Tōru Shinagawa
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 14, 1935
Place of Birth: Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Known For
Broken Heart of the 56th Year
Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori learns what is really important. The love of two people over 56 years.
Ring Wandering
In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
Neo Ultra Q
Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.
Sono Onna, Jiruba
40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her marriage, she is betrayed by her fiancée. Not only is her engagement broken off, she is demoted to work at the logistics warehouse in the name of restructuring. Arata’s future is bleak. She has no dream, savings or boyfriend and wonders whether her life will end just like this? This day is her 40th birthday but no one celebrates it with her. The only thing she receives are e-mails from online shopping sites. On her way to the workplace from the company dormitory on a typical dull morning, Arata notices an elderly woman crouching by the side of the road. There is no one in this corner of the city to help her. It feels as if she is seeing herself 40 years later and she instinctively extends a hand to the woman.
The Great White Tower
Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.
The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.
Seven Weeks
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.
Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read today. His stories often feature mystery, science fiction, or fantasy elements. A sometimes "humorous" and sometimes "cynic" look at society and mankind. Always short, but always surprising and unpredictable. Is it a poisonous allegory or a wake-up call? See some of his greatest gems come to life in this 2022 live-action adaptation
Filmography
as Muneharu Ikeya
as King Xerxes
as Tanaka
as Koichi Tanaka
as Kota Kawauchi (old age)
as Mabuchi
as Gotaro Daidoji
as Moji's Grandfather
as Musashi Miyamoto
as The Mysterious Old Man
as Professor
as Yuu Aiba
as 大山泰輔
as Genzo Shishido
as Satokawa Kiyoshi
as Old Man at Festival
as Watanabe
as Emon Yutaka
as Saito
as 타키카와 노부오
as Takamitsu Kutsuna
as Denzo Tsukahara
as (uncredited)
as Mitsuo
as Old man
as 秋場紀一郎
as Sumio Shinkai
as bus dispatcher
as Cat God
as Minister Yasuo Mochizuki
as Teshigawara
as Ōmura
as Ryotaro's father
as Doji
as 検事総長
as Koichi's Grandfather
as Sakomizu
as Dolcross (voice)
as Seisaku Ookouichi
as Imakurusu Hisashi (voice)
as Kindergarten Principal
as Denzo Tsukahara