Masahiro Motoki
Birthday: 1965-12-21
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Biography: Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 Motoki Masahiro, born December 21, 1965 in Okegawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned him the Award for Best Actor at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize.
Movies
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD....
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Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
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Gonin
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...
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The Bird People in China
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After ...
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Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
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Last Song
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman w...
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is a...
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The Longest Night in Shanghai
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this roma...
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, S...
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Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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Making of Gemini
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini"....
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Black Jack
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church ...
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The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and...
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The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...
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Shall We Dance?
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly sta...
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Touch
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urg...
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Spy Sorge
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb...
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Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initiall...
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The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The...
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The Long Excuse
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it...
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Silence of the Sea
The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a ...
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Raffles Hotel
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hot...
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Come On Girls!
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love....
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Balloon
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love....
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Dioxin from Fish!
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo....
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Headphone Lullaby
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students....
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Ganryujima
The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in...
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Playtime Never Ends
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robb...
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Tekkonkinkreet
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh...
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Beppin Town
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway...
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Ryuukou Kanbou
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran...
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a...
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Making of "Departures"
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)...
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Nowhere Man
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed b...
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Prince Shōtoku
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a u...
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The Man Who Carries the Voice of August
This is the story of a strange encounter brought about by the atomic bomb, based on the true story o...
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Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor
Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework o...
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