Playwright, stage director, actor, and film director.

KNOWN FOR

CSI: Crime Scene Talks
2017
Hanako & Anne
2014
Time Limit Investigator
2006
Midnight Diner
2009
Sins of Kujo
2026
The Locked Room Murders
2012
Nodame Cantabile
2006
The Next Generation: Patlabor
2014
The Private Detective Mike
2002
A Town Without Seasons
2023
My Dear Exes
2021
Ningen Kowai
2023

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
130
Directing
8
Writing
10
2026
Sins of Kujo
as Yuzo Yamashiro
2026
The Light We Cast
as Kashida Atsushi
2026
Political Lupin
as Daiji Kazamatsuri · unreleased
2025
Diamonds in the Sand
as Kawase
2025
Don’t Look for Me
2024
Wakamusha
2024
峠の我が家
2024
Tokyo Cowboy
as President Miwa
2024
The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary
as Araki Kohei
2024
Mars: Zero's Revolution
as Komiyama Shigeru
2023
カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？
2023
Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition
2023
Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition
2023
Ningen Kowai
2023
A Town Without Seasons
as Kyota
2022
Sabakan
as Uchida
2022
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Bokudo Ioroi
2022
Convenience Story
2022
Shin Ultraman
as Hajime Komuro
2022
Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~
as Kobayashi Hiroshi
2022
He's Expecting
2022
Renovation Like Magic
2021
Inubu: The Dog Club
as Genjiro Amuro
2021
In the Wake
as Narazaki
2021
A Family
as Kazuhiko Osako
2021
We Made a Beautiful Bouquet
as Yoshiaki Hachiya
2021
Remain In Twilight
2021
Every Trick In The Book
2021
THE LIMIT
as 斉藤学
2021
How to be Likable in a Crisis
2021
My Dear Exes
as Osuke Omameda
2020
Step
2020
劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編
2020
‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
as Nadamori Masao
2019
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2018
The Cat in Their Arms
as old cat
2018
Black Dahlia
2018
LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!
as Muryo Record Company CEO
2017
March Comes In Like a Lion
as Takanori Jinguji
2017
Memoirs of a Murderer
as Akihiro Yamagata
2017
March Goes out Like a Lamb
as Takanori Jinguji
2017
Tokyo Ghoul
as Akihiro Kano
2017
Laughing Lucky Cats
as Joji Iwakura
2017
Joryu Tohaiden Aki
as Takeo Kojima
2017
Goodbye, Grandpa!
as Akio Haruno
2017
吹く風は秋
2017
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
2017
Love and Hongkong
as Nari Katagiri
2016
Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~
2016
Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?
as [Principal]
2015
The Man of the Political Economy
2015
Pieta in the Toilet
as Hiroshi's Father
2015
A Fading Summer
as Shuhei Inoue
2015
Napoleon's Village
as Fumio Kita
2014
The Vancouver Asahi
as Tadakura Miyake
2014
Gu Gu the Cat
as Hideo Tachibana
2014
The Long Goodbye
as Zaizen
2014
The Next Generation: Patlabor
2014
Hanako & Anne
as Urushibara Mitsuma
2013
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
2013
It's Me It's Me
as Detective Murano
2013
Pecoross' Mother and Her Days
as Yuichi Okano
2013
The Apology King
as Film director
2013
The Complex
2013
Neo Ultra Q
as Professor Fukuda
2012
The Last Days of the World
2012
Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
2012
Lesson of the Evil
as Masao Nadamori
2012
Tokkan
as Hajime Mayosato
2012
The Locked Room Murders
as Togashi Kotatsu
2011
Crossroads
2011
A Man with Style
2011
Guilty of Romance
as Supermarket Manager
2011
Early Autumn
2011
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１２「サッドソング・フォー・アグリードーター」
2011
Madame Butterfly
as Ohta Kisaburo
2011
Dōki
2010
Sawako Decides
as Nobuo
2010
8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
2010
The Days of Morisaki Bookstore
as Sabu
2010
Azamijô no lullaby
2010
Atami's Police Investigators
as Tokusaburo Sagami
2009
Dear Doctor
as Yoshifumi Okayasu
2009
Instant Swamp
as Kamesaka
2009
Yamagata Scream
as Chomei Okagaitokon
2009
Air Doll
as Video Shop Owner
2009
Midnight Diner
as Masao Toyama
2008
Love Exposure
as President
2008
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow
as Ebata Tatsuo
2007
Adrift in Tokyo
as Kunimatsu
2007
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as Gang Boss
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Editor on the phone (voice)
2007
Invisible War
as Tajiri
2006
Damejin
as Numa-san
2006
Faces of a Fig Tree
2006
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
2006
Time Limit Investigator
as 熊本
2006
Nodame Cantabile
as Noda Tatsuo
2005
In the Pool
as General Manager Maenishi
2005
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
as Shizuo Kugitani
2005
Into a Dream
as Machida
2005
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
as Foreman
2004
Cutie Honey
as Goki
2004
Zebraman
as Kanda
2003
TRUNK
2003
横山秀夫サスペンス「第三の時効」
2003
Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series
as Ani (2033)
2002
横山秀夫サスペンス「沈黙のアリバイ」
2002
The Private Detective Mike
2001
Quartet for Two
as Taxi driver
2001
Hush!
as Gynecologist
2000
The Last Day
1999
Sunday's Dream
1998
MIND GAME
1998
Samurai Fiction
as Muroto
1998
Dog Race
as Asano
1995
Gonin
as Man at the Toilet
1995
MARKS
as Director Takeuchi
1994
Turning Point
1994
119
as Member of Main Station
1993
Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers
1993
A Night in Nude
as Shimura
1993
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Banker
1992
The Hit-and-Run Family
1992
Original Sin
1992
A Canned Crab
1992
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
1991
Bakayarō! 4 You!
as (segment "カラダだけの男")
1989
Beijing Watermelon
as Policeman
1988
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Tokyo Shoji Employee