Portrait of Toshiro Yanagiba

Acting

Toshiro Yanagiba

Career

Active from 1986 to 2025, busiest in 2005 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles
47
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score65/100
Highest rated
Poster for Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday
GoodWatch score87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 16 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.8 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 5.0 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.5 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.1 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 6.0 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 6.6 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Toshiro Yanagiba Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Showbiz
    0.1, average 1.2
  • Uncanny
    1.8, average 2.5
  • Absurdist Humor
    1.5, average 2.0
  • Historical
    2.0, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Character-Driven 12
  • Social Commentary 7
  • Japanese Drama 6
  • Moral Ambiguity 5
  • Psychological Drama 4
  • Crime Thriller 4
  • Japanese Cinema 3
  • Police Procedural 3
  • Romantic Comedy 3
  • Slice-of-Life 3
  • Negotiation 2
  • Japanese Crime Thriller 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

101
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

19 titles · average score 56
GATE24: The Border
GATE24: The Border (2026)

TV show · as Zen Fukazawa

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective (2025)

TV show · as Owashi Ameku

A Brighter Tomorrow
A Brighter Tomorrow (2025)

TV show · as Jo Minamino

Muroi Shinji: Not Defeated
Muroi Shinji: Not Defeated (2024)

as Shinji Muroi

Muroi Shinji: Stay Alive
Muroi Shinji: Stay Alive (2024)

as Shinji Muroi

Keishichou Outsider
Keishichou Outsider (2023)

TV show · as Kaname Fujiwara

Shylock's Children
Shylock's Children (2023)

as Kaoru Kujo

Boogie Woogie
Boogie Woogie (2023)

TV show

Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 1
Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 1 (2023)

as Kahei

Poketto ni Bōken o Tsumekonde
Poketto ni Bōken o Tsumekonde (2023)

TV show · as Ohkido (voice)

The Travel Nurse
The Travel Nurse (2022)

TV show · as Kanzaki Hiroyuki

Any Crybabies Around?
Any Crybabies Around? (2020)
GoodWatch score 56

as Yasuo Natsui

2010s

20 titles · average score 57
The Great White Tower
The Great White Tower (2019)

TV show · as Yohei Sasaki

I Prefer Tomorrow's You
I Prefer Tomorrow's You (2018)

TV show · as Tanno Fumihiko

Again
Again (2015)

as Naoyuki Takahash

Godan
Godan (2015)

TV show · as Tatsumi Takafuji / Takato

Time Never Stops
Time Never Stops (2014)

as Katsumi Hamaguchi

Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi
Asunaro Sanzan Nana Byoushi (2014)

TV show · as Daisuke Fujimaki

Apoyan
Apoyan (2013)

TV show · as Toshio Imaizumi

Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case
Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case (2012)

as Shinji Muroi

Father of the Bride
Father of the Bride (2012)

as Hoshino Satoshi

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
GoodWatch score 67

as Shigeyoshi Inoue

Space Battleship Yamato
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
GoodWatch score 59

as Shirō Sanada

The Negotiator: The Movie
The Negotiator: The Movie (2010)

as Kano Toshihiko

2000s

26 titles · average score 63
Pandora
Pandora (2008)

TV show · as Matoba Shinichi

Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated
Akechi Mitsuhide: The Man God Hated (2007)

as Tokichiro Kinoshita

Ns' Aoi
Ns' Aoi (2006)

TV show · as 高树源太

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
GoodWatch score 53

as Shinji Muroi

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
GoodWatch score 45

as Kizaki Toshiro

Year One in the North
Year One in the North (2005)

as Mamiya Denzo

Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi
Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi (2005)
GoodWatch score 65

as Shinji Muroi

It was sudden, like a storm...
It was sudden, like a storm... (2004)
GoodWatch score 71

TV show · as Hideo Ogawa

The Black Leather Notebook
The Black Leather Notebook (2004)

TV show

Bayside Shakedown 2
Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003)
GoodWatch score 64

as Shinji Muroi

There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie (2001)

as Section Chief Mochizuki

There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow
There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow (2001)

TV show

1990s

23 titles · average score 76
Ring: The Final Chapter
Ring: The Final Chapter (1999)
GoodWatch score 65

TV show · as Kazuyuki Asakawa

恋愛結婚の法則
恋愛結婚の法則 (1999)

TV show

Bayside Shakedown
Bayside Shakedown (1998)
GoodWatch score 66

as Shinji Muroi

Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication (1998)

as Shinji Muroi

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special
Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special (1998)

as Shinji Muroi

Shining Brightly
Shining Brightly (1998)

TV show · as Shinsaku Tadokoro

Bayside Shakedown
Bayside Shakedown (1997)
GoodWatch score 79

TV show · as Shinji Muroi

Bayside Shakedown SP: Year-End Special Alert
Bayside Shakedown SP: Year-End Special Alert (1997)

as Shinji Muroi

Sashow The Last Case
Sashow The Last Case (1995)

TV show

29-sai no Christmas
29-sai no Christmas (1994)

TV show

Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday (1991)
GoodWatch score 87

as Toshio (voice)

Wonderful Unrequited Love
Wonderful Unrequited Love (1990)

TV show · as Shumpei Nomo

1980s

13 titles · average score 79
Firefly
Firefly (1989)

as Kenji Shimada

Aishiatteru Kai
Aishiatteru Kai (1989)

TV show · as Kai Takumi

Dream Street
Dream Street (1989)

as Yōichi Kawabe

Light My Heart!
Light My Heart! (1989)

TV show · as 島田祐二

Aishiatteru Kai
Aishiatteru Kai (1989)

TV show

New York Love Story
New York Love Story (1988)

TV show

Dakishimetai!
Dakishimetai! (1988)

TV show

君の瞳をタイホする!
君の瞳をタイホする! (1988)

TV show · as 土門隆

Hachiko
Hachiko (1987)
GoodWatch score 79

as Moriyama

South to the Horizon
South to the Horizon (1986)

as Tetsu Tomijima

Young Girls in Love
Young Girls in Love (1986)

as Kinuko Kutsugake

雨の降る駅
雨の降る駅 (1986)

as 演员