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Masahiro Higashide

Masahiro Higashide

Actor · Born February 1, 1988 (38) · Saitama, Japan

Masahiro Higashide (東出 昌大 Higashide Masahiro, born February 1, 1988 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He began his career in 2004 as a model for the magazine "MEN'S NON-NO". He received the 'Sponichi Grand Prix Newcomer Award' in 2012 & 'Rookie of the Year' award in the 36th Japan Academy Prize (2013). On this occasion, he gave up his modeling career to devote himself to film and television.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
February 1, 1988 (38)
From
Saitama, Japan
Works as
Actor
Titles
26 on Motif · 70 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Up 14% in 30 days

What are Masahiro Higashide's films like?

Across their 23 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.

Genres

Drama10 titlesTypical Motif score: 66th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Action4 titlesTypical Motif score: 44th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Comedy2 titlesTypical Motif score: 80th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Crime2 titlesTypical Motif score: 49th percentile
: browse their Crime movies

Their Motif films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Motif score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
31%
Self
24%
Morality
20%
Survival
12%
Power
8%
Ideas
3%
Society
2%
Romantic love7 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity6 titles, browse their movies with this themeLoyalty4 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice3 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds3 titles, browse their movies with this themeBetrayal3 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival3 titles, browse their movies with this themeAmbition3 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 19 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 6 · Serious 5 · Dark 8

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 9 · Stylized 7 · Heightened 3

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 3 · Charged 11 · Intense 5

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 11 · Shifting 8 · Whiplash 0

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 15 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 1

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 9 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 1

Engaged: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their engaged movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 5 · Engaged 9 · Full focus 5

Open-ended: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their open-ended movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

A split, not a type: Resolved 10 · Open-ended 7 · Ambiguous 2

Roles they play

16 analyzed roles

Usually the Shapeshifter: 5 of 16 analyzed roles.

Shapeshifter
5 of 16
Hero
4 of 16
Ally
2 of 16
Mentor
2 of 16
Trickster
1 of 16
Shadow
1 of 16
Threshold guardian
1 of 16
Show the 16 roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
13
Contemplative
10
Melancholic
7
Dread
6
Thrilling
6
Other
20

How their films linger

Bittersweet9 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteWistful6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 5 with a twist

  • Happy5
  • Bittersweet13
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Masahiro Higashide's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 26 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (6).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Masahiro Higashide's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Motif score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

70 credits, 26 with a Motif page.

  • Ame no etranger (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2026)

    Actor

  • Titanic Ocean(2026)

    as Kotaro

    Motif score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Madame de Sade (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2026)

    as サン・フォン伯爵夫人

  • Last Samurai Standing(2025)

    Show 6 episodes · as Kyojin Tsuge

    Motif score: 81st percentile of all shows

  • Demon City(2025)

    as Kanta Fase

    Motif score: 30th percentile of all films

  • Dogs and War: What I saw in Ukraine (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2025)

    as Narrator

  • Transcending Dimensions(2025)

    as Yazu

    Motif score: 57th percentile of all films

  • New Tokyo Poltergeist (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)

    as Narrator (voice)

  • Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)

    as Junji Kimata

  • WILL (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2024)

    Actor

  • Corpo a Corpo (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    as Nakajo Hiroshi

  • Guest Daian (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • September 1923 (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    as Kurazo Tanaka

  • Police and Prosecutor, Sometimes Judge (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 9 episodes · Actor

  • Winny(2023)

    as Isamu Kaneko

    Motif score: 66th percentile of all films

  • Trapped Balloon (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2023)

    as Kenji Murata

  • Tenjō no Hana (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)

    Actor

  • The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)

    Actor

  • Last One Standing(2022)

    Show 5 episodes · as Sudo

    Motif score: 54th percentile of all shows

  • Ningen Kowai (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)

    Show 1 episode · as 梅喜

  • The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero - (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)

    as Boku

  • We Couldn't Become Adults(2021)

    as Kenta Sekiguchi

    Motif score: 67th percentile of all films

  • The Sound of Grass (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2021)

    as Kazuo Kudo

  • Blue (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2021)

    as Kazuki Ogawa

  • Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)

    as Shūzō

  • Wife of a Spy(2020)

    as Yasuharu Tsumori

    Motif score: 66th percentile of all films

  • The Rite of Love and Death (but we are still alive) (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)

    Actor

  • The Confidence Man JP: Princess(2020)

    as Bokuchan

    Motif score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Mishima: The Last Debate(2020)

    as Narrator (voice)

    Motif score: 84th percentile of all films

  • Police and Prosecutor (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2020)

    Show 9 episodes · as Shūhei Majima

  • Pure!: One Day Idol Director's Case Book (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)

