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Masahiro Motoki
Born: 21st Dec 1965
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 65
Film: 46 (71%)
Television: 19 (29%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Adventure, Horror, Music, Animation, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Filmography
Original title: 黒牢城
2026
Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and ... view
Character:
Araki Murashige
Original title: 八月の声を運ぶ男
2025
This is the story of a strange encounter brought about by the atomic bomb, based on the true story of Akihiko Ito, a journalist who lived in Nagasaki ... view
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Jan 2025 (first aired)
In 1979 Tokyo, four distinct sisters uncover their aging father's affair, causing their happy facades and bottled-up emotions to slowly unravel. ... view
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Takao Satomi (7 ep.)
Original title: 海の沈黙
2024
The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a forgery. Meanwhile, the body of a woman with count ... view
Character:
Ryuji Tsuyama
Original title: Snerting
2024
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what r ... view
Character:
Takahashi
Original title: Takashi Miike : le V-Empereur
2024
Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework of his monumental universe. ... view
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Archive Footage
Original title: 仕事と日（塩谷の谷間で)
2022
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains o ... view
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Neighbour
Original title: 流行感冒
2021
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy ... view
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Jan 2020 (first aired)
After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the coun ... view
Character:
Saitou Toshimasa / Saito Dousan [the "Viper of Mino"] (44 ep.)
Oct 2019 (first aired)
Family duty sends a lawman to London to look for his mob-assassin brother as a yakuza war threatens to engulf Tokyo. Trust is even tougher to find. ... view
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Fukuhara (8 ep.)
Original title: 永い言い訳
2016
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man w ... view
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Sachio Kinugasa
Original title: 天空の蜂
2015
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media a ... view
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Mishima
Original title: 日本のいちばん長い日
2015
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nigh ... view
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Emperor Showa
Jan 2012 (first aired)
A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director o ... view
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Ryota Yuminari (10 ep.)
Original title: 矢島美容室 THE MOVIE 〜夢をつかまネバダ〜
2010
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD. ... view
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2009
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008) ... view
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Himself
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
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秋山真之 (13 ep.)
Original title: おくりびと
2008
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s apply ... view
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Daigo Kobayashi
Original title: 夜·上海
2007
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by maki ... view
Character:
Naoki Mizushima
Original title: 鉄コン筋クリート
2006
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the to ... view
Character:
Snake (voice)
Oct 2005 (first aired)
Tomonaga Akiyuki and his wife Yu have been married seven years. Akiyuki is a graphic designer, and is quite happy in his work and private life. One da ... view
Character:
Tomonaga Akiyuki (10 ep.)
Jan 2005 (first aired)
A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love and tears of a funny couple starring Rie Miyazawa an ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jul 2003 (first aired)
This is the tragic love story of Shuhei and Umi. Shuhei is the only surviving son of a hospital director. He loves to play the piano as accompaniment ... view
Character:
Narukawa Shuhei (11 ep.)
Original title: スパイ・ゾルゲ
2003
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japan ... view
Character:
Hidemi Ozaki
2003
The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has rap ... view
Character:
Musashi Miyamoto
Original title: 聖徳太子
2001
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various wa ... view
Character:
Prince Shōtoku
Nov 2001 (first aired)
In the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various war ... view
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Umayado no ouji (2 ep.)
Original title: 塚本晋也が乱歩する
2000
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini". ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: ブラック・ジャック
2000
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, t ... view
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Black Jack
Oct 1999 (first aired)
The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that Motok ... view
Character:
Takagi Koichi (10 ep.)
Original title: 双生児 -GEMINI-
1999
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife. ... view
Character:
Yukio Daitokuji
Original title: 中国の鳥人
1998
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentim ... view
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Wada
Apr 1996 (first aired)
The drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how he and the woman who loves him so earnestly struggle wi ... view
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Unknown/various (13 ep.)
Original title: トキワ荘の青春
1996
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, w ... view
Character:
Hiroo Terada
Original title: Shall we ダンス?
1996
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and the ... view
Character:
Hiromasa Kimoto
1995
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by co ... view
Character:
Junichi Mitsuya
Jan 1995 (first aired)
A tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after an accidental meeting on a train. Kousuke is a skiing ... view
Character:
Aoki Kosuke (11 ep.)
Original title: RAMPO 奥山バージョン
1994
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be publi ... view
Character:
Kogoro Akechi
Original title: ラストソング
1994
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to p ... view
Character:
Shukichi Yasumi
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Original title: 魚からダイオキシン!!
1992
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo. ... view
Character:
Kenji
Original title: シコふんじゃった。
1992
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together ... view
Character:
Shuhei Yamamoto
Jan 1992 (first aired)
A private lawyer (Hiroshi Mikami) who is infatuated with the widow of the Mamiya conglomerate (Emi Shindo) and aims for her inheritance. But he had mu ... view
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山根光彦 (11 ep.)
Original title: 無能の人
1991
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but b ... view
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Original title: 遊びの時間は終らない
1991
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't cat ... view
Character:
Hirata
Original title: 陽炎
1991
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself. ... view
Character:
Ichitaro Kosugi
Original title: ふうせん
1990
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love. ... view
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Original title: ファンシイダンス
1989
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, ... view
Character:
Shiono Yohei
Original title: ラッフルズホテル
1989
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with ... view
Character:
Takeo Youki
Original title: べっぴんの町
1989
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murde ... view
Character:
Shuji Sayama
Original title: 226
1989
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading po ... view
Character:
Hisashi Kono
Jul 1988 (first aired)
Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let her ... view
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Unknown/various (12 ep.)
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Original title: ヘッドフォン・ララバイ
1983
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students. ... view
Character:
Rei Kazama
Original title: シブがき隊 ボーイズ＆ガールズ
1982
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love. ... view
Character:
Daisuke