Fuwa Mansaku

Mansaku Fuwa is a Japanese actor.

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Name Fuwa Mansaku

Nationality Japanese

Gender Male

Born July 29, 1946

Age 76

Type Japanese

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Popularity #1

Movie

Yasuo grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira. Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in an accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced his parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone. (Source...

A gangster thriller from director Lo Mar. (Source: Letterboxd)

Jae Sup, a thirty-two-year-old man who teaches Korean at a night school, refuses to communicate with anyone other than a hooker he meets on the street. He goes to a college reunion when he hears that his old flame and alumna Hye Kyung is getting married but gets mad at himself for not being as socia...

He remembers his father and feels sadness over his loss...!

Drama

29-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He first started to run an internet website from his small room and his hobby began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't like to socialize and if somebody comes to him he suspects that they may want his money. Sawaki Chihiro attends a job fair and by...

Shuji Kiritani is one of the most popular guys in his school. He pretends to care for all of his classmates, but deep down, is quiet and doesn't open up to others. But for some reason, when his eccentric classmate Akira Kusano is around, he can show his true self. One day, a new girl from another sc...

A physicist of genius and associate professor of university, Yukawa Manabu, solves difficult mysteries. Affirmatively known as Detective Galileo, Yukawa is brilliant, a complete athlete, tall and beautiful but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a beginner policeman, Utsumi Kaoru, a hot-blooded woman wit...

30-years-old Michiko keeps looking for a job after her previous employer went bankrupt, but she is unable to find work. She still supports her younger boyfriend and her savings is almost gone. Then, Michiko meets her scary ex-boss Ayumu, who now runs a tearoom handed down by his grandmother. Michiko...

Ichikawa Yasuo, who goes by the nickname Yasu, is a ‘dumb’ man unequalled anywhere in the world. He has not had schooling, is boorish and would immediately let his fists fly if he loses his cool. But Yasu is different from the ordinary fool in that he is a “doting parent”. He grew up without parents...

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first-round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger problem. He can't put himself in the right weight class, he runs out of energy because of hunger, and...

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 many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the...

Shinsuke Kuwano, a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn't like people but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them. He has a routine of making himself a delicious dinner and then relaxing to classical music in his easy chair while pretending he is the conductor....

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 just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This...

Oshima Nagi, 28, works for a home appliances manufacturer in Tokyo. It conforms to its environment because it constantly gauges people's mood. For this reason, its objective is to pass every day without incident. However, by reading too much in situations and overworking, it collapses with hypervent...

Seira was raised in India, but she is sent back to Japan to continue her education at an affluent boarding high school. Although she has lived in luxury, the well-bred Seira is kind and generous, earning her many friends at the school. One person who dislikes Seira is the school's director, though s...

Miyama Hiroto is a young lawyer who seeks justice for the innocent (in a country with a 99.9% conviction rate). He works for Madarame Law Firm. At the law firm, Hiroto Miyama works with Sada Atsuhiro. They attempt to uncover truths in cases requested by their clients. Former Judge Ozaki Maiko joins...

The show is based on the "Jiu" suspense novel series by Honda Tetsuya. Motoko is a fierce, physically capable investigator with a strong battle instinct, while Misaki is more intellectual, kind-hearted, and naive. The two of them are both working to track down Jiu, the ringleader responsible for a s...

There is a small eatery ‘Meshiya’ in a back alley of a busy street which is run just by its owner. Called the “midnight eatery”, its opening hours are from midnight to 7 am in the morning. The only items on the menu of are miso soup with pork and vegetables set, beer, sake and shochu. All sorts of c...

A young man, Kindaichi performs poorly in study but he has IQ 180. He constantly meet a murder case, so using his 180 IQ, he solves murder cases. (Source: Amazon.ca) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "The Kindaichi Case Files" (金田一少年の事件簿) written by Kanari Yozaburo (金成陽三郎) and Amagi...

Now sidelined due to injury and age, former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father, Jusaburo, an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure,” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled, left home, and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that hi...

Niina Masayoshi is the leader of DCU. The group was newly created by the Japan Coast Guard and stands for Deep Crime Unit. Their mission is to find evidence and dead bodies hidden underwater, that are crucial to solving criminal cases. Niina Masayoshi never gives up investigating the truth. (Source...

Kuwano Shinsuke, a successful architect, is well-to-do, knowledgeable and good-looking. He is now 53, still lives alone in the same apartment, which has the latest gadgets, and enjoys single life. Although he fell for Hayasaka Natsumi, the doctor who treated him and changed his perspective toward ma...

