
Kotaro Tanaka
Acting
Biography
Tanaka Kotaro is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He belongs to Stardust Promotion. In 2000, he made his acting debut in the drama "Heisei Meoto Jawan: Dokechi no Hanamichi." His first movie appearance was in 2001 in the movie "Waterboys." Tanaka won the 42nd New Actor Award of the Television Drama Academy Awards for the TBS drama "Sekai no Chushin de, Ai o Sakebu" in 2004. (Source: chunyu at MyDramaList)
Born: December 13, 1982
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For

Keishicho Kyokohan Gakari Higuchi Akira

18/40: Unbreakable Bond of Dreams
Nakagawa Arisu is in the 3rd grade of high school and 18 years old. Her mother died when she was 11 years old. She has since lived with her father, who works as a firefighter. Having been influenced by her mother, Nakagawa Arisu has dreamed of becoming a curator who travels abroad often for work. But her life changes when she learns she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Naruse Toko is about to turn 40 years old soon. She works in the art world as someone who connects art and business. Naruse Toko is dedicated to her work and she hasn't been in a romantic relationship for 10 years. Nakagawa Arisu and Naruse Toko, who are totally different people, happen to meet and their encounter changes their lives.

Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger
The meteorite believed to have once killed off the dinosaurs actually rattled the Earth into two parallel universes — Another Earth and Dino Earth, where dinosaurs continued to thrive. Now they have evolved into the Saurians, a race of humanoid dinosaurs, and the Bakuryu , a race of mechanized dinosaurs. But the wall between our universes has been breached. The Evolians that have been at war with the Saurians and Bakuryu have invaded, and it's up to the Abarangers to protect the world!

Toto Nee-chan
In 1930 and as a young child, Tsuneko Kohashi lives at Enshu in Shizuoka Prefecture. She has a happy life with her parents and two younger sisters. Things change after her father dies from tuberculosis. Her father asked Tsuneko Kohashi to take care of the family in his place. Due to financial difficulties, her mother Kimiko decides to move the family to Tokyo where Tsuneko's grandmother lives.

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.

Absolute Zero
Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

Tokyo Bandwagon
The somewhat peculiar Hotta family runs Tokyo Bandwagon, a secondhand bookstore and cafe in the old part of Tokyo. They are a big four-generation family that is rare these days. The Hottas live by rather unusual family rules, and solve strange incidents that arise in the old town. 26-year-old Ao is the family’s second son, and a freelance tour guide. Although he is the child of his father’s mistress, he has been raised as the second son without prejudice. Ao is an irresistible playboy to females due to the gap between his frivolous behaviour and occasional melancholic expressions, but then he encounters university student Makino Suzumi and falls deeply in love with her.

Taira no Kiyomori
Villain or hero, Taira no Kiyomori changed Japanese history forever 900 years ago. Without ever knowing his real father, Kiyomori was raised as a samurai. Together with his stepfather, he wiped out piracy along Japan's western coast, becoming a full-fledged warrior samurai. In an age when samurai were looked down on as members of the lower class, Kiyomori was skillful at winning the hearts and minds of the people. By rounding up surrendered pirates and achieving other successes, Kiyomori eventually became the de facto ruler of Japan.

Marumo's Story
Marumo no Okite is a Japanese television series which premiered on Fuji TV on April 24, 2011. This television series stars Sadao Abe as Mamoru Takagi, a public relations officer with a stationery company. It also stars child actors Fuku Suzuki and child actress Mana Ashida as Mamoru's late friend Jun-ichiro's twin children. The television series was broadcast as part of the Fuji TV's Dramatic Sunday time slot, which airs every Sunday from 9pm to 9:54pm.

Bakuryū Sentai Abarenjā 20th: Yurusa Rezaru Abare
20 years after their battle with the Evolians had ended, a new threat appears to threaten the long-lasting peace that the Abarangers have enjoyed. For the first time in a long while, they transform to fight but the public seems to think their actions are barbaric acts of destruction. In the Reiwa Era, is the justice they once fought for now considered an outdated style of heroism?
Filmography
as Saejima Yuji [Kei & Naoaki's father]
as [Gay bar owner]
as Koji
as Kumakawa Kazuya
as Kiyokawa
as Mikoto Nakadai / Abare Killer
as Tomisato
as Fujiwara Kaito
as Jun'ya Sato
as Isami Kondo
as Midorikawa Ryusei
as Kōhei Masuda
as Nezu Kosuke
as Tatsuya Sawada
as Satonaka Eiichi
as Matsumoto Kota
as Yanagiba Kiichiro
as Tsutomu Ikeuchi
as Shiro Kawai(河合 史郎)
as Kashiba Kentaro [Young]
as Sano [Representative of "The Society for Protecting the Environment of Lake Shirakawa"]
as Kanda Koichiro
as Shinshichi
as Yamada
as Asakura Yuji
as Hirose [Kazuko's matchmaking partner]
as Takashi Nagase
as Aso [Yutaro's grandson]
as Karasawa Kazuhiko
as Kato Keita
as Yoichi Tamura
as Minamoto no Mitsuyasu
as Motoki Kensuke [Store manager]
as Tatsuya
as Mikoto Nakadai
as Meguro Shuhei [Izumi's ex-lover]
as Masaya Iino
as Kanori Takuya
as Iizuka Kazuhiro
as Yosuke
as Shiratori Junnosuke
as Irie Kyosuke
as Sato Kento
as Sakura
as Ryo Aonuma
as Kyosuke Irie
as Toshiya Sasaoka
as Tezuka Yuji
as Koga Hisashi
as Mikoto Nakadai / Abare Killer
as Hideo Tachibana
as Oki Ryunosuke
as Mikoto Nakadai / Abare Killer
as Mikoto Nakadai / Abare Killer
as Mikoto Nakadai
as Yoshida Mitsuo
as Watanabe [Student of Ara High School]
as Akira's fan
as Koutarou
as Toraji
as Naruo Yuya