Denden — Actor (42)
Don't Call It Mystery: The Movie (2023) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
ミステリと言う勿れ
6.4 (8 ratings) director: Hiroaki Matsuyama actor: Masaki Suda / Ko Shibasaki
other title: Don't Call it Mystery / ミステリと言う勿れ
Kuno Totono, a curly-haired college student, visits Hiroshima and becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the inheritance of the Kariatsumari family's assets, using his intelligence and loquaciousness to unravel the case.
Tokyo! (2008) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
TOKYO!
director: Bong Joon Ho / Leos Carax actor: Ayako Fujitani / Ryo Kase
other title: Tóquio! / Tokio!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Ah, Wilderness: Part 1 (2017) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
あゝ、荒野 前篇
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Yoshiyuki Kishi actor: Masaki Suda / Yang Ik-june
other title: あゝ、荒野 前篇 / Wilderness
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.
Last Winter, We Parted (2018) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
去年の冬、きみと別れ
director: Tomoyuki Takimoto actor: Takanori Iwata / Mizuki Yamamoto
other title: 去年の冬、きみと別れ
An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
Nobunaga Concerto (2014) [TV] TMDB
信長協奏曲
director: Hiroaki Matsuyama actor: Shun Oguri / Ko Shibasaki
other title: 信長協奏曲
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
Unlucky Monkey (1998) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
アンラッキー・モンキー
director: SABU actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi / Hiroshi Shimizu
other title: アンラッキー・モンキー
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
Climber's High (2008) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
クライマーズ・ハイ
director: Masato Harada actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi / Masato Sakai
other title: クライマーズ・ハイ
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.
Taiheiki (1991) [TV] TMDB
太平記
director: Eiji Yoshikawa actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Hidekazu Akai
other title: 太平記
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate.
Cold Fish (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
冷たい熱帯魚
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Sion Sono actor: Mitsuru Fukikoshi / Denden
other title: 冷たい熱帯魚
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
QP (2011) [TV] TMDB
QP
actor: Takumi Saitoh / Nobuaki Kaneko
The main character of the manga was Ishida Kotori, also known as "QP", the most powerful gangster in his area. The drama will shift its focus onto Azuma Ryo, Kotori's close friend, who has some hidden ambitions.
Cure (1997) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData Melon Log TMDB
キュア
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Koji Yakusho / Masato Hagiwara
other title: キュア / X圣治
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
MPD: Animal Unit (2017) [TV] TMDB
警視庁いきもの係
actor: Atsuro Watabe / Kanna Hashimoto
other title: 警視庁いきもの係
Tomozo Sudo is a detective. Due to an incident, he is excluded from investigative work. He is then assigned to work in a division responsible for taking care of animals whose owners are suspects or missing. Keiko Usuki is a police constable and works in the same division. She loves animals more than humans. Keiko develops inferences from clues from animals left behind at crime scenes. Tomozo and Keiko work together to solve cases.
Take Five: Should we Steal for Love? (2013) [TV] TMDB
TAKE FIVE~俺たちは愛を盗めるか~
actor: Toshiaki Karasawa / Yasuko Matsuyuki
other title: TAKE FIVE~俺たちは愛を盗めるか~ / Take Five
Up till 20 years ago, together with his father and 3 other people, Homura Masayoshi was part of the legendary group of thieves that called themselves 「TAKE FIVE」. This group stole from the rich who had acquired their wealth through immoral means. Due to an incident, Masayoshi decided to retire from the group, and settled into his life as a professor of Psychology at a reputable university. One day, he runs into a mysterious homeless woman, who passes him a picture of a Leonardo Da Vinci's painting, which prompts him to re-enter the world of thievery and resurrect 「TAKE FIVE」.

Sasahara Rui joined the Burglary Division in the footsteps of her father, who had died in an accident involving a burglary heist. She wows to take down 「TAKE FIVE」 and stop them from stealing again.

What was the real reason for the disbanding of 「TAKE FIVE」 20 years ago? Who is the mysterious homeless woman and what is the significance of the Da Vinci picture she had given to Masayoshi? How did Rui's father really died?
Golden Slumber (2010) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
ゴールデンスランバー
director: Yoshihiro Nakamura actor: Masato Sakai / Yuko Takeuchi
other title: ゴールデンスランバー
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
Emergency Interrogation Room (2014) [TV] TMDB IMDb WikiData
緊急取調室
other title: Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu / 緊急取調室
Yukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department. She has excellent negotiation skills. Yukiko then attempts to negotiate with a hijacker on a bus, but something unexpected happens and her mission fails. Yukiko takes full responsibility and takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori". Her boss is Katsutoshi Kajiyama and Yukiko has had a difficult working relationship with him in the past. Her other coworkers include Susumu Hishimoto, Zenjiro Nakata and Haruo Koishikawa.
I Hear the Sunspot (2024) [TV] TMDB
ひだまりが聴こえる
director: Yuki Fumino actor: Motoki Nakazawa / Toranosuke Kobayashi
other title: ひだまりが聴こえる
Due to his hearing disability, Sugihara Kohei is often misunderstood and has trouble integrating into life on campus; as such, he keeps his distance. That all changes when he meets the outspoken and cheerful Sagawa Taichi. He comforts Kohei and assures him that his hearing loss is not his fault. Taichi's kind words cut through Kōhei 's usual defense mechanisms and open his heart. Now, they are more than friends and less than lovers. Even so, this relationship changes Kohei forever.
Amachan (2013) [TV] TMDB
あまちゃん
actor: Non / Ai Hashimoto
other title: あまちゃん
Amachan is the 88th 2013 NHK asadora written by Kankuro Kudo (Tiger and Dragon, Unobore Deka). It's about Amano Aki (Nounen Rena), a 16 year old girl from Tokyo who goes to her mother's former home in Sodegahama, a fishing village in Kitasanriku, Iwate prefecture for the summer break. She falls in love with the sea and its people, and decides to stay on to become an Ama (women divers who fetch clams and sea urchins for tourists) just like her grandmother, Natsu (Miyamoto Nobuko). Her decision is welcomed wholeheartedly by Natsu and the other locals. However, her mother Haruko (Koizumi Kyoko) does not like the idea at first. She has a strained relationship with Natsu, and her extreme dislike of the sea, diving and the countryside is one of the reasons why she left her hometown 24 years ago. Eventually, she decides to stay in Sodegahama with Aki, considering that she is contemplating on getting a divorce anyway and does not want to go back to her husband in Tokyo. She also notices that it might be good for Aki for she seems livelier and happier in Kitasanriku than in Tokyo. The road towards becoming a full-fledged Ama-san is tough for Aki as she encounters tests and hurdles. One day, a video of her as an Ama gets uploaded in the city's tourism website, transforming an ordinary high school girl into an overnight Internet sensation. Suddenly she is called upon to use this opportunity to attract tourists to a city suffering from depopulation.
Destruction Babies (2016) [Movie] TMDB Douban
ディストラクション・ベイビーズ
director: Tetsuya Mariko actor: Yuya Yagira / Masaki Suda
other title: ディストラクション・ベイビーズ / 失序男孩(台)
Taira is a disaffected youth from a seaside town reveling in violence. Enamored by his strength, Yuya joins his crusade in attacking strangers. Meanwhile, Taira's brother looks for him.
Lowlife Love (2016) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
下衆の愛
director: Eiji Uchida actor: Kiyohiko Shibukawa / Denden
other title: 下衆の愛 / 下众之爱
Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.