Hidetoshi Nishijima
Birthday: 1971-03-29
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hidetoshi Nishijima, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dolls
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
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Loft
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instea...
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Tony Takitani
A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing....
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his ...
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Vacation
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spen...
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License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years lat...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases fo...
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Goodbye, Someday
Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he wi...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo An...
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Su-ki-da
Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their...
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実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還
Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungl...
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Chloe
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life i...
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tokyo.sora
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst th...
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People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~
It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of profes...
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Goodbye Cruel World
Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Cl...
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2/Duo
The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend....
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Canary
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in...
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The Wind Rises
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...
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The Diary from the Past
A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a ...
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Memories Corner
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big eart...
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Cut
Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his...
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Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko do...
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Tokyo Rendezvous
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt....
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enem...
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Genome Hazard
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from ...
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More Painful than Rain
Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is be...
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In The Still Of The Night
A drama depicting the whereabouts of two pairs of lovers who meet at a cafe at night and intersect. ...
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Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car
Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and ...
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Dogs & Cats
Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves int...
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Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executione...
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Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become...
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Kanikôsen
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserab...
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Pacchigi! Love & Peace
In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise mo...
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MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When ...
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La Maison de Himiko
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Sao...
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Three Year Delivery
Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third ...
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Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is on...
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Making of Drive My Car
Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors...
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Fish on Land
A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he ...
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Love/Juice
Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although C...
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Zero Focus
Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a ...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020
One day, Shiro's all-time favorite idol Mami Mitsuya suddenly appears right in front of him! Even th...
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Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and i...
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Mozu The Movie
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his...
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Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
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Serpent's Path
A mysterious woman teams up with a man whose daughter was killed and who is now seeking revenge. Tog...
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Poison Berry in my Brain
Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though...
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All About Suomi
The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at t...
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Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs
A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. Th...
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Creepy
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspect...
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While the Women Are Sleeping
Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work...
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Kura
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young...
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Sayonara Midori-chan
Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood...
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The Last Recipe
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe....
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Falling Camellia
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...
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Umi de no hanashi
Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries...
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Haru, Bânîzu de
Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day,...
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Going Home
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first l...
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Casshern
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have ta...
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async - first light
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. T...
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The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps
Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once thei...
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Oz Land
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected...
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Penguin Highway
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his v...
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Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly success...
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Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their f...
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of...
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A Painful Pair
Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relatio...
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Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko do...
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Voices in the Wind
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her...
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Shin Ultraman
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing...
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Somewhere on Earth
Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building fr...
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The Cold-Blooded Trap
Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya....
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Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited...
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The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story
NHK TV Special...
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie
At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public S...
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Silent Tokyo
On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a...
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Ghost Pub
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if...
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Mario
It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. ...
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Drive My Car
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of h...
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What Did You Eat Yesterday?
Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday,...
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Seraphim Night
Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half K...
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Peeping Tom
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makigur...
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Prodigy
Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before...
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Self and Others
In 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflec...
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The Brightest Sun
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investi...
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Dear Stranger
A Japanese man and his Chinese-American wife struggle with work, parenting, and caregiving in NYC. T...
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Enemies
A solitary hitman's new job catches a detective's attention, leading both to discover unexpected sim...
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Her Private Hell
An edgy, hypnotic and unhinged thriller based on an original story that promises “lots of glitter, s...
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Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn
A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film scre...
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