Hidetoshi Nishijima

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Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film.

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Known For

The Wind Rises

Honjô (voice)

Drive My Car

Yūsuke Kafuku

Dolls

Matsumoto

Casshern

Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo

Penguin Highway

Aoyama's Father (voice)

Shin Ultraman

Kimio Tamura

Creepy

Takakura Koichi

Sunny

Masahiko 'Masa' Sakamoto

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2027	Sonzai no Subete o MOVIE	Self
2026	The Brightest Sun MOVIE	Self
2025	Human Specimens TV	Professor Shiro Sakaki
2025	Dear Stranger MOVIE	Kenji Saiga
2024	All About Suomi MOVIE	Keigo Kusano
2024	Sunny TV	Masahiko 'Masa' Sakamoto
2024	Serpent's Path MOVIE	Yoshimura
2024	Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story MOVIE	Hattori Kintaro
2024	Sayonara, Maestro! TV	Shunpei Natsume
2023	Kubi MOVIE	Akechi Mitsuhide
2023	Keishichou Outsider TV	Eiji Kagawa
2022	Kamen Rider Black Sun TV	Kotaro Minami/Kamen Rider Black Sun
2022	Goodbye Cruel World MOVIE	Self
2022	Making of Drive My Car MOVIE	Self
2022	Riding a Unicorn TV	Satoshi Kotori
2022	Shin Ultraman MOVIE	Kimio Tamura
2022	I Told You to Forget It TV	Self
2022	Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car MOVIE	Self
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie MOVIE	Kyohei Nagumo
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP MOVIE	Kyohei Nagumo
2021	What Did You Eat Yesterday? MOVIE	Shiro Kakei
2021	Guilty Flag TV	Self
2021	Drive My Car MOVIE	Yūsuke Kafuku
2021	Chef Is a Great Detective TV	Mifune Shinobu
2021	Welcome Home, Mone TV	Asaoka Satoru
2021	Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie MOVIE	Yuhki Isayama / Yuji
2020	North Light TV	Self
2020	Silent Tokyo MOVIE	Shinobu Seta
2020	Voices in the Wind MOVIE	Morio
2020	What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020 MOVIE	Shiro Kakei
2019	People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~ MOVIE	Masuo
2019	Aircraft Carrier Ibuki MOVIE	Ryota Akitsu, Captain of Ibuki
2019	What Did You Eat Yesterday? TV	Shiro Kakei
2019	Detective Akechi Kogoro TV	Akechi Kogoro
2019	Maison de Police TV	Soichiro Natsume
2018	Mario MOVIE	Mario
2018	The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps MOVIE	Kazumasa Harima
2018	Oz Land MOVIE	Yoshiko Ozuka
2018	Falling Camellia MOVIE	Uneme Sakakibara
2018	Penguin Highway MOVIE	Aoyama's Father (voice)
2018	Mangan TV	Itami Shuhei
2017	The Last Recipe MOVIE	Naotaro Yamagata
2017	Caution, Hazardous Wife TV	Yuki Isayama
2017	Blanket Cats TV	Self
2017	CRISIS: Special Security Squad TV	Saburo Tamaru
2017	async - first light MOVIE	Self
2016	Creepy MOVIE	Takakura Koichi
2016	Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special MOVIE	Self
2016	Toto Nee-chan TV	Self
2016	While the Women Are Sleeping MOVIE	Kenji
2015	Mozu The Movie MOVIE	Naotake Kuraki
2015	Painless - Eye Can Diagnose TV	為頼英介（ためよりえいすけ）
2015	Red Cross TV	Self
2015	Poison Berry in my Brain MOVIE	Chairman Yoshida
2015	Second Chance Chauffeur TV	Kazuo Nagata
2014	The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story MOVIE	himself
2014	MOZU TV	Naotake Kuraki
2014	Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos MOVIE	Koichi Hayami
2014	Genome Hazard MOVIE	Ishigami Taketo
2013	Hameln MOVIE	Noda
2013	The Wind Rises MOVIE	Honjô (voice)
2013	Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain MOVIE	Self
2013	Strawberry Night MOVIE	Kazuo Kikuta
2013	Yae's Sakura TV	Kakuma Yamamoto
