Daichi Watanabe

AKA: 와타나베 다이치
1.2126

1990-08-08

Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {69}

2022-02-25 7.3

Ribbon

The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of em ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

2020-12-04 7.4

My Sweet Grappa Remedies

Yasuko Matsuyuki heads the cast of this drama about a 40-something woman who is happy with her single life but nevertheless starts dating a man who is 24 years her junior. ...
Genre :Drama

Mutsuo Omisaka

2022-01-27 5.75

Noise

Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishi ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

2022-02-11 6.053

Homestay

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Fantasy

Jun

2009-08-15 6

Oh, My Buddha!

Based on the semibiographical novel by Jun Miura, Oh My Buddha is the classic summer coming-of-age story that is burned to a crisp with teenage angst, youthful dreams and that warm sense of folk zeitg ...
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Shū Nishiyama

2023-11-10 7.6

(Ab)normal Desire

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a so ...
Genre :Drama

Fumihiro

2011-05-14 5.7

Three☆Points

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

2011-06-11 0

A Sky Too Far to See

Ken directs his graduation film "Koko ni Iru Dake" with his colleagues. The movie will be his last film as a student. While shooting the movie, Ken has conflicts with lead actress Risa. On the last da ...
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Hikari Kamishiro

2011-10-22 5.7

Ramen Samurai

Hikari receives news that his father passed away. Hikari decides to take over his father's ramen shop. To do so, Hikari quits his job at a design company and goes back to his home town of Kurume, Fuku ...
Genre :Drama

Masao Koizumi

2023-12-08 7.5

Ichiko

On August 12, 2015, Hasegawa proposed to Ichiko. Ichiko is moved by Hasegawa's proposal and sheds tears, but the next day, she suddenly leaves home, seemingly shocked after seeing the TV news. Where d ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Takanori Minegishi

2015-10-24 6.3

I am a Monk

After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk. ...
Genre :Drama

2013-12-10 0

Starry Night

Sakurai, who recently started working at a real estate agency, is diligent and serious about his job, but he's not very efficient and struggles to close deals. Today, he was once again dragged around ...
Genre :Romance

2014-04-04 7.5

Adult Drop

Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

2021-01-01 0

Abareru, onna

Having played the role of a model prisoner, Kyoko is finally released on parole. She is greeted by Tomohiro, a man requested by Kyoko's boyfriend. Once she gets in the car, her appetite, sexual desire ...
Genre :Drama

Ni

2017-12-23 7.1

Tremble All You Want

Yoshika has had a crush on Ichimiya, whom she calls "the One" since she was in middle school. Now, a 24-year-old salarywoman, her all-consuming fixation has prevented her from even considering another ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Okazaki

2018-09-01 6.772

Asako I & II

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a comp ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Shinpo-kun

2018-10-19 5.6

It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up

The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they ...
Genre :Romance

Shimazaki Takumi

2013-03-02 0

Until I Become A Father

In Sapporo, college student Watanabe Sachi approaches her band leader boyfriend Takumi with the news that she is pregnant. Finding it difficult to deal with the fallout, the couple decide to leave Sap ...
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Takeo

2018-11-23 0

Gangoose

Saike, Kazuki, and Takeo were abused by their respective parents and did not go to school. They stayed together at a youth detention center. To survive, these three young men commit robbery and burgla ...
Genre :Crime

2019-01-04 7.7

Cocoa

Cocoa is the first work written by 14-year-old Sumire Suzuki, the youngest ever winner of the "Fuji TV Young Scenario Grand Prize." It is a story of three high school girls, each evoking bittersweet m ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Akio Kuwahara

2015-02-28 6.7

Have a Song on Your Lips

A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to mentor the choir group. ...
Genre :Drama

Sunada's Husband

2019-03-28 6.7

Blue Hour

Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alie ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Tsukasa Yokoyama

2019-09-20 7

The Witness

Natsume Hamanaka was a police rookie with a promising future until she was in a car crash that killed her brother and took her eyesight. Three years later, she gets around with her seeing-eye dog Pal, ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Kaoru Baba

