Hidetoshi Nishijima

Hidetoshi Nishijima | Japanese actor | Full Biography

Hidetoshi Nishijima, born on March 29, 1971, is a prominent Japanese actor known for his versatile roles in both mainstream and art films. He gained international acclaim for his role in the 2021 film Drive My Car, earning the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor. Nishijima started his career in TV dramas in the early ’90s, gaining fame for his role in Asunaro Hakusho. He transitioned to film, starring in notable works like License to Live and Dolls. He also gained recognition in television series such as Strawberry Night and What Did You Eat Yesterday?. Besides acting, he has done voice work in films like The Wind Rises and Pokémon Detective Pikachu. In 2022, he featured in Kamen Rider Black Sun.

Hidetoshi Nishijima Biography

Full Name Hidetoshi
Nishijima
Nickname Tassi
Nationality Japanese
Date of Birth March 29,
1971
Age 53 years
(in 2024)
Birth Place
Hachioji
,
Tokyo
Career Actor

Model

Religion N/A
Zodiac Sign Aries
(the ram)

Physical Stats

Height 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Weight ~ 68 kg (150 lbs.)
Eye Color Dark Brown
Hair Color Black

Education

High School

Name Toho
High School
Location Kunitachi City,
Tokyo

University

Name Yokohama
National
University
Field
of
Study
Industrial
Engineering
Year of
Graduation
Dropped out

Known For:

Film Poster
Title
Drive My Car Movie
Drive My
Car

(Movie)
(2021)
7.5/10
as Yûsuke
Kafuku
The Wind Rises Animation

The Wind
Rises
(Animation)
(2013)
7.8/10
as Honjô
(voice)

License to Live Movie

License to
Live

(Movie)
(1998)
6.9/10
as Yutaka
Yoshii

Tounan kadobeya nikai no onna Movie
Tounan
kadobeya
nikai
no onna

(Movie)
(2008)
4.3/10
as Takashi
Nogami

Hidetoshi Nishijima TV Series and Movies

Upcoming

2024 | Suomi no Hanashi wo Shiyou | as Keigo Kusano

Film

2024 | Serpent’s Path | as Yoshimura
2024 | All About Suomi | as Keigo Kusano
2023 | Kubi | as Akechi Mitsuhide
2022 | Goodbye Cruel World | as Mikiya Anzai
2022 | Shin Ultraman | as Kimio Tamura
2021 | Drive My Car | as Yūsuke Kafuku
2021 | Caution, Hazardous Wife | as Yūki Isayama
2021 | What Did You Eat Yesterday? | as Shirō Kakei
2021 | 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie | as Kyōhei Nagumo
2020 | Silent Tokyo | as Shinobu Seta
2020 | Voices in the Wind | as Morio
2019 | Aircraft Carrier Ibuki | as Ryōta Akitsu
2019 | Ninkyō Gakuen | as Seiji Himura
2018 | Penguin Highway | as Aoyama’s Father (voice)
2018 | Ozland | as Yoshihiko Ozuka
2018 | The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps | as Kazumasa Harima
2018 | Samurai’s Promise | as Uneme Sakakibara
2017 | The Last Recipe | as Yamagata
2016 | While the Women Are Sleeping | as Kenji
2016 | Creepy | as Takakura
2015 | Poison berry in my brain | as Yoshida
2015 | Mozu | as Naotake Kuraki
2014 | Genome Hazard | as Taketo Ishigami
2013 | The Wind Rises | as Kiro Honjo (voice)
2013 | Memories Corner | as Okabe
2013 | Strawberry Night | as Kazuo Kikuta
2012 | Seiji: Riku no Sakana | as Seiji
2011 | Cut | as Shuji
2010 | Goodbye, Someday | as Yutaka Higashigaito
2009 | Zero Focus | as Kenichi Ubara
2009 | Kanikōsen | as Asakawa
2008 | Over the Hilltop | as Ma Hae-song
2008 | Vacation | as Shin’ichi Kaneda
2008 | Tokyo Rendezvous | as Takashi Nogami
2007 | Shindo |
2007 | Pacchigi! Love & Peace |
2007 | Freesia: Bullet Over Tears | as Toshio Iwasaki
2006 | Oh! Oku | as Shingoro Ikushima
2005 | Canary | as Akira Izawa
2005 | Loft | as Koichi Kijima
2005 | Su-ki-da | as Yosuke
2005 | Sayonara Midori-chan |
2005 | House of Himiko | as Hosokawa
2004 | Angel in the Box |
2004 | Kikyo |
2004 | The Cat Leaves Home |
2004 | Tony Takitani | as Narrator (voice)
2004 | Casshern | as Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo
2002 | Last Scene | as Lead role
2002 | Tokyo.sora |
2002 | Dolls | as Matsumoto
2001 | Sekai no Owari to Iu Na no Zakkaten | as Lead role
2000 | Love/Juice | as Sakamoto
1998 | License to Live | as Yutaka
1997 | 2/Duo | as Kei
1995 | Kura | as Ryota Takeda
1995 | Marks no Yama | as Mori
1994 | Ghost Pub | as Koichi

