Masahiko Nishimura
Popularity:0.821
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1960-12-12
Place of Birth:Toyama, Japan
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Also Known As:니시무라 마사히코, 西村まさ彦, 西村雅彦

Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way,...

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are...

Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP (1999)
Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP.

Ikiru (2007)
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to...

Saru Lock: The Movie (2010)
Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks...

Black Current (2009)
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

The Exam (1999)
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...

TAKI 183 (2006)
Five youngsters are obsessed with graffiti, but after painting their masterpiece in Shibuya, they begin to drift apart.

Oshûkatsu (2021)
Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses over....

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special (2003)
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring...

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing...

Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor (2016)
Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently...

Crossroads (2011)
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor (2008)
Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this...

My Father's Tracks (2021)
Taiga Kitamura, who was separated from his mother at an early age, believes that his father's selfishness in devoting himself to the rally hastened...

The Unbroken (2009)
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head...

The Floating Castle (2012)
In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie (2022)
Based on the feature-length novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama...

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka...

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel (2006)
Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the...

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with...

Zen (2009)
In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was...

Detective Conan Drama Special 1: The Letter of Challenge (2006)
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.

Tokyo Family (2013)
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Clover (2014)
Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows...
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[MADO] (2023)
Starring Masahiko Nishimura, "MADO(Window)" is an extremely closed, socially conscious drama based on a true story of the actual court case known as...

The Winds of God (2005)
Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain...

Samurai Hustle (2014)
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a...

Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.

Circumstances (2011)
Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends up marrying a politician and publishes a...

Rock'n'Roll Housewives (2012)
Mieko is a housewife with some problems. Her husband is indifferent to her and her daughter Sayako refuses to go to school. One day, Mieko meets...

Gene Waltz (2011)
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down...

The Magnificent Nine (2016)
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future...

Momikeshite Fuyu 2019 Natsu: Natsu demo Samukute Shini Soudesu (2019)
Shusaku, who is the second son of the Kitazawa family, is going through hard times. He fails his job interviews for a patisserie position, which he...

Our Last Day (2024)
A middle-schooler, Kiho lives alone after her father committed suicide and her mother who has been absorbed in a cult religion disappeared. One day,...

The Black House (1999)
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to...

Moonlight Serenade (1997)
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

古畑任三郎ファイナル ラスト・ダンス (2006)
Furuhata Ninzaburo 2006 TV Movie

古畑任三郎 黒岩博士の恐怖 (1999)
Furuhata Ninzaburo 1999 TV Movie

AIBOU: The Movie (2008)
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo...

Samurai Hustle Returns (2016)
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants...

The Blue Hearts (2017)
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.

What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...

Out Burn (2014)
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized...

What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to...

What a Wonderful Family! (2016)
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...

The Wind Rises (2013)
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II...

Linking Love (2017)
High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly,...

July 7th, Sunny Day (1996)
Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day,...

Our Stardust Dance (2011)
A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidnap in exchange for a ransom of 10...

Off Highway 20 (2007)
Hisashi was once a member of a motorcycle gang. Now he plays pachinko everyday with his live-in girlfriend, Junko. He has a habit of "huffing" paint...

Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of...

Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso (2002)
At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese...

Number One (2001)
Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.

The 47 Rōnin in Debt (2019)
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai...

A Chair on the Plains (2013)
Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is...

Love Scenario (2010)
Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him,...

The King of Minami Returns (2010)
Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide.

Eien no Nispa (2019)
Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the...

Samurai Shifters (2019)
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran,...

Ghiblies: Episode 2 (2002)
Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio...

Best Wishes for Tomorrow (2007)
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.

Nodame Cantabile in Europe (2008)
This 2 night special takes off during their graduation, where Chiaki-senpai & Nodame left for Europe. The first special centered on Chiaki's story,...

Angry Rice Wives (2021)
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to...

Abacus and Sword (2010)
Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for...

Dear Heart (2009)
Mizushima Shinji is staying a highlands for his health with his wife Miwako after he recieved a heart transplant. But his tender personality turns to...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who...

Apparel Designer (2020)
HIRAKATA a major apparel manufacturer in financial crisis, decides to launch a new brand to revive its fortunes, and brings back Yuji Fujimura...

The Battling Angel (2003)
Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress...

Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo (2013)
The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective...

Negotiator (2005)
In this movie, Japan's top negotiator confronts a formidable foe threatening Tokyo's subways. As high-stakes tension brews, Mashita must outsmart an...

Furyo shonen no yume (2005)
In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting high school students from all over the country who...

消えた古畑任三郎 (1996)
Furuhata Ninzaburo 1996 TV Movie

古畑任三郎ファイナル フェアな殺人者 (2006)
Furuhata Ninzaburo 2005 TV Movie

古畑任三郎 しばしのお別れ (1996)
Furuhata Ninzaburo 1996 TV Movie

Kougen e Irasshai (2003)
As a former manager of a top hotel, Seiji has been entrusted with the reopening of a hotel in the high plains that has been boarded up and closed for...

Wonderful Life (2004)
Wonderful Life is a Japanese drama series aired in Japan on Fuji TV in 2004. It stars Takashi Sorimachi, Kyoko Hasegawa, Norito Yashima, and Ken...

Furuhata Ninzaburo (1994)
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was...

Natsuko no Sake (1994)
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to...