Tamura Shin is a young man who has been pursuing the mystery of the murder that his father, a police officer, caused and changed the fate of their family. Ever since his father’s arrest, Shin and his mother have been criticised by the public and had to live in hiding. One day, Shin is told by his be...

Akatsuka Detective Agency stands inconspicuously at Shimo Akatsuka in Tokyo’s Itabashi ward, right above a small snack shop run by their landlord. Akatsuka's eccentric chief Kaze Kaoru founded it with her two investigators Goro and Gure in order to take on odd cases that others are reluctant to do a...

Fukaya Zensuke was a teacher for many years and decided to become a probation officer during the second phase of his life. Within eight months of taking on this new role, he has been helping people who are about to complete their prison sentence and on parole turn over a new leaf and return to socie...

The year is 1979, and Miyamoto Takumi's life suddenly changes when he meets a mysterious young man named Tokio at a park in Asakusa. The young man says, "I've come from the future. I'm your son, Tokio." Thinking it's some kind of bad joke, Takumi doesn't believe him at all. However, Tokio can predic...

A new season with completely new characters. Kazuya Okinoshima is a school teacher at a tough school. However, Kazuya is visited by an angel who presents him with a series of missions from God. Missions that he must fulfill on pain of death. Tendo is still the angel, but Kazuya is a look-alike of th...

The main character, Tatsuya, who keeps his emotions inside, lived by consuming every day just to save money with a part-time job. One day, he unexpectedly helped Kotona and Yuta in an accident that started from a misunderstanding and the fate of the three began to turn. Yuta who creates clothes and...

Tetsuya Takeda is back for his sixth season as Japan's most dedicated middle school teacher. Sakura Middle School becomes the first school to introduce the new student-guidance standards set to be instituted by the education ministry next April. Two transfer students also will join the 3-B class and...

The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong ambition of becoming a carpenter and building homes. The story takes place from th...

The Special Mission Task Team is not considered as important as it might sound. It's positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and headed by Ukyo Sugishita. Together with his partner, Kaoru Kameyama, this team is Japan’s version of The Odd Couple, solving clueless cases...

Sakaki Mariko uses forensic science to catch sophisticated criminals.

A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes a key figure in the story. Based on Toyoko Yamasaki's 2009 novel "Unmei no Hito".

Waga Eiryo is a well-known musician. As a composer and pianist, he has begun a rapid climb to stardom. But he must keep his terrible past a secret. One day, someone who knows all about his past, Kenichi Miki, appears before him. In order to protect the fame he has obtained, Waga kills Miki. Immedi...

Asawa Naoki visits Ishikawa Michiko, and while they are having breakfast, he receives a phone call from Kano Rintaro, the head of the First Investigative Division’s Ninth Sub-division, about a murder case that has occurred. The president of Godai Bank was found dead and it seems that he had been str...

Amagi Yu is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Investigative Division from the Lost and Found Centre. The Twelfth Section is called the “graveyard of detectives” and ridiculed as the “banishment room where h...

Kano Rintaro, who is said to be the most unusual sub-division head of the first criminal investigation division, hates exaggerated investigative meetings. He leaves the large parts of the investigation to his subordinates, and sometimes he appears on the scene without ties, things that at first glan...

Nagatsu Ryoko, who belongs to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, is found dead in the mountain. One month ago, she discovered a Buddha statue at a mountain shrine. Her death seems accidental, caused by Ryoko slipping, but Itomura Satoshi determines that her death was not accidental. (Source: Asianwiki...

Sequel to Oshii Keiji (2019).

Criminal Investigation First Division Ninth Sub-division is back for another season, starting with a 2-hour special, investigating a victim found dead in a mascot costume and a murder pertaining to a horticulturist who attempted to develop a rare species of blue tulips.

NHK Taiga's 45th drama is Komyo ga Tsuji. Kazutoyo lived at the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the Tosa fief on Shikoku Island. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife and was known in history for his de...

Members of the ninth section of the First Investigation Division each have personal problems and disorders before they are police officers. Although these excessively individualistic members may even oppose one another in investigations, what unites them is their strong sense of justice. They seem u...

Makino Satomi has been reluctantly working for the welfare division at a municipal office. One day, she is ordered to be a caseworker all of a sudden and this makes her feel uneasy. A veteran caseworker named Yamakawa Toru encouragingly tells Satomi that it is a rewarding job. Together with a collea...

