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Satoshi Tsumabuki
Born: 13th Dec 1980 Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan
Dept: Acting
Satoshi Tsumabuki (born December 13, 1980) is a Japanese actor. His breakthrough film was Waterboys for which he was nominated for the 'Best Actor' award at the Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 'Newcomer of the Year' prize. He is also the bassist and lead singer of the Japanese band Basking Lite.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 108
Film: 84 (78%)
Television: 24 (22%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Music, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, History, War, Action & Adventure, Documentary
Filmography
Original title: 人はなぜラブレターを書くのか
2026
A woman writes a letter to a young man, leading to a correspondence with his father that unveils the truth of a 24-year-old high school romance, his s ... view
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Oct 2025 (first aired)
Kurisu has always admired his father, who runs a tax accounting firm, and dreamed of working with him one day. To broaden his skills, he joined a majo ... view
Character:
Eiji Kurisu (10 ep.)
Original title: 宝島
2025
Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he w ... view
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Gusuku
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語35周年SP ～伝説の名作 一夜限りの復活編～
2025
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the storyteller, "Tales of the Tale ... view
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Original title: 本心
2024
Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted tec ... view
Character:
Masato Nozaki
Original title: 生きとし生けるもの
2024
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little ... view
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Jan 2023 (first aired)
This dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified black-market doctors who undertake any kind of surgery ... view
Character:
Eisuke Hazama (10 ep.)
Original title: ある男
2022
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. ... view
Character:
Akira Kido
Original title: しかたなかったと言うてはいかんのです
2021
An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets sentenced to death in the Yokohama War Trials. His w ... view
Character:
Taichi Torii
Original title: 唐人街探案3
2021
Tang Ren and Qin Feng travel to Japan to investigate the death of a mafia head. As they suspect foul play, they engage in a battle of wits against for ... view
Character:
Noda Hiroshi
Original title: STAND BY ME ドラえもん2
2020
Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding. ... view
Character:
Adult Nobita (voice)
Oct 2020 (first aired)
Hakuro is single and works as a veterinarian. His father died when Hakuro was a child and his mother later remarried into the wealthy Yagami family. A ... view
Character:
Hakuro Teshima (10 ep.)
Original title: 浅田家！
2020
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take st ... view
Character:
Yukihiro Asada
Original title: 一度も撃ってません
2020
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ich ... view
Character:
Tomoya Imanishi
Original title: 一度死んでみた
2020
After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company. Nanase ... view
Character:
Crown Hotel manager
2020
A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ... view
Character:
Akihiko Kurata
Original title: 決算！忠臣蔵
2019
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuk ... view
Character:
Hannojo Sugaya
Original title: 乱反射
2019
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into h ... view
Character:
Satoshi Kayama
Original title: パラダイス・ネクスト
2019
Wisecracking Makino shows up from Japan and meets Shima, a yakuza living quietly in Taipei. Makino says he knows about the incident that prompted Shim ... view
Character:
Makino
Original title: 来る
2018
To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing wit ... view
Character:
Hideki Tahara
Original title: 泣き虫しょったんの奇跡
2018
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tou ... view
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Original title: 妻よ薔薇のように 家族はつらいよIII
2018
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to ... view
Character:
Shoto Hirata
Mar 2018 (first aired)
Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and cau ... view
Character:
Sasaki Shinichi (6 ep.)
