Masahiro Motoki

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.

  • Title: Masahiro Motoki
  • Popularity: 7.898
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-12-21
  • Place of Birth:
  • Homepage: http://www.from1-pro.jp/talent/detail.php?id=1
  • Also Known As: 本木 雅弘, Motoki Masahiro, 모토키 마사히로
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Masahiro Motoki Movies

  • 2010
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    MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming

    MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming

    4.5 2010 HD

    Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.

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  • 1999
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    Gemini

    Gemini

    6.6 1999 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    Gonin

    Gonin

    6.7 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1998
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    The Bird People in China

    The Bird People in China

    7.155 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Departures

    Departures

    7.849 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Last Song

    Last Song

    1 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

    Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

    6.5 1992 HD

    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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  • 2007
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    The Longest Night in Shanghai

    The Longest Night in Shanghai

    6.5 2007 HD

    A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by...

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  • 1996
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    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

    6 1996 HD

    There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived,...

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  • 1991
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    Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

    5.8 1991 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    Four Days of Snow and Blood

    Four Days of Snow and Blood

    6.9 1989 HD

    Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

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  • 2000
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    Making of Gemini

    Making of Gemini

    1 2000 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

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  • 2000
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    Black Jack

    Black Jack

    6.5 2000 HD

    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,...

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  • 1995
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    The Mystery of Rampo

    The Mystery of Rampo

    7 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Asura

    Asura

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    The Emperor in August

    The Emperor in August

    6.3 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Shall We Dance?

    Shall We Dance?

    7.276 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Touch

    Touch

    7.427 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Spy Sorge

    Spy Sorge

    7.5 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance

    6.8 1989 HD

    Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...

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  • 1992
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    My Santa Boy

    My Santa Boy

    1 1992 HD

    This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.

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  • 2015
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    The Big Bee

    The Big Bee

    5.9 2015 HD

    Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media...

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  • 2016
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    The Long Excuse

    The Long Excuse

    6.6 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Silence of the Sea

    Silence of the Sea

    1 2024 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    Raffles Hotel

    Raffles Hotel

    4.8 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Come On Girls!

    Come On Girls!

    6 1982 HD

    Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.

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  • 1990
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    Balloon

    Balloon

    1 1990 HD

    Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.

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  • 1992
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    Dioxin from Fish!

    Dioxin from Fish!

    1 1992 HD

    A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

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  • 1983
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    Headphone Lullaby

    Headphone Lullaby

    4 1983 HD

    The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.

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  • 2003
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    Ganryujima

    Ganryujima

    5 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    Barrow Gang BC

    Barrow Gang BC

    1 1985 HD

    Film about a pirate radio station.

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  • 1991
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    Playtime Never Ends

    Playtime Never Ends

    7 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    Tekkonkinkreet

    Tekkonkinkreet

    7.419 2006 HD

    Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the...

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  • 1982
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    Highschool Scramble

    Highschool Scramble

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1989
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    Beppin Town

    Beppin Town

    1 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2

    Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 2

    1 1991 HD

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  • 2021
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    Ryuukou Kanbou

    Ryuukou Kanbou

    7.3 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

    The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

    8.2 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    小泉今日子40周年スペシャル

    小泉今日子40周年スペシャル

    1 2022 HD

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  • 1999
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    The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing

    The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing

    1 1999 HD

    The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that...

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  • 1991
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    Mamatte Kirei!?

    Mamatte Kirei!?

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1988
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    Dakishimetai!

    Dakishimetai!

    1 1988 HD

    Asako Ikeuchi and Natsuko Hayakawa have been close friends for more than 25 years. Natsuko's husband Keisuke had affairs, so she asks Asako to let...

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  • 1994
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    Anata Dake Mienai

    Anata Dake Mienai

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1990
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    Koi no Paradise

    Koi no Paradise

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2001
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    A Wednesday Love Affair

    A Wednesday Love Affair

    9 2001 HD

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  • 1995
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    White Love Story

    White Love Story

    1 1995 HD

    A tale of one-sided love. Kurumi works in a travel agency; she falls in love with Kousuke after an accidental meeting on a train. Kousuke is a skiing...

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  • 1990
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    Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

    Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

    9.5 1990 HD

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  • 1996
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    Kimi to Deatte kara

    Kimi to Deatte kara

    1 1996 HD

    The drama is about a cold-hearted corporate warrior who is involved in a car accident, and how he and the woman who loves him so earnestly struggle...

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  • 2009
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    Clouds Over the Hill

    Clouds Over the Hill

    8.1 2009 HD

    Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes...

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  • 1992
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    The Only One I Can't See

    The Only One I Can't See

    7 1992 HD

    A private lawyer (Hiroshi Mikami) who is infatuated with the widow of the Mamiya conglomerate (Emi Shindo) and aims for her inheritance. But he had...

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  • 2005
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    Natsumeke no Shokutaku

    Natsumeke no Shokutaku

    1 2005 HD

    A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love and tears of a funny couple starring Rie Miyazawa...

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  • 2005
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    On the Single Bed Tonight

    On the Single Bed Tonight

    1 2005 HD

    Tomonaga Akiyuki and his wife Yu have been married seven years. Akiyuki is a graphic designer, and is quite happy in his work and private life. One...

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  • 2012
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    Man of Destiny

    Man of Destiny

    1 2012 HD

    A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director...

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  • 2001
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    Prince Shotoku

    Prince Shotoku

    6 2001 HD

    In the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various...

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  • 1990
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    Tales of the Bizarre

    Tales of the Bizarre

    7.8 1990 HD

    Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and...

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  • 2019
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    Giri/Haji

    Giri/Haji

    7.4 2019 HD

    Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination...

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  • 2020
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    Awaiting Kirin

    Awaiting Kirin

    8.3 2020 HD

    After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the...

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  • 2003
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    Prince of Happiness

    Prince of Happiness

    1 2003 HD

    This is the tragic love story of Shuhei and Umi. Shuhei is the only surviving son of a hospital director. He loves to play the piano as accompaniment...

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