Dai Watanabe

Career timeline

1. 1984 · Born

   Born in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2. 1995 · Screen debut

   The Files of the Young Kindaichi (TV)

3. 2005 · Breakthrough

   GARO (TV)

4. 2025 · Latest release

   The Way of The Prison Guard (Movie)

Career in numbers

1 1990s

17 2000s

36 2010s

19 2020s

• Drama50
• Tv Movie11
• Comedy8
• Action7
• Mystery7
• History6

Highest-rated title Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno 2014 7.6 Most popular title GARO 2005 7.7

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Dai Watanabe in our catalogue.

Tomohiko Yamashita

3 titles together

Yûka

3 titles together

Kinya Kitaoji

3 titles together

Baijaku Nakamura

3 titles together

Sei Matobu

2 titles together

Munetaka Aoki

2 titles together

Hiroyuki Hirayama

2 titles together

Naoto Ogata

2 titles together

Kohki Okada

2 titles together

Takashi Miike

2 titles together

1. 2025 The Way of The Prison Guard Movie
2. 2025 Sudden Marriage as Masaya Ikezaki TV
3. 2024 Six Lying University Students as Norichika Ishikawa Movie
4. 2024 Shinpei: Uta Koso Subete Movie
5. 2024 Smiling Matryoshka as Koichi Sasaki TV
6. 2024 Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken Movie
7. 2023 Akinai Seiden: Kin to Gin TV
8. 2023 SEE HEAR LOVE as Jeweler Movie
9. 2023 Kyoto as You've Never Seen It: A Tale of 1200 Years TV
10. 2022 シグナチャー〜日本を世界の銘醸地に〜 Movie
11. 2022 Let’s Go to the Cinema Complex! as Kenta Mizusawa TV
12. 2022 Kanakana as Kubo TV
13. 2022 The Files of Young Kindaichi as Yosuke Itsuki 6.9 TV
14. 2022 The Samurai and His Wife Movie
15. 2022 Bakumatsu Aibou-den Movie
16. 2021 How About Coffee? TV
17. 2021 Raijingu Jakuchu Movie
18. 2020 Juusan-nin no Shikaku as Matsudaira Naritsugu TV
19. 2020 #Remolove TV
20. 2019 A Town and a Tall Chimney as Junpei Kaya Movie
21. 2019 Mirror Twins as Katsuhiko Akagi TV
22. 2019 Kishu Hanshu Yoshimune Movie
23. 2018 The Usuke Boys as Okamura Movie
24. 2018 Falling Camellia Movie
25. 2018 Recall as Mamoru Komoda Movie
26. 2018 三屋清左衛門残日録 三十年ぶりの再会 Movie
27. 2018 I Prefer Tomorrow's You as Kuroda Tomohiro TV
28. 2017 Muyoan Retirement Training TV
29. 2017 三屋清左衛門残日録 完結篇 Movie
30. 2017 Honjitsu wa, Ohigara mo Yoku as Atsushi Imagawa TV
31. 2017 A Family Goes Job Hunting as Yuto Makabe TV
32. 2016 Tosa no ipponzuri Movie
33. 2016 Kofuku no Alibi: Picture Movie
34. 2016 Cold Case: Door of Truth TV
35. 2016 Inspector Souichi Habu 4 ~The Man Called Poisonous Habu~ Movie
36. 2016 三屋清左衛門残日録 Movie
37. 2015 Crossroads as Kazunari Hamura Movie
38. 2015 The Emperor in August as Akitomi Movie
39. 2015 Strayer's Chronicle as Usami Movie
40. 2015 Revenge Court as Ryo Nakahara Movie
41. 2015 Masshiro TV
42. 2014 Until the Day Comes Movie
43. 2014 Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno as Seiku Arai 7.6 Movie
44. 2014 AIBOU: The Movie III as Shuji Taga Movie
45. 2014 The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom as Hiromi Natsume Movie
46. 2014 Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (Live Action) as Tanaka Movie
47. 2013 Olympic Ransom TV
48. 2013 必殺仕事人2013 Movie
49. 2012 The Last Message as Kazuyuki Ichinose Movie
50. 2012 介護ヘルパー紫雨子の事件簿 TV
51. 2011 Hard Romanticker Movie
52. 2011 Kasha as Kazunari Kurihara Movie
53. 2011 QP as Ryosuke Kimizuka TV
54. 2010 Postcard Movie
55. 2010 300 Million Movie
56. 2009 Vampire Island as Atsushi 5.8 Movie
57. 2009 Rinjo as Kazuyuki Ichinose TV
58. 2009 Pride as Ranmaru Ikenohata Movie
59. 2008 Rescue Wings Movie
60. 2008 The Last Game: Waseda vs. Keio as Junji Toda Movie
61. 2007 Crows Zero as Bando Hideto 7.1 Movie
62. 2007 For Those We Love as Staff Sergeant Kato Movie
63. 2006 Silver Mask as Yoshiaki Hongo Movie
64. 2006 Miracle Zoo ~ The Asahiyama Zoo Story ~ as 勝山元気 TV
65. 2006 彼女の恋文 TV
66. 2005 Yamato 5.5 Movie
67. 2005 GARO as Matou 7.7 TV
68. 2003 Water Boys as Takahara's friend TV
69. 2003 Pretty Woman as Tatsuya Morishita Movie
70. 2003 When the Last Sword Is Drawn 7.4 Movie
71. 2003 A Younger Man TV
72. 2002 Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko TV
73. 1995 The Files of the Young Kindaichi as Yosuke Itsuki TV

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