Dankan

Career timeline

1. 1959 · Born

   Born in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

2. 1990 · Screen debut

   Boiling Point (Movie)

3. 2002 · Writing debut

   Asakusa Kid (Movie)

4. 2003 · Directing debut

   Gozamareji (Movie)

5. 2005 · Breakthrough

   Noroi: The Curse (Movie)

6. 2026 · Latest release

   The Criminal (TV)

Career in numbers

18 1990s

15 2000s

22 2010s

8 2020s

• Drama31
• Comedy13
• Crime12
• Mystery10
• Thriller8
• Action6

Highest-rated title Midnight Diner 2009 8.2 Most popular title GARO 2005 7.7

1. 2026 The Criminal as Keiji Hirayama TV
2. 2025 Flames of a Flower Movie
3. 2025 The Resisters Movie
4. 2022 Thousand and One Nights as Haruo Fujikura Movie
5. 2022 Extraneous Matter Complete Edition Movie
6. 2020 Stray Dogz 9 Movie
7. 2020 God Raiga Vs. King Ohga Movie
8. 2020 Fukushima 50 as newspaper reporter 6.5 Movie
9. 2019 Seventeen Motors as Eiji Ito Movie
10. 2019 La Movie
11. 2017 Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~ Movie
12. 2017 Shinjuku Seven as Goro Sakata TV
13. 2017 Tokyo Ghoul as Hisashi Ogura 7.0 Movie
14. 2017 Silver and Gold as Tetsu Umetani TV
15. 2016 Moriyamachu Driving School as Grandfather Movie
16. 2016 Evergreen Love as Makoto Yamazaki 7.1 Movie
17. 2016 99.9 Criminal Lawyer as Seiichi Iida TV
18. 2015 Dr. Hikojiro as Koichiro Segawa Movie
19. 2015 Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill as Detective Kawai Movie
20. 2015 Goku Sagi 4 Movie
21. 2015 Goku Sagi 3 Movie
22. 2015 Goku Sagi 2 Movie
23. 2014 The Reason Mom and Papa Live as Taiichi Yoshioka TV
24. 2014 Soften! Movie
25. 2014 Team - Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Crime Investigation Headquarter TV
26. 2014 The Snow White Murder Case as Kozaburo Shirono 6.4 Movie
27. 2013 Again as Police Officer Movie
28. 2013 Tank-Top Fighter as Hisatoshi Nishigi TV
29. 2010 Box: The Hakamada Case as Detective Matsumoto Movie
30. 2010 Kobe Shinbun no Nanokakan as Sasa Tadao Movie
31. 2009 Midnight Diner as Uno 8.2 TV
32. 2008 Ain't No Tomorrows as Chizu's Father Movie
33. 2008 Suspect X as Kuniaki Kudo 7.6 Movie
34. 2008 The Two in Tracksuits as Mr. Okada Movie
35. 2008 Cafe Isobe as Ozawa Movie
36. 2008 Dark Love: Rape Movie
37. 2005 GARO as Hyena 7.7 TV
38. 2005 Noroi: The Curse as Guest on TV Program 6.9 Movie
39. 2005 Innocent Seven as Hitoshi Kakiuchi Movie
40. 2003 Doppelgänger as Medicom Industrial Employee 6.9 Movie
41. 2000 Asako in Ruby Shoes as Cameraman Movie
42. 2000 Ju-on: The Curse 2 as Delivery Person 6.2 Movie
43. 2000 Bad Money Hunting Movie
44. 1999 Dead or Alive as Tanaka 6.4 Movie
45. 1998 Suicide Bus as Aragaki Movie
46. 1998 Eyes of the Spider as Iwamatu 6.8 Movie
47. 1997 Misty Movie
48. 1997 Naniwa Police Story: Detective Dotonbori Movie
49. 1997 Inspector Iteamae of Dotonbori Movie
50. 1996 One More Time, One More Chance as Kimura Movie
51. 1996 Two Punks as Michio Umezawa Movie
52. 1996 18-Year-old Call Girl Movie
53. 1996 The Man with Two Hearts Movie
54. 1995 BeRLiN as Ogata Movie
55. 1995 Gas Cup Movie
56. 1995 Promise of August as Okai Movie
57. 1995 Immoral: Indecent Relationship as Newspaper reporter Movie
58. 1995 Getting Any? as Asao 5.8 Movie
59. 1995 Help! TV
60. 1994 Yankee Gurentai Nanbo no Monjai! 2 Movie
61. 1990 Boiling Point as Kazuo 6.9 Movie

1. 2002 Asakusa Kid Movie

1. 2005 Innocent Seven Movie
2. 2003 Gozamareji Movie

1. 2005 Innocent Seven Movie
2. 1998 Suicide Bus Movie

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