2012	Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen MOVIE	Moriya Jun
2012	Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen MOVIE	Jun Moriya
2012	Fish on Land MOVIE	Seiji
2012	Strawberry Night TV	Kazuo Kikuta
2011	Cut MOVIE	Shuji
2011	99 Days with the Superstar TV	나미키 코헤이 역
2011	Memories Corner MOVIE	Self
2011	チーム・バチスタSP2011～さらばジェネラル！天才救命医は愛する人を救えるか～ MOVIE	Self
2010	Strawberry Night MOVIE	Kazuo Kikuta
2010	Hebi no Hito MOVIE	Self
2010	Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen TV	Koichi Hayami
2010	Goodbye, Someday MOVIE	Yutaka
2009	Zero Focus MOVIE	Kenichi Ubara
2009	Kidnapping MOVIE	Self
2009	Yuukai TV	Self
2009	Kanikôsen MOVIE	Asakawa
2008	ジャッジII ~島の裁判官奮闘記~ TV	미사와 쿄스케
2008	Peeping Tom MOVIE	Self
2008	Team Batista no Eikō TV	速水晃一
2008	Tokyo Rendezvous MOVIE	Takashi Nogami
2008	Vacation MOVIE	Shinichi Kaneda
2008	Oka wo koete MOVIE	Self
2008	Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage TV	Self
2007	Pacchigi! Love & Peace MOVIE	Self
2007	ジャッジ~島の裁判官奮闘記~ TV	三沢恭介
2007	Prodigy MOVIE	Koichiro Naruse
2007	Mountain Woman, Wall Woman TV	Shohei Iguchi
2007	Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File TV	Shiro Maki
2007	怪奇大作戰セカンドファイル TV	마키 시로
2007	Freesia: Bullet Over Tears MOVIE	Toshio Iwasaki
2006	Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace MOVIE	Shingorou Ikushima
2006	Umi de no hanashi MOVIE	Hiroshi Hirono
2006	Loft MOVIE	Koichi Kijima
2006	Junjo Kirari TV	Sugi Togo
2006	Su-ki-da MOVIE	Yosuke
2006	Haru, Bânîzu de MOVIE	Self
2006	Three Year Delivery MOVIE	Toru
2005	La Maison de Himiko MOVIE	Hosokawa
2005	Sayonara Midori-chan MOVIE	Yutaka
2005	実録・小野田少尉遅すぎた帰還 MOVIE	Self
2005	Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs MOVIE	Renji
2005	Canary MOVIE	Akira Izawa
2005	More Painful than Rain MOVIE	Kurasawa
2004	Silver Angel MOVIE	Kousuke Satou
2004	Dogs & Cats MOVIE	Furuta
2004	Going Home MOVIE	Haruo
2004	Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special MOVIE	Yamaoka Takashi
2004	Tony Takitani MOVIE	Narrator
2004	Casshern MOVIE	Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo
2004	Waltz of Her Heart TV	Minazuki Shinya
2004	稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ TV	Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma
2004	The Diary from the Past MOVIE	Self
2003	Always Smiling TV	Kazuya Yuzuhara
2003	In The Still Of The Night MOVIE	山形
2002	A Painful Pair MOVIE	Ryo
2002	Last Scene MOVIE	Ken Mihara (1965)
2002	tokyo.sora MOVIE	Editor Michihara
2002	Dolls MOVIE	Matsumoto
2001	Somewhere on Earth MOVIE	Yutaka
2001	Recitation Travelogue - Masterpieces of Japan: Jesus in the Barn MOVIE	Self
2001	Chloe MOVIE	Doctor
2001	Self and Others MOVIE	(Narrator)
2000	Love/Juice MOVIE	Sakamoto
1999	License to Live MOVIE	Yutaka Yoshii
1998	The Cold-Blooded Trap MOVIE	Self
1998	The Artful Dodgers MOVIE	Self
1997	2/Duo MOVIE	Kei
1996	Seraphim Night MOVIE	Hiroyuki Oshima
1995	Kura MOVIE	Takeda Ryota
1995	Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away MOVIE	Self
1995	MARKS MOVIE	Yoshitaka Mori
1995	Broken Heart MOVIE	Yosuke
1994	Ghost Pub MOVIE	Koichi
1993	The Ordinary People TV	Junichiro Matsuoka
1993	Devil's Kiss TV	Self
1993	Am I Unattractive? TV	Self
1993	お願いダーリン！ TV	Self
1992	Mokuyoubi no Shokutaku TV	Self
1992	Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 MOVIE	Self
1990	Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen TV	Self
1962	Golden Horse Awards TV	Self
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
	Enemies MOVIE	Self
	Her Private Hell MOVIE	Self
	Road House 2 MOVIE	Self

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