Acting
Yasuhiro Arai
Born
1956-12-05 (69)
Place of birth
Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
46 titles
Known for
7.5Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
2012
5.7The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.
Special Investigation Nine
2018
8.2Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.
Public Affairs Office in the Sky
2013
7.8A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ningyo Sashichi Torimonocho
2016
4.3A small-time gofer gets his dream car while running hush money for his boss's counterfeit empire, picks up a jilted singer at the airport along the way, and ends up the last man standing in everyone's love life but his own.
Morning Moon Is Cruel
1981
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
NRAfter uncovering Ruby’s true identity, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) discover a cache of firearms and drugs. They inform only Special Investigation officer Sahara (Takayuki Kinba) that the incidents were not orchestrated by Kyowakai or the Marugami-kai, urging him to investigate those behind the scenes. Both Himuro and Sahara suspect corruption within the police, with Sahara casting doubt on Matsumiya (Gen Hongo) and others. As police suddenly move to arrest Mita (Shun Sugata), Himuro and Sahara find it suspicious that attention shifts from Kyowakai to the Marugami-kai following Mikawa’s (Yasuhiro Arai) appointment as deputy commissioner. Sahara struggles to investigate Mikawa due to his ties to the powerful Yoshioka family. Meanwhile, suspecting religion is linked to an impending terror plot, Himuro begins reaching out to those connected to the World Kamome Church.
Unification of Japan 61
2024
NRNao (Ayano Nishikawa), wife of Ota (Ryota Matsushima) from the Kamome Victims Association, is abducted by the World Kamome Church. Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) storms the cult’s facility alone to rescue her, and Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) soon follows. Ordered by cult leader Takahara (Mizuki Nishikawa), armed followers attack, and despite fighting back, Himuro and Tamura are captured. When Himuro questions Takahara about the cult’s true goal, he receives a chilling, cryptic answer. Meanwhile, suspecting Deputy Police Commissioner Mikami (Yasuhiro Arai) is linked to the cult, investigator Sahara (Takayuki Kinba) takes a risky step by consulting Matsumiya (Gen Hongo).
Unification of Japan 62
2024
2010s · 3 titles
NRA detective declares: "The era of yakuza strutting around with authority is over." Yet the streets are now overrun with lawless rogues. Tommy (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) and Buchi (Suzuki Minoru) are a reckless duo, pretending to help women only to take advantage of them, skipping out on bills at cabaret clubs, and scraping by while living out of a car in a parking lot that costs just 1,200 yen a night. One day, however, they cross the wrong line. After targeting a store backed by yakuza, they find themselves in a heated conflict. Thinking they can extort the gangsters, they soon learn the harsh reality of provoking the true underworld.
These Men, Violent as They Are: Part 2
2011
NRTwo TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.
JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest
2013
NRUnder a flickering fluorescent light, glimpses of brutal yakuza violence fade in and out... beside them, a man vomits. This man, silent and suffering from epilepsy, (played by Ozawa Hitoshi), has apparently "taken care of" two thugs who crossed him. Now, both the police and his own yakuza clan are after him, determined to restore their honor. But when this man snaps, the city is drenched in a storm of blood... a tale of men driven to the brink, where everyone is ferociously unhinged!
These Men, Violent as They Are
2011
2000s · 7 titles
While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...
Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident
2001
6.0High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag into the sea. A man jumps into the water and recovers the bag for her, but all of her score sheets have been ruined. From that day on, Mariko’s new acquaintance becomes her bodyguard, walking her home everyday. But for some reason, he refuses to tell her his name.
Out of the Wind
2007
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kindaichi Kousuke File: The Tragedy of Meiro-so
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tainted Emblem: The Final Chapter
2007
NRThe sixth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 6
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tainted Emblem
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
涙でいっぱいになったペットボトル-カンペの手紙-
2007
1990s · 8 titles
NRAn action comedy about a freshman who joins his university's cheerleading squad and gradually discovers his manliness through interactions with powerful seniors.
Aa!! Hana no Ouendan
1996
9.0A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
5.0A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bounty Dog WANTED!
1995
10.0A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for the SEGA Dreamcast console. It tells the story of Nao Tsunoda, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who moves to Tokyo’s Grauenheim apartment complex. One day, Nao’s life turns into a nightmare when she suddenly discovers the headless corpse of her neighbor on the roof of the house — and a chain of brutal murders continues, becoming clear that a psychopath is hunting the apartment building's inhabitants.
Birdcage of Horrors
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Romantic Lake Mashuko Murders
1998
NRBased on a manga.
Marusō kaizō jidōsha kyōshūjo
1996
NRA film by Akiyoshi Kimata
Gorudorasshu
1990
1980s · 14 titles
7.8A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985
4.3A small-time gofer gets his dream car while running hush money for his boss's counterfeit empire, picks up a jilted singer at the airport along the way, and ends up the last man standing in everyone's love life but his own.
Morning Moon Is Cruel
1981
6.7Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.
Village of Doom
1983
4.5A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.
The Unspoiled Diamond
1982
7.7Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash.
His Motorbike, Her Island
1986
4.8Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.
Bomber Bikers of Shonan
1987
4.8A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Cabaret
1986
7.0First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Weekend Shuffle
1982
7.0The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.
cf Girl
1989
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Auto Town
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ore to aitsu no monogatari
1981
No synopsis available yet.
妻という名の他人
1984
NRFukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami...
Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders
1987
The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different institutes, he now has tried-and-true strategies to avoid bullies and not have problems with various schoolmates. Studying and continuing his theatrical activity, however, is not easy ...
Mattemashita tenkousei!
1985
1970s · 4 titles
4.7Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Time Within Memory
1973
NRThe story depicts a young man suffering from an incurable disease trying to live his life to the fullest in the time he has left. Based on the true story of Ayumu Oya (poet), the eldest son of Soichi Oya (journalist, novelist and critic)
Afterglow
1978
NR1980's Toho comedy
Peman 80
1979
NRA semi-documentary film depicting the appeal of the idol group Zuttorubi, which was hugely popular in songs and dramas in the mid-1970s. In addition to the frenzy of concerts held in Hibiya and Kyoto, the film introduces the four members as they work hard on their singing and dancing lessons.
Go, go! Zutorubi! Full speed ahead!
1975
Series credits
7.5Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
2012
5.7The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.
Special Investigation Nine
2018
8.2Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.
Public Affairs Office in the Sky
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ningyo Sashichi Torimonocho
2016
6.8Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the night before, and a strange young woman in his bed. He feels terrible about possibility of having cheated on his fiancée, but when it turns out the girl is a student in his class Shuji is wrecked with guilt. Things go from bad to worse when the girl, Hikari, makes it clear that she's in love with him and wants to break him and Natsumi apart. Shuji's honest nature makes him want to come clean to everyone about what has happened, but before he has the chance, the secret is out. As his life starts crumbling around him, Shuji still decides to try and save Hikari from herself.
You Taught Me All the Precious Things
2011
6.3The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head.
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1982
8.2DMM TV original work scheduled to be distributed in 2023
Naokiman Horror Show
2023
NRSosuke Shie, a former detective turned funeral director, and Kotaro Soyogi, an overworked elite employee who’s lost touch with himself. After the sudden death of Soyogi’s mother, their paths cross, and together they confront mortality in their own honest and unconventional ways.
The Farewell Director
2026
