Akiyoshi Nakao

Akiyoshi Nakao

Born: June 30, 1988
in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Akiyoshi Nakao (中尾 明慶, Nakao Akiyoshi, June 30, 1988) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, novelist, talent, and amateur racing driver. He belongs to Horipro. His wife is actress Riisa Naka. He is from Nakano-ku, Tokyo and lives there.

Movies for Akiyoshi Nakao...

Hey Handsome!!
Title: Hey Handsome!!
Character: Mysterious Man
Released: June 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Live-action movie adaptation based on Risa Itou's "Hey Hey Pitan!" Manga.
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Title: Hyena
Released: October 20, 2023
Type: TV
Two contrasting people, an unconventional outlaw lawyer and an elite lawyer born into a legal family, engage in a life-like struggle for survival and an adult love story!
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Title: Barakamon
Character: Takao Kawafuji
Released: July 12, 2023
Type: TV
A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
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And so I'm at a Loss
Title: And so I'm at a Loss
Released: January 13, 2023
Type: Movie
Yuichi Sugawara is a freelancer, who spends his days meaninglessly. He lives with his long-term girlfriend Satomi Suzuki. One day, they start to argue over a trivial matter which causes Yuichi to leave their home. He wanders around and meets with his friends, sister, and mother. When he starts to feel uncomfortable around them, he leaves them behind. He then crosses paths with his father, Koji, for the first time in ten years. Koji also ran away from his family, including Yuichi, at that time. Koji then invites Yuichi to come over to his house. Hen accepts and turns off his smartphone to cut off all the relationships he has.
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Title: Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure
Character: Inoue [Director]
Released: December 13, 2022
Type: TV
Gudetama, the lazy egg, reluctantly embarks on an adventure of a lifetime with Shakipiyo, a newly hatched chick, who is determined to find their mother.
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Title: First Love
Character: Bonji Kawano
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: TV
Young, free and madly in love. As teenagers, the world was their oyster—but, as adults, their lives seem dimmer, like a very important piece is missing.
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Title: PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Character: Sosuke Tojo
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: TV
Takeshiro Shikota is a 27-year-old pediatrician in Hokkaido, Japan. He was born and raised in Hokkaido. One day, Takeshiro is transferred to the newly established PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit). The unit is for children under the age of 15 who require advance and intensive treatment. There, he meets Dr. Hajime Ueno. Hajime is a pioneer in his field and hopes to establish PICU all over Japan. His goal is to bring sick children to PICU as quickly as possible and accept them under any circumstances. Meeting with Hajim, changes Takeshiro life as a pediatrician. (Source: AsianWiki)
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Title: Saihara the Loan Shark
Character: Koji Aizawa
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Roppongi Class
Character: Ryota Uchiyama
Released: July 7, 2022
Type: TV
Miyabe Arata, owner of the Roppongi Nidaime Miyabe bar, fights against those who have absolute power. His goal is to take revenge on Nagaya Holdings, a giant in the Japanese food industry. The owner of the holding companies, as well as his son, had a destructive influence on Miyabe Arata's life in the past.
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Title: Graduation Time Limit
Character: Rintaro Ito
Released: April 4, 2022
Type: TV
A popular English teacher, Mizuguchi Risako has been kidnapped three days before the high school's graduation ceremony. Four high school seniors received a mysterious challenge letter, asking them to solve the mystery of the kidnapping case within 72 hours. The four students are Kurokawa Yoshiki, his childhood friend Takahata Ayane, sports all-rounder Ogita Junpei, and school's beauty contest winner Komatsu Mio. The four students were wondering why they're the only ones who received the letter, but later gradually found out the "other face" of Mizuguchi which she has been hiding.
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Wedding High
Title: Wedding High
Character: Shinji Soma
Released: March 12, 2022
Type: Movie
What's the biggest event for a couple? A wedding! The goofy but earnest Akito Ishikawa and the always cheerful Haruka Nitta are about to tie the knot. Thanks to the help of their wedding planner Nakagoshi, they've finally made it to the day of the wedding.
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Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Title: Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations
Character: Ryunosuke Momose / Kamen Rider Century
Released: December 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Ikki, Touma, and their allies fight against a Devil with ties to Shocker while attempting to help a Kamen Rider from the future reconcile with his now elderly son.
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Title: One Hour Left Until the First Affair
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: TV
A love omnibus drama which shows how lovers are connected through mind and body.
