Kotaro Shiga
Birthday: 1948-08-31
Place of Birth: Hyōgo, Japan
Biography: Kotaro Shiga (志賀 廣太郎, Shiga Kōtarō, August 31, 1948 – April 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor and theater educator who was active since the 1990s until around 2020. Kotaro was born in Hyogo, Japan. He was a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art, majoring in theater. He was a member of Japanese theater company Seinen-dan (青年団). He was affiliated with l'être.
Movies
Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Gui...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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I Give My First Love to You
Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. ...
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Wandering Home
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Be...
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After Life
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office....
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Kiki's Delivery Service
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves o...
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Sawako Decides
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her fat...
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Smap Short Films
Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHIN...
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Summer Blooms
27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years a...
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Odayaka
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in...
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Yellow Tears
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up tog...
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Judge!
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arr...
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Ryoichi & Kiyoshi
High school student, Ryoichi, hasn't gone to school since he injured a classmate. He kills time play...
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Au revoir l'été
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vaca...
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Sing My Life
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. Whi...
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Rose Color's Buko
Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everythi...
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Restaurant UFO
A high schooler who dreams of leaving her rural town for Tokyo puts out an ad for her job at her fam...
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When You Love And When You Are Loved
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields -- ...
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Haruta & Chika
Haruta is handsome and smart, Chika is bright and naive. When they were children, they were friends ...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rok...
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Gintama
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however ...
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Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resul...
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Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the e...
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Kamen Teacher: The Movie
Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the la...
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Human Comedy in Tokyo
'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Variou...
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Theatre 1
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the ...
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Kohaku
Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda h...
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Flower of Shanidar
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flow...
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his li...
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Hirugao
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorc...
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Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doe...
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Go Find a Psychic!
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics g...
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The Curtain Rises
Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yos...
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Okaimono
In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice a...
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The SanMei-sama: 5 seconds before they go wow.
The seventh in a series of sitcoms in which Matsun, Mickey and Jumbo dabble in family restaurants. M...
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The SanMei-sama Spin-off: Seven quotes from the parfait old man to save you in life's pinch.
A family restaurant late at night. The customers visiting the restaurant are faced with a variety of...
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The SanMei-Sama: Our Summer Wind
Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant lat...
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The SanMei-Sama: With all due respect, i love you
The three freelancers Mickey, Matsun and Jumbo start dabbling as usual. For some reason, the convers...
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The SanMei-sama: Spring is a crunchy bite!
Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should e...
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The SanMei-sama
A unique film in which three freelancers talk about unimportant things in a family restaurant. The f...
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Blue Swallow
Park Kyung-won, who aspired to become a pilot since a young age, enrolls at an aviation academy in J...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Ta...
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