2018-11-09 8

My Retirement, My Life

Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing house ...
Genre :Drama

Ginji Ogata

2019-11-15 7.4

Mio on the Shore

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best fri ...
Genre :Drama

2021-08-06 7.7

Gift of Fire

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonde ...
Genre :History, Drama

Kato Yusuke

2020-08-14 7.7

My Favorite Girl

Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Hiroshi Kawamoto

2014-07-04 6.445

The World of Kanako

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kana ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Enchi

2019-03-30 0

An Artist of the Floating World

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialis ...
Genre :Drama

2022-06-17 7.1

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressiv ...
Genre :Drama, History

Kondo Hayato

2022-11-27 6.5

What She Likes

An emotional coming-of-age drama centered around Andou Jun, a gay student who is not out. He accepts a confession from his fujoshi classmate Miura Sae and they start dating. However, Jun is also seein ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2025-01-25 0

Yukiko a.k.a

Yukiko, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, struggles with student communication and personal insecurities. Overlooked in the “Favorite Teacher Ranking” and uneasy about her boyfriend’s ...
Genre :Drama, Music

2024-09-19 0

Michiyuki - Voices of Time

Moving into an old house in the rural countryside, videographer Komai converses with its former owner Umemoto, drawing from personal memories to discuss histories, cartographies and the passage of tim ...
Genre :Drama

2025-09-05 8

A Pale View of Hills

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across ...
Genre :Drama, History

2025-10-03 9.5

After the Quake

Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake explores the complex aftermath of Japan’s earthquakes and other global crises. (Movie version of the TV ...
Genre :Drama

Inagaki (from Green Light Red Light)

2025-11-08 0

Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special

35th-anniversary Fuji TV special featuring three new “Tales of the Unusual” shorts: Anata Hakubutsukan, Nanakai Tōsō, Tomaranakereba Ikirarenai Game, plus a one-night revival of the 1991 classic “Happ ...
Genre :Horror

2021-02-08 7

Haruka no Hikari

Haruka is a fisherman's daughter, who lost her home and many friends in the Tohoku earthquake. After a year living in a temporary housing, she did not want to return back to her hometown and went to T ...
Genre :Drama

Mimura Takumi

2021-02-27 0

夢みたいな恋したい女たち

Genre :Drama

Michitada Hase

2021-04-15 7

Tower of Justice

Ren Kamijō is the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Liaison Division. His father is a former police officer. An incident in Ren's childhood triggered his th ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Nobuhiro Kageyama

2021-07-01 0

In love with Itaike

Kageyama (Daichi Watanabe), Iizuka (Fuma Kikuchi), and Malik (Ike Nwala) live together in a share house. They were hired as live-in part-time workers at the Love Science Research Institute run by Sach ...
Genre :Comedy

Kouji Itsuki

2023-04-12 6

Isn’t It a Ripoff?: The Job of a New Member of the Intellectual Property Department

Fujisaki Aki is an employee at "Tsukiyono Drink", a medium-sized beverage manufacturer. She has been transferred to the Intellectual Property Department, that is in charge of managing intellectual pro ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Okabe

2023-08-09 8.3

A Town Without Seasons

It follows a group of people who are still living in temporary housing 12 years after a natural disaster called "Nani" destroyed their town. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Rokuro

2014-04-19 6.6

The Long Goodbye

Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Kengo Ishikawa

2001-01-08 8

Hero

Former delinquent turned unconventional prosecutor Kohei Kuryu shakes up the legal world with his street-smart instincts and unorthodox style, clashing with ambitious colleague Maiko Amamiya while his ...
Genre :Drama

2019-02-09 0

それを愛とまちがえるから

Genre :Family

2022-04-23 7

I Told You to Forget It

Paravi exclusive drama ...
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2012-10-18 7.4

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led man ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2021-07-23 0

One Hour Left Until the First Affair

A love omnibus drama which shows how lovers are connected through mind and body. ...
Genre :Drama

2022-07-06 10

Romance Storm Zone

~~ Adapted from the manga "Romance Boufu Iki" (ロマンス暴風域) by Torikai Akane (鳥飼茜). ...
Genre :Drama

