is repaying a 30 million yen debt left by his brother, wins the 300 million yen lottery. He grapples with the question of whether money can ... view
Character:
Momose
Oct 2018 (first aired)
Bringing together some of the most talented Asian directors working within the genre sphere, this new anthology series creates an atmosphere unlike an ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 指定弁護士
2018
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane i ... view
Character:
Shinji Tachibana
Original title: ほんとにあった怖い話 2018
2018
Six horror stories from the "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" summer special 2018. ... view
Character:
Nakai Toshihide
Apr 2018 (first aired)
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day, and the other detective exists 15 ye ... view
Character:
Takeshi Ooyama (10 ep.)
Original title: 映画 プリキュアスーパースターズ！
2018
Hana, Harry, and Hugtan waiting in front of some train tracks for Saaya and Homare. At the same time, Saaya and Homare are trying to get through the t ... view
Character:
Usobakka (voice)
Original title: 去年の冬、きみと別れ
2018
An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a g ... view
Character:
Yoshiki Kobayashi
Original title: 今夜、ロマンス劇場で
2018
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie. ... view
Character:
Ryunosuke Shundo
Original title: 羊の木
2018
Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by ... view
Character:
Masashi Sugiyama
Original title: 8年越しの花嫁 奇跡の実話
2017
Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her h ... view
Character:
Shibata
Nov 2017 (first aired)
One billion yen vanishes from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two police inspectors work to discover the culprit, but politics may obstruct justice. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (8 ep.)
Original title: 無限の住人
2017
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows tha ... view
Character:
Sabato Kuroi
Apr 2017 (first aired)
Former police officer Asahina is a light-hearted young man who works for a security company. One day, he is appointed as a bodyguard and teams up wit ... view
Character:
Kengo Ishimaru（石丸 賢吾） (7 ep.)
Original title: 相棒－劇場版IV－首都クライシス 人質は50万人！特命係 最後の決断
2017
A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group th ... view
Character:
black clothes’ man
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語’16 秋の特別編
2016
An omnibus special comprised of four segments and a prologue. ... view
Character:
(segment "Shachu no dekigoto")
Apr 2016 (first aired)
Reiji is young CEO of a first-class hotel. He is single and 34-years-old. Even though he has a good appearance and wealth, women eventually leave him ... view
Character:
和田 英雄 (10 ep.)
Dec 2015 (first aired)
During the late Edo period when the Tenpo Reforms are in force, public discontent is growing over the collusive relationships between merchants and go ... view
Character:
Kakie Shinpeita (2 ep.)
Original title: 猫侍 南の島へ行く
2015
The Edo period. Once a famous swordsman, Kyutaro Madarame, aka “Madara the Devil,” is now a masterless samurai. When a white cat called Tamanojo ... view
Character:
Original title: 寄生獣 完結編
2015
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces ... view
Character:
Hirokawa Takeshi
Apr 2015 (first aired)
Nagamitsu Bakushu is a mysterious police officer who mans a hotline within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Department for breakaway ... view
Character:
Kakeru Mikajima (10 ep.)
Original title: 寄生獣
2014
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a ... view
Character:
Hirokawa Takeshi
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of s ... view
Character:
Osamu Kato (11 ep.)
2014
A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon d ... view
Character:
Akira
Original title: テルマエ・ロマエII
2014
In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to bu ... view
Character:
Keioniusu
Original title: The Raid 2: Berandal
2014
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goe ... view
Character:
Ryuichi
Original title: 猫侍
2014
The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught be ... view
Character:
Kyutaro Madarame
Original title: キラーズ
2014
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet. ... view
Character:
Nomura
Original title: トリック劇場版 ラストステージ
2014
Trade company employee Shinichi recommends to Naoko and Jiro to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman and sees thr ... view
Character:
Masashi Tanioka
Original title: 金田一少年の事件簿 獄門塾殺人事件
2014
Hajime finds it difficult to graduate to the next grade at school. His friend Miyuki tells Hajime to study at a private school which is famous for it ... view
Character:
Takayuki Ujiie
Original title: 劇場版 SPEC～結～ 爻ノ篇
2013
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie " ... view
Character:
Shu Kikkawa
Original title: 劇場版 SPEC～結～ 漸ノ篇
2013
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie " ... view
Character:
Shu Kikkawa
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Labor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the governm ... view
Character:
Ikuo Doteyama (11 ep.)
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Kyutaro is a swordsman who was feared by people at one time. Now, he is poor and lives alone quietly. Kyutaro doesn't know how to earn money without u ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (23 ep.)
