Nao Minamisawa

Acting

Nao Minamisawa

Born

1990-06-15 (36)

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

CSI: Crime Scene Talks poster
7.3

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

2011

Dr.STOЯKS poster
7.5

The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)

Dr.STOЯKS

2015

Strategist KANBE poster
9.4

July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream of the country's unification. Standing at the gate of the castle, a lone man facing the menacing guards shouted out: "Do not throw your lives away. Treasure living!". Not long after, the castle gates opened and the reigning lord surrendered. The name of that man is Kuroda Kanbee. An excellent military strategist, he worked hand-in-hand with Hideyoshi to unify the country.

Strategist KANBE

2014

One-Pound Gospel poster
7.0

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can't put himself in the right weight class, he runs out of energy because of hunger, and he gets knocked out while his eyes are set on food at the ringside. However, Kosaku's life changed when he met Sister Angela, a novice nun in the convent near his boxing gym. She became the source of his power, and Kosaku fights only to win her heart.

One-Pound Gospel

2008

Because the Mountain is There poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Because the Mountain is There

2022

Film credits

2010s · 12 titles

Saki Achiga-hen: Episode of Side-A poster
6.5

Sequel movie to the live-action Saki TV series.

Saki Achiga-hen: Episode of Side-A

2018

No artwork available
6.0

Story about friendship and love: when Mika looses her memories about her lover Hyung-joon, her boyfriend's friend steps in to act as her boyfriend.

Pygmalion's Love

2010

Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer poster
NR

Based on the writings of a true life, vision-impaired lawyer comes a story about a blind man who manages to pass the extremely difficult bar exam and earn his lawyer’s license. Long desiring to help the weak, Kensuke Okochi gets a job at an attorney’s office while he and his wife, also blind, look forward to their first child. When a plaintiff in a divorce case decides to withdraw from litigation, Kensuke worries at first that it has to do with his own perceived inadequacies as a lawyer, but a few days later, he is visited by the female plaintiff, Satomi, showing injuries to her body. While it appears an open and shut case of domestic violence with an audio recording as proof, Kensuke detects a “certain scent” coming from the plaintiff which gives him pause as to her real intentions.

Justice is Blind: The Moving Tale of a Vision-Impaired Lawyer

2014

Until I Become A Father poster
NR

In Sapporo, college student Watanabe Sachi approaches her band leader boyfriend Takumi with the news that she is pregnant. Finding it difficult to deal with the fallout, the couple decide to leave Sapporo for the port city of Hakodate instead. Soon, however, they are separated and Sachi has to make a difficult decision about her baby on Christmas Eve. Her decision will ultimately involve Iwadate Shuichi and his wife Mizue, an older couple who still mourn the loss of their own child.

Until I Become A Father

2013

Happy! School Days! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Happy! School Days!

2010

いま。/南沢奈央 poster
NR

2011 release

いま。/南沢奈央

2011

Strangers in the City poster
NR

Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high school student whom he married after her graduation. Their marriage became a scandal & the couple divorced ...

Strangers in the City

2010

Mameshiba Ichirô fûten no shibajirô poster
6.0

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 his mother's strategy. He works at a pet store and lives alone in an apartment with his partner, Ichiro Mameshiba, a dog.

Mameshiba Ichirô fûten no shibajirô

2013

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Driver

2015

The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016

2016

Moon Dream poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Moon Dream

2013

No artwork available
NR

Sungje, a member of the Korean pop group Supernova (Choshinsung), meets and falls in love with a blind Japanese fan.

A Love Song To You

2010

2000s · 3 titles

Series credits

Solitary Gourmet poster
8.9

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.

Solitary Gourmet

2012

CSI: Crime Scene Talks poster
7.3

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

2011

Dr.STOЯKS poster
7.5

The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)

Dr.STOЯKS

2015

Strategist KANBE poster
9.4

July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream of the country's unification. Standing at the gate of the castle, a lone man facing the menacing guards shouted out: "Do not throw your lives away. Treasure living!". Not long after, the castle gates opened and the reigning lord surrendered. The name of that man is Kuroda Kanbee. An excellent military strategist, he worked hand-in-hand with Hideyoshi to unify the country.

Strategist KANBE

2014

One-Pound Gospel poster
7.0

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can't put himself in the right weight class, he runs out of energy because of hunger, and he gets knocked out while his eyes are set on food at the ringside. However, Kosaku's life changed when he met Sister Angela, a novice nun in the convent near his boxing gym. She became the source of his power, and Kosaku fights only to win her heart.

One-Pound Gospel

2008

Because the Mountain is There poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Because the Mountain is There

2022

あてなよる poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

あてなよる

2015

Great Selection Taxi poster
8.6

Edawakare is the driver of Sentaxi, a marvellous vehicle which is able to take a passenger back to his or her “life’s turning point”. His cool appearance is at odds with his talkative, meddlesome, sweet-toothed character. He gives advice to passengers who are flustered after failing in their life’s choice.

Great Selection Taxi

2014

Taikomochi no tatsujin: Tadashii XX no homekata poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taikomochi no tatsujin: Tadashii XX no homekata

2015

ダンディ・ダディ?〜恋愛小説家・伊崎龍之介〜 poster
NR

Izaki Ryunosuke is a popular romance novelist who is constantly writing bestsellers. Now a widower with plenty of experience in relationships, he is also an open advocate of "free love." But when it comes to his teenage daughter Akari, he sings a completely different tune! The overprotective Ryunosuke monitors her every move, even if it means shadowing her or stealing her cell phone! Will the two ever learn to understand each other, and will Akari ever be able to date in peace? --Tokyograph

ダンディ・ダディ?〜恋愛小説家・伊崎龍之介〜

2009

High School Entrance Exam poster
6.5

Kyoko, a newly-appointed English teacher at a rural but well-respected, prestigious prefectural high school, had spent her childhood and high school years overseas before returning to Japan. Because she lived abroad for a long time, she cannot understand the old-fashioned ideas peculiar to Japan and tends to be frank about what she thinks. On the eve and the day of the school entrance examination, various incidents occur. There is the spectre of someone attempting to wreck the examination for some motive. Everyone present is a potential suspect and the truth remains shrouded in mystery to the end.

High School Entrance Exam

2012

Dear Students! poster
6.5

Seito Shokun! is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoko Shoji. It is serialized in Kodansha's Shōjo Friend from 1977 to 1984. The individual chapters were published into 24 tankōbon by Kodansha between February 1978 and June 1985. Seito Shokun! received the won the second Kodansha Manga Award in 1978 for the shōjo category. Kodansha made a one-shot spin-off of the series in September, 1983 and re-released the manga into 12 kanzenban volumes between December 12, 1995 and March 12, 1996. The sequel to the manga, Seito Shokun! Kyoshi-hen had its first tankōbon published on April 13, 2004. The manga was adapted into an original video animation by Ashi Productions. Directed by Mitsuo Kusakabe, it was broadcast on Fuji TV on February 23, 1986. The manga was adapted into a Japanese television drama of the same name. Directed by Karaki Marehiro and Tamura Naoki, the drama's 10 episodes was broadcast on TV Asahi between April 20, 2007 and June 22, 2007.

Dear Students!

2007

Nameless Poison poster
7.5

Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.

Nameless Poison

2013

Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A

2017

Red Thread of Fate poster
5.0

Akai Ito is Japanese television drama series based on a popular mobile phone novel written by Mei about two soulmates - junior high school students Mei and Atsushi - who must overcome drugs, rape and attempted suicide in order to be together. The love story was an online hit in 2006 and later published as a series of five books which sold 1.8 million copies.

Red Thread of Fate

2008

Shiori and Shimiko's Bizarre Case Files poster
NR

The story follows two girls named Shiori and Shimiko who become involved in strange incidents in their town.

Shiori and Shimiko's Bizarre Case Files

2008

Woman of Rumor poster
NR

In high school, Itoi Miyuki was a not so pretty girl, one day she suddenly turns attractive. She then starts plays with men, however, the men around her start to die.

Woman of Rumor

2018

Hotarugusa poster
8.5

Nana is a servant of the Kazahaya family, She is from a samurai family. Her father was about to reveal wrongdoings within the domain but had to commit ritual suicide for a crime he hadn't done. Ichinoshin tries to correct the wrongdoings, but end up being a target himself. After finding out her father's enemy is the man behind it all, Nana decides to protect Ichinoshin and his children, as she had promised Sachi, Ichinoshin's late wife.

Hotarugusa

2019

Ants without Umbrella poster
3.8

Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.

Ants without Umbrella

2016

Shitamachi Bobsleigh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shitamachi Bobsleigh

2014

Ooku: The Beginning poster
3.5

During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, leading to an ooku where the role of men and women are reversed. Thus, “the women become the shogun, served by 3000 handsome men”

Ooku: The Beginning

2012

Goodbye Newspaper poster
NR

A huge Japan newspaper company decides to sell itself due to failing sales. An eager buyer for the acquisition is a domineering Japanese man like Donald Trump who heads a foreign company. A dynamic finance drama that questions the role of the media of the 21st century.

Goodbye Newspaper

2017

Non-mama White Paper poster
NR

Reiko Doi, 49 years old non-mama who had got divorced, works for an advertising agency. She is dropped from promotion ladder because it's easier for men to be on the fast track, and she feels small because the general public prefer working mother to non-mama. She feels that both the public and the agency are embarrassed with how to treat her these days. At such time, she is notified that she will be a chief director. She decides to work hard and to connect people through her career, she couldn't connect her life to next generation, though. But managerial position is much harder than she expected. You can find many un ignorable topics in this drama. Regret and freedom without a child, joy and suffering of managerial position, hope and puzzlement for the last romance... This is a drama that delivers a message: "your life is also shining", through such feelings of non-mamas.

Non-mama White Paper

2016

Heisei Busaiku Salaryman poster
NR

At the West Tokyo branch office of Pakupaku Confectionery, capable salarymen clinch successive business deals. However, nothing seems to go right for four of the people among the busy staff. Even though they always give it their best, they would fail and get scolded and have to start all over again. There is Yoko Wataru who is the one the other three would like to depend on because he is the most senior, but he is incompetent, has bad timing in everything and falters when he speaks; Miyata Toshiya often gets scolded due to his naivete and inability to read situations; Nikaido Takashi is the athletic sort, very diligent, tends to get extremely close to other people when talking and has a pretty quick temper; and Senga Kento who is stylish and good at his work, but is somewhat blur and oddly harsh towards females but lenient with males. The foursome grapple with the challenges which appear inside and outside the company although they are in danger of being laid off.

Heisei Busaiku Salaryman

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Manmakoto

2015

Dandy Daddy? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dandy Daddy?

2009

マメシバ一郎 poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

マメシバ一郎

2012

昼上がりのオンナたち~ワタシの選択~ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

昼上がりのオンナたち~ワタシの選択~

2022

Oedo Jikenjou Bimi de Sourou poster
NR

During the late Edo period when the Tenpo Reforms are in force, public discontent is growing over the collusive relationships between merchants and government officials. Kakie Shinpeita (Kitamura Kazuki) is a samurai who possesses a highly sensitive palate and remarkable knowledge of food. His family publishes a tabloid-style newspaper in block print that covers local happenings. However, Shinpeita is only interested in food and how to prepare it. He scours Edo looking for food stories to report as he uses his sense of taste and knowledge to help the Kitamachi magistrate Toyama Kinshiro (Nakamura Hashinosuke) to solve baffling cases that occur in the capital.

Oedo Jikenjou Bimi de Sourou

2015

Best of the Best: Today's Laughing Time poster
NR

This program centers on rakugo (traditional Japanese comedic storytelling) and showcases performances by active storytellers, as well as valuable archival content. Viewers have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the rich variety of laughter found in the Kansai region.

Best of the Best: Today's Laughing Time

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