Cast: Masahiro Motoki
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Masahiro Motoki. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 35
Departures
2008 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan
Direction Yōjirō Takita
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ryoko Hirosue · Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Synopsis Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
Like Asura
2025 · Series · 55 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Rie Miyazawa · Machiko Ono · Aoi Yû · Suzu Hirose
Synopsis Remake of the 1979 Japanese series of the same name, which already had a new film adaptation in 2003.
7.2
135 votes
7.2
135 votes
The Bird People in China
1998 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Renji Ishibashi · Mako · Yuichi Minato
Synopsis A young Japanese salaryman is sent by his company to a remote Chinese village to evaluate precious Jade that is found there, but before he arrives meets the yakuza who was sent to tail him to protect his bosses interest...
6.9
453 votes
6.9
453 votes
The Long Excuse
2016 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan
Direction Miwa Nishikawa
Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Masahiro Motoki · Eri Fukatsu · Haru Kuroki
Synopsis Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring for the children of a working...
6.8
26 votes
6.8
26 votes
Giri/Haji (TV Series)
2019 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joe Barton · Julian Farino · Ben Chessell
Cast Takehiro Hira · Kelly MacDonald · Justin Long · Yôsuke Kubozuka
Synopsis TV Series (2019). 8 Episodes. A detective from Tokyo scours London for his missing brother, who's been involved with the Yakuza and accused of murder. The police detective would risk his job, family and honour in search of his long...
6.8
814 votes
6.8
814 votes
Direction Baltasar Kormákur
Cast Egill Ólafsson · Kôki · Palmi Kormákur · Masahiro Motoki
Synopsis Over several decades and on different continents, a man embarks on an emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out.
6.7
338 votes
6.7
338 votes
Shall We Dance?
1996 · Movie · 136 min. · Japan
Direction Masayuki Suo
Cast Kôji Yakusho · Tamiyo Kusakari · Naoto Takenaka · Eriko Watanabe
6.7
586 votes
6.7
586 votes
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Ryo · Yasutaka Tsutsui · Shiho Fujimura
Synopsis A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
6.2
161 votes
6.2
161 votes
The Mystery of Rampo
1994 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Naoto Takenaka · Michiko Hada · Teruyuki Kagawa
Synopsis Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an...
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
Gonin (The Five)
1995 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Ishii
Cast Koichi Sato · Masahiro Motoki · Jinpachi Nezu · Kippei Shiina
Synopsis Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
5.9
256 votes
5.9
256 votes
Direction Hideo Gosha
Cast Kanako Higuchi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Oginome · Masahiro Motoki
Synopsis A woman raised by a restaurant-owning family follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a yakuza gambler. After years away from her adopted family, she bumps into her younger step-brother, who is in trouble. He had inherited the family...
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Raffles Hotel
1989 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Ryû Murakami
Cast Miwako Fujitani · Jinpachi Nezu · Masahiro Motoki · Fawn Wong
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Direction Masahiro Shinoda
Cast Iain Glen · Masahiro Motoki · Kippei Shiina · Takaya Kamikawa
Synopsis Spy Sorge depicts the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, whose infiltration of the German embassy in Tokyo gave Stalin an ear to Axis plans through the 1930's and into the first months of World War II.
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Santô kôkôsei
1982 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Yûsuke Watanabe
Cast Yoshio Nomura · Kunie Tanaka · Nana Okada · Kirin Kiki
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Black Jack II (TV)
2000 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Eiji Bandô · Chosuke Ikariya · Yasuko Matsuyuki
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The Big Bee
2015 · Movie · 138 min. · Japan
Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Masahiro Motoki · Yukie Nakama · Gou Ayano
Synopsis Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, government and media all receive a fax that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline within 8 hours...
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Dioxin from Fish!
1992 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan
Direction Ryudo Uzaki
Cast Yuya Uchida · Masahiro Motoki · Takeshi Kitano · Kei Sato
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2020 · Documentary · 480 min. · United States
Direction Anders Edström · C.W. Winter
Cast Tayoko Shiojiri · Kaoru Iwahana · Mai Edström · Hiroharu Shikata
Synopsis In a remote Kyoto mountain village, Tayoko mourns her elderly husband’s imminent death while coming to embrace what will be the first real freedom of her life.
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The Longest Night in Shanghai
2007 · Movie · 107 min. · China
Direction Zhang Yibai
Cast Zhao Wei · Masahiro Motoki · Naomi Nishida · Takashi Tsukamoto
Synopsis City of Shanghai, China. A Japanese top make-up artist and hairstylist Naoki Mizushima (Masahiro MOTOKI) suddenly knocked over by a bashed-up taxi, recklessly driven by a female-driver Linshi (Wei Zhao, AKA Vicki ZHAO). Mizushima is surprisingly safe. He accepts her...
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The Making of 'Gemini' (S)
2000 · Documentary · 18 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Masahiro Motoki · Ryo · Yasutaka Tsutsui
Synopsis A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
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