Konya Uchu no Katasumi de (1998)
This love comedy is set in New York, where a Japanese beautician (Naoko Iijima) is courted by two men (Masahiko Nishimura and Takaaki Ishibashi).

He Is Always There (1993)
This is a story of two physicians who are complete opposites. Although he's a skilled surgeon, Dr. Shiba does not believe that every life is worth...

Delicious Proposal (2001)
Suzuko Shiraishi, a strong-minded attractive female chef, is known for her foul mouth and masterly cooking skills. With an attitude like hers, she...

Farewell, Mr. Premier (1997)
What happens when the Prime Minister of Japan suddenly has the lowest approval ratings in history? Tamura Masakazu plays an unpopular Prime Minister...

Power of Love (2002)
Toko (Fukatsu Eri), decides after she turns 30 that she is all but ready to give up on any future career hopes or romance, so she turns to the bottle...

The Wife is 3 Stars (2001)
It's a dilemma many young women face - they want to get married, but don't want the responsibilities of a daughter-in-law. Miyuki is an engineer...

Akimahende! (1998)
Nowadays, kids have their parents wrapped around their fingers. While they appear to despise their parents, they are actually insecure and want...

Minami's Girlfriend (2004)
Everything started when a high school couple, Chiyomi and Minami had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant…...

Perfect Woman (2000)
Matsushima Nanako grew up in a very poor family and is thus determined to marry a rich man so that she will never have to go through poverty ever...

Somebody Loves Her (1992)
Manabu and his father Kouhei love Tsubasa in the same time, but they don't know that they are in love with the same girl. Tsubasa doesn't know they...

Jaja uma narashi (1993)
Ryuichiro's bride, company president Mayumi Kitahara dies, leaving him to take care of her daughter Natsumi. Natsumi moves into Ryuichiro's flat, but...

Middle-aged Bachelors (1997)
Three close friends realize, at the age of 40, that maybe it's time to think seriously about getting married. Employed by an advertising agency, each...

今週、妻が浮気します (2007)
A man who is content with his life - decent job and wonderful wife - suddenly faces the crisis of marriage when he finds out his wife is about to...

News no Onna (1998)
Tamaki Aso (Honami Suzuki) is a dedicated news anchor known for her stoic professionalism, even reporting on her own husband's tragic death during a...

My Life After Her Death (2004)
A free-spirited young woman, Yukari, touches those around her with a zest for life, full of passion. Following her unexplained suicide, her envious...

Nodame Cantabile (2006)
When a classically trained young conductor meets a free-spirited pianist at music school, their romance and their music have a hard time harmonizing.

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)

I Mean, I Want to Say I Like It (2021)
Chitose, a former bullied girl who became a talent manager, is put in charge of is a domineering actor who was a bully as a child.

Emergency Room 24 Hours (1999)
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...

Always the two of us (2003)
26-year-old Tanimachi Mizuho (Matsu Takako) moves to Tokyo hoping to become a successful author, but finds that Tokyo isn't so welcoming. There she...

SMAP×SMAP (1996)
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996...

Suits (2018)
Shogo Kai is a lawyer at one of the big 4 law firms in Japan. He is good at his job, but he is arrogant. Shogo Kai only thinks about winning and he...

Veterinarian Dolittle (2010)
Tottori Kenichi is a foul-mouthed but gifted veterinarian nicknamed Dolittle. His catch phrase is 'pet care means business'. He is the director of...

CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team....

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the...

Coach (1996)
Kubota Nagisa, a spoiled brash executive, is the chief of Food Import Section in a first-rate trading company. Nagisa is transferred to an affiliate...

New Year's Card from the Sparkling Sea (2007)
The drama revolves around Okinawa's Churaumi Aquarium, which opened in 2002 and was the largest in the world until 2005. Tokito Saburo stars in the...

Shingo Mama Drama Special: OH-HA Saves the World Vol. 1 (2001)
The concept of the show is like a Mary Poppins set in modern Japan, with Mama Shingo entering a client's home and resolving family discord. In the...

Kenjusho: Mitsukuni and I (2021)
A young Tokugawa Mitsukuni (Yamamoto Koji) meets a homeless orphan Ryosuke (Kurokawa Souya). Surprised by his deadly skills with a wooden sword,...

Investigation Division 1 (2022)
The First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, which is based in the Dai-Tokyo Police Station , is headed by Keiichiro...

IS: Not a Boy and Not a Girl (2011)
“IS” stands for “intersexual,” a term referring to people who cannot clearly be classified as male or female, and who may...

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors (2021)
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of...

Kono Subarashiki Sekai (2023)
A 'spoof comedy" in which a housewife who lives an ordinary life is forced to live a double life while pretending to be a major actress active in the...

My Story Is Long (2019)
A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business...

Awaiting Kirin (2020)
After the Onin War, the world is plunged into chaos. Amid this situation, heroes of the warring states begin to emerge in an attempt to unify the...

Juusan-nin no Shikaku (2020)
The head of the Mamiya clan committed suicide in protest against the feudal lord, Matsudaira. Matsudaira is a tyrant whose brother has appointed him...

Did you quit again, husband? ~The famous magistrate of the late Edo period, Oguri Kozukenosuke~ (2007)

Inpei Shirei (2009)
Amano Yoshihiko works at the giant Mizunami Bank. Trusted by the president, he is put in charge of hiding 700 million yen worth of bad debt. For the...