The chief for First Division 9th Sub-division has gone away on a special mission, and in his place, an old teacher of the section's coroner comes to visit. The team's first case this season involves a series of corpses found tied to scarecrows out in the middle of the field. A fourth corpse is found...

Yamanaka Konoha is an 18-year-old girl born in the Kumano area of Wakayama prefecture deep in the country. The family makes its living in forestry but barely gets by. Konoha's mother, Senri, is an instructor of Kumano Kodo (ancient arts and practices of living in the Kumano area) who teaches traditi...

The drama will continue in the exact same style as the previous two seasons and feature more sweets and light meals that made the second season so popular. Kusumi himself will also be appearing in a short segment at the end of the drama to give viewers more information. ~~ Based on Kusumi Masayuki a...

Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life. His only pleasure is to set out on trips to find "Zetsumeshi." Zetsumeshi refers to endangered meals, that may no longer exist in the future. While his wife Kanae and child go attend concerts by their favou...

The 50th NHK Asadora. A young woman, Chiaki, the only daughter of a traditional old family, runs a miso company in Nagano Prefecture. For generations, they have made soy paste to live. Today, it must take over this business and rebuild it. She saw the difficulties of post-war Japan. The last Asadora...

On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become a beautiful woman. Sakurako then has a fateful meeting with Takanashi Hiroto. The...

After graduating from college, Yuuji lands the job of his dreams at the company that manufactures his favorite running shoes. The complete sincerity and selflessness that Yuuji shows everyone he meets causes many to dismiss him as naive or simply stupid. But when his good deeds start paying off, his...

The show is set in a rice shop in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa. It is a home comedy about an obstinate but compassionate old man, Kasugai Ryuhei, who runs an old rice shop, his optimistic daughter-in-law Tae and his eldest son Shinpei who ends up working at his father's shop when he learns of his...

One year after the end of Season 1, Kiyo, Shige and Nori are still doing night patrols, keeping the town safe from bag-snatchers, molesters and…a ghost? Meanwhile, Yūki and Sanae are starting university and still trying to get time together away from Nori.

Rakuko Kaise (Yuika Motokariya) grew up in a poor family and decided to become a lawyer to make money. She supported herself through law school by working in a bar. After finally passing her bar exam, Rakuko Kaise lands a job with a small law office. She then grows into a real lawyer through working...

"Machiben" centers around four lawyers who help the weak and downtrodden of their town.

A story of Midori, a housewife, whose body is taken over by Natsume Soseki. The potrait Natsume Soseki, Japan's foremost writer during Meiji period is printed on Japan's old 1000 yen note... (Source: dramawiki)

The 21st NHK Yorudora, Roomshare no Onna centers on recently divorced Usami Usako, who also has a young son named Tarou. Usako leaves Tarou at her mother's home in Nagano to begin a new life in Tokyo, finding a job as a nutritionist at a health club there. She promises Tarou she'll come back to get...

In response to Yusuke's proposal, Ai replied "No", which meant that she wanted to live as a life partner, regardless of the form of marriage. Yusuke is delighted and Haruna also shows an understanding of Ai's way of life. A year later, Haruna passed the medical school. A blessing party is held at th...

An omnibus drama about four wives, one addicted to internet auctions, the others anxious about their husbands who keep changing occupations and starting businesses.

Naoko finds her life at cross-roads, as her career unravels after an unsuccessful project results in her demotion from marketing to data management, and her lover-cum-boss, Yanagiba Toshiro has left her to move to New York. When her life feels like it is at its lowest point, she meets Uchimura, a bu...

The story focuses on the woman's youth and how she managed to start her career as a singer. Mitsuko Nakamura also played herself in a drama. (Source: Milisia at MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from James Miki's (ジェームス三木) autobiography of Mitsuko Nakamura (中村美律子), an enka singer.

Drama Special

Set around Halloween, 2018 in Shibuya, Tokyo. A dead body that was beaten to death is found. Detective Imanishi begins to investigate the case. The only clue in the case is that the victim said the Tohoku dialect word “Kameda.” While chasing the case, Detective Imanishi faces a new mystery. Meanwhi...

On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda." Detective Yoshimura also has a dark side himself from his miserable experience in the war. Now, De...

In the year Showa 37 (1962), in Bingo City of Hiroshima prefecture, Yasu delights in the birth of his long-awaited eldest son, Akira. However, that joy is shattered by the death of his wife, Misako, in a sudden tragic accident. Yasu raises his son despite his inexperience and worries. He also has to...

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