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Title: Hitman in Love
Character: Kazaoka Tatsuki
Released: July 4, 2021
Type: TV
Onotora Shu does not know that his foster father is a legendary professional killer. However, his daily life dramatically changes after someone murders this professional killer. Onotora decides to take over the family business and become a hitman in order to avenge his foster father. He is well prepared when he approaches Narumiya Mitsuki who is his assassination target. Despite his physical abilities as a hitman, he is not able to kill her because of his terrible timing, no matter how he tries. On the contrary, he ends up protecting her as danger approaches. The two of them who should not fall in love, have an unlikely romance.
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Character
Title: Character
Character: Makoto Omura
Released: June 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
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Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Title: Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga Birth of the Overlord
Character: Tomohiro Kiyoshi
Released: March 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory, now in Aichi Prefecture Nagoya City area, was the leader Nobunaga of this surprising burst of death. After the war, the Imagawa clan who originally dominated the Tokaido region fell away, and the victorious Oda Nobunaga quickly expanded his power in Central Japan and the Kinki region, laying the foundation for his future control of the central government of Japan.
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Title: Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange
Character: Kiyoshi Tsukumo
Released: January 17, 2021
Type: TV
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 to fail often. One day, she arrested a wanted suspect for a murder case, but, unfortunately, her soul was exchanged with the suspect just when she was looking forward to her rewards.
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Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
Title: Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
Character: Kurosawa Piyoshi
Released: July 23, 2020
Type: Movie
They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through the movie! However, Reverse Police's SakaSama found him! The director who is busy with the shoot is turned into an Ikenaier! With that, the movie will no longer be cool!
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Title: Living
Released: May 30, 2020
Type: TV
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Shadowfall
Title: Shadowfall
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is faced with an occupant inside the house. There is a woman within who is going to commit a murder. She is also about to set the place ablaze. The thief stops her and in the process the criminal becomes the one stopping a crime. The situation is connected to a case from some twenty years go.
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Title: Sherlock: Untold Stories
Character: Haruki Akabane(赤羽 栄光)
Released: October 7, 2019
Type: TV
Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio Homare works on cases which interests him among police or customer requests. Meanwhile, Junichi Wakamiya (Takanori Iwata) is a psychiatrist. He is smart and cool-headed. Due to a case, Junichi Wakamiya gets involved with Shishio Homare. At first, Junichi Wakamiya thinks Shishio Homare is ignorant and arrogant, but, as they work together, Junichi Wakamiya gets comfortable with Shishio Homare.
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死命~刑事のタイムリミット~
Title: 死命~刑事のタイムリミット~
Character: Tomoki Yabe
Released: May 19, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Way Too Kawaii!
Character: Goro Chikamatsu
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: TV
A newly transferred employee discovers the hard work and passion of the professionals that fuels the ‘kawaii’ fashion magazine and its culture!
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Neck bowed in the rain
Title: Neck bowed in the rain
Character: Hikotaro Shirai
Released: July 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
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Title: Jimmy: The True Story of a True Idiot
Character: Jimmy Ohnishi
Released: July 20, 2018
Type: TV
In the 1980s, a simple-minded fool named Hideaki meets comedy legend Sanma, changes his name to Jimmy and becomes a comedic superstar.
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Title: The Could've-Gone-All-the-Way Committee
Released: April 23, 2018
Type: TV
People bring their stories of missed lust connections to an objective panel of experts who then judge whether they could have gone all the way or not.
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Color Me True
Title: Color Me True
Character: Shintaro Yamanaka
Released: February 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.
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Linking Love
Title: Linking Love
Released: October 28, 2017
Type: Movie
High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991. She realizes she is now going to school with her parents. But the problem is, her parents do not seem to get along - so Miyui will never be born! Miyui learns her father is interested in idols and so together with her mother and other girls she forms the idol group AGS16 to make sure her parents will eventually fall in love.
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Chūzai keiji SP 2017
Title: Chūzai keiji SP 2017
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Caution, Hazardous Wife
Character: Wataru Sato
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: TV
Nami Isayama met a man through a blind date and married him. She and her husband moved to a quiet, exclusive residential area. Nami is now a housewife and she decides to take cooking classes. She meets other housewives at the cooking class and receives tips from them, while becoming friends. Nami surmises that one of the housewives in her cooking class is the victim of domestic violence. Nami decides to save the victim by herself.
