Tetsushi Tanaka
Popularity:0.791
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1966-02-18
Place of Birth:Suzuka, Mie, Japan
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Also Known As:田中 哲司, Tetsuji Tanaka

Gu Gu, the Cat (2008)
Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as...

Penance (2013)
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...

Your Turn to Kill: The Movie (2021)
Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's...

Water Flower (2005)
Minako is at the age where her father is more like an alien to her than a person. The situation is exacerbated when he comes home drunk one night and...

Rebirth (2011)
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own,...

Quirky Guys and Gals (2011)
The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim...

The Last 10 Years (2022)
Twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has ten years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and...

Tonbi (2022)
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed...

新春ドラマスペシャル 緊急取調室 特別招集2022〜8億円のお年玉〜 (2022)
Three months after the operation of the "Emergency Case Response Investigation Team" (commonly known as "Kintori") was suspended, under Kajiyama...

Scrap Heaven (2005)
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky,...

The Last Days of the World (2012)
The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he...

Into the White Night (2011)
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki,...

Luxurious Bone (2001)
Miyako works as a call girl, living with her close friend Sakiko. After encountering a client, Shintani, with whom Miyako experiences sexual pleasure...

Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved...

Hana (2006)
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

When I Kill Myself (2011)
Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate....

Into a Dream (2005)
Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of...

Sunflower (2000)
Reunited by the death of a friend, a group of former schoolmates reassess themselves and their earlier times together.

I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

Awakening (2007)
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...

ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not...

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Be a Man!! Samurai School (2008)
Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts...

Love's Whirlpool (2014)
A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting for the first time, including an unemployed guy who...

The Way of Osaka Financing 1 (1996)
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by...

The Parades (2024)
A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless...

Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an...

Closed Note (2007)
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a...

Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final (1970)
Movie based on the Emergency Interrogation Room series.

The Choice of Hercules (2002)
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...

The Interrogator Special (2015)
Yukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to question suspects immediately after a crime, using...

SPEC: Close~Reincarnation (2013)
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

SPEC: Close~Incarnation (2013)
Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

All Lives (2024)
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has...

Flying Colors (2015)
A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio...

Beyond Outrage (2012)
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...

The Journalist (2019)
It is the job of the press to cover corporate crime, government plots and society. It is in this context that young female reporter on the beat Erika...

ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han (2013)
Five outstanding researchers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s crime lab are gathered and given powers for special investigations...

Chaos (2000)
A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he...

GO (2001)
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Elevator to the Gallows (2010)
A phone conversation occurs between a man and a woman. They both state their love for each other and that they will do this so they can be together....

An Emblem Dedicated To You (2017)
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...

The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017)
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a...

My Little Nightmare: The Movie (2014)
New student Kanji transfers to 6th grade 2 class, where Ayami Mutoi works as the homeroom teacher. Students begin to talk among themselves that they...

Murder in the Kairotei (2011)
A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover.

Ichiban kirei na mizu (2006)
The story is a variation on the Tom Hanks classic "Big," but instead of a boy finding himself in a man's body, a sick girl falls asleep one day and...

LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp! (2018)
Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of...

SPEC: Life (2012)
Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the...

Day and Night (2019)
A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

Love At Least (2018)
For Yasuko every day is a challenge. Due to her mental illness and hypersomnia, simple things like household chores and holding a job seem...

Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...

Our War (2006)
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and...

Then Summer Came (2008)
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his...

Get Up! (2003)
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his...

The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps (2018)
Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One...

Shin Ultraman (2022)
The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly...

The Land of Hope (2012)
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Ten Years Japan (2018)
Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.

Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the...

西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件 (2003)
Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping...

Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the...

Happy Flight (2008)
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew...

SIGNAL: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit (2021)
The story continues from the Japanese SIGNAL drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway, and a high-level...

Mario (2018)
It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't...

Akiko's Piano: Chords Played by the Surviving Piano (2020)
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing...

Into the Faraway Sky (2007)
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time...

Air Girl (2021)
Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' influence, Komari Sano dreamed of becoming a...

SPEC: Zero (2013)
High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has...

Ride or Die (2021)
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Double Trouble (2008)
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names and double-books the concert hall on New Year's...

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia (2007)
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the...

Peeping Tom (2008)
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was...

Dollhouse (2025)
A story about an ordinary family accidentally getting involved in the art world!

Rinco's Restaurant (2010)
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she...

Faceless (2024)
Kaburagi was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he...

Gumi. Chocolate. Pine. (2007)
Kenzo and his high school friends live in anguish, believing that there is something that sets them apart from everybody else.

The Secret Garden (2007)
Kayo Tsukiyama is an editor for a fashion magazine. One day she is assigned to be in charge of a popular comic artist named Yuriko Hanazono (a...

Michiko & Hatchin (2008)
Hana is a nine-year-old girl who lives in constant fear of her abusive family; Michiko is a sexy woman who has just done the unthinkable: broken out...

Time Limit Investigator (2006)
Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are...

