Hidetoshi Nishijima

Biography

Hidetoshi Nishijima (born March 29, 1971) is a Japanese actor. He is widely regarded as one of Japan's leading actors in numerous films and television drama series. He has appeared in a wide range of films from epic science fiction films such as Shin Ultraman (2022) to small-scale art films such as Dolls (2002). He is best known internationally for his leading role in the film Drive My Car (2021). He received the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for the film.

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Known For

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Shiro Kakei

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Welcome Home, Mone

Asaoka Satoru

Junjo Kirari

Suji Togo

Guilty Flag

Toto Nee-chan

Kamen Rider Black Sun

Kotaro Minami/Kamen Rider Black Sun

Yae's Sakura

Kakuma Yamamoto

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Brightest Sun
2024	Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story	Hattori Kintaro
2024	Serpent's Path	Yoshimura
2024	All About Suomi	Keigo Kusano
2023	Kubi	Akechi Mitsuhide
2022	Goodbye Cruel World
2022	Down the Road: The Making of Drive My Car	Self
2022	Making of Drive My Car	Self
2022	Shin Ultraman	Kimio Tamura
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie	Kyohei Nagumo
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
2021	Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie	Yuhki Isayama / Yuji
2021	Drive My Car	Yūsuke Kafuku
2021	What Did You Eat Yesterday?	Shiro Kakei
2020	What Did You Eat Yesterday? New Year's Special 2020	Shiro Kakei
2020	Voices in the Wind	Morio
2020	Silent Tokyo	Shinobu Seta
2019	People of the Isono Family ~Ms Sazae 20 years from now~	Masuo
2019	Aircraft Carrier Ibuki	Ryota Akitsu, Captain of Ibuki
2018	Falling Camellia	Uneme Sakakibara
2018	The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps	Kazumasa Harima
2018	Oz Land	Yoshiko Ozuka
2018	Penguin Highway	Aoyama's Father (voice)
2018	Mario	Mario
2017	The Last Recipe	Naotaro Yamagata
2017	async - first light
2016	Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
2016	Creepy	Takakura Koichi
2016	While the Women Are Sleeping	Kenji
2015	Mozu The Movie	Naotake Kuraki
2015	Poison Berry in my Brain	Chairman Yoshida
2014	Genome Hazard	Ishigami Taketo
2014	Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos	Koichi Hayami
2014	The Work of Hayao Miyazaki "The Wind Rises" Record of 1000 Days/Retirement Announcement Unknown Story	himself
2013	The Wind Rises	Honjô (voice)
2013	Strawberry Night	Kazuo Kikuta
2013	Hameln	Noda
2013	Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
2012	Fish on Land	Seiji
2012	Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen	Moriya Jun
2012	Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen	Jun Moriya
2011	チーム・バチスタSP2011～さらばジェネラル！天才救命医は愛する人を救えるか～
2011	Memories Corner
2011	Cut	Shuji
2010	Goodbye, Someday	Yutaka
2010	Hebi no Hito
2010	Strawberry Night	Kazuo Kikuta
2009	Kidnapping
2009	Kanikôsen	Asakawa
2009	Zero Focus	Kenichi Ubara
2008	Vacation	Shinichi Kaneda
2008	Tokyo Rendezvous	Takashi Nogami
2008	Oka wo koete
2008	Peeping Tom
2007	Freesia: Bullet Over Tears	Toshio Iwasaki
2007	Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2007	Prodigy	Koichiro Naruse
2006	Su-ki-da	Yosuke
2006	Three Year Delivery	Toru
2006	Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace	Shingorou Ikushima
2006	Haru, Bânîzu de
2006	Umi de no hanashi	Hiroshi Hirono
2005	Loft	Koichi Kijima
2005	実録・小野田少尉遅すぎた帰還
2005	Canary	Akira Izawa
2005	More Painful than Rain	Kurasawa
2005	House of Himiko	Hosokawa
2005	Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: House of Bugs	Renji
2005	Sayonara Midori-chan	Yutaka
2004	Tony Takitani	Narrator
2004	Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special	Yamaoka Takashi
2004	The Diary from the Past
2004	Dogs & Cats	Furuta
2004	Going Home	Haruo
2004	Casshern	Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo
2004	Silver Angel	Kousuke Satou
2003	In The Still Of The Night	山形
2002	Dolls	Matsumoto
2002	tokyo.sora	Editor Michihara
2002	A Painful Pair	Ryo
2001	Chloe	Doctor
2001	Somewhere on Earth	Yutaka
2001	Last Scene	Ken Mihara (1965)
2001	Self and Others	(Narrator)
2000	Love/Juice	Sakamoto
1999	License to Live	Yutaka Yoshii
1998	The Artful Dodgers
1998	The Cold-Blooded Trap
1997	2/Duo	Kei
1996	Seraphim Night
1995	Broken Heart	Yosuke
1995	MARKS	Yoshitaka Mori
1995	Love of Sawako 2: 1000 Miles Away
1995	Kura	Takeda Ryota
1994	Ghost Pub	Koichi
1992	Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
	Dear Stranger
	Enemies

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Sunny	Masahiko 'Masa' Sakamoto
2024	Sayonara, Maestro!	Shunpei Natsume
2023	Keishichou Outsider	Eiji Kagawa
2022	I Told You to Forget It
2022	Kamen Rider Black Sun	Kotaro Minami/Kamen Rider Black Sun
2022	Riding a Unicorn	Satoshi Kotori
2021	Welcome Home, Mone	Asaoka Satoru
2021	Chef Is a Great Detective	Mifune Shinobu
2021	Guilty Flag
2020	North Light
2019	Maison de Police	Soichiro Natsume
2019	Detective Akechi Kogoro	Akechi Kogoro
2019	What Did You Eat Yesterday?	Shiro Kakei
2018	Mangan	Itami Shuhei
2017	CRISIS: Special Security Squad	Saburo Tamaru
2017	Blanket Cats
2017	Caution, Hazardous Wife	Yuki Isayama
2016	Toto Nee-chan
2015	Red Cross
2015	Second Chance Chauffeur	Kazuo Nagata
2015	Painless - Eye Can Diagnose	為頼英介（ためよりえいすけ）
2014	MOZU	Naotake Kuraki
2013	Yae's Sakura	Kakuma Yamamoto
2012	Strawberry Night	Kazuo Kikuta
2011	99 Days with the Superstar	나미키 코헤이 역
2010	Team Batista 2: General Rouge no Gaisen	Koichi Hayami
2010	蛇のひと	今西由起夫
2009	Yuukai
2008	Aoi Yū × Yottsu no Uso Camouflage
2008	Team Batista no Eikō	速水晃一
2008	ジャッジII ~島の裁判官奮闘記~	미사와 쿄스케
2007	Mountain Woman, Wall Woman	Iguchi Shohei
2007	Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File	Shiro Maki
2007	ジャッジ~島の裁判官奮闘記~	三沢恭介
2007	怪奇大作戰セカンドファイル	마키 시로
2006	Junjo Kirari	Suji Togo
2004	Waltz of Her Heart	Minazuki Shinya
2004	稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ	Sukekiyo Inugami / Shizuma Aonuma
2003	Always Smiling	Kazuya Yuzuhara
1993	Devil's Kiss
1993	お願いダーリン！
1993	The Ordinary People	Junichiro Matsuoka
1993	Am I Unattractive?
1992	Mokuyoubi no Shokutaku
1990	Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1953	The Oscars	Self