Masato Wada

Masato Wada

Born: August 25, 1979
in Tosa, Prefettura di Kochi, Giappone

Movies for Masato Wada...

Reigen ohatsu ~ furueru iwa ~
Title: Reigen ohatsu ~ furueru iwa ~
Released: May 4, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
Released: December 16, 2023
Type: TV
Arai Naohito is a CODA (children of deaf adults) who becomes a sign language interpreter after losing his job and family in order to restart his life. The drama tells the story of a sign language interpreter who interprets for the deaf in criminal trials.
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Orange Lamp
Title: Orange Lamp
Released: June 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease.
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Winny
Title: Winny
Released: March 10, 2023
Type: Movie
In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based on the true story of the men who fought against the authorities to protect the future and the rights of engineers.
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THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Title: THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
Character: Inuchiyo Maeda
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair, and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
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海岸通りのネコミミ探偵
Title: 海岸通りのネコミミ探偵
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
In the coastal region of Shonan, a young man enlists the help of a eccentric local pet detective to search for his missing pet cat. When the man is unable to pay for the detective's help, he joins the unusual agency to pay off the debt.
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Title: Spy Meshi: Ikoku Gourmet Sennyu Ki
Character: Nakajo Shinobu
Released: November 27, 2022
Type: TV
Public security investigators Kijima and Nakajo are investigating foreign neighborhoods across Japan in pursuit of a foreigner with a red bag containing mysterious confidential information. In order to find accurate information about the local area, we infiltrate an exotic restaurant run by a local foreigner and try out unknown foreign cuisine! Existing famous restaurants serving exotic cuisine are appearing one after another. A new type of gourmet drama where you can enjoy the exotic atmosphere while staying in Japan!
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Title: Love Dissonance
Character: Hokuto Usui
Released: July 14, 2022
Type: TV
The story takes place in a certain high school. Masaki Nitta arrives as a new music teacher, but the school is greatly disturbed by the disappearance of the previous teacher. While playing the piano in the music room the night before work, Masaki meets Sae Izumi, a student who is running away from one issue. Sae is a student in the class in which he is an assistant teacher. The two of them, gradually develop a bond through the disappearance.
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Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
Title: Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: Movie
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.
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Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Title: Bakumatsu Aibou-den
Released: January 3, 2022
Type: Movie
A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the restoration of imperial rule. Who plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is about to become the last shogun of Japan? Was it the faction wanting to overthrow him or the rebels within the shogunate? Mutual enemies Sakamoto Ryoma, the wandering samurai, and Hijikata Toshizo, a deputy leader of the Shinsengumi and vassal of the Tokugawa clan, receive a secret order to track down the culprit. They are given a mere two days.
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Title: Lion Snacks
Character: Awatristo Mohiko
Released: June 27, 2021
Type: TV
The "Lion's House" is the name of a hospice located on a beautiful island. The people who live there are people with a short life expectancy. Shizuku, a 29-year-old who was told how long she had to live at a young age, comes to live there. She feels a little regretful over not being able to improve her relationship with her family before coming. At the "Lion's House", snack time is a time where the residents are allowed to request a snack from their memories but Shizuku is unable to choose. The days of laughter and tears begin alongside the other residents. What does Shizuku find and leave behind in the last days of her life?
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Title: オレの寿司物語
Character: 西岡卓哉
Released: November 21, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Mitsuhide no Sumaho
Character: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: TV
In the 16th century, during The Sengoku Period, Akechi Mitsushide uses a smartphone to meet people, search about himself, and fight his enemies.
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Title: Why She Can't R.I.P.
Character: Nakaji Keiichi
Released: September 12, 2020
Type: TV
A young man from Myanmar who loves Japanese comics gets an opportunity to study them in Japan. He gets surprised at expensive house rent in Japan but finally finds an apartment with very cheap rent. However, it turns out that a female ghost lives in his room. He cannot give up the cheap rent and determines to share the room with the ghost. This is a story of his life in Japan surrounded by the ghost and other unique characters having various issues.
