is a Japanese

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Hush!'' and at the 27th

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

for ''Hush!'' and ''

Harmful Insect is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Akihiko Shiota and starring Aoi Miyazaki. Cast * Aoi Miyazaki as Sachiko Kita * Seiichi Tanabe as Ogata * Tetsu Sawaki as Takao * Ryo Amamiya as Tokugawa * Koji Ishikawa as Kyuzo * Yū Aoi as Natsuko * R ...

''.

Filmography

Film

* ''Atashi wa juice'' (1996) * ''

April Story ''April Story'' ( ja, 四月物語) is a Japanese film directed by Shunji Iwai starring Takako Matsu. Plot Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl from the countryside of northern Hokkaidō, leaves her family and gets on a train bound for Tokyo so she can att ...

'' (1998) * ''

Blues Harp The Richter-tuned harmonica, or 10-hole harmonica (in Asia) or blues harp (in America), is the most widely known type of harmonica. It is a variety of diatonic harmonica, with ten holes which offer the player 19 notes (10 holes times a draw and ...

'' (1998) * '' Ring 0: Birthday'' (2000) * '' Hush!'' (2001) * ''

'' (2002) * '' Atagoal wa Neko no Mori'' (2006), Gilbars (voice) * ''

Happy Flight is a Japanese comedy film directed by Shinobu Yaguchi about pilots and flight attendants. All Nippon Airways (ANA) backed the creation of the film. The airline sponsored a giveaway of ''Happy Flight'' DVDs and other items to certain members of ANA ...

'' (2008) * '' Liar Game: The Final Stage'' (2010) * '' Mother's Trees'' (2015) * '' The 100th Love with You'' (2017), Shuntaro Hasegawa * '' Psychic Kusuo'' (2017), Kuniharu Saiki * '' Bleach'' (2018), Kisuke Urahara * '' Snow Flower'' (2019), Wakamura * ''A Garden of Camellias'' (2021) * ''Inori'' (2021)

Television

* ''

Asunaro Hakusho is a Japanese manga series by Fumi Saimon that was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Big Comic Spirits''. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1992. Cast *Hikari Ishida as Narumi Sonoda * Michitaka Tsutsui as Tamotsu Kakei *Ta ...

'' (1993) * '' Rasen'' (1999) * ''

Tramps Like Us is a Japanese ''Josei'' manga series by . It is about Sumire, a young professional woman who takes in a younger man as a pet, and her attempts to keep her coworkers and conventionally perfect boyfriend from finding out about her pet. It al ...

'' (2003) * ''Damens Walker'' (2006) * '' Fūrin Kazan'' (2007) * ''

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'' (2007) * '' Kami no Shizuku'' (2009) * ''

Shōkōjo Seira is a 2009 Japanese drama television series based on the 1905 children's novel ''A Little Princess'' by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mirai Shida stars as Seira, the daughter of a rich boss of a mining company. Due to her father's sudden death in a ...

'' (2009) * ''

Twin Spica is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Kou Yaginuma. The "realistic, slice-of-life science fiction series" tells the story of a group of Japanese high school students training to become astronauts in the early 21st ...

'' (2009) * ''Toge'' (2016) * ''Chichi, Nobunaga'' (2017), Kazuo Oda * ''Detective Yuri Rintaro'' (2020), Todoroki * ''

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky is a Japanese historical drama television series starring Ryo Yoshizawa as Shibusawa Eiichi, a Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism". The series is the 60th NHK taiga drama, premiered on February 14, 2 ...

'' (2021), Odaka Junchū * ''Ann's Lyrics: Ann Sakuragi's Haiku Lessons'' (2021) * ''Only Just Married'' (2021), Satoshi Morita * ''

My Love Mix-Up! is a Japanese manga series written by Wataru Hinekure and illustrated by Aruko. It was serialized in ''Bessatsu Margaret'' from June 2019 to June 2022. A spin-off, titled ''Kieta Hatsukoi: Shōgekijō'', began serialization in July 2021. A ...

'' (2021), Masahiro Taniguchi * ''DCU: Deep Crime Unit'' (2022), Akio Totsuka (ep. 8) *''

What Will You Do, Ieyasu? What or WHAT may refer to: * What, an interrogative pronoun and adverb * "What?", one of the Five Ws used in journalism Film and television * ''What!'' (film) or ''The Whip and the Body'', a 1963 Italian film directed by Mario Bava * '' What ...

'' (2023), Anayama Baisetsu *'' Ranman'' (2023), Motoyoshi Noda

References

1969 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Male actors from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-screen-actor-stub