The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters (2003)

The Animal Trail (2006)
Animal Trail, a natural path made by traffic of wild animals, can sometimes be helpful for people who are totally lost in the wilderness. One day, a...

Casual Commitments (2004)
When two people are in love, who needs to make it formal? Yuri and Daisuke are a happy couple unrestricted by legal marriage. But when each...

Kao (2003)
A drama set in a police department depicts how a woman grows and matures as a human being as she suffers from the gap between reality and ideals in...

Bitter Blood (2014)
A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his estranged father. Together with the rest of the team, they...

Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series (2011)

The Private Detective Mike (2002)
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for...

Solomon's Perjury (2021)
On Christmas morning, Fujino Ryoko finds her classmate Kashiwagi Takuya’s dead body at their snow covered school. The police and the school...

Atami's Police Investigators (2010)
The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one...

Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (2012)
In this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself to kill a teenage girl leading a prostitution ring....

Hard to Say I Love You (2010)
Nakajima looks up to his father, who was a war photographer, but can only get a job as an assistant for gravure magazines. Mizuno is a provisional...

Paranoid Sisters (2009)
The story centers around three sisters living together, though they have very different personalities, leading them to believe they have different...

The Hanawa Sisters (2011)
A dad who is popular with the ladies and a mom that continues to love the dad without any doubt like a young girl. The four sisters that the...

Joshideka (2007)
A sharpshooting rookie and a veteran with a brilliant track record are paired to solve a number of different cases. The two incompatible women clash...

Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File (2007)
Modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI (Science Research Institute) is investigating...

Emergency Interrogation Room (2014)
Yukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department. She has excellent negotiation skills. Yukiko then...

ATARU (2012)
Ataru is a TBS series is about an autistic young man with a mysterious past who helps the police solve criminal cases. It stars Masahiro Nakai in the...

Garden of the Wind (2008)
The lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was around death on a daily basis. His own father, Teizo...

SPECサーガ黎明編『Knockin'on 冷泉's SPEC Door』~絶対預言者 冷泉俊明が守りたかった幸福の欠片~ (2021)

CRISIS: Special Security Squad (2017)
Inami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation Team, a team made up of specialists with different...

Bloody Monday (2008)
A genius high school student and also a hacker uses his sophisticated hacking techniques to fights against "Bloody Monday", the worst and most evil...

Yuria's Red Thread of Fate (2023)
Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day...

The Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda (2011)
Japanese Ministry of Foreign affairs diplomat Kosaku Kuroda (Yuji Oda) is dispatched all over the world to protect Japanese interests and...

The Quiz Show (2008)
The Quiz Show features tormented characters in twelve episodes, with one common thread – the mysterious relationship between the deviant...

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

The Reason Mom and Papa Live (2014)
A story about a married couple both diagnosed with cancer and given limited time to live. As mother of two young children, Yoshioka Shuko notices a...

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...

Yuming Stories (2024)
Adapted from the novel short story collection "Yuming Tribute Stories" inspired by the songs of Matsutoya Yumi.

Love Song (2016)
Kohei Kamishiro (Masaharu Fukuyama) worked as a musician in his past. He only had one hit song and his recording contract was eventually canceled. He...

Last Friends (2008)
The series follow the life of Michiru Aida, a beauty parlor assistant who returns to Tokyo after 4 years. Bullied by her seniors at work and abused...

ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad (2014)
The ST is a group of outcasts though each highly talented in their realm of specialty. Besides Akagi, the team includes a female profiler with a...

Dead Stock (2017)
Riku Tsuneta works as rookie AD at a TV station. He is assigned to the “unconfirmed material center” where they arrange lots of program...

Guilty Flag (2021)
Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife...

ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me? (2022)
A paralegal who graduated from a big-name school teams up with an offbeat lawyer, taking on oddball little cases out of a small, neighborhood law...

SPEC ~ First Blood (2010)
An eccentric genius and a demoted special forces officer team up in Tokyo's Unidentified Crimes Unit to tackle criminals with supernatural abilities.

Untouchable (2009)
When reporter Narumi Ryoko loses her job at a first-rate publisher and ends up at a trashy tabloid called "Shukan Untouchable." She now chases...

The Holy Monsters (2012)
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a...

Penance (2012)
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with...

Humanoid Monster Bem (2011)
Bem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually disguise themselves as a human family living together,...

Yamegoku - I Will Quit Yakuza (2015)
Nagamitsu Bakushu is a mysterious police officer who mans a hotline within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Department for...

Silent Court (2017)
In Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. Detectives from the Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's...

The Journalist (2022)
A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.

Midnight Ferris Wheel (2013)
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble...

Back of Father (2014)
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

Dear Patient (2020)
Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put...

A Girl of 35 (2020)
Nozomi Tokioka was involved in an accident and has been in a coma since 1995. She finally wakes up in 2020, but her mind remains as a 10-year-old...

The Science Club (2024)
East Shinjuku Night High School has students with various challenges. Delinquent Taketo is trapped in a negative spiral. Filipina-Japanese Angela...

Midnight Diner (2009)
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of...