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Title: Chushingura: A 48th Loyal Retainer in Love
Character: Sandayu Muramatsu
Released: September 24, 2016
Type: TV
Set in the Edo period, a story revolves around Kiyo, a woman who strives to overcome status differences of those days. When she pledges to live for love, a knife attack occurs at Edo castle. And as a 48th loyal retainer, her fate changes after a raid on Kira: she is determined to serve at the inner palace of Edo Castle called "Ooku".
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Samurai Hustle Returns
Title: Samurai Hustle Returns
Character: Gokuzo Mori
Released: September 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone.
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Furiko
Title: Furiko
Released: February 28, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: The Eternal Zero
Character: Umeo Hasegawa
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: TV
The story of Saeki Kentaro, who continues to fail the National Bar Examinations and lose sight of the goal of his life, and his old sister Keiko, who is a freelance writer looking up their grandfather Miyabe who died in the Pacific War as a Kamikaze pilot. Miyabe had an astute ability as a pilot of fighter planes, but he was extraordinarily afraid of death. His two grandchildren started wondering why he applied for the Kamikaze corps. Revealing Miyabe’s unexpected title of “genius yet coward”, they unveil a surprising fact which has been sealed for over 60 years.
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Revenge Court
Title: Revenge Court
Character: Kenji Iwasaki
Released: February 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Snow Jack
Title: Snow Jack
Character: Hidenari Masubuchi
Released: August 2, 2014
Type: Movie
A blackmail arrives at Appi ski resort. “We demand 30,000,000 yen as consolation money for the destruction of the environment. If you do not respond to the demand, a time bomb set on the ski slope will be detonated.” If the bomb goes off, it will not only hurt the skiers but trigger an avalanche and cause a major catastrophe. The general manager of the ski pistes, Kurata (Ken Watanabe) pleads for an immediate shutdown of the ski site and reporting to the police, but the president of the ski resort gives priority to business interests and decides to negotiate with the blackmailer. And a negotiation process for a despicable ransom case with a massive hostage of all the skiers at the resort begins.
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Title: Transformation
Character: Saburo Kasai
Released: July 27, 2014
Type: TV
Somebody’s brain is living inside of me. Medical thriller based on the novel by Keigo Higashino which has sold over 1,250,000 copies.
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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2
Title: Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2
Character: Koji Aizawa
Released: May 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
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Title: Wednesday Downtown
Character: Panel member
Released: April 23, 2014
Type: TV
Everybody has theories that they personally cling blindly to regardless of proof or scientific validity. In this entertaining information program, a host of celebrities present their cases for pet theories to studio guests by any means be it academic argument or laughably “out there” logic. Can their theories gain acceptance? Or will they be discarded as pop science that only adds confusion to the world? Find out through exhaustive examination including on-location experiments!
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L♡DK
Title: L♡DK
Character: Ryōsuke Satō
Released: April 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Aoi Nishimori's parents moved to another city for work, but Aoi didn't want to transfer to a new high school. She stays behind and lives in an apartment by herself. Shūsei Kugayama moves in next to Aoi's apartment. Shūsei is a very popular student at their high school. Due to a mistake, Aoi makes the sprinkler go off in his room. Until Shūsei's room is fixed, he stays with Aoi.
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Our Tomorrow
Title: Our Tomorrow
Released: April 5, 2014
Type: Movie
At a pawn shop called "K" which is known for being a place where backroom deals are conducted, a professional burglar named Ryo Fudo puts together a team with the aim of stealing a legendary cache of gold. Ryo plans to wash his hands of thievery once and for all after this one final job, but conflicting intentions and betrayal soon complicate the situation.
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Tokyo Refugees
Title: Tokyo Refugees
Character: Kojiro
Released: February 22, 2014
Type: Movie
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary and part-time work. Even though he’s still in Tokyo, his circumstances drive him to see and experience his home city in new ways. Trying to survive, Osamu gradually acquaints himself with the ‘invisible’ spaces occupied by the wanderers and homeless of Tokyo… people just like himself.
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Kids Return: The Reunion
Title: Kids Return: The Reunion
Character: Yuji
Released: October 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.
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Title: We Want to be Delivered
Character: Gunkan
Released: May 12, 2013
Type: TV
Sawano has lost his job due to depression and isn't on good terms with his wife and 6-year-old son. After a failed suicide attempt, he discovers 7 letters which had not been delivered and sets out to give them to their intended recipients in a way of counting down to the end of his life.
