Kotaro Shiga
Acting
Born August 31, 1948, Hyogo, Japan
Kotaro Shiga (志賀 廣太郎, Shiga Kōtarō, August 31, 1948 – April 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor and theater educator who was active since the 1990s until around 2020. Kotaro was born in Hyogo, Japan. He was a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art, majoring in theater. He was a member of Japanese theater company Seinen-dan (青年団). He was affiliated with l'être.
Filmography
- 2025Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
- Innocence, Fight Against False Charges — Kazuto Yufuin
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? — Goro Kakei
- Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan
- 2018Summer Blooms — Yukio Kazama
- 2017Gintama
- 2017Haruta & Chika — Toshio Iwai
- 2017Hirugao — Professor Sakagami
- 2017Kohaku
- Reverse — Tadashi Hirosawa
- Rikuoh — Genzo Tomishima
- Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories — Nakatsuka
- 2016Sing My Life — Jirou Nakata
- 2015The Curtain Rises
- The God of Risk — Eiichi Takarabe
- War of Money — 赤松大介
- 2014Au revoir l'été — City Councilor
- Heisei Busaiku Salaryman
- 2014Judge! — Karaoke Manager
- 2014Kamen Teacher: The Movie
- 2014Kiki's Delivery Service — Zoo Director
- 2014Rose Color's Buko — President of Takahimaya
- 2014Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
- 2013Flower of Shanidar
- Kamen Teacher — Kentaro Sugahara
- 2013Mame Daifuku Monogatari
- 2013Mameshiba Ichirô fûten no shibajirô
- OLカナのおじさん観察日記。 — 矢尾 初
- 2013Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special
- dinner — Hamaoka Kotaro
- Hana's Lazy Meals — Hana's Father
- 2012Mameshiba Ichiro 3D — Shigeo Shiba
- 2012Odayaka — Shinji
- Solitary Gourmet — 店員1
- Antarctica — Kinnosuke Tani
- 2011Human Comedy in Tokyo
- 2011Love Come
- The Brave 'Yoshihiko'
- Clone Baby — Hazuki Shoichirou
- 2010Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
- 2010Sawako Decides — Tadao
- Steel Frame
- 2010Wandering Home — Ito
- 2010When You Love And When You Are Loved
- 2009Go Find a Psychic! — Mr. Saotome
- 2009I Give My First Love to You — English Teacher
- 2009Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy — Shigeo Shiba
- Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy — Shigeo Shiba
- 2009Okaimono
- 2009The SanMei-sama: 5 seconds before they go wow.
- Tokyo Dogs — Mitsuo Suzuki
- 2008Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen — Mr. Ichinose
- 2008Restaurant UFO
- 2008The SanMei-Sama: Our Summer Wind
- 2008The SanMei-sama Spin-off: Seven quotes from the parfait old man to save you in life's pinch.
- ＮＨＫスペシャル 沸騰都市 — Narrator (voice)
- Evil People — Judge
- 2007HANA - Angel Doll
- Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth — Gotaro Naganobu
- 2007The SanMei-Sama: With all due respect, i love you
- 2007Yellow Tears — Hayashida
- 2006Ryoichi & Kiyoshi
- 2006The SanMei-sama: Spring is a crunchy bite!
- Time Limit Investigator — Tanaka-shacho
- Unfair — Masahiro Yasumoto
- 2006Unfair: Code Breaking
- 2005Blue Swallow — Pawn Shop Owner
- 2005Funky Forest: The First Contact — Minami
- 2005The SanMei-sama
- 2004Survive Style 5+ — Taxi Driver
- 2004The Taste of Tea — Teacher Gashi
- 2004極限推理コロシアム
- You are my only Madonna — Prof. Shingo Tatebayashi
- Power of Love — Kusunoki Tateaki
- 2001Smap Short Films
- 1999After Life — Kenji Yamamoto
- 1998Tokyo Notes — Teruo Kushimoto (curator)
- Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 2012Theatre 1 — Himself