Original title: 劇場版 ATARU THE FIRST LOVE＆THE LAST KILL
2013
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why ... view
Character:
Shunichi Sawa
Original title: 真夏の方程式
2013
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oce ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: ガリレオXX
2013
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Okla ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: ナイトピープル
2013
Shinji (Kazuki Kitamura) runs a bar. A woman named Moeko (Eriko Sato) appears in front of Shinji. In the past, Moeko stole 200,000,000 yen from member ... view
Character:
Shinji
Original title: 映画 妖怪人間ベム
2012
Bem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which, as they discover, are caused by another youkai, one m ... view
Character:
Akinori Natsume
Original title: 日本の悲劇
2012
In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s fami ... view
Character:
Yoshio Murai
Original title: 莫逆家族 バクギャクファミーリア
2012
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle ... view
Character:
Yuji Natsume
Original title: テルマエ・ロマエ
2012
The story follows a Roman architect named Lucius, who is having trouble coming up with ideas. One day, he discovers a hidden tunnel underneath a spa t ... view
Character:
Ceionius
Apr 2012 (first aired)
Ataru is a TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police solve criminal cases. It stars Masahiro Nakai in the ... view
Character:
Shunichi Sawa (11 ep.)
Original title: SPEC〜翔〜
2012
Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the U ... view
Character:
Shu Kikkawa
Original title: 極速天使
2011
After being recruited by a race car driver coach, a female taxi driver joins the Speed Angels racing team. ... view
Character:
Asano
Original title: 映画 怪物くん
2011
Kaibutsukun is the young prince of Kaibutsu land who decides to go to Earth to prove to his people that he is worthy of becoming king. Kaibutsukun is ... view
Character:
Sunil
Oct 2011 (first aired)
Bem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually disguise themselves as a human family living together, but ... view
Character:
Natsume Akinori (10 ep.)
2011
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. ... view
Character:
Crazy 88 #2 / Boss Koji
Original title: SPACE BATTLESHIP ヤマト
2010
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fle ... view
Character:
Mar 2010 (first aired)
There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery. ... view
Character:
尾花久雄 (1 ep.)
Original title: 狛
2009
Kawase explores the fragile and often tense history between Korea and Japan through the relationship that develops between a third generation Korean-J ... view
Character:
Kang Jun-Il
Original title: 鈍獣
2009
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb ... view
Character:
Chi Edajima
Jan 2009 (first aired)
Tenchijin is the 48th NHK Taiga drama. It airs on NHK from January 4, 2009 every Sunday from 20:00 to 20:44 JST to November 22, 2009 spanning 47 episo ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (47 ep.)
Original title: ガリレオΦ
2008
The special is set 3 years prior to the drama series, with the story being related to a murder case that was partly referenced in the original show. D ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: 容疑者Xの献身
2008
A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaor ... view
Character:
Shumpei Kusanagi
Original title: 次郎長三国志
2008
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa ... view
Character:
Masagoro Oiwake
Apr 2008 (first aired)
Domoto Akari is a rookie attorney, so-called "Hokaben," a hot lawyer just out of the oven. Sugisaki Tadashi is her boss at the big law firm, but he ha ... view
Character:
Sugisaki Tadashi (10 ep.)
Jan 2008 (first aired)
Detective Shirō Yuge (played by Yū Shinagawa) from the Kitazuka North Police Station revisits the bizarre “Den’enchōfu Rat-Man” case—a horr ... view
Character:
Kusanagi Shunpei (1 ep.)
Original title: 風の外側
2007
High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One da ... view
Character:
Oct 2007 (first aired)
Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair ... view
Character:
Kusanagi Shunpei (21 ep.)
Original title: 生きる
2007
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to inte ... view
Character:
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:
Apr 2007 (first aired)
Bambino! is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comi ... view
Character:
Tsukasa Yonamine (11 ep.)
Original title: 龍が如く 劇場版
2007
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together an ... view
Character:
Kazuma Kiryū
Jan 2007 (first aired)
Toyomi Terajima (Ryoko Yonekura) chose to become a nurse because she had no interest in marriage and wanted an occupation she could do for the rest of ... view
Character:
Sakuo Shimomizawa (8 ep.)
Original title: 大奥
2006
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates h ... view
Character:
Choujyurou Kaneko
Original title: 氷点
2006
The young daughter of Keizo Tsujiguchi, a respected physician who runs his own hospital, is found murdered. Keizo secretly blames his wife Natsue beca ... view
Character:
Oct 2006 (first aired)
Miki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic rela ... view
Character:
Hatano Taku (11 ep.)
Original title: 電車男DELUXE 最後の聖戦
2006
Set one year after the events of the original series, Densha Otoko has now become very popular and Akihabara, has become overrun with normal people ge ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京フレンズ The Movie
2006
Rei Iwatsuki moved from her hometown Kōchi to Tokyo to pursue her dreams. On arrival, she found a job as a waitress in a restaurant and met guitarist ... view
Character:
Keitaro Sasakawa
Jun 2006 (first aired)
Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of manga, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, peop ... view
Character:
Takeshi Nakagomi (12 ep.)
Oct 2005 (first aired)
Tells the story of the women surrounding Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun. ... view
Character:
Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa (11 ep.)
