Atsuro Watabe — Actor (23)
Love Exposure (2009) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
愛のむきだし
6.9 (7 ratings) director: Sion Sono actor: Takahiro Nishijima / Hikari Mitsushima
other title: Exposición de amor / 愛のむきだし
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
The Flowers of War (2011) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
金陵十三釵
7.0 (7 ratings) director: Zhang Yimou actor: Christian Bale / Ni Ni
other title: I fiori della guerra / As Flores da Guerra
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
A Quiet Life (1995) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
静かな生活
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Hinako Saeki / Atsuro Watabe
other title: 静かな生活
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
Unsolved Cases (1999) [TV] TMDB
ケイゾク
actor: Miki Nakatani / Atsuro Watabe
other title: ケイゾク / Keizoku
Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama.

The television series was broadcast in eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.
Love is Still Necessary (2002) [TV] TMDB IMDb
愛なんていらねえよ、夏
director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi actor: Ryoko Hirosue / Atsuro Watabe
other title: 愛なんていらねえよ、夏
Rage, a pimp who only loves money and himself, is sent to jail for 6 months. While he is in the jail, Rage’s partner, Reiji, dies in a traffic accident. Released from prison, Rage finds himself having lost everything but a debt of 6 million dollars. One day, Rage is visited by a lawyer that mistakes him for Reiji. According to the lawyer, Reiji’s father died and left him a large inheritance. Reiji’s only other living relative is his blind sister. Rage smells money and hatches a plan to pretend to be Reiji and steal his money.
A Fading Summer (2015) [TV] TMDB
翳りゆく夏
actor: Atsuro Watabe / Saburo Tokito
other title: 翳りゆく夏 / Kageri Yuku Natsu
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a big hospital 20 years ago. The criminal demanded a ransom from the director of the hospital instead of the parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has become deadwood in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the newspaper to re-investigate the kidnapping case. He finds out the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.
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.
犯罪症候群 (2017) [TV] TMDB
犯罪症候群
actor: Tetsuji Tamayama / Shosuke Tanihara
Muto Takashi is a former police detective who uses illegal methods to solve cases which are difficult to handle by the police. Kaburagi Wataru is a police detective and Muto's buddy, and Tamaki takes charge of the special missions given to Muto. While exploring the lives of these men, the topic of whether revenge is right or wrong is discussed in this drama.
ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad (2014) [TV] TMDB
ST 赤と白の捜査ファイル
actor: Tatsuya Fujiwara / Masaki Okada
other title: ST 赤と白の捜査ファイル / ST Aka to Shiro no Sosa Files
The ST is a group of outcasts though each highly talented in their realm of specialty. Besides Akagi, the team includes a female profiler with a boyish appearance and a phobia of "orderly" things who is never afraid to speak out, a female physicist with a superhuman hearing ability that can pick up sounds afar and a constant fear of being "constrained," a combat-skilled chemist with an acute sense of smell and an aversion to pointy objects, and a monk who would have won the Nobel prize in chemistry if he had chosen the path to do so. In short, the "ST" is a menagerie of odd people which makes Yurine question whether his promotion was just a one-way ticket off of the career track...But gradually, the ST team begins to grow on Yurine, as he does everything he can to sustain the team. Can the ST prove themselves worthy of their badge and prevent their disintegration, and will Akagi and Yurine's partnership somehow find common ground to overcome their differences?
Into the White Night (2006) [TV] TMDB IMDb
白夜行
director: Keigo Higashino actor: Takayuki Yamada / Haruka Ayase
other title: 白夜行 / White Night
What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape without abandoning the other. Having no one but each other, this drama follows the events the follow that fateful day… 14 years ago.
R100 (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
R100
director: Hitoshi Matsumoto actor: Nao Ômori / Mao Daichi
other title: R100 - Härter ist besser
Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.
Zebraman (2004) [Movie] TMDB
ゼブラーマン
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Kyoka Suzuki
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escapist fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016) [TV] TMDB
ON 異常犯罪捜査官・藤堂比奈子
actor: Haru / Yu Yokoyama
other title: ON 異常犯罪捜査官・藤堂比奈子 / ON Ijo Hanzai Sosakan Todo Hinako
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything she eats. Despite her a bit quirky/cheerful demeanor, she holds dark secrets locked deep within her heart… Hinako became a detective, because she wants to find the line between people who kill and those who don't. Once her "crime-solving switch" is on, nothing can stop Hinako from tackling even the most bizarre crime cases. Armed with her overwhelming memory and unstoppable curiously, will Hinako be able to find answers to her question through seeking to solve various crimes?
Signal (2018) [TV] TMDB
シグナル 長期未解決事件捜査班
actor: Kentaro Sakaguchi / Kazuki Kitamura
other title: シグナル 長期未解決事件捜査班
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day, and the other detective exists 15 years in the past.
Beautiful Life (2000) [TV] TMDB
Beautiful Life〜ふたりでいた日々〜
actor: Takuya Kimura / Takako Tokiwa
other title: Beautiful Life〜ふたりでいた日々〜
Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko's protective older brother and her worsening condition begin to test the bounds of their love for each other and threaten to end their beautiful life together.
Happy Kanako's Killer Life (2025) [TV] IMDb TMDB
幸せカナコの殺し屋生活
7.9 (57 ratings) actor: Non / Taisuke Fujigaya
other title: 幸せカナコの殺し屋生活 / 幸福伽菜子的快乐杀手生活
When Kanako accidentally applies to work at an assassination agency, the timid office worker discovers that she has a knack for bumping people off. Will she ever earn the respect of Sakurai, her prickly and kinda hot co-worker–and why is she still having silly workplace problems when she’s employed with hitmen?!
Kurokouchi (2013) [TV] TMDB
クロコーチ
actor: Tomoya Nagase / Ayame Goriki
other title: クロコーチ
Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent with her job and also a bit naive. She conducts an internal investigation on Detective Keita Kurokouchi, but they become partners and work on cases together..