Natsuko Akiyama

Acting

Natsuko Akiyama

Born

1964-10-08 (62)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Gokusen poster
8.0

Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Gokusen

2002

Junjo Kirari poster
9.5

The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl. Indeed, even in the first episode she exhibits her confidence and enthusiasm. But above all else, Sakurako is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.

Junjo Kirari

2006

Segodon poster
8.3

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefecture). His simple honesty caught the attention of its charismatic feudal lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Nariakira. Nariakira’s assertion that the love of people is what will enrich and strengthen the nation captivated Saigo who took on Nariakira’s secret mission and eventually became a key person for Satsuma. Not a portrait of him survives today and much of his life is a mystery. He is a man who was twice exiled and thrice married. He overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate with exceptional bravery and action. Although he accomplished the restoration, he lost his life in a fight with the new Meiji government.

Segodon

2018

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk poster
8.8

The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries.

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

2015

あてなよる poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

あてなよる

2015

The Black Swindler poster
7.2

In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a "white swindler", which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a "black swindler", a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

The Black Swindler

2022

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

The Wings of the Kirin poster
6.5

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells detectives that he is absolutely not a criminal. Meanwhile, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga's (Hiroshi Abe) investigates and uncovers a point of contact between the dead body and Yashima. A hidden fact of the victim is revealed which even his children did not know about...

The Wings of the Kirin

2012

An Artist of the Floating World poster
NR

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.

An Artist of the Floating World

2019

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba poster
5.8

Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post about the affair has received 108 likes. Absolutely furious, Goro Kaiba contemplates divorcing his wife, but he estimates he will have to pay her half of his assets, about 10,000,000 million yen, in a divorce. To get revenge, Goro Kaiba decides to use that money on a epic one month womanizing streak. His goal is 108, the number of likes his wife received on social media.

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba

2019

Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy poster
4.0

Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work

Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy

2014

That Moment, My Heart Cried poster
6.0

This project, a fusion of poetry, music, and movies, gives birth to a new style of filmmaking, through the work of five directors.

That Moment, My Heart Cried

2019

2000s · 9 titles

Jam Films poster
7.9

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Jam Films

2002

Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy poster
4.5

Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.

Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy

2004

Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy poster
6.7

"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.

Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy

2002

Jump poster
6.0

An ordinary salary man, Junosuke, goes in search of his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and promised to be back in five minutes. She had only gone out to buy apples at the nearby convenience store, because Junosuke has one for breakfast every morning. Slightly drunk from the cocktail he had had earlier, Junosuke falls asleep, and wakes up the next morning to find that Miharu had never returned.

Jump

2003

Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na poster
NR

2001 Japanese movie

Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na

2001

Oboro - Lord of the Lies poster
NR

A story of a man’s glory and demise, which become a king with layers of lies and betrayals. The forest of Oboro is realized on stage with downpour and even mystical falls, whose magnificence takes the audience aback.

Oboro - Lord of the Lies

2007

TAKI 183 poster
NR

Five youngsters are obsessed with graffiti, but after painting their masterpiece in Shibuya, they begin to drift apart.

TAKI 183

2006

No artwork available
NR

A boy genius named "Kadokawa" invents the ultimate anesthetic for SM play. Kadokawa's madness is turned into reality by his childhood friends Oyamada and Saigo. "A near-future science fiction work that will burn out the "endless everyday life.

エロスの果て

2001

The Kiss of an Invisible Man poster
NR

Akira, who runs marriage scams, is chased after by Army Surgeon Hanaoka and his colleagues, who are collecting “things that will disappear in the 20th century” by Imperial edict. When he ran away and came to the Tottori Sand Dunes, he meets deaf, blind and mute Heren Kera (a Japanese Helen Keller), who lives with a tutor, Saribaba. He is soon caught but becomes invisible man in an accident. However, he is visible to one person: Kera. The story of the play Tomei Ningen no Yuge (The Kiss of an Invisible Man) is overflowing with diverse motifs, including “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Miracle Worker,” the mythological world in the age of the gods, the River Styx and Hades. It develops further to cover World War II and the Imperial system, and together with skillful language play, a theatrical world unfolds in all directions.