Original title: 唐人街探案2
2018
Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren tricked Qin Feng to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest. Later on, behind the crazy com ... view
Character:
Noda Hiroshi
Original title: 奥田民生になりたいボーイと出会う男すべて狂わせるガール
2017
Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live like him. He works as an editor at the lifestyle ma ... view
Character:
Yuji Koroki
Original title: 家族はつらいよ2
2017
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problem ... view
Character:
Shota Hirata
Original title: 愚行録
2017
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and on hold in jail. An investigative reporter, h ... view
Character:
Takeshi Tanaka
Jan 2017 (first aired)
NODA MAP, led by Hideki Noda, broadcasts its 2017 performance of "Princess Footprints" . This work is a tribute to Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: ミュージアム
2016
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own fam ... view
Character:
The Frog Man
Original title: 怒り
2016
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery an ... view
Character:
Yuma Fujita
Original title: キッドナップ・ツアー
2016
Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell Yuko ... view
Character:
Takashi
Original title: 殿、利息でござる！
2016
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future o ... view
Character:
Jinnai Asanoya
Original title: 家族はつらいよ
2016
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies th ... view
Character:
Shota Hirata
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 25周年記念！秋の2週連続SP～映画監督編～
2015
"Box" Shuko Yoshino (played by Yuko Takeuchi), a researcher at a medical university, was suddenly hit in the head while working. When she woke up, she ... view
Character:
Original title: 刺客聶隱娘
2015
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into ... view
Character:
Mirror Polisher
Original title: バンクーバーの朝日
2014
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of thei ... view
Character:
Reji Kasahara
Original title: 舞妓はレディ
2014
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent int ... view
Character:
Yuichiro Akaki
Original title: STAND BY ME ドラえもん
2014
Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the p ... view
Character:
Adult Nobita (voice)
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Five siblings struggle to live together after their parents have passed away. Arguments are a norm, and each have their own problems with studying, fi ... view
Character:
Asahi Sato (11 ep.)
Original title: 渇き。
2014
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his inv ... view
Character:
Detective Asai
Original title: ぼくたちの家族
2014
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal can ... view
Character:
Kousuke Wakana
Original title: 小さいおうち
2014
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which ... view
Character:
Takeshi
Original title: ジャッジ！
2014
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud ... view
Character:
Kiichiro Ota
Original title: 清須会議
2013
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneok ... view
Character:
Nobukatsu Oda
Original title: 草原の椅子
2013
Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is Ju ... view
Character:
Juzo Togashi
Original title: 東京家族
2013
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved. ... view
Character:
Masatsugu
Original title: 東京家族
2013
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved. ... view
Character:
Shuji Hirayama
Original title: 黄金を抱いて翔べ
2012
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold ... view
Character:
Kota
Jul 2012 (first aired)
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (11 ep.)
Original title: 愛と誠
2012
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter r ... view
Character:
Makoto Taiga
Original title: スマグラー おまえの未来を運べ
2011
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the nigh ... view
Character:
Ryōsuke Kinuta
Original title: マイ・バック・ページ
2011
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawad ... view
Character:
Masami Sawada
Original title: 悪人
2010
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and g ... view
Character:
Shimizu
Original title: シュアリー・サムデイ
2010
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's u ... view
Character:
Police Officer A
Original title: ヴィヨンの妻 〜桜桃とタンポポ〜
2009
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. ... view
Character:
Okada
Original title: 보트
2009
Lives are changed and friendships tested when two bottom-feeding smugglers are ordered to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman and brin ... view
Character:
Toru
Original title: 感染列島
2009
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting o ... view
Character:
Tsuyoshi Matsuoka
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: ブタがいた教室
2008
A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it grows up. ... view
Character:
Mr. Hoshi
Original title: パコと魔法の絵本
2008
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness. ... view
Character:
Muromachi
Original title: TOKYO!
2008
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. ... view
Character:
Takeshi (segment "Interior Design")
Original title: 闇の子供たち
2008
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners o ... view
Character:
Hiroaki Yoshida
Original title: ザ・マジックアワー
2008
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious ... view
Character:
Bingo
Original title: クワイエットルームにようこそ
2007
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatr ... view
Character:
Komono
Original title: 天国と地獄
2007
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo ... view
Character:
竹内銀次郎
Original title: 憑神
2007
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the ... view
Character:
Bessho Hikoshiro
Original title: 歌謡曲だよ、人生は
2007
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the mu ... view
Character:
Original title: どろろ
2007
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge t ... view
Character:
Hyakkimaru
Original title: 涙そうそう
2006
A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two familie ... view
Character:
Yotaro Shingaki
Original title: やわらかい生活
2006
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic d ... view
Character:
Noboru
2006
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught u ... view
Character:
Exceedingly Handsome Guy
Original title: 春の雪
2005
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngster ... view
Character:
Kiyoaki Matsugae
Jul 2005 (first aired)
A man who constantly applies the brake in his life, a woman who could do with a brake in her life. They have their careers but they are both failures ... view
Character:
Riichi Serizawa (11 ep.)