Original title: 濡れた赫い糸
2005
Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters. ... view
Character:
Original title: 戦国自衛隊1549
2005
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Spec ... view
Character:
Shichibe Iinuma / Oda Nobugana
Jun 2005 (first aired)
Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 D ... view
Character:
Keitaro Sasakawa（笹川 敬太郎） (5 ep.)
Apr 2005 (first aired)
A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreet ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
Original title: あずみ2 Death or Love
2005
Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army an ... view
Character:
Kanbê Inoue
Original title: 完全なる飼育 女理髪師の恋
2004
Because of the desolate landscape, Kobayashi chose snow-covered Hokkaido (the most northern island of Japan) as the setting for Amazing Story, a light ... view
Character:
Kenji
Original title: ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ
2004
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay w ... view
Character:
The controller of Planet X
Original title: 血と骨
2004
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent ma ... view
Character:
Yoshio Motoyama
Original title: 怪談新耳袋 劇場版
2004
8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Aki ... view
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Original title: 怪談新耳袋 花嫁さん編
2004
The directors include TBS drama stalwart Akio Yoshida, Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming ... view
Character:
Ghost
2004
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She v ... view
Character:
Boss Koji / Crazy 88
Original title: きょうのできごと
2004
Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewell dinner at his Kyoto flat. ... view
Character:
Surfer
2003
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance. ... view
Character:
Crazy 88 #2
Oct 2003 (first aired)
Azusa the wife, Otaro the husband, and their only daughter Suzu. They live in a little public dwelling in Tokyo. They're a fairly ordinary family of t ... view
Character:
Kazuma Sawamura (10 ep.)
Original title: ナイン・ソウルズ
2003
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner ... view
Character:
Tamori
Jul 2003 (first aired)
A high school student’s mother passes away leaving her alone with her grief. The girl, Marimo, discovers the name of a father she never knew. Marimo ... view
Character:
Shinpei Kirishima (10 ep.)
Original title: タイムリミット
2003
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Ka ... view
Character:
Jun 2003 (first aired)
The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord an ... view
Character:
Tokugawa Iesada / [Monk] (13 ep.)
Original title: あずみ
2003
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young ... view
Character:
Inoue, Kanbe'e
Original title: 許されざる者 第二章 獅子たちの鎮魂歌
2003
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss. ... view
Character:
Shinichi Mizutani
Original title: 許されざる者
2003
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge. ... view
Character:
Shinichi Mizutani
2002
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse. ... view
Character:
Original title: 棒 Bastoni
2002
Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young woman's ... view
Character:
AV company producer
2002
The first period drama from the prolific J- video studio GP Museum, with a luxurious cast. ... view
Character:
Original title: ターン
2001
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. Whe ... view
Character:
Kakizaki Kiyotaka
Original title: 連弾
2001
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to en ... view
Character:
Ohsawa
Original title: 弱虫 チンピラ
2000
Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza ... view
Character:
Original title: sWinG maN スイングマン
2000
A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why. ... view
Character:
Kazuki Kitaoka
Original title: ひまわり
2000
Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earlier times together. ... view
Character:
Shinji Sasahara
Original title: ドラッグ・ガーデン
2000
A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens. ... view
Character:
Drag Queen Champion
Original title: フリーズ・ミー
2000
When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her atta ... view
Character:
Noboru Hirokawa
Original title: 海賊版=BOOTLEG FILM
1999
Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved. ... view
Character:
Yoji
Original title: DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者
1999
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bri ... view
Character:
Mysterious Dancing Man
Original title: 皆月
1999
Akira's wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only a cryptic note as a clue the two brothers go on a roa ... view
Character:
Akira
Original title: コワイ童話「人魚姫」
1999
Popular model Koyuki plays the role of the mermaid princess who cannot speak and has a limp, but drives men crazy with her beauty. ... view
Character:
Original title: 日本黒社会 LEY LINES
1999
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befr ... view
Character:
Ryuichi
Original title: 共犯者
1999
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought ... view
Character:
Yasuharu Nishikawa
Original title: 完全なる飼育
1999
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep an ... view
Character:
Tsuda
Original title: アンドロメデイア
1998
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous broth ... view
Character:
Sada
Original title: FULL METAL 極道
1997
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a rob ... view
Character:
Matsuba
Original title: ロマンティックマニア
1997
A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men ... view
Character:
Ujiie
Original title: 岸和田少年愚連隊 血煙り純情篇
1997
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, R ... view
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Character:
Original title: 鬼火
1997
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is so ... view
Character:
Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura)
Original title: 狼たちの復讐
1997
Koji, who had a lonely childhood as an orphan, is picked up by yakuza gang leader Fujimura and leads a violent life without opening his heart to anyon ... view
Character:
Original title: 喧嘩の花道 大阪最強伝説
1996
Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ... view
Character:
Takeshi Hamada
1996
The sensual images depict the love and hatred between four men and women living together, creating a new kind of love story. One night, alcoholic writ ... view
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1996
A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is alw ... view
Character:
Kubo