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Kotaro Shiga
Born: 31st Aug 1948 Hyogo, Japan - Died 20th Apr 2020
Dept: Acting
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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 78
Film: 50 (64%)
Television: 28 (36%)
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Filmography
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語35周年SP ～伝説の名作 一夜限りの復活編～
2025
To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the storyteller, "Tales of the Tale ... view
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Apr 2019 (first aired)
Lawyer Shiro pours his heart into home-cooked meals for his partner, hairstylist Kenji, as they navigate life as a middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo. ... view
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Goro Kakei (12 ep.)
Jan 2019 (first aired)
This work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons, passion, and science as a weapon to cause "miracle" to ... view
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Kazuto Yufuin (10 ep.)
Aug 2018 (first aired)
The adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 四月の永い夢
2018
27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter fro ... view
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Yukio Kazama
Oct 2017 (first aired)
A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes. ... view
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Genzo Tomishima (10 ep.)
Original title: 琥珀
2017
Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda happens to come across an article on a cafe called ... view
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Original title: 銀魂
2017
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can. ... view
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Original title: 昼顔
2017
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet a ... view
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Professor Sakagami
Apr 2017 (first aired)
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes c ... view
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Tadashi Hirosawa (10 ep.)
Original title: ハルチカ
2017
Haruta is handsome and smart, Chika is bright and naive. When they were children, they were friends until Haruta's family moved away while he was in t ... view
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Toshio Iwai
Oct 2016 (first aired)
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about ... view
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Nakatsuka (1 ep.)
Original title: あやしい彼女
2016
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to l ... view
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Jirou Nakata
Jul 2015 (first aired)
Satoshi Saigyouji worked in crisis management for General Electric in the USA and the Japanese government. He is known as a legend in crisis managemen ... view
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Eiichi Takarabe (10 ep.)
Original title: 幕が上がる
2015
Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a ... view
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Jan 2015 (first aired)
Tomio Shiraishi graduated from a prestigious university and now works for foreign securities company. He has a beautiful fiancée, Kozue Aoike, and no ... view
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赤松大介 (11 ep.)
Oct 2014 (first aired)
At the West Tokyo branch office of Pakupaku Confectionery, capable salarymen clinch successive business deals. However, nothing seems to go right for ... view
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Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Original title: 薔薇色のブー子
2014
Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young. Sachiko believes someday s ... view
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President of Takahimaya
Original title: 魔女の宅急便
2014
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends ... view
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Zoo Director
Original title: 劇場版 仮面ティーチャー
2014
Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled stude ... view
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Original title: 黒い福音
2014
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation wit ... view
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Original title: ほとりの朔子
2014
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to k ... view
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City Councilor
Original title: ジャッジ！
2014
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud ... view
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Karaoke Manager
Original title: シャニダールの花
2013
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is ... view
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Jul 2013 (first aired)
Gota Araki begins work at a new high school. He is assigned to the school's notorious 2nd Year, Class C as their homeroom teacher. All of the students ... view
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Kentaro Sugahara (12 ep.)
Original title: マメシバ一郎 フーテンの芝二郎
2013
An unemployed middle-aged man, Shiba Jiro, who has been living at home for 38 years on his parents' back, breaks away from his NEET lifestyle through ... view
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Jan 2013 (first aired)
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles.
“Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but ... view
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Hamaoka Kotaro (11 ep.)
Original title: おだやかな日常
2012
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who ... view
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Shinji
Original title: 演劇1
2012
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright ... view
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Himself
Oct 2012 (first aired)
The story is about the daily life of a 30-year-old new wife, Hana, who cooks “Zubora Meshi”, while her husband is on a job transfer away from home ... view
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Hana's Father (10 ep.)
2012
Introvert Jiro Shiba (Jiro Sato) who came out of his shell a bit with the help of a cute puppy faces a crisis, when he loses his pet due to being accu ... view
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Shigeo Shiba
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments an ... view
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店員1 (1 ep.)
Oct 2011 (first aired)
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. ... view
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Kinnosuke Tani (10 ep.)
Original title: 東京人間喜劇
2011
'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny sp ... view
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Jul 2011 (first aired)
The story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A mysterious plague breaks out, resulting in countless death ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 酔いがさめたら、うちに帰ろう。
2010
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple d ... view
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Ito
Original title: さらば愛しの大統領
2010
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election o ... view
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Original title: 愛するとき、愛されるとき
2010
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields -- from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -- c ... view
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Aug 2010 (first aired)
Revolving around human cloning, the story is described as a suspense and mystery story set in a metaphorical game of "musical chairs," involving eleme ... view
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Hazuki Shoichirou (11 ep.)