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Title: Pareto's Miscalculation: Caseworker Murder Case
Released: March 7, 2020
Type: TV
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Fukushima 50
Title: Fukushima 50
Character: Akira Honda
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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Title: Texting in Tokyo
Released: February 1, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: The Road to Red Restaurant List
Character: Sayama [Tamio's colleague] (Ep. 8)
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: TV
Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsumeshi." Zetsumeshi refers to endangered meals, that may no longer exist in the future. While his wife Kanae and child go attend concerts by their favourite idol groups, he leaves home on Friday after work and returns home Saturday night.
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Title: Kyojo
Character: Taichi Suga(須賀 太一)
Released: January 4, 2020
Type: TV
Kimichika Kazama is an instructor at a police academy. He is keenly observant and watches over his students. He is calm as an instructor and has charisma, but strict. Students with various backgrounds attend the police academy with their own reasons of becoming police officers. They feel pressure having to follow the strict rules and have anxiety about getting kicked out of the academy. How many students will graduate among the 90 students? What is the real purpose of Kimichika Kazama giving hardship to the students?
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Title: Sherlock: Untold Stories
Character: Soji Ui(宇井 宗司)
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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Title: SCAMS
Released: July 1, 2019
Type: TV
Hit hard by the Lehman shock, a well-meaning young man joins a phone scam operation and gets increasingly embroiled in the underworld.
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Title: Yaji x Kita Ganzo Tokaidochu Hizakurige
Character: Kitahachi
Released: April 6, 2019
Type: TV
Based off of the most popular novel of the Edo era, Yaji x Kita follows the titular characters in several comedic situations involving the women the two stumble upon on their journey to "find themselves".
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An Artist of the Floating World
Title: An Artist of the Floating World
Character: Murakami Soichi
Released: March 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
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Title: Trace ~ Men of the science school ~
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
Mano Reiji, a man who experienced a gruesome incident, is a forensic researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Investigative Science Research Institute. Under the belief that "appraisal will result in the truth" and with his vast knowledge, Mano approaches cases from a view point that differs from others. On the other hand, Sawaguchi Nonna (Araki Yuko) is a rookie forensic researcher that begins working with the no nonsense Mano. They are forced to work together on a murder case.
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Title: Tantei ga Hayasugiru
Character: Jiro Mitsuyama
Released: July 19, 2018
Type: TV
University student Sogawa Ichika inherits 5 trillion yen from her father all of a sudden and attempts are made on her life by his siblings. The avaricious family has struck a deal to let the person who kills Ichika first have all the money to himself or herself and tries all means to take her life. Ichika’s housekeeper hires the investigator Chikumagawa Hikaru, who has a perfect record of solving cases before they happen, to protect her.
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Title: Last Chance
Character: Ryuichi Saeki
Released: July 16, 2018
Type: TV
After a merger forces him to quit his banking job, Tetsuo Kashimura meets the CEO of an investment company who talks him into restoring a restaurant franchise.
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Title: 捜査会議はリビングで!
Released: July 15, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Miss Devil
Character: Shuhei Okitsu
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: TV
Human resources consultant Tsubaki Mako has been dubbed the "devil of human resources" for her iron-fisted ways. She struts her way into a well-established firm and tackles sexual harassment, power harassment, bitter rivalries between factions, and monstrous employees, all of which are issues that can strike any company, with her extreme methods. Mako is like a devil who solves problems with her bold tactics.
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Kuroido Goroshi
Title: Kuroido Goroshi
Character: Chagawa Kenzo
Released: April 14, 2018
Type: Movie
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been suspected for killing her own husband so Dr. Shiba’s sister Kana is guessing that she has committed suicide due to being tormented by killing her husband. Everyone who was in Mr. Kuroido’s house is the suspect, including all the members of Kuroido family, butler, secretary, maids, etc. The Detective Suguro (Hercule Poirot) will investigate the case. Dr. Shiba will be assisting him. As things are searched by them, a shocking fact has been brought to light…
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Title: Unrequited Love
Character: Sugai Makoto
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: TV
At a university football team reunion, former team manager Mitsuki Hiura confesses that she killed a person to quarterback Tetsuro Nishiwaki. She also reveals that as a result of a gender identity disorder, she is now living as a man. Tetsuro and his friends were puzzled by the events leading to her behaviour. They try to protect their old friend as they gradually discover the truth.
