--- name: "Masaki Okada" canonical: "https://film.one/person/masaki-okada" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 August 1989" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-20T08:22:51.560765+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Masaki Okada Actor. Born 15 August 1989 in Tokyo, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 August 1989, Tokyo, Japan - **Also known as:** 岡田 将生 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Okada, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1154241, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2347861/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/124402 ## Fi1m on Masaki Okada > Masaki Okada is handsome, eager and slightly off, and in *Drive My Car* he turns that into the film's best acting: a television star who cannot quite tell where performing stops. One film is not many, but it was enough to make us watch for the next. In *Drive My Car* (2021), Kafuku, the widowed director, casts a young television actor as Vanya and does not say why. Masaki Okada plays that actor, Takatsuki, a half-beat too keen in every scene. He is too good-looking for the rehearsal room, too quick to smile, and he wants to be liked in a way the older people around him have long stopped bothering with. For most of the film he is faintly wrong, and it is deliberate. Then, late on, he is given a long speech in the back of the car, held on his face, which we will not describe. Nishijima, listening, does not blink. We had spent a good two hours quietly wishing him off the screen, which is what the film wants, and then he began to talk and we were not ready. It is the best acting in the film, and it works because of everything that came before it: the eagerness, the slight wrongness, the face that has been used to being looked at. Okada does very little in the speech. He lets the camera stay where it is and does not help it. The career before that runs the way careers for faces like his tend to run. He began acting in 2006, with first film roles in 2007, among them *A Gentle Breeze in the Village*. The early work was youth drama and romance, and *I Give My First Love to You* (2009) made him a lead as a conventional handsome young man. The same year *Confessions* (2010) and *Villain* (2010) came along, and the young men got more troubled. Through the 2010s he moved across thrillers, period pieces and live-action adaptations, *Gintama* (2017) among them. We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to a view of them. What is plain is that Hamaguchi looked at the pretty leading man and cast him as a pretty leading man, and then asked what was underneath. That is where Okada is best: long stretches of talk, delivered plainly, with the conflict kept inside and nothing pushed out for the audience. He has said that meeting Hamaguchi changed him, that he "can't do this job or face acting unless I really face myself", and on the evidence of the car that is not just an actor being polite about a director. They have worked together once. The risk for him is the obvious one. A face that good is a habit for casting directors, and a man who has been the handsome young lead since 2009 can spend a long time being asked to do it again. Start with *Drive My Car*, and stay for the back seat. Then we will see whether anyone else is prepared to use the face against itself. ## Biography Masaki Okada (岡田 将生) is a Japanese actor. He was born on 15 August 1989 in Tokyo and began his career in 2006. Okada is known for roles including Yoshiteru Terada in *Confessions* (2010), Takuma Kakunouchi in *I Give My First Love to You* (2009), Kōshi Takatsuki in *Drive My Car* (2021), and Kotaro Katsura in the *Gintama* films (2017–2018). He has also appeared in television series such as *Legal High* (2012) and *A Shop for Killers* (2024). He received several newcomer awards in 2009–2010 for his early film work. Okada is represented by Stardust Promotion and married actress Mitsuki Takahata in 2024. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Drive My Car* (2021), Fi1m 88, as Kōshi Takatsuki — [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md) ## Complete filmography (98) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *TAGUSARI bros.* (2026), series, as Makoto Tagusari - *Scarlet* (2025), as Hijiri (voice) - *Just a bit Espers* (2025), series, as Kizashi / Fumito - *After the Quake* (2025), as Komura - *Scary True Stories: Summer Special 2025* (2025), Actor - *After the Quake* (2025), series, Actor - *Yasuko, Songs of Days Past* (2025), as Kobayashi Hideo - *Mr. Mikami's Classroom* (2025), series, as Kyosuke Makino - *Angry Squad: The Civil Servant and the Seven Swindlers* (2024), as Makoto Himuro - *Angry Squad: Episode Zero* (2024), series, as Himuro Makoto - *映画『ラストマイル』満島ひかり×岡田将生 撮影秘話プレミアトークSP* (2024), series, Actor - *Last Mile* (2024), as Nashimoto Ko - *映画『ラストマイル』アンナチュラル・MIU404と繋がる最強チーム大集結SP* (2024), series, Actor - *Kinshicho Paradise* (2024), series, as Aoi Sakata - *1122: For a Happy Marriage* (2024), series, as Otoya Aihara - *Gold Boy‎* (2024), Actor - *A Shop for Killers* (2024), series, as J - *We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie* (2023), as Sakama Masakazu - *One Second Ahead, One Second Behind* (2023), as Hajime Sumeragi - *The Travel Nurse* (2022), series, as Nasuda Ayumi - *Ningen Kowai* (2022), series, Actor - *The Cursed Sanctuary X* (2021), as Teruo Yamada - *Cube* (2021), as Ochi Shinji - *Drive My Car* (2021), as Kōshi Takatsuki — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/drive-my-car.md) - *No Story in this World.