Kobayashi Katsuya

Kobayashi Katsuya is an actor and voice actor, born in 1943. He is a member of Bungakuza theater company. (Source: Japanese Wikipedia)

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Name Kobayashi Katsuya

Nationality Japanese

Gender Male

Born March 25, 1943

Age 79

Type Japanese

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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...

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself wi...

Seven child martial arts experts - Small Pepper, Bill Sh*t, Rocky, Hairy, Two Feet, Mut Head and Fatty - try to return a stolen diamond to its rightful owner.

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An idealistic banker takes on corruption and wrongdoing at his large corporate bank. While forging ties with some unlikely allies, he must use his financial expertise, his instincts about human nature, and his skills of improvisation to try to stay one step ahead of his powerful enemies. (Source: I...

Michima Shin is a 30-year-old novelist, lonely and unpopular, who lives alone in a large house. Shin's father is a convicted murderer, awaiting capital punishment, who killed 3 people, including his wife, Shin's mother. One day, five mysterious women come to Shin's house and say they received an inv...

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...

7 detectives, each with their own unique style in problem solving, work at the same detective agency. Each detective is in charge of their own case file until one day, the cases somehow seem to tangle up together into one big mystery. Inevitably, the detectives are left with no choice but to team up...

The story follows a brain surgeon named, Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period. He is soon attacke...

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. (Source: AsianWiki) ~~ Remake of the American TV series "Cold Case" [2003].

Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as childhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and t...

Miyamoto Ryoichi, father of an 8-year-old daughter, proposed to marry and married Akiko Iwaki, a 32-year-old career-oriented woman. What happens when a career-oriented woman who has never raised a child before has to take on new tasks as a stepmother? Raising a child is much more delicate than she t...

Hanyu Haruki, who worked as a prosecutor, changed sides and became a lawyer. He opens his law firm "NEXUS". In court, he is looking for solutions where the complainant and the respondent can reach mutual agreement. This is completely different from Komikado Kensuke, who believes that only the winner...

Kano Haruko is a charismatic saleswoman who has such an excellent fashion sense that she has been presented in fashion magazines. However, she is unable to abandon her dream of becoming a high school teacher. His former teacher asked Haruko to teach Japanese to foreigners for three months, on the un...

The 47th NHK Taiga drama tells the story of Atsuhime, born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate. She reached the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the castle of Edo where the women related to the reigning...

A 35-years-old former elite business employee becoming a principal who manages a private high school facing poor management.

Detective Keita Kurokouchi continues to extort money from politicians on whom Keita Kurokouchi has information. By using his information, he is able to resolve unresolved cases. The beginner detective Mayo Seike is excellent in her work and also a little naive. She's conducting an internal investiga...

Special Mission Task Team is not considered as important as it seems. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and is nicknamed the "oversized junk goods". Sugishita Ukyo is the head of this special mission team. As the rumor is that anyone who has worked under Uk...

Professor of Bionomics, Totori Hiroshi decided to change her career and took part in the MPD mid-career recruitment exams. After passing the exams, he was very pleased to learn that he had been assigned to Division 1. A year has passed since then, but his partner, Yasunaga Teppei, is still strugglin...

Asami Mitsuhiko is a reportage writer and detective who solves difficult cases related to local legends across Japan. In each weekly episode the sleuth will visit a different part of the country to tackle these mysteries. --Tokyograph

Kuraishi Yoshio is a coroner known for his keen powers of observation and his thorough investigations. The term "rinjo" is said to be police slang for the initial investigation carried out at the scene of the crime. (Source: Tokyograph)

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...

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".

Arima Eiji, a police detective nearing retirement, who belongs to the Misjudgement Countermeasure Officer has had the experience of arresting the wrong person for a crime he did not commit. As such, when he is tasked to investigate the likelihood of wrong judgments given out to criminals on death ro...

Aoyagi Yasushi becomes the chief detective at the First Investigative Division’s Ninth Sub-division which Kano Rintaro heads. The former chief detective, Murase Kengo, had been promoted to lead the Fourteenth Sub-division. One day, the murdered body of Mizushima Akemi, a Ginza hostess, is found. Acc...

July 1590, Odawara. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army had surrounded the Odawara Castle for over 3 months, hoping to conquer this last obstacle to his dream of the country's unification. Standing at the gate of the castle, a lone man facing the menacing guards shouted out: "Do not throw your lives away. Tre...

Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of work in a hard prison camp in Siberia. After 11 years in prison, he was released. He returned to Japan and began to adapt to civilian life, refusing his...

Follow up the story of 52 years and covers three editions of 1912 Stockholm Olympics, 1936 Berlin Olympics and 1964 Tokyo Olympics where it features the two lead characters Kanakuri Shisou as the first Japanese man to participate in the Stockholm Olympics' and achieved a world record and Tabata Masa...

A middle-aged divorced man enjoys a peaceful life in the city. His hobby and passion are growing plants on his balcony. ~~ Based on the essay "Botanikaru Raifu Shokubutsu Seikatsu" by Seiko Ito.

NHK's 55th taiga drama series. Sanada Yukimura was born to a lord who owned a small piece of land in Shinsu (present-day Nagano Prefecture). He survived using wisdom, courage and much effort during the Sengoku period and eventually, he grew into a much-respected samurai warrior. During The Siege of...

Ichinose Ryo works as a salesperson for a subsidiary of Hashiba Electronics, a mid-sized electronics manufacturer which prides itself on its long history. One day, he is ordered to transfer to the company’s headquarters. Why him when he has no strong points? The new company president Matsumoto, who...

A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save human lives. This serious drama depicts the lives of these two contrasting personalities and the people arou...

The story is about a 17-year-old girl, Tenka, who was born and raised in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture. Her family moves to Tokyo when her father changes his job. Tenka stays for a short period of time with her grandfather, who is an eager rice farmer, living at Igune, forest in the middle of vast rice...

This is the second series following "Daddy is a Newscaster". A playboy composer is faced with an abrupt change in lifestyle when his former wife takes off for overseas adventures, leaving him to care for their four children. The days of carefree living are over, and it becomes nearly impossible to...

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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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