Go Riju

AKA: Gô Rijû, 利重剛, Rijyu Go

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1962-07-31

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

Detective Office 5

Writer

Chloe

Director

Chloe

Writer

At This Late Date, the Charleston

Writer

Good-bye Debussy

Director

At This Late Date, the Charleston

Assistant Director

BeRLiN

Director

BeRLiN

Writer

Elephant Song

Director

Going Home

Screenplay

Zazie

Director

Good-bye Debussy

Screenplay

Mienai

Director

Time Limit

Screenplay

Elephant Song

Screenplay

Mienai

Screenplay

Zazie

Writer

Director

Writer

Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {97}

2004-10-01 5.2

Black Kiss

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance

Male Neighbor

1988-07-25 5.331

Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole

An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she ...

Genre :Horror, Romance

Mishima, age 18-19

1985-09-20 7.832

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970. ...

Genre :Drama

Man Who Climbs Tree

1984-11-17 7.1

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dr. Nakai

2004-12-11 6.8

Vital

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fell ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Busjack Man

2000-05-18 7.7

Eureka

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose. ...

Genre :Drama

Shuji Kisaragi

2018-11-23 0

Lady in White

When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment. This is what they call a 'white company.' Instead, s ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dir of Mikasa Clinic

2010-12-04 6.2

Wandering Home

War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospit ...

Genre :Drama

2006-04-28 0

Tokyo of the Dead - 3 days

Genre :Horror

Master of Teahouse

2006-07-22 6.3

Honey and Clover

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voy ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Haruhiko Miura

2007-04-28 5.346

Kitaro

Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brough ...

Genre :Fantasy, Action, Science Fiction

Jiro Okonogi

1981-12-19 6.3

At This Late Date, the Charleston

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation. ...

Genre :Comedy

Haruki's father

2005-03-05 0

Goggles

One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the abuse he received from his father. ...

Genre :Drama

2008-09-19 5.4

Tokyo Rendezvous

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt. ...

Genre :

Kazuma Akasaka

1986-04-19 5.7

Jazz Daimyo

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Drama

Tsuyoshi

2023-07-08 7

Kamaishi Ramen Story

The eldest daughter, Masami, who ran away from home three years ago and hadn't heard from her father and sister who run the ramen shop "Kogawa Shokudo" in Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, suddenly ret ...

Genre :Comedy

2023-11-25 7.2

Shadow of Fire

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII. ...

Genre :Drama, War

Itsuki Yosuke

1995-04-08 8.2

The Files of Young Kindaichi: School's Seven Mysteries Murder Case

Genre :Mystery

Motoi Shimura

2016-08-26 0

Zen and Bones

The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life. ...

Genre :Documentary

Tsutomu

2011-04-09 6.8

Control Tower

In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

2023-11-11 6

Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special

"Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on November 11, 2023. This special presents four unique, mysterious tales. Episode sum ...

Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Horror

Shigeo Goto

2014-06-14 5.3

Sweet Poolside

Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love. ...

Genre :Romance

1997-10-18 6.8

Tokyo Fair Weather

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. ...

Genre :Drama

Interviewer

1998-06-20 6

Open House

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Tsutomu

1998-07-25 0

You Alone Can't See

During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cur ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Takatsu

2014-08-16 6.7

Hot Road

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives herself as being worthless to others, she engages ...

Genre :Drama

Daisuke Mifune

2014-03-29 5.5

Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos

Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death investigation system of the country and localities when a le ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Ishiba

2009-07-04 6.2

Kanikôsen

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutritio ...

Genre :Drama

Dentsu Man

1996-11-09 5

Atlanta Boogie

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, t ...

Genre :

2004-09-24 8.5

Tokyo Noir

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ("Birthday"), an unexpected reunion disrupts a sex worker's routine ("Night Lovers"), and a sex blo ...

Genre :Drama

2005-11-19 4

Desire

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a se ...

Genre :Drama

Takumi Tsukiyama

2015-01-17 6.5

Wonderful World End

Shiori's blog attracts the attention of Ayumi, a timid 13-year-old girl. Ayumi's growing infatuation takes an unforeseen turn when she runs away from home and infiltrates Shiori's life. ...

Genre :Drama

2015-08-01 5.4

This Country’s Sky

In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city in tatters and the population poor, tired, and hungry. The 19-year-old Satoko and her mother bide the ...