2023-11-12 0

Ozu

Commemorating the 120th anniversary of Ozu Yasujiro's birth, six up-and-coming filmmakers remade six of his early silent films as a contemporary mini-series. ...
Genre :Drama

Fujiwara no Yukinari

2024-01-07 9

Dear Radiance

Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Genji,' transcending a thousand years during the Heian period. She weaves the story of Hikaru Genji, f ...
Genre :Drama

Midori Haba

2016-01-07 8

Busujima Yuriko no Sekirara Nikki

Yuriko Busujima (Atsuko Maeda) does not trust men due to her father's betrayal when she was a child. She has a dating rule, which she has two boyfriends at the same time. This is in case one of her bo ...
Genre :Drama

2022-09-14 7.8

Because We Forget Everything

M, a mystery writer, has a girlfriend of five years named F, who disappeared on Halloween night. When a woman comes and claims to be her sister, M begins the search for his girlfriend. Along the way, ...
Genre :Drama

2012-01-04 8.854

Solitary Gourmet

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese c ...
Genre :Drama

Kotohira Yusuke

2022-10-05 7.2

First Penguin!

The "first penguin" is the courageous first penguin that dives into the sea filled with enemies. Iwasaki Nodoka is a young single mother with no money, no house, and no work. While Nodoka decides that ...
Genre :Drama

Shojiro Mizumoto

2020-06-26 7.4

MIU404

The Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours. Detective Kazumi Shima is selected as a new member of MIU. He is int ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

2018-07-27 7.8

dele

Freelance programmer Sakagami is paralyzed in the lower half of his body and confined to a wheelchair. He sets up a company called dele.LIFE in partnership with a law firm established by his late fath ...
Genre :Drama

Fu-kun

2018-09-14 6.5

Love and Fortune

Wako Taira is 31 years old. She works part-time at a cinema close to her home. Her boyfriend is Fu-kun and they have lived together for three years. She has never thought of breaking up with her boyf ...
Genre :Drama

Sakaura Takeru

2024-04-12 7.2

Yips

A detective drama produced by Fuji TV. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Watanabe Takashi

2022-07-19 0

Swim! Nishikigoi

Nishikigoi is a Japanese comedy duo who won the prestigious M1 Grand Prix in 2021. As they appear in more and more TV shows, this drama puts some comedic touch to their journey so far with their famil ...
Genre :Comedy

2016-06-02 8.286

Hibana: Spark

Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya and asks if ...
Genre :Drama

Yanagi Naoki

2019-07-12 7.6

I Turn

45-year-old Mitsuo Komae works for an advertising company. He gets demoted from the head office in Tokyo to a branch office in the province. He has to leave his wife and daughter in Tokyo to work at t ...
Genre :Drama

Ring

2020-04-17 6.5

Throw It Away, Adachi

The chief editor of a woman’s magazine talks to Yumi Adachi about a new idea for the magazine. Their plan revolves around a person who disposes of stuff and lives more comfortably. According to their ...
Genre :Drama

Jun Tsujimoto

2019-07-27 0

The Kings of Laughter

Keisuke Agatsuma is a high schooler who might not be very sharp but has an amazing sense for comedy. He is self-proclaimed school's king of laughter and he enjoys making everyone laugh, but a future a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Seiichi Sawamoto

2020-03-21 7.8

A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura

Kasumi Arimura suddenly gets a break from filming and returns to her hometown for the first time in a long while. Her mother, Yumiko, comes to the train station to pick her up and they head for the fa ...
Genre :Drama

Ogawa Taiga

2024-10-06 5.3

Colors of Sisterhood

A serious eldest sister, a reckless second sister, an easygoing third sister, and a stubborn fourth sister. After overcoming various love issues, what happy ending awaits each of the four? ...
Genre :Comedy

2025-04-05 0

After the Quake

This year marks thirty years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and four stories that are based on Murakami Haruki’s exquisite short series about the people ‘after the quake’ are adapted into d ...
Genre :Drama

Kazuya Aoshima

2025-08-01 0

Erika

A temporary teacher hoping to earn a permanent position must help a mysterious student, but her strange behavior and eerie charm soon pull him into a dangerous psychological trap. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Futaki Takashi

2015-03-30 7.7

Mare

Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy