Masahiro Motoki
Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 Motoki Masahiro, born December 21, 1965 in Okegawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in Departures, which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned him the Award for Best Actor at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, at the 3rd Asian Film Awards and at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 11.85 |
| Birthday | 1965-12-21 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Also Known As | 本木雅弘, 本木 雅弘, Motoki Masahiro, 모토키 마사히로, |
1995
Gonin
6.654/52
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 co...
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Gonin
1999
Gemini
6.5/72
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
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Gemini
1998
The Bird People in China
7.171/82
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentim...
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The Bird People in China
2008
Departures
7.847/798
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applyin...
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Departures
1992
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
6.5/15
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together...
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
2007
The Longest Night In Shanghai
6.6/11
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by maki...
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The Longest Night In Shanghai
1996
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
6/7
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, w...
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Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
1991
Heat Wave
5.8/11
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Heat Wave
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
7/6
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1996
Shall We Dance?
7.253/146
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her,...
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Shall We Dance?
1995
The Mystery of Rampo
7/3
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 publi...
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The Mystery of Rampo
2015
The Emperor in August
6.3/13
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nigh...
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The Emperor in August
2003
Spy Sorge
7.5/6
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japan...
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Spy Sorge
1989
Fancy Dance
6.8/13
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline,...
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Fancy Dance
2015
The Big Bee
6/12
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media a...
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The Big Bee
2016
The Long Excuse
6.589/28
A recently widowed writer 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 man who a...
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The Long Excuse
1989
Raffles Hotel
4.8/4
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with...
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Raffles Hotel
1982
Come On Girls!
6/1
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.
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Come On Girls!
1992
Dioxin from Fish!
0/0
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
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Dioxin from Fish!
1990
Balloon
0/0
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
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Balloon
1983
Headphone Lullaby
4/1
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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Headphone Lullaby
2003
Ganryujima
5/2
The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has rap...
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Ganryujima
1985
Barrow Gang BC
0/0
Film about a pirate radio station.
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Barrow Gang BC
1991
Playtime Never Ends
7/1
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't cat...
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Playtime Never Ends
2006
Tekkonkinkreet
7.42/349
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the to...
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Tekkonkinkreet
1982
Highschool Scramble
0/0
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Highschool Scramble
1989
Beppin Town
0/0
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murde...
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Beppin Town
1991
Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2
0/0
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Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2
2021
Ryuukou Kanbou
7.333/3
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy cl...
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Ryuukou Kanbou
2022
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
8.2/3
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains o...
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2000
Black Jack
6.5/2
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, t...
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Black Jack
2024
Touch
0/0
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what r...
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Touch
1992
My Santa Boy
0/0
This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.
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My Santa Boy
2010
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
4.5/3
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
1994
Last Song
0/0
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to p...
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Last Song
2000
Making of Gemini
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
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Making of Gemini
Like Asura
0/0
Four sisters discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hid...
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Like Asura
Silence of the Sea
0/0
The last years of a painter, a tattoo artist, and a man who
always pursues beauty regardless of authenticity. Why does
the man insist that even his...
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