Kaitô Shina

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Komimasa

During the height of the bubble economy, Akira Komi was celebrated as a young entrepreneur, but now his occupation is that of a househusband. His job is housework and his hobby is making homemade sake, making him quite unremarkable. His wife, Mitsuko, is a highly successful career woman. One day, while Mitsuko is away on a business trip, Akira Komi chases after an old dream and sets out in a boat with Mitsuko's cousin, Chiriko, towards a southern island.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Father

Reina Sakuragi was once a popular actress in the world of "pink films" but has since retired. When the only surviving print of one of her movies is screened at the Fukuoka Okura Theater, Kota—who is on the verge of graduating high school— begins visiting the theater every day after his cousin secretly let him in. Then, by chance, Kota spots Reina on the streets of Hakata; she is now living as an ordinary housewife in a public housing complex. He soon discovers that she has resigned herself to an unhappy marriage.