Television

2024 | Sunny | as Masa Sakamoto
2024 | Sayonara Maestro | as Shunpei Natsume
2023 | Outsider Cops | as Eiji Kagawa
2022 | Kamen Rider Black Sun | as Kōtarō Minami
2022 | Riding a Unicorn | as Satoshi Kotori
2021 | Chef Is A Great Detective | as Shinobu Mifune
2021 | Guilty Flag | as Ryosuke Sagara
2021 | Welcome Home, Monet | as Satoru Asaoka
2020 | North Light | as Minoru Aose
2019-2023 | What Did You Eat Yesterday? | as Shiro Kakei
2019 | Maison de Police | as Soichiro Natsume
2017 | Caution, Hazardous Wife | as Yuki Isayama
2017 | Blanket Cats | as Shusuke Shiina
2017 | Crisis | as Saburo Tamaru
2016 | Daddy Sister | as Takezō Kohashi
2015 | Second Chance Chauffeur | as Kazuo Nagata
2015 | Mutsu: Mieru Me | as Eisuke Tameyori
2013 | Yae’s Sakura | as Yamamoto Kakuma
2012 | Strawberry Night | as Kazuo Kikuta
2011 | Boku to Star no 99 Nichi | as Kohei Namiki
2011 | School | as Iori Kirihara
2010 | General Rouge no Gaisen | as Koichi Hayami
2009 | Real Clothes | as Yusaku Tabuchi
2007 | Yama Onna Kabe Onna | as Iguchi Shohei
2006 | Unfair | as Ichiro Sezaki
2004 | Waltz Of Her Heart | as Shinya Minazuki
2004 | Ōoku | as Tokugawa Iemitsu
2003 | Always Smiling | as Kazuya Yuzuhara
1997 | Mori Motonari | as Aiō Mototsuna
1993 | Asunaro Hakusho | as Junichiro Matsuoka
1992 | Dinner On Thursday | as Tatsuro Miyazawa
1992 | Hagure Keiji Junjōha | as Tsuyoshi Nakagami

Hidetoshi Nishijima Photos

Hidetoshi Nishijima: Actor of the role of “Masa Sakamoto” in the Apple TV+ Series “Sunny”

Sunny Apple TV Plus Series

Rashida Jones as Suzie in Sunny Apple TV Plus Series.

“Sunny” is an American black comedy television series created by Katie Robbins, based on the novel “The Dark Manual” by Irish writer Colin O’Sullivan. The series premiered on July 10, 2024, on Apple TV+.

Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima in Sunny Apple TV Plus Series

Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima in Sunny Apple TV Plus Series

The story follows Suzie (Rashida Jones), an American living in Kyoto, Japan. After her husband Masa Sakamoto (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and their son go missing in a plane crash, Suzie is given a household robot named Sunny by her husband’s robotics company as a form of consolation. Initially skeptical of the robot, Suzie gradually befriends Sunny, and together they try to uncover what really happened to her husband and son.

Awards

Wins

2022 | 56th National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2022 | 45th Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2022 | 35th Takasaki Film Festival | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2021 | 34th Nikkan Sports Film Award | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2021 | 42nd Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2012 | 21st Japan Film Professional Awards | Best Actor | Cut

2012 | 26th Takasaki Film Festival | Best Actor | Cut

2009 | 30th Yokohama Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | Vacation, Tokyo Rendezvous and Over the Hilltop

2006 | 20th Takasaki Film Festival | Best Actor | Kikyō

2006 | 15th Japan Film Professional Awards | Best Actor | Kikyō, Sayonara Midori-chan, Ame Yori Setsunaku

2000 | 9th Japan Film Professional Awards | Best Actor | License to Live

Nominations

2023 | 16th Asian Film Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2022 | 20th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2022 | 25th Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2022 | 76th Mainichi Film Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2021 | 34th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Actor | Drive My Car

2021 | 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards | Best Performance by an Actor | Drive My Car

2019 | 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Samurai’s Promise

Family

Relation
Name
Father
Unknown
Mother
Unknown
Siblings
Unknown

Hidetoshi Nishijima Relationships

Marital Status: Married

Relation
Name
Wife

Ayaka Mori
(2014– )

Past
Relationships
Children Two sons

Social Network Pages

Profile
ID
Instagram
No Official
page
X (Twitter) No Official
page

FAQ

  • Sunny | Apple TV+ | Released July 10, 2024

Ayaka Mori. They have two sons.

Note: The information provided is sourced from reliable websites. In case there are any contradictions in the text, readers are encouraged to point them out in the comments.

References: Wikipedia, IMDB

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