Jul 2010 (first aired)
Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the giants. After working diligently for t ... view
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Unknown/various (5 ep.)
Original title: 川の底からこんにちは
2010
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his s ... view
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Tadao
Original title: 僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ
2009
Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves ... view
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English Teacher
Original title: 曲がれ！スプーン
2009
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while f ... view
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Mr. Saotome
Oct 2009 (first aired)
Kanade Takakura is an elite detective from the New York Police department. He has a very keen sense of judgement but is cold and inflexible. Kanade lo ... view
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Mitsuo Suzuki (10 ep.)
Original title: 幼獣マメシバ
2009
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doesn't go outside or socialise with people. After th ... view
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Shigeo Shiba
Original title: お買い物
2009
In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in ... view
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Original title: THE3名様 ワーってなっちゃう5秒前
2009
The seventh in a series of sitcoms in which Matsun, Mickey and Jumbo dabble in family restaurants. Mickey receives a warning email! He has to forward ... view
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Original title: スペシャルドラマ めぞん一刻 完結編
2008
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impo ... view
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Mr. Ichinose
Original title: UFO食堂
2008
A high schooler who dreams of leaving her rural town for Tokyo puts out an ad for her job at her family's restaurant. Satoshi Yamaguchi directs. ... view
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Original title: THE3名様 スピンオフ 人生のピンチを救うパフェおやじの7つの名言
2008
A family restaurant late at night. The customers visiting the restaurant are faced with a variety of shurahas: marital quarrels, break-ups, love trian ... view
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Original title: THE 3名様 俺たちのサマーウインド
2008
Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant late at night. Tonight, they thought they would be ta ... view
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Original title: 黄色い涙
2007
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The fiv ... view
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Hayashida
Feb 2007 (first aired)
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanes ... view
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Gotaro Naganobu (6 ep.)
Jan 2007 (first aired)
Toyomi Terajima (Ryoko Yonekura) chose to become a nurse because she had no interest in marriage and wanted an occupation she could do for the rest of ... view
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Judge (1 ep.)
Original title: THE 3名様 いい意味でアイラブユー
2007
The three freelancers Mickey, Matsun and Jumbo start dabbling as usual. For some reason, the conversation turns to Sentai Mono. Their fantasies grow a ... view
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Original title: このすばらしきせかい
2006
High school student, Ryoichi, hasn't gone to school since he injured a classmate. He kills time playing videogames alone everyday. One day, Uncle Kiyo ... view
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2006
Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’ ... view
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Jan 2006 (first aired)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed.
Getti ... view
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Tanaka-shacho (1 ep.)
Jan 2006 (first aired)
A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories. ... view
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安本正広 (11 ep.)
Original title: 청연
2005
At a young age Kyoung-won knows she wants to become a pilot. When she reaches the right age, she travels to Japan to learn how to fly, and becomes Kor ... view
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Pawn Shop Owner
Original title: ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜
2005
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair ... view
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Minami
Original title: ＴＨＥ３名様
2005
A unique film in which three freelancers talk about unimportant things in a family restaurant. The fast-paced talk exchanged in a loose atmosphere is ... view
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Original title: SURVIVE STYLE5+
2004
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances. ... view
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Taxi Driver
Original title: 茶の味
2004
A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an a ... view
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Teacher Gashi
Jul 2003 (first aired)
Boku dake no Madonna, sometimes shortened to BokuMado, is a drama series that aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2003. In English it is often called You are ... view
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Prof. Shingo Tatebayashi (11 ep.)
Jan 2002 (first aired)
Toko (Fukatsu Eri), decides after she turns 30 that she is all but ready to give up on any future career hopes or romance, so she turns to the bottle ... view
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Kusunoki Tateaki (11 ep.)
2001
Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROL ... view
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Original title: ワンダフルライフ
1999
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, ... view
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Kenji Yamamoto
Original title: 東京ノート
1998
A 1998 performance of Oriza Hirata's play set in a Tokyo museum sheltering paintings evacuated from a European war, where family and friends trade qui ... view
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Teruo Kushimoto (curator)