Original title: 真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん
2005
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs. ... view
Character:
Phantom Yaji
Character:
Windchime Seller
Original title: ローレライ
2005
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutosh ... view
Character:
Yukito Origasa
Original title: 約三十の嘘
2004
Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda sui ... view
Character:
Sasaki
Original title: 砦なき者
2004
After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was in ... view
Character:
Yahiro Kiichiro
Original title: 69 sixty nine
2004
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, an ... view
Character:
Kenichi Yazaki
Apr 2004 (first aired)
A psychology major meets a prickly violinist on campus. As they communicate through sign language, their new relationship helps them face their fears. ... view
Character:
Kai Yuuki (11 ep.)
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:
Nakazawa
Original title: ジョゼと虎と魚たち
2003
A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and be ... view
Character:
Tsuneo
Original title: ドラゴンヘッド
2003
Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru ... view
Character:
Teru Aoki
Original title: さよなら、クロ
2003
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the ... view
Character:
Ryosuke Kimura
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 (11 ep.)
Original title: 池袋ウエストゲートパークスープの回
2003
This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon b ... view
Character:
Fujio ‘Saru’ Saitō
2002
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse. ... view
Character:
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Natsumi takes a job at Kitchen Macaroni, a family-run restaurant known for its omelets, pretending to be the fiancée of the owner's eldest son. Thoug ... view
Character:
Nabeshima Junzaburo (12 ep.)
Original title: さぶ
2002
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name. ... view
Character:
Sabu
Apr 2002 (first aired)
This is a love comedy that takes you behind the scenes of the latest bridal businesses, as well as the human drama of engaged couples, seen through th ... view
Character:
Narumi Syuhei (11 ep.)
Jan 2002 (first aired)
When 21-year-old Kohei learns he has six months to live, he recruits his friends to form a group of cat burglars who steal for the good of the communi ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 2002 (first aired)
It's January 7, just after the New Year begins. Make up classes are being held for students that aren't keeping up with their daily studies; anxious s ... view
Character:
Fujisawa Ryuta (11 ep.)
Original title: 忠臣蔵 1/47
2001
During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer a ... view
Character:
Gunbe Takada
Original title: ウォーターボーイズ
2001
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, i ... view
Character:
Suzuki
Jul 2001 (first aired)
Ryunosuke, who directs commercials, receives a phone call. On the other end of the phone is a friend from his college days inviting Ryunosuke to come ... view
Character:
Takumi Shinjo (11 ep.)
Original title: 富江 re-birth
2001
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with ... view
Character:
Takumi Aoyama
Jan 2001 (first aired)
Tokiwa stars as Tamura Nozumi, with a cheerful outlook in life, always choosing to believe in everyone. Fukatsu stars as Sakada Chiharu, an amanuensis ... view
Character:
Kazuya Machida (12 ep.)
Apr 2000 (first aired)
Living in Ikebukuro — an area infamous for juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto Majima becomes associated with a youth gang called the G-Boys. A troub ... view
Character:
Fujio 'Saru' Saitō (11 ep.)
Original title: GTO
1999
Great Teacher Onizuka is back, using his unorthodox brand of inspiration and education as a substitute teacher in a depressed small town in Hokkaido. ... view
Character:
Kawarasaki
Original title: コワイ童話「不思議の国のアリス」
1999
Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar... ... view
Character:
Jan 1999 (first aired)
The drama tells the story of a hostess turning 30 years old. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Original title: なぞの転校生
1998
A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds. ... view
Character:
Koichi Iwata
