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Kotaro Shiga (志賀 廣太郎, Shiga Kōtarō, August 31, 1948 – April 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor and theater educator who was active since the 1990s until around 2020. Kotaro was born in Hyogo, Japan. He was a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art, majoring in theater. He was a member of Japanese theater company Seinen-dan (青年団). He was affiliated with l'être.
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09 October 2010
An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields -- from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -- compete.
22 December 2012
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease.
25 July 2008
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
11 January 2014
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition in Los Angeles.
24 October 2009
Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on.
01 May 2010
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory.
15 September 2017
Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda happens to come across an article on a cafe called Kohaku in a booklet at his regular cafe.
19 January 2014
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect.
06 November 2010
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election occurs.
20 October 2009
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities.
09 April 2001
Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL; 菅原さん ・コンセント ・トイレ ・のれない ・脱出不可能.
14 April 2007
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo.
17 July 2004
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project.
17 April 1999
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
18 October 2023
'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny splits in human relationships to light, and through the three episodes the characters have their moments of realizing that they are actually in solitude.
14 October 2006
High school student, Ryoichi, hasn't gone to school since he injured a classmate. He kills time playing videogames alone everyday.
01 January 2009
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doesn't go outside or socialise with people.
14 July 2017
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
01 January 2005
A unique film in which three freelancers talk about unimportant things in a family restaurant. The fast-paced talk exchanged in a loose atmosphere is sure to generate strange laughter.
25 October 2005
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
22 February 2014
Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled students, the government sends Kamen Teacher to designated schools.
20 July 2013
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar".
01 March 2014
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family.
14 February 2009
In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale in Tokyo.
12 May 2018
27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter from him.
01 January 2008
A family restaurant late at night. The customers visiting the restaurant are faced with a variety of shurahas: marital quarrels, break-ups, love triangles, and so on.
25 September 2004
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
01 January 2007
The three freelancers Mickey, Matsun and Jumbo start dabbling as usual. For some reason, the conversation turns to Sentai Mono.
01 January 2008
Jumbo, Matsun and Mickey are still having the same loose, delusional talk in a family restaurant late at night.
10 June 2017
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly.
19 October 2013
After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town.
01 April 2016
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to live the life she wished for.
29 December 2005
Park Kyung-won, who aspired to become a pilot since a young age, enrolls at an aviation academy in Japan.
01 January 2009
The seventh in a series of sitcoms in which Matsun, Mickey and Jumbo dabble in family restaurants. Mickey receives a warning email! He has to forward it to someone within an hour.
17 July 2008
A high schooler who dreams of leaving her rural town for Tokyo puts out an ad for her job at her family's restaurant.
04 March 2017
Haruta is handsome and smart, Chika is bright and naive. When they were children, they were friends until Haruta's family moved away while he was in the 3rd grade.
28 February 2015
Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher.
30 May 2014
Sachiko is an university student. Her nickname is Buko, because she has been negative about everything since she was young.
04 December 2010
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced.
21 November 2012
Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan.
14 March 2006
Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’).