The Kiss of an Invisible Man

2004

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Gokusen poster
8.0

Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of them. The leader of the class is Sawada Shin. He is well respected for there are rumors that he beat a teacher to death. The students try there hardest to bully and make fun of her so she'll quit but all there efforts went to waste because Yamaguchi ain't an ordinary Teacher. Yamaguchi Kumiko is actually the 4th generation heir to Oedo group, a yakuza clan. Even though everyone in there clan wants her to the next leader, she made up her mind and so everyone accepted it.

Gokusen

2002

Junjo Kirari poster
9.5

The 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl. Indeed, even in the first episode she exhibits her confidence and enthusiasm. But above all else, Sakurako is interested in becoming a jazz pianist, and music features extensively in the plot.

Junjo Kirari

2006

Segodon poster
8.3

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefecture). His simple honesty caught the attention of its charismatic feudal lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Nariakira. Nariakira’s assertion that the love of people is what will enrich and strengthen the nation captivated Saigo who took on Nariakira’s secret mission and eventually became a key person for Satsuma. Not a portrait of him survives today and much of his life is a mystery. He is a man who was twice exiled and thrice married. He overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate with exceptional bravery and action. Although he accomplished the restoration, he lost his life in a fight with the new Meiji government.

Segodon

2018

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk poster
8.8

The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries.

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

2015

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk poster
8.8

The series depicts "Kyoto as Kyoto people love it" in dramas and documentaries.

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

2015

あてなよる poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

あてなよる

2015

The Black Swindler poster
7.2

In a time where fraud is an imminent threat, societal issues give rise to a slew of elaborate scams. Kurosaki is a man who lost his family to a "white swindler", which is a professional swindler who scams people out of their money. In order to exact revenge, Kurosaki becomes a "black swindler", a swindler who tricks other swindlers. He swears to scam every white swindler in the world and takes on foe after foe, but can he find his ultimate enemy who robbed him of his family? This riveting revenge drama exposes the very emotions that scams exploit.

The Black Swindler

2022

Psycho Doctor poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Psycho Doctor

2002

Second Love poster
6.4

Taira Kei has a talent for contemporary dance since he was young and went to study in Germany to join a dance company in his teens. He has won several international competitions and was referred to as a “prodigy”. However, he encountered a setback in the middle and got frustrated. He returned to Tokyo and takes a part-time work while he tries to re-capture his dream. Nishihara Yui is a Chemisty teacher in her 30s, working at a prestigious high school. Even while continuing a love affair with a married colleague, she was still lonely until she meets Kei and gets swallowed in passion.

Second Love

2015

My High School Business poster
8.0

Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship with a private high school experiencing some difficulties. One day, Rosuke Narumi is appointed as the principle of the private high school. Rosuke Narumi soon discovers how different the work environment is from his previous job. So the school can run in the black, Rosuke Narumi implements cost cutting measures. School staff members including Chihiro Mashiba oppose his plan.

My High School Business

2017

Cool Boys Only High poster
3.7

The story is set in the private senior high school Minami Gakuen which boasts of an unusually high proportion of good-looking students and aims to win at the National Ikemen Contest for senior high school students

Cool Boys Only High

2022

Big Money poster
6.0

"Big Money!" is a human drama with a suspense twist about a young man who learns the tricks of the trade about stock exchange from a well-experienced investor. The backdrop of this story is the elaborate world of banking and the stock market.

Big Money

2002

Marriage at Twenty poster
9.0

Although marriage is the farthest thing from her mind, Renko meets a special person on her twentieth birthday and starts to seriously think about marriage. In this light comedy, these feelings inside her clash with those of her friends and family members, but they all add to the growing experience of her first true love.

Marriage at Twenty

2000

Sushi Ōji! poster
NR

Maizu Tsukasa grew up with his famous grandfather and father. He has been called Sushi Oji since the age of 10. An unfortunate accident happened which caused him to develop Fish Eye Phobia. With such a phobia, how can he continue to make sushi? With the help of Master Burusu Riri and Okudaira Kurage, can he get over his Fish Eye Phobia and once again become the Sushi Oji that everyone remembers?

Sushi Ōji!

2007

Kari Kare poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kari Kare

2015

Furimun Sisters poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Furimun Sisters

2020

大人計画「エロスの果て」 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大人計画「エロスの果て」

2001

劇場の灯を消すな!Bunkamuraシアターコクーン編 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

劇場の灯を消すな!Bunkamuraシアターコクーン編

2020

大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大人計画「ドライブイン カリフォルニア」

2004

M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン!」 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

M&Oplaysプロデュース「クランク・イン!」

2023