Genre :Drama

Salaryman

1993-11-06 5.8

All Under the Moon

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Tatsuo Ebina

2013-09-14 6

Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill

Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explain ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Kaoru Fukutomi

2012-04-07 7.2

SPEC: Heaven

Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by postulating the "SPEC" of the unknown criminals and then d ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Fantasy

Edogawa

1997-02-15 6.5

My Secret Cache

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cas ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Kazuyoshi Miyazaki

2015-10-23 5.8

Crime's Blank

Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the truth behind his daughter's death. He becomes suspicio ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

2024-09-07 0

Shimaneko

Genre :Drama

2018-03-03 7.3

Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the ...

Genre :Drama

1994-12-17 0.833

Natural Woman

Based on the book of the same name by Rieko Matsuura, the film depicts an ultimate love between two women. ...

Genre :Romance

2007-10-18 0

The Sin

A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years ...

Genre :

Konoe Fumimaro

2015-09-19 0

The Man of the Political Economy

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity busin ...

Genre :

Akira's Father

2005-12-03 0

Wolf Girl

When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-toleran ...

Genre :Drama

1997-10-18 1

Body and Soul

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he ...

Genre :Drama

2016-07-30 0

Yuriko's Picture Book

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an ...

Genre :Drama, History

2019-03-24 6.735

We Are Little Zombies

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Hideyoshi

1992-04-25 3.333

Pineapple Tours

An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island t ...

Genre :Comedy

Takeshi Hamano

2020-10-23 7.325

True Mothers

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Sat ...

Genre :Drama

1985-01-01 0

Mienai

Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better mockumentary, the news crew making the film plays a decisive role. Before the grand ...

Genre :Documentary

Man in restaurant

1987-02-20 6.3

Robinson's Garden

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. ...

Genre :Drama

2013-02-23 7

The Intermission

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Uni ...

Genre :Comedy

2006-02-19 0

Haru, Bânîzu de

Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life he chose. ...

Genre :

2020-02-22 7.5

Love Dou Hua

Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third wife, on a trip to Taiwan for a week. In contrast t ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

2021-04-09 6.7

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

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 get involved in misadventures while on set. ...

Genre :Comedy

2008-10-18 5.5

Peeping Tom

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 his own death. ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Kazuo's father

2021-10-08 7

The Sound of Grass

Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly, continues to run in the city of ...

Genre :Drama

1996-05-25 6.8

The Trap

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's po ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime

1994-03-05 7.1

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller

Jin's father

2026-02-25 0

Yakushima's Illusion

Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo. As she fights to save a young boy, her partner Jin, a photographer from Yakushima, sudde ...

Genre :Drama

Konoe Fumimaro

2015-08-22 0

Keisei Saimin no Otoko

A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

2008-06-14 0

The Auditor

The setting is Japan. After the bursting of its asset-inflated "bubble economy" in 1990, the country is suffering an economic hangover. Foreign capital is flooding in, and great transformations are un ...

Genre :

2020-10-04 6

One Hundred Million Yen's Goodbye

Teppei has been living an ordinary and humble life, but soon he learns that his wife, Natsuyo, has inherited 4.8 billion yen. Why did she hide it from him? Scarred by the battle at his company, can Te ...

Genre :Drama

Tatsuo Ebina

2012-04-15 6.8

ATARU

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 title role and has received 19.9% TV viewership ra ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Uchiyama

2008-10-09 0

Garden of the Wind

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 Shiratori is also a doctor, called Grandfather as he rai ...

Genre :Drama, Family

2011-03-20 0

CO: Transplant Coordinator

Genre :Drama

Eisaku Gohara

2021-10-18 7.4

Avalanche

Seiichi Habu is a member of the mysterious outlaw group Avalanche. The group exists at a time when moral hazards run rampant among politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and even among ordinary people. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure, War & Politics, Crime

Daisuke Mifune

2010-04-06 0

Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen

General Rouge no Gaisen is a 12-episode Japanese medical drama television series broadcast in 2010, a sequel to the series Team Batista no Eikō. Atsushi Itō and Tōru Nakamura reprised their lead roles ...

