Date of birth: 1965-12-21
Place of birth:
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 本木 雅弘, Motoki Masahiro, 모토키 마사히로

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.

2010-04-29
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.

1999-09-15
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m

1995-09-23
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla

1998-06-10
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After

2008-09-13
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown

1994-02-05
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman w

1992-01-15
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is a

2007-06-26
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this roma

1996-03-23
There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, S

1991-02-09
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo

1989-06-17
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati
2000-05-12
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

2000-03-30
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church

1995-05-27
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and

2015-08-08
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c

1996-01-27
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly sta

2024-05-29
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urg

2003-06-14
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb

1989-12-23
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initiall

1992-11-20
This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.

2015-09-12
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The

2016-10-14
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it

2024-11-22
The day before his exhibition, world-renowned painter Tamura discovers that his own work contains a

1989-10-29
Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hot

1982-07-10
Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.

1990-05-12
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.

1992-02-22
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

1983-07-10
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.

2003-03-18
The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in

1985-04-27
Film about a pirate radio station.

1991-10-05
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robb

2006-10-21
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh

1982-12-18

1989-10-18
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway

1991-08-07

2021-04-10
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran

2022-06-22
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a

2022-03-31

2009-12-11
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)

1991-11-02
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed b

1993-03-28

2001-11-10
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a u

2025-08-13
This is the story of a strange encounter brought about by the atomic bomb, based on the true story o

2024-01-12
Takashi Miike is a cinema monster. Let's return to his filmography, his main themes, the framework o