Acting
Daijiro Kawaoka
Born March 14, 1978 · Osaka Prefecture, Japan (age 48)
No biography available.
Known For
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger · 2023Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger
★ 4.72023
MovieActionDrama
Divided into three acts, the first act is about the Zenkaigers dealing with a new Kashiwa Mochi World and Zocks declares himself as "Kashiwa Mochi King", the ruler of Zenkaitopia?! In the second act, it's been a year since Taro left and the five companions continue to fight as a team with Jiro as their leader. Taro later regains his memories, only for his companions to ask him to leave the Donbrothers. In the final act, an incident caused the two worlds to connect, thus a full-throttle miracle battle between the two Super Sentai begins!
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 · 2009Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
★ 6.22009
MovieActionAdventure
Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter", Tsukasa Kadoya fully embraces his title as the Destroyer of Worlds. In "Kamen Rider W: Begins Night", Shotaro and Philip recount the night on when it all began. Elements of both parts converge in the movie's final part, "Movie War 2010" as our heroes fight the forces of Super Shocker.
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! · 2021Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
★ 7.92021
MovieActionAdventure
The 2021 Super Sentai, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, debuts in a movie! Previous generations of monsters show up but team leader Zenkaiser won't let them have their way! Previous generations of Red Rangers run into battle too! Zenkaiser isn't a Red Ranger, but does that even make sense? With the power of the Machine World, he'll defeat them at Full-Force Full-Throttle!
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 2 · 2015Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 2
★ 3.42015
MovieHorror
A high school drama club has a training camp at an ex-school building near a dark forest. Troubled student Kizuki (Yuka Kuramochi) suddenly joins the drama club on the day they go to the training camp, but Kizuki doesn't take part in their practice.
Beach Boys Special · 1998Beach Boys Special
1998
MovieComedyDrama
Sakurai Hiromi (Sorimachi Takashi) and Suzuki Kaito (Takenouchi Yutaka) leave Diamond Head behind in search of "my ocean." Three months later, the two coincidentally find themselves staying on the same southern island overseas. Hiromi is in charge of the poolside bar at a large hotel, dating the heiress there, and living a glamorous life. Kaito works for a marine biologist, transporting dolphins to a landlocked country, living a wild life. When Kaito's work takes him to the island as well, they run into each other by chance. The two feel something is off about who they are now. Where is their "true ocean"? Makoto and Haruko now run the B&B back in Japan. One day, they win a trip to the island which will make the reunion complete.
Summer Time Machine Blues · 2005Summer Time Machine Blues
★ 7.02005
MovieComedyScience Fiction
The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black · 2007Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
★ 7.32007
MovieMysteryCrime
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Open House · 1998Open House
★ 6.01998
MovieDramaRomance
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
Movies
Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger · 2023Avataro Sentai Donbrothers vs. Zenkaiger
★ 4.72023
MovieActionDrama
Divided into three acts, the first act is about the Zenkaigers dealing with a new Kashiwa Mochi World and Zocks declares himself as "Kashiwa Mochi King", the ruler of Zenkaitopia?! In the second act, it's been a year since Taro left and the five companions continue to fight as a team with Jiro as their leader. Taro later regains his memories, only for his companions to ask him to leave the Donbrothers. In the final act, an incident caused the two worlds to connect, thus a full-throttle miracle battle between the two Super Sentai begins!
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 · 2009Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
★ 6.22009
MovieActionAdventure
Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter", Tsukasa Kadoya fully embraces his title as the Destroyer of Worlds. In "Kamen Rider W: Begins Night", Shotaro and Philip recount the night on when it all began. Elements of both parts converge in the movie's final part, "Movie War 2010" as our heroes fight the forces of Super Shocker.
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!! · 2021Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger The Movie: Red Battle! All Sentai Rally!!
★ 7.92021
MovieActionAdventure
The 2021 Super Sentai, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, debuts in a movie! Previous generations of monsters show up but team leader Zenkaiser won't let them have their way! Previous generations of Red Rangers run into battle too! Zenkaiser isn't a Red Ranger, but does that even make sense? With the power of the Machine World, he'll defeat them at Full-Force Full-Throttle!
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 2 · 2015Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 2
★ 3.42015
MovieHorror
A high school drama club has a training camp at an ex-school building near a dark forest. Troubled student Kizuki (Yuka Kuramochi) suddenly joins the drama club on the day they go to the training camp, but Kizuki doesn't take part in their practice.
Beach Boys Special · 1998Beach Boys Special
1998
MovieComedyDrama
Sakurai Hiromi (Sorimachi Takashi) and Suzuki Kaito (Takenouchi Yutaka) leave Diamond Head behind in search of "my ocean." Three months later, the two coincidentally find themselves staying on the same southern island overseas. Hiromi is in charge of the poolside bar at a large hotel, dating the heiress there, and living a glamorous life. Kaito works for a marine biologist, transporting dolphins to a landlocked country, living a wild life. When Kaito's work takes him to the island as well, they run into each other by chance. The two feel something is off about who they are now. Where is their "true ocean"? Makoto and Haruko now run the B&B back in Japan. One day, they win a trip to the island which will make the reunion complete.
Summer Time Machine Blues · 2005Summer Time Machine Blues
★ 7.02005
MovieComedyScience Fiction
The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black · 2007Detective Conan Drama Special 2: Confrontation With the Men in Black
★ 7.32007
MovieMysteryCrime
Shinichi Kudo returns as the young Conan to investigate a murderous letter sent to a beauty pageant winner who demands affection.
Open House · 1998Open House
★ 6.01998
MovieDramaRomance
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest · 2014Death Forest: Forbidden Forest
★ 4.62014
MovieHorror
On their way home from a camping trip, a group of friends become stuck in an eerie forest when their car breaks down. There, they meet a mysterious stranger who warns of monsters lurking in the forest - will they make it out alive? Based on the popular computer game of the same name.
Time Leap · 1997Time Leap
1997
MovieScience Fiction
Time travel film
Real Werewolf Game: The Horror of the Crash Room · 2014Real Werewolf Game: The Horror of the Crash Room
2014
MovieHorror
Doubt? Believe? Who will survive? The ultimate murder game of life and death begins now! This is the second thriller based on the popular party game "Wargame," which is popular on TV programs and smartphones.
世にも奇妙な物語 '01春の特別編 · 2001世にも奇妙な物語 '01春の特別編
2001
Movie
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger Final Live Tour 2022 · 2022Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger Final Live Tour 2022
2022
MovieActionAdventure
The Zenkai Sentai Zenkaiger Final Live Tour 2022 Until the Final-'ish' Zenkai!!
Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Spring Special · 2012Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Spring Special
★ 6.52012
MovieFantasy
Rookies Gotoshi Co., Ltd. ~THE MOVIE~ · 1999Rookies Gotoshi Co., Ltd. ~THE MOVIE~
1999
Movie
The fifth 'Gotoshi' film.
19 · 200019
★ 6.02000
MovieDramaCrime
A university student is kidnapped by young men in a car. No ransom is asked as the men are just bored roving thugs who have nothing better to do nor do they have any specific mission or purpose. Fascinated by the men's close bonds, the abused student slowly turns from victim to accomplice.
Boogiepop and Others · 2000Boogiepop and Others
★ 5.12000
MovieScience FictionMystery
The story takes place in an unnamed Japanese city, and follows five students at Shinyo Academy as they try to piece together the puzzle of a new drug and recent disappearances among the student populace. While the teachers believe them to only be runaways, the female students whisper among themselves about the urban legend Boogiepop, who is said to be a Shinigami.
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 3 · 2015Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 3
★ 4.42015
MovieHorror
Uchida Mayu is a high school student in a peaceful town near Tokyo. She suffers from violence from her stepfather and plans to run away to her uncle's home in Tokyo. As she is about to board the last bus to Tokyo, a terrible looking old person causes her to miss the bus. She attempts to walk across a ridge. Meanwhile, Mayu's uncle Uchida Kazuki is a freelancer writer. He chases after the hideous monster Yoshie who attacks people. Kazuki receives a phone call that his niece Mayu ran away. He begins a search for her and finds her cellphone on a mountain path. He sees Yoshie's picture on her cellphone.
Valley of Dreams · 2011Valley of Dreams
2011
Movie
A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
Kyo Kara Hitman · 2009Kyo Kara Hitman
2009
Movie
An ordinary salaryman named Tokichi Inaba who inadvertently becomes involved in the death of a legendary hitman. Facing bankruptcy and saddled with a 35-year mortgage, Inaba is coerced into becoming a hitman himself by the mysterious and beautiful troublemaker Chinatsu, all while trying to keep his new wife Misako in the dark about his double life.
Samurai of the Dead · 2014Samurai of the Dead
★ 7.22014
MovieComedyHorror
As the end approaches for Japan’s age of military rule, the Tokugawa shogunate brings together a squad of ruthless assassins to defend its representatives in Kyoto. These men were known as the Shinsengumi. Formidable swordsmen with unswerving dedication to their cause, the Shinsengumi think nothing of slashing down their enemies…but what happens when the enemy is the undead?