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Litchi Hikari Club Stage Play
Title: Litchi Hikari Club Stage Play
Character: Tamiya
Released: April 26, 2013
Type: Movie
This is a theatrical play adaptation of the popular comic series "Lychee Light Club."
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Title: Minna! ESPer Dayo!
Character: Kayama
Released: April 12, 2013
Type: TV
In Notsu, Oita Prefecture, there are many people with supernatural powers. High school student Yoshio Kamogawa (Shota Sometani) is one of them and can read other people's minds. Yoshio uses his powers for trivial reasons.
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The Floating Castle
Title: The Floating Castle
Character: Kazou
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika, a frivolous hedonistic fellow and unlikely candidate for the position of rebel general, finds himself in charge of defending the castle. His odds? An army of 500 men to combat Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 20,000.
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Title: High School Entrance Exam
Character: Aida Kiyotaka
Released: October 6, 2012
Type: TV
Kyoko, a newly-appointed English teacher at a rural but well-respected, prestigious prefectural high school, had spent her childhood and high school years overseas before returning to Japan. Because she lived abroad for a long time, she cannot understand the old-fashioned ideas peculiar to Japan and tends to be frank about what she thinks. On the eve and the day of the school entrance examination, various incidents occur. There is the spectre of someone attempting to wreck the examination for some motive. Everyone present is a potential suspect and the truth remains shrouded in mystery to the end.
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Lychee Light Club
Title: Lychee Light Club
Released: October 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Lychee Light Club takes place in an alternate reality where the Club does not fall into disarray after the completion of Litchi, the intelligent human-like robot the club invented to kidnap girls. The cult-like Lychee Light Club has had its ups and downs. Led by the enigmatic, beauty-obsessed Hiroyuki "Zera" Tsunekawa, the club has finally succeeded in using their fruit-powered robot, Litchi, to kidnap the beautiful Kanon. After accomplishing their goals, the Hikari Club has little to do other than delight in their newfound lives. From selling the technology that allows Litchi to run on lychee fruit, to modifying the robot to perform different tasks, there's no telling what antics the Lychee Light Club will get up to next!
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Title: Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance
Character: Yazumi Masamichi
Released: April 29, 2012
Type: TV
In this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself to kill a teenage girl leading a prostitution ring. She's an insect that hurts everyone around her. She needs to die -- and he's going to kill her. Why is that wrong?
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Ace Attorney
Title: Ace Attorney
Character: Masashi Yahari (Larry Butz)
Released: February 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix's greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya, a spirit medium whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him.
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I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
Title: I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
Character: Kato Yuki
Released: January 3, 2012
Type: Movie
Ohno plays the role of Tarui Shotaro, an ordinary guy who dreamed of becoming a hero when he was a child, but now gets by as a part-time worker. The unexpected story unfolds when one day, the daughter of a yakuza boss asks him to plan a make-believe kidnapping. Sato Ryuta plays Shotaro's co-worker who helps him with the kidnapping. Kanjiya Shihori plays Satsuki, the eldest daughter of the Hanazono yakuza clan, while Narimiya Hiroki plays Satsuki's college senpai who joined the Hanazono clan after graduation. Takahashi Katsumi plays the head of a rival organization who has fallen in love with Satsuki. Kitaoji Kinya plays Satsuki's father and the head of the Hanazono clan.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Released: December 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
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Title: Secret Relationship: The teacher is my housemate
Character: Kuramae Ryota
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: TV
The story of a high school student whose parents died, leaving her with no other relatives. In order to survive she has been working as a hostess in a cabaret, until the day she met her homeroom teacher there. She ended up losing her job and has no other alternative than to begin to live with her homeroom teacher. These two people exchange a promise and start living a secret life, leading to an odd lifestyle for both of them.
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Colorful
Title: Colorful
Character: Mitsuru Kobayashi (voice)
Released: August 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
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Title: The History of Our Family
Character: Hideo Murata
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: TV
Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.
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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Title: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Character: Ryota Mizoroki
Released: March 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation
Title: Rookies the Movie: Graduation
Character: Shuta Sekikawa
Released: May 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...
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Title: Rookies
Character: Shuta Sekikawa
Released: April 19, 2008
Type: TV
Koichi Kawato is the new Japanese Literature teacher at the ill-famed Futakotamagawa high school, whose baseball club is composed of thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions, for causing a brawl during an official match. The newly appointed teacher finds that the club members left are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. However, the road to Koshien is far from easy as many obstacles await them.
