Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yoshioka at Tokyo International Film Festival in 2019
Born	(1970-08-12) August 12, 1970 (age 53) Warabi, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Yuki Uchida ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2005)​

Hidetaka Yoshioka (吉岡 秀隆, born on August 12, 1970) is a Japanese actor known for his performance in several movies as a child and lately the award-winning TV drama Dr. Coto's Clinic. He notably played the part of Tora-san's nephew in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series, and he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August and Madadayo. He won two Japan Academy Awards Best Actor for Always: Sunset on Third Street and its sequel.^[1]

Filmography

Film

• A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
• Otoko wa Tsurai yo (1981–2019) as Mitsuo Suwa
• Final Take (1986) as Mitsuo
• Poppoya (1999) as Hideo Sugiura
• Juvenile (2000) as Yūsuke Sakamoto
• The Hidden Blade (2004) as Samon Shimada
• Miracle in Four Days (2005) as Keisuke Kisaragi
• Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005) as Ryunosuke Chagawa
• The Professor's Beloved Equation (2006) as Root (adult)^[2]
• Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007) as Ryūnosuke Chagawa
• Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012)
• The Sea Is Watching (2012)
• The Little House (2014)
• 64: Part I (2016) as Kazuki Kōda
• 64: Part II (2016) as Kazuki Kōda
• Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (2016) as Tadashi Shinonome
• Reminiscence (2017)
• Kodomo Shokudō (2018)
• Fukushima 50 (2020) as Takumi Maeda
• The Brightest Roof in the Universe (2020)
• In the Wake (2021)^[3]
• Mirai eno Katachi (2021)^[4]
• The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022) as Takatoshi Iwamura
• Riverside Mukolitta (2022)^[5]
• Dr. Coto's Clinic 2022 (2022) as Dr. Kensuke Gotō^[6]
• Winny (2023) as Toshirō Senba^[7]
• Godzilla Minus One (2023) as Kenji Noda^[8]

Drama

• Kita no Kuni kara (1981 – 2002) as Jun Kuroita
• Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003 – 2006) as Dr. Kensuke Gotō^[6]
• The Policeman's Lineage (2009) as Tamio Anjō
• All About My Siblings (2014) as Dr. Masaomi Shinjo
• Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku (2018) as Kosuke Kindaichi
• Yell (2020) as Dr. Takeshi Nagata

Anime

• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) as Hiroki Fujisawa
• Osamu Tezuka's Buddha (2011) as Gautama Buddha

Endorsements

• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (1996)
• Suntory (1996–2007)
• Sharp Corporation (2004)
• Sundrug (2008)
• Yamasa (2007–2010)

Awards and Nominations