Ring of Gundam · 2009Ring of Gundam
2009
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
The story of "Ring of Gundam" takes place in a new era long after the events of the first Mobile Suit Gundam series' One-Year War. In this world setting, a giant 600-kilometer-wide ring now floats in lunar orbit. An Earth Federation Forces member named Eiji discovers an object called "Beauty Memory" buried in a high-altitude, massive rockbed on Earth.
The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise · 2015The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise
2015
Movie
A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering.
Gachi Boy: Wrestling with a Memory · 2008Gachi Boy: Wrestling with a Memory
★ 7.52008
MovieComedyDrama
A wrestling club must deal with the fact that their newest member is an amnesiac.
TV Shows
Kamen Rider · 1971Kamen Rider
★ 6.41971
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen · 1990Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
★ 9.51990
SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
The Woman of S.R.I. · 1999The Woman of S.R.I.
★ 7.31999
SeriesDrama
Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.
Hanako & Anne · 2014Hanako & Anne
★ 7.32014
SeriesDrama
A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English and step by step made her dream come true.
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger · 2013Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger
★ 6.92013
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
The Deboth Army who invaded the Earth in the time of the dinosaurs has revived. Wise God Torin selects 5 brave individuals who can defeat their respective Zyudenryu and give them powers to become the “People of the Strong Dragons”, Kyoryuger.
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger · 2021Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
★ 8.22021
Series
When an all-powerful enemy appears to destroy all parallel worlds, a hero with the spirit of all Super Sentai will rise to fight back. Transforming into Zenkaiser, he joins forces with four robots called Kikainoids with the spirit of Super Sentai robos from across history.
Emergency Room 24 Hours · 1999Emergency Room 24 Hours
★ 7.41999
SeriesDrama
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor.
While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.
Beach Boys · 1997Beach Boys
★ 7.91997
SeriesDramaComedy
Hiromi and Kaito end up in a guesthouse run by an ageing surfer and his granddaughter Makoto. The summer passes amidst the comings and goings of guests, each one gradually discovering the others.
Keizoku: Unsolved Cases · 1999Keizoku: Unsolved Cases
★ 7.71999
SeriesDramaCrime
Keizoku is a Japanese mystery thriller created first as a TV drama and later as a film. It is about Detective Jun Shibata, who handles unsolved cases with her hardened partner Tōru Mayama.
The television series was broadcast in eleven episodes between 8 January and 19 March 1999. A two-hour "special drama" was then broadcast on 24 December 1999. The series has been called "epoch-making" in the police procedural genre on Japanese television.
JINXED · 2015JINXED
2015
SeriesCrimeMystery
Set in Osaka, high-spirited yakuza Kuwabara and buttoned-down construction consultant Ninomiya form an odd couple as they rail against the city’s “bad elements” drawn to money like sharks to the scent of blood. Laced with the characteristic witty banter of the Osaka dialect here is a gritty, hard-boiled drama that explodes with violent thrills and impact that defies all expectations.
With Love · 1998With Love
★ 5.21998
SeriesDrama
It all started when Takashi (Takenouchi), a talented composer who could not write a love song ever since his girlfriend Rina left him suddenly, accidentally sent an uncompleted piece of his latest work to Amane (Tanaka) via email. Deeply touched by his music, Amane wrote back to him, without getting a reply. Amane continued writing to him, pouring out her thoughts. Only when she signed as "Teru Teru Bozu", did Takashi responded with a mail saying "WHO ARE YOU?", because what Rina left him as a farewell gift was a teru teru bozu!
A Forever Love · 1997A Forever Love
1997
SeriesDrama
One summer night, sixth-year medical student Natsume Toru is propositioned by Shinozaki Aki. He coldly brushes her off and tells her to look for someone with money. Several days later, while on duty at Keiyu University Hospital, Toru comes across Aki once more. It turns out that she is the sister of Shinozaki Jun, Toru's first official patient. Jun is waiting for a costly operation and in order to pay for it, Aki has been forced to sell herself on the streets. Toru falls in love with Aki, but will he be able to take her off the streets and more importantly, convince her that she deserves his love?
Semi-double · 1999Semi-double
1999
Series
Ki-ichi Nakai acts university professor Jinguji studying psychology. For his heartless character, the university students are afraid of him. One day, Jinguji saves fashion model Misaki (Izumi Inamori) at a station. Then, a love story between the cold professor and the model starts. Later, a doctor informs Misaki of cancer, and removes her nipples. Sharan Q vocalist Tsunku acts a supply teacher of the university, and Shinobu Ohtake acts a woman professor named Tsuzuki.
臨床心理士 · 2000臨床心理士
2000
Series