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An Eraser in My Head
Title: An Eraser in My Head
Character: Kono Satoshi
Released: March 13, 2007
Type: Movie
An art school student and an artist find love but soon must face a painful struggle.
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Title: 私の頭の中の消しゴム
Character: Kono Satoshi
Released: March 13, 2007
Type: TV
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Freezing Point
Title: Freezing Point
Character: Tatsuya Mitsui
Released: November 25, 2006
Type: Movie
The young daughter of Keizo Tsujiguchi, a respected physician who runs his own hospital, is found murdered. Keizo secretly blames his wife Natsue because he suspects her of having an affair with his colleague Murai, and having been too distracted to keep proper watch over the child. Being a proud man, he does not accuse her directly, but concocts, instead, a twisted revenge against her. Pretending it is to comfort his devastated wife, Keizo arranges for them to adopt a baby girl. What he hasn't told Natsue, is that the baby is the orphaned daughter of the murderer, a tragic day-laborer who has hanged himself while in police custody. He plans to reveal the child's origins after Natsue has given her heart to the child-- when it will cause the greatest possible hurt.
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Title: Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Character: Sakai Kenji
Released: October 13, 2006
Type: TV
High school student Hoshi Izumi loses her father suddenly in an accident. One day, Sakuma, the waka gashira of a small and weak Yakuza gang in Asakusa - the Medaka Gumi - pays Izumi a visit along with the gang members. The death of their former kumicho (Boss) puts Medaka Gumi on the verge of a breakup. Therefore, Sakuma begs Izumi, the former boss's only distant relative left, to succeed to the kumicho position. Izumi is taken by surprise and keeps refusing at first. However, she ends up becoming the 8th kumicho of the Medaka Gumi! The police tell her that her father's death may possibly be a homicide case. There's also Mayumi, a mysterious woman staring closely at Izumi's father's photograph at his funeral. The situation becomes complicated when the drug-dealing vicious yakuza, Hamaguchi Gumi, comes into the picture as well as Sandaiji Hajime, a politician whose public stance is to eliminate drugs.
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Title: Brother Beat
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
Brother Beat is a Japanese television drama consisting of eleven episodes, which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 13 to December 22, 2005.
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Title: Dragon Sakura
Character: Ichiro Okuno
Released: July 8, 2005
Type: TV
A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Tatsuyama Gakuen to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!
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Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Title: Samurai Commando Mission 1549
Character: Tohsuke / Tokichiro Kinoshita
Released: June 11, 2005
Type: Movie
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 Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
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Title: H2: The Days with You
Character: Noda Atsushi
Released: January 13, 2005
Type: TV
Drama series based on manga H2 by Adachi Mitsuru about two rival high school baseball games. The stars of each team, Hideo and Hiro, happen to be childhood friends.
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Title: 水男孩 2
Released: July 6, 2004
Type: TV
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Water Boys 2
Title: Water Boys 2
Released: July 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Water Boys was a major sliver screen hit in 2001 that took the Japanese public by storm in depicting high school boys who pour all the passion of their youth into becoming synchronized swimmers. The year 2003 saw the start of a new TV series of the same name that maintained the overall atmosphere of the film while making new developments, and becoming a summer hit with the amazing synchronized swimming feats it depicted. And then in the summer of 2004 a second season of the series with fun and a sense of pathos opened, this time with a new town as the setting and depicting the passion, friendship and love of 32 boys who are absolutely nuts about synchronized swimming.The fascinating synchronized swimming scenes are more powerful than ever. In addition to the scenes of a public performance in the last installment, the show has loads of excitement and thrills throughout.
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Title: Water Boys
Character: Yosuke Yamamoto
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: TV
Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003. There is a fairly large cast due to the amount of members in each team. There were 32 swimmers in this drama who were carefully chosen to fit their roles, but none of them had ever done synchronized swimming before.
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Title: Good Luck!!
Character: Makoto Shinkai
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. He can't seem to please Captain Koda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Koda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams, and passion.
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Title: Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: TV
A legendary television series and cultural asset, Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family relations, teachers and friends, graduating middle school students navigate a turbulent hormonal sea of “hope” and “frustration”, constantly shaped by the social environment of the times. Standing as a beacon in the storm and emitting messages of hope for each generation is one Japanese teacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, who has come to be adored and admired by a nation through the adventures of Class 3B.