Masahiro Motoki
Biography
Masahiro Motoki is a Japanese actor born on December 21, 1965, in Okegawa, Japan. He gained international recognition for his role as Daigo Kobayashi in the Academy Award-winning film Departures (2008), earning awards at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Asian Film Awards. Notable subsequent roles include Emperor Showa in The Emperor in August (2015) and Ryuji Tsuyama in Umi no chinmoku (2024).