Atsuro Watabe — Actor (29)

TV

MPD: Animal Unit (2017) 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.

TV

A Fading Summer (2015) 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.

TV

Love is Still Necessary (2002) IMDb TMDB
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.

TV

Unsolved Cases (1999) 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.

Movie

A Quiet Life (1995)
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.

Movie

The Flowers of War (2011)
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.

Movie

Love Exposure (2009)
愛のむきだし
★ 7.4 (9 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.