Portrait of Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Acting

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Career

Active from 1993 to 2025, busiest in 2006 and 2013 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles
55
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score65/100
Highest rated
Poster for Midnight Swan
Midnight Swan
GoodWatch score84/100

Characters

9

The characters Tsuyoshi Kusanagi played, best-known titles first.

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 14 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.9 versus catalog average 4.5EnergyHeart: 5.0 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.1 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.9 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 6.3 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Crime
    2.6, average 3.6
  • Biographical
    0.1, average 1.0
  • Eroticism
    1.1, average 1.8
  • Cringe Humor
    1.5, average 2.2

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Character-Driven 10
  • Japanese Cinema 8
  • Japanese Drama 8
  • Coming-of-Age 6
  • Slice-of-Life 5
  • Slice of Life 4
  • Emotional Journey 4
  • Found Family 4
  • Character-Driven Narrative 3
  • Heartwarming 3
  • Contemporary Japanese Drama 3
  • Eccentric Characters 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

76
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

13 titles · average score 68
Bullet Train Explosion
Bullet Train Explosion (2025)
GoodWatch score 64

as Kazuya Takaichi

Rondo behind the Final Curtain
Rondo behind the Final Curtain (2025)

TV show · as Itsuki Torigai

WatchLIST―Watashi Ga Erabu Monogatari―
WatchLIST―Watashi Ga Erabu Monogatari― (2025)

TV show

Bushido
Bushido (2024)
GoodWatch score 52

as Kakunoshin Yanagida

War of Traps
War of Traps (2023)

TV show · as Toru Washizu

Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court (2023)

TV show · as Arai Naoto

Lost Man Found
Lost Man Found (2022)

TV show · as Takeshi Matsudo

Sabakan
Sabakan (2022)
GoodWatch score 74

as Takaaki Hisada

Peperoncino
Peperoncino (2021)

as Onodera Kiyoshi

Reach Beyond the Blue Sky
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021)

TV show

Midnight Swan
Midnight Swan (2020)
GoodWatch score 84

as Nagisa

最後の○○〜日本のレッドデータ〜
最後の○○〜日本のレッドデータ〜 (2020)

TV show

2010s

23 titles · average score 66
Typhoon Family
Typhoon Family (2019)

as Kotetsu Suzuki

Makuko
Makuko (2019)

as Koichi

War of Lies
War of Lies (2017)

TV show · as Koichi Ichinose

The Specialist
The Specialist (2016)

TV show · as Yoshito Takuma

War of Money
War of Money (2015)

TV show · as 白石富生

A Swinging Single
A Swinging Single (2013)

TV show · as Mamoru Hoshino

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler (2013)

as Tatsuo Shimoi

Becoming a Doctor at Age 37
Becoming a Doctor at Age 37 (2012)

TV show · as Yuta Konno

Beautiful World
Beautiful World (2012)

as Hikoichi Tsubasa

Winter Sakura
Winter Sakura (2011)

TV show · as Inaba Tasuku

1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
1778 Stories of Me and My Wife (2011)
GoodWatch score 67

as Sakutaro

Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans (2010)

TV show · as Chokichi Hiramatsu (young) and Ichiro Hiramatsu

2000s

24 titles · average score 65
Care Worker Gang
Care Worker Gang (2009)

TV show · as Hikoichi Tsubasa

Bura Tamori
Bura Tamori (2009)

TV show

Ballad
Ballad (2009)
GoodWatch score 55

as Matabe Ijiri

My Sassy Girl
My Sassy Girl (2008)

TV show · as Saburo Masaki

My Darling of the Mountains
My Darling of the Mountains (2008)

as Tokuichi

Japan Sinks
Japan Sinks (2006)
GoodWatch score 50

as Toshio Onodera

Like a Virgin
Like a Virgin (2006)
GoodWatch score 67

as Japanese Teacher

Séance
Séance (2004)
GoodWatch score 74

as Hayasaka

The Way We Live
The Way We Live (2004)

TV show · as Tetsuro Koyanagi

Yomigaeri
Yomigaeri (2003)
GoodWatch score 63

as Heita Kawada

Star Struck
Star Struck (2001)

TV show · as Nakata Sosuke

Food Fight
Food Fight (2000)

TV show · as Ihara Mitsuru

1990s

16 titles · average score 68
Messengers
Messengers (1999)
GoodWatch score 67

as Hironori Suzuki

Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP
Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP (1999)

as Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Team Saiaku de Saikouna Futari
Team Saiaku de Saikouna Futari (1999)

TV show

You Don't Know That, Teacher?
You Don't Know That, Teacher? (1998)

TV show

Good Person
Good Person (1997)

TV show · as Kitano Yuji

Gift
Gift (1997)

TV show · as Yuji Kitano(北野 優二)

Delicious Relation
Delicious Relation (1996)

TV show

Anne Frank's Diary
Anne Frank's Diary (1995)
GoodWatch score 66

as Peter van Daan

Love Still Hasn't Begun
Love Still Hasn't Begun (1995)

TV show

Shoot!
Shoot! (1994)

as Kamiya

Hime-chan's Ribbon
Hime-chan's Ribbon (1992)
GoodWatch score 70

TV show · as Kouichi Hasekura

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)

TV show