    Show 3 episodes · as Todo Shusaku

  • The Confidence Man JP: Fortune (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)

    as Boku-chan

  • The Confidence Man JP - The Movie - (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)

    as Boku-chan

  • Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2019)

    Show 6 episodes · as 佐伯修一

  • The Antique (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)

    as Yoshio Tanaka

  • Asako I & II(2018)

    as Baku / Ryohei

    Motif score: 79th percentile of all films

  • The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)

    as Tetsu Nakahama

  • Punk Samurai Slash Down (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)

    as Naohito Kuroae

  • Over Drive(2018)

    as Atsuhiro Hiyama

    Motif score: 51st percentile of all films

  • The Confidence Man JP(2018)

    Show 10 episodes · as Boku-chan

    Motif score: 84th percentile of all shows

  • Foreboding (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2017)

    as Matsuka

  • Foreboding: Serial Version (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 5 episodes · as Shirou Makabe

  • Before We Vanish(2017)

    as Pastor

    Motif score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Sekigahara(2017)

    as Kobayakawa Hideaki

    Motif score: 61st percentile of all films

  • Anata no Koto wa Sore Hodo(2017)

    Show 10 episodes · as Ryota Watanabe

    Motif score: 17th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)

  • My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday(2016)

    as Shoichi Kaminoyama

    Motif score: 90th percentile of all films

  • Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    as Yoshiharu Habu

  • Death Note: Light Up the New World(2016)

    as Tsukuru Mishima

    Motif score: 35th percentile of all films

  • Death Note: Genius of the Counterattack (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    as Tsukuru Mishima

  • Death Note: New Generation (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    Show 3 episodes · as Tsukuru Mishima

  • Creepy(2016)

    as Nogami

    Motif score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • Maniac Hero (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    as Hidetoshi Nakatsu

  • Moribito(2016)

    Show 22 episodes · as Tanda

    Motif score: 38th percentile of all shows

  • Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)

    as 岬洋介

  • Gonin Saga (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2015)

    as Hayato Hisamatsu

  • Sea Side Blue (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2015)

    as Shunji Kondo

  • Parasyte: Part 2(2015)

    as Shimada Hideo

    Motif score: 63rd percentile of all films

  • A Restaurant with Many Problems (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2015)

    Show 10 episodes · as Makoto Monji

  • Blue Spring Ride(2014)

    as Mabuchi Kou

    Motif score: 48th percentile of all films

  • Parasyte: Part 1(2014)

    as Shimada Hideo

    Motif score: 75th percentile of all films

  • Legal High Special 2(2014)

    as Fumiya Hirose

    Motif score: 80th percentile of all films

  • 0.5 mm(2014)

    as Karaoke Clerk

    Motif score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • Back of Father (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2014)

    Show 1 episode · as Togawa Yuusuke

  • Crows Explode(2014)

    as Kazeo Kaburagi

    Motif score: 36th percentile of all films

  • It All Began When I Met You (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)

    as Takumi

  • Gochisousan (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)

    Show 150 episodes · as Nishikado Yutaro

  • Amachan (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)

    Show 157 episodes · as Young Daikichi Ōmukai

  • ×××HOLiC (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2013)

    Show 8 episodes · as Shizuka Dōmeki

  • Wonderful Single Life (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)

    Show 11 episodes · as Hiroki Yamada

  • The Kirishima Thing (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)

    as Hiroki Kikuchi

Career shape

Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 70 titles, 69 of them dated from 2012 to 2026; peak year 2015.

Biggest box office

The Confidence Man JP: Princess (2020)

$36M worldwide

Highest rated

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)

Motif 90th

Most popular right now

Last Samurai Standing (2025)

Film career

20122026

Peak 2015 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Top draw in 7 Motif titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting70 of 70: 70 only acting, 0 with another role · typical Motif score63rd

By decade

2010s40 · acting2020s29 · acting

Billing

usually 3rd · top billed in 17% of 18 roles
1217

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Motif score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on Motif, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.

How do Masahiro Higashide's films land?

Their typical Motif film has a Motif score in the 63rd percentile, the median of all 21; across their 19 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

70thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Approval · how many liked their films

55thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Reach · how many have seen their films

75thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 19

Motif score across 26 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up9
  • 50th to 74th10
  • 25th to 49th6
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

14 of their 26 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser14
  • Mixed11

Most divisive · actor

Titanic Ocean (2026)

89th percentile spread · 31% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · actor

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)

Motif 90th · 76% liked

Reviewers score the acting 67/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 75, detractors 42. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Motif score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their Motif titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Masahiro Higashide work with?

People who share at least 2 of Masahiro Higashide's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; Kiyoshi Kurosawa shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers