
Kotaro Shiga
Acting
Biography
Kotaro Shiga (志賀 廣太郎, Shiga Kōtarō, August 31, 1948 – April 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor and theater educator who was active since the 1990s until around 2020. Kotaro was born in Hyogo, Japan. He was a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art, majoring in theater. He was a member of Japanese theater company Seinen-dan (青年団). He was affiliated with l'être.
Born: August 31, 1948
Place of Birth: Hyōgo, Japan
Known For

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Solitary Gourmet
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.

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the Japanese financier Masahiko Washizu to do the job with only one instruction: buy them cheap and sell them high.

Antarctica
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.

Rose Color's Buko
Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young. Sachiko believes someday she will meet a man like in a romance manga. Her university life is boring and she spends her time reading romance manga in her room. One day, on Twitter, she meets a man who uses the user ID of Sparrow. He likes reading manga and looks like Johnny Depp. Sachiko makes a date to meet the man. She tries to change herself, but it's not so easy due to various unexpected incidents.

Rikuoh
A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes.

The Brave 'Yoshihiko'
The story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A mysterious plague breaks out, resulting in countless deaths. A pure young man named Yoshihiko becomes chosen as a hero, and he sets out on a journey in order to save a village. He has two goals – to bring back the legendary plant that can cure the plague, and to rescue his father Teruhiko who left to find the plant but never returned.

dinner
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles. “Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but their head chef and owner Tatsumi suddenly collapses and the restaurant loses its unique flavor. The number of customers rapidly declines, but the owner’s daughter and deputy manager Saori happens to find another chef named Ezaki through an online job market who learned cooking at the same place her father did. Ezaki becomes the new head chef of this restaurant and while nobody can deny that he is a gifted chef, it’s his extreme rationalism that doesn’t exactly go well with the restaurants attempt to save its traditional flavor.

Hana's Lazy Meals
The story is about the daily life of a 30-year-old new wife, Hana, who cooks “Zubora Meshi”, while her husband is on a job transfer away from home. ”Zubora-Meshi” is the corner-cutting and easy cooking people usually cook only for themselves to eat.
Filmography
as Goro Kakei
as Kazuto Yufuin
as Yukio Kazama
as Genzo Tomishima
as Professor Sakagami
as Tadashi Hirosawa
as Toshio Iwai
as Nakatsuka
as Jirou Nakata
as Eiichi Takarabe
as 赤松大介
as President of Takahimaya
as Zoo Director
as Karaoke Manager
as 矢尾 初
as City Councilor
as Kentaro Sugahara
as Hamaoka Kotaro
as Shinji
as Himself
as Hana's Father
as 店員1
as Kinnosuke Tani
as Ito
as Hazuki Shoichirou
as Tadao
as English Teacher
as Mr. Saotome
as Mitsuo Suzuki
as Shigeo Shiba
as Shigeo Shiba
as Narrator (voice)
as Hayashida
as Gotaro Naganobu
as Judge
as Tanaka-shacho
as Yasumoto Masahiro
as Pawn Shop Owner
as Minami
as Taxi Driver
as Teacher Gashi
as Prof. Shingo Tatebayashi
as Kusunoki Tateaki
as Kenji Yamamoto