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Title: Rikuoh
Character: Takao Hirase
Released: October 15, 2017
Type: TV
Koichi Miyazawa runs a small, but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese socks). He is the CEO of the fourth generation company with about 20 employees. Due to a decrease of demand for tabi, the company is struggling to keep afloat. Koichi Miyazawa thinks about launching a new product line. The new product is running shoes. For the company's surival, Koichi Miyazawa begins to develop running shoes using their accumulated knowledge for making tabi.
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Sekigahara
Title: Sekigahara
Character: Kuroda Nagamasa
Released: August 26, 2017
Type: Movie
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.
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Title: Massage Detective Joe
Character: Kato Torao / Taiga
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: TV
Joe Yabukihara starts working as a masseur with the encouragement of Madam Eco, the owner of a massage shop whom he happened to become acquainted with about a year ago. Recognising that he is gifted in massage, Eco makes Joe go to the homes of all kinds of customers, although it agonizes him because he dislikes people and has anxiety around strangers. One day, the wealthy husband of Joe's customer is murdered and Joe finds himself suspected by police detectives. At the suggestion of fellow masseur Aguri, Joe uses his massage techniques and powers of observation to solve the mystery and clear his name. This becomes the turning point in his life. After that, he keeps getting involved in strange murder cases at customers' homes and demonstrates his unexpected talent each time.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Makino
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
Haraguchi Motoko works as a temp at a bank. To pay off debt that she inherited from her parents, she also works as a hostess at a club in Ginza. Motoko Haraguchi is finally able to repay the debt. At this time, there's chatter that the temp employees will be laid off at the bank. Motoko Haraguchi decides to carry out a scheme she has prepared secretly. She transfers money from accounts opened illegally to her bank account. Altogether, Motoko Haraguchi embezzles 180 million yen. Using her “Kurokawa no Techo” (Black Leather Notebook) which has a list of the illegally opened accounts, she fights against bank branch managers and opens a club in Ginza.
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Title: Black Leather Notebook
Character: Makino
Released: July 20, 2017
Type: TV
The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.
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Flower and Sword
Title: Flower and Sword
Character: Senbu
Released: June 3, 2017
Type: Movie
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's rule makes life difficult for the people. Monk Senko Ikenobo is a master of flower arrangement. He prays for peace in the world and tries to give hope to the people with flower arrangement. He becomes good friends with Rikyu. Rikyu is a monk and a politician. He has the most profound influence on chanoyu. Rikyu is forced to commit hara-kiri by Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s order. Monk Senko Ikenobo challenges Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
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Fried levanilla with rib steak from Tsudanuma in Nakano
Title: Fried levanilla with rib steak from Tsudanuma in Nakano
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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14 That Night
Title: 14 That Night
Character: Maeda
Released: December 24, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area’s wannabe gangsters. But he’s interested in the girl next door, the bounteously-breasted Megumi. One day, Takashi hears a rumor that porn actress Kyoko Yokushimaru is coming to town for an autograph session at the only video store in town where Takashi and his judo friends always hang out. Their ridiculous but serious adventure begins. What will Takashi find after all the surprises and chaos? Recalling youth classics like Stand By Me, this is the debut feature of Shin Adachi, Japan Academy Prize-winning screenwriter of 100 Yen Love.
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Title: Jimi ni Sugoi! Kôetsu Girl Kôno Etsuko... ga Inai Suiyôbi
Character: Hachiro Kaizuka
Released: November 30, 2016
Type: TV
Yoneoka and Fujiiwa work on the proofreading of a novel in the quiet proofreading department office when Etsuko is on annual leave and the novel's content becomes real-life footage in their minds.
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Title: Pretty Proofreader
Character: Mitsuo Yoneoka
Released: October 5, 2016
Type: TV
Etsuko Kono is a 28-year-old woman who loves fashion. Aspiring to become a fashion editor, she joins a publishing company, but is sent to work in copy editing. There, her job is to correct errors and inadequate parts of documents and copies.
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Title: The Specialist
Character: Nozomu Nogata
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: TV
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Terminal
Title: Terminal
Character: Takashi Moriyama
Released: November 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an inexpiable sin, and an accused woman who seals her past and keeps it a secret. In Kushiro, Hokkaido, the pair who chose a faraway town as the terminal station of their lives encounters and develops a moving drama by starting new lives. Koichi Sato enters new territory his performance, while Tsubasa Honda plays a serious character which creates a new image for herself. Machiko Ono, Shidou Nakamura, Shigeru Izumiya and other talented cast members join in the film.