Genre :Mystery

2020-04-18 6.5

Bones of Steel

Heita Tomishima is a very conscientious but awkward young man at a mid-sized construction company. He loves working on-site, but one day is suddenly transferred to Operations, a unit whose work is tot ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Nozaki Eiji

2017-01-08 6.3

Heaven

An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hag ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Ichiro Hayashi

2018-01-04 0

Nozaki Shuhei - Auditor of Bank

Genre :Drama

2016-01-16 7.8

The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO

Yamaneko is notoriously elusive, but wherever he shows up, enormous amounts of money gets stolen. Evidence of the audacious crime is left scattered all over the place. In every episode, Yamaneko the h ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Masuo Shimoyama

2019-07-11 7

SIGN

A forensic science laboratory has had hard times due to shortage of manpower. Takashi Yuzuki is a pathologist at the forensic science laboratory. One day, a popular singer dies. An autopsy is requeste ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Fusegi Shusuke

2024-03-01 8

Hakubo no Chronicle

Genre :Mystery

矢部裕司

2006-05-13 6

Miracle Zoo ~ The Asahiyama Zoo Story ~

Asahiyama Zoo, in Hokkaido, is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director and keepers try everything to save the zoo from closing down. ...

Genre :Drama

木暮勇

1998-10-05 0

Yanchakure

The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happe ...

Genre :Drama, Family

2017-03-25 6.5

Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion

Why did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama portraying the destiny of humans seeking love, starting up-and-coming actor Yuma Nakayama. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Kakizaki Kiyohiko

2013-10-11 3

Kurokouchi

Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Dete ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

2017-04-11 7

CRISIS: Special Security Squad

Inami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation Team, a team made up of specialists with different expertise. Inami tackles criminals with showy maneuvers, ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime

Yutaka Watanuki

2022-09-21 0

The Van Gogh Downstairs

Kaburagi Miyako is a 30-year-old "career-oriented" woman working for a major cosmetics company with an annual salary of over 10 million yen. Miyako is suddenly inspired by a painting and aims to study ...

Genre :Drama

2021-01-08 10

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

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 serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at o ...

Genre :Comedy

Takamura Minoru

2024-04-11 5.5

Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Morobe Police Department Head

2022-12-28 7.7

Gannibal

After causing a major incident, police officer Daigo Agawa takes his wife and daughter to live in the remote mountain village of Kuge. It seems the perfect place to recover from the ordeal, despite th ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Murao

2022-03-04 6.2

Hiru

21-year-old Shinomiya Yuki has no friends and spends his days alone working part-time jobs. One day, when he returns home as usual after a night shift, a male stranger who has been stabbed in the abdo ...

Genre :Drama

2019-01-13 7

A Lone Scalpel

Tetsuhiko Toma is a surgeon who studied in the United States. He begins work at a private hospital in a rural area in Japan. He believes that people should receive the same level of care at all hospit ...

Genre :Drama

Mikuriya Kazuhiko

2023-01-07 0

3000 Yen: How to Enrich Life

This is a story of three generations of women in the Mikuriya family, seriously thinking about "What kind of life do I want to lead?" and overcoming their problems by saving money. Mikuriya Miho is t ...

Genre :Drama

2016-02-24 0

メガバンク最終決戦

Genre :Drama

Tagawa

2010-04-09 0

Trouble Man

One day all of a sudden, a trouble befalls one man. That trouble snowballs into bigger troubles, one by one, pulling everyone around him in. A yakuza being chased by another yakuza, a mysterious woman ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ryoji Shiomi

2020-04-20 7

行列の女神～らーめん才遊記～

A bold clash of taste and ambition unfolds when Yutori Shiomi criticizes renowned ramen master Tatsumi Serizawa's new dish but later applies for a job, claiming she can make it better. ...

Genre :Drama

Katsushige Furuhata

2018-05-06 7.2

60 JUSTICE PROJECT

Eiji Arima is a veteran detective who is about to retire. Shoichi Sera is a young lawyer and Misuzu Haruna is a prosecutor. These three people belong to the Gohan Taisakushitsu ("Misjudgment Counterme ...

Genre :Mystery

Nagumo Shohei

2024-07-01 7.7

The Beginning of the Sea

A love story depicting the connection between parents and their children in various forms. ...

Genre :Family, Drama

1984-02-05 5

Shoujo ga Otona ni Naru Toki -Sono Hosoki Michi-

After moving to Tokyo for college, Kayo Nakano, a recent high school graduate from Yamaguchi Prefecture, navigates city life and is caught between two men with complex ties to her past and present. ...

Genre :Drama

2016-10-22 7.9

Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Yosuke Itsuki

1995-07-15 7.6

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Police Commissioner General

2025-01-20 8

Himitsu ~ The Top Secret ~

Two men, torn by the moral dilemma of uncovering others' secrets for justice, work to solve unsolved cases using special MRI technology that can reproduce living memories of the dead. ...

Genre :Mystery

2025-04-13 8

News Anchor

Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried. ...