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In'yōshi
Title: In'yōshi
Released: September 13, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of Abe Seimei, an onmyoji in Japan's Heian period , fighting with evil spirits.
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Title: Saikyou no Futari
Character: Ryota Owada
Released: July 16, 2015
Type: TV
Shinonome Jinpachi has returned to the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division as a specially commissioned detective. Meanwhile, Natsuki Asako, a team leader, has just been assigned to the division. Shinonome and Asako solve the same cases with completely different investigation methods. Shinonome has many information sources that he cultivated through his years of investigation. He would hit the streets and gather information that is not considered to have a direct relationship with a case. Asako has many fans within the police because she has moved from post to post. She is adapt at mobilising these allies and makes use of her inexperience in investigations to carry out daring ones. When these two investigation methods overlap, there will never be a typical investigation and unknown facts a step ahead of the solution will emerge.
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結婚に一番近くて遠い女
Title: 結婚に一番近くて遠い女
Character: Suzuki Yusuke
Released: April 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Beppu Sumire is a wedding planner who works for True Love Bridal (TLB), a well-established wedding hall. Her late mother, Sakura, showered love on her and would always tell her that she is lovely. After she passed away, Sumire lived with her father, Tetsuro. Sumire gave up on her own romance long ago because of her disappointing looks. But she works hard with a smile even when she gets scolded by her stern superior, Umemiya Hitomi, her impertinent junior, Sudo Yuri, pins trouble on her, and her relationship with her father is not working out, in order to bring smiles to many people’s faces.
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Title: Truth of Zero
Character: Hajime Tomita
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: TV
Maou Matsumoto is a new forensic medical examiner who returns in Japan after studying in USA. Mao only interest is her work and the autopsies she performs.
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My Little Nightmare: The Movie
Title: My Little Nightmare: The Movie
Character: Mineki Yamasato
Released: May 3, 2014
Type: Movie
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they have seen new transfer student Kanji in a dream. Yuiko Koto also had a night mare. In her nightmare, a boy that looks transfer student Kanji appeared as a prince. Ayami Mutoi tries to keep that to herself. She actually likes the prince in her dream.
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Title: Roosevelt Game
Released: April 27, 2014
Type: TV
Based on the same-titled novel by Ikeido Jun (the writer of Hanzawa Naoki series), the drama unfolds against a backdrop of economic recession. Hosokawa Mitsuru is the current president of the core-precision tools manufacturing company, Aoshima. He was personally recruited from another company by the company's founder, Aoshima Takeshi. Needless to say, this move was not well-favored by the existing management who themselves were vying for the job. Not long after Mitsuru joined the company, the global financial crisis caused the economy to slump, and Aoshima was certainly not exempted from the ill-effects of the slump, which was accentuated by fierce competition within the industry. Realising that he needs to stem the company's cashflow crisis, Mitsuru proposes to sell the company's baseball club. However, his proposal is opposed by all the other top management, especially Sasai Kotaro, a long-serving employee who feels that he should have been promoted to President instead of Mitsuru. Mikami Fumio, who is the baseball club's manager, also tries to foil Mitsuru's plans of selling the club. Amidst all the enmity of the long-serving management, and also sabotage from a rival company, Mitsuru has to find a way to save the company from its downfall...
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Title: Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
Character: Shingo Horita(堀田 真吾)
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: TV
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to investigate any wrongdoings in the bank branches. She is the voice of the suppressed staff who are unable to go against their bosses. Her partner is the veteran staff, Soma Ken, whose career with the bank had reached a dead end, no promotions in sight. Together, they resolve all the non-compliance issues at the bank.
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Title: Gochisousan
Character: Izumi Genta
Released: September 30, 2013
Type: TV
Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka.
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Tug of War!
Title: Tug of War!
Character: pet shop employee
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.
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Title: My Little Nightmare
Character: Yamazato Mineki
Released: October 13, 2012
Type: TV
Beautiful and young, Ayami has a solid reputation as a dedicated and reliable elementary teacher, but her true character is solely clandestine. Ayami does not believe in love and trust, and her values make her oblivious to other people's matters. Almost devious, she is always scheming so she never has to deal with responsibility and troubles that spur around her. One day, a new student Yuiko enrolls in her homeroom class. It does not take long for Ayami to find out that Yuiko has an ability to predict the future through the dreams she sees in her sleep; dreams which are symbolic and require proper interpretation to understand the upcoming occurrences. But when Yuiko begins to have nightmares of people around them, Ayami, though unwillingly, must team up with Yuiko to try to change the tragic fate of those around them... But can they properly assess what Yuiko's nightmares truly mean and change what may already be destined?
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Title: Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger
Character: Akagi Nobuo / Akiba Red
Released: April 6, 2012
Type: TV
A beautiful-yet-awkward genius recruits three otaku to protect Akihabara. Powered only by their own delusions, and aiming to be acknowledged as a true Sentai team, they become the Unofficial Sentai, Akibaranger!
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Title: 新・ミナミの帝王〜狙われた町工場〜
Released: March 17, 2012
Type: TV
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The King of Minami Returns: A Backstreet Factory in Danger
Title: The King of Minami Returns: A Backstreet Factory in Danger
Released: March 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Ginjiro meets factory owner Shirakawa, who has been given a 50-million-yen draft he has no memory of. Ginjiro hears rumors of a draft fraud ring.
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Title: Tough Nights of Club INDIGO
Released: January 5, 2010
Type: TV
This comedy thriller takes place in an eccentric entertainment club for women in Tokyo. A woman who was hired to be the store manager solves mysterious events with the assistance of the club's good-looking guys. Akira is an ex-editor of a major fashion magazine publisher. As she gets ready for her wedding approaching around the corner, a scandal that she has no clue how she got involved in suddenly takes her job, asset and fiancé. Left with only a wedding dress and a huge amount of debt, Akira gets hired as a store manager of "Indigo", an entertainment club for women, to pay back her debt. The next day, she wakes up only to find Indigo's most popular guy lying dead next to her.
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Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
Title: Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
Character: Taira Aomori
Released: April 18, 2009
Type: Movie
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight the opponent. Akira Abe, a freshman at Kyoto University student falls for his classmate Kyoko, and soon ends up at a mysterious club called “Kyoto University Azure Dragon” which turns out to be one of the Horumo teams, playing the mysterious (and somewhat absurd) game which started over 1,000 years ago in the Heian period.The heat rises as you see the 2,000 CGI created spirits wage fierce battles against the backdrop of breathtaking beautiful city of Kyoto. Let the battle begin!
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Run with the Wind Stage Play
Title: Run with the Wind Stage Play
Character: Kakeru Kurahara
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Kakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by a Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old dormitory "Chikusei-so" where he plans to team up with fellow residents to enter the Hakone Ekiden relay marathon, one of the most prominent university races in Japan. Kakeru soon finds out that all of the residents except for Haiji and himself are complete novices.
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Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
Title: Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
Released: November 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job.
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Asymmetry
Title: Asymmetry
Released: August 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Hokuto's dream is to travel around the world as a professional cameraman. One day, he finds that his hospitalized girlfriend's doctor is his old classmate from high school. The doctor, Shinichiro, and Hokuto used to be very close friends, whom all shared a common love for photography. However, an accident broke their friendship apart, leaving them out of contact until now.
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Title: The Quiz Show
Character: Subaru Takeuchi
Released: July 5, 2008
Type: TV
The Quiz Show features tormented characters in twelve episodes, with one common thread – the mysterious relationship between the deviant Producer and enigmatic Host of The Quiz Show.
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Title: Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
Character: Tatsuya Kaneko
Released: April 10, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Shigeshoshi
Character: Mamiya Shinjuro
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: TV
The hero, Mamiya Shinjuro, earned his embalmer's license in the United States, but for reasons that will probably be easier to understand once the series starts, he is working in a Tokyo hospital as a janitor. In the premiere episode, a friend of one of the nurse's is killed in an accident. The woman had just been made the principal soloist in a ballet company and was about to get married to the man of her dreams. The woman's fiancee, hearing of Mamiya's special skills, asks him to restore her corpse to the way she looked when she was alive.
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Sisam
Title: Sisam
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.