* (2021), series, Actor - *Arc* (2021), as Amane - *My Dear Exes* (2021), series, as Shinshin Nakamura - *Chain Story Omameda Towako wo Shiranai Otokotachi* (2021), series, as 中村慎森 / Nakamura Shinshin - *Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~* (2021), series, as Hayato Yagami - *The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window* (2021), as Rihito Hiyakawa - *Talio* (2020), series, as Kensuke Kuroiwa - *Child of the Stars* (2020), as Minami - *ハムレット* (2019), series, Actor - *Rikon na Futari* (2019), series, Actor - *Natsuzora* (2019), series, Actor - *Restaurant from the Sky* (2019), as Kanbe - *A Family Story* (2018), as Takuya Kobayashi - *Descending Stories: A Life In Rakugo* (2018), series, as Kikuhiko/Yakumo (VIII) - *Gintama 2: Rules Are Made to Be Broken* (2018), as Kotaro Katsura - *The Many Faces of Ito* (2018), as Seijiro Ito - *The Game of Business Card* (2017), series, as X - *The Many Faces of Ito* (2017), series, as Seijiro Ito - *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1* (2017), as Keicho Nijimura - *Gintama* (2017), as Kotaro Katsura - *I'm Yamagishi. Got a Problem?* (2017), series, Actor - *Little Giants* (2017), series, as Haruhiko Yamada - *Ties: A Miraculous Colt* (2017), series, as Takuma Matsushita - *Kitakaze to Taiyo no Hotei* (2017), as Yota Kojitani - *Someone* (2016), as Takayoshi Miyamoto - *The Top Secret: Murder in Mind* (2016), as Ikko Aoki - *We're Millennials. Got a Problem?* (2016), series, as Masakazu Sakama - *The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami* (2015), series, as Yakusuke Kakushidate - *Strayer's Chronicle* (2015), as Subaru - *Unhandy Handyman* (2015), series, as Jun Takeyama - *April Fools* (2015), as Unfortunate Ambulance Worker - *ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie* (2015), as Tomohisa Yurine - *Lingering Spirits* (2014), as Gajirou Honda - *Snow Jack* (2014), as Shohei Nezu - *ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad* (2014), series, Actor - *Oh! Father* (2014), as Yukio - *The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom* (2014), as Ryosuke Hinode - *Hoshi Shin'ichi Mystery Special* (2014), as Spy - *Chicken Race* (2013), as Kamiya Takeshi - *Mourning Recipe* (2013), as Hal - *Beyond the Memories* (2013), as Roku Akazawa - *The Apology King* (2013), as Takuya Numata - *Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill* (2013), as Tasuku Inoguchi - *ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han* (2013), as Yurine Tomohisa - *Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon* (2012), series, Actor - *Akko's Secret* (2012), as Naoto Hayase - *Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2012* (2012), as Sawada Toshiya - *Space Brothers* (2012), as nanba hibito - *Future Diary Another World* (2012), series, as Arata Hoshino - *Legal High* (2012), series, as Haruki Hanyu - *The Holy Monsters* (2012), series, as Kengo Shiba - *Life Back Then* (2011), as Nagashima Kyohei - *Princess Toyotomi* (2011), Actor - *Young Black Jack* (2011), Actor - *The Lightning Tree* (2010), as Narimichi - *The Golden Piggy* (2010), series, as Kudo Suguru - *Villain* (2010), as Keigo Masuo - *Piecing Me Back Together* (2010), as Junichi Kono - *Confessions* (2010), as Yoshiteru Terada - *The History of Our Family* (2010), series, as Masashi Miyazaki - *I Give My First Love to You* (2009), as Takuma Kakunouchi - *Otomen* (2009), series, as Masamune Asuka - *Gravity's Clowns* (2009), as Haru Okuno - *Honokaa Boy* (2009), as Leo - *Halfway* (2009), as Shu - *Someday's Dreamers* (2008), as Gota Midorikawa - *花ざかりの君たちへ ~イケメン♂パラダイス~卒業式&7と1/2話スペシャル* (2008), Actor - *Homeroom on the Beachside* (2008), series, as Hiroki Negishi - *Brass Band* (2008), Actor - *A Gentle Breeze in the Village* (2007), as Hiromi Osawa - *HANA-KIMI* (2007), series, as Sekime Kyogo - *The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker* (2007), as Car Enthusiastic Student - *Dear Students!* (2007), series, Actor - *Special Rescue Police Winspector* (1990), series, as Ryoko Nakatomi ## Gallery - ![Masaki Okada](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-1a7ab3dc6325.jpg) Masaki Okada — Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Masaki_Okada.jpg/1280px-26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Masaki_Okada.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第26回 東京国際映画祭 長澤まさみ 岡田将生 新城毅彦 (潔く柔く) (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-7a9b63367482.jpg) 第26回 東京国際映画祭 長澤まさみ 岡田将生 新城毅彦 (潔く柔く) (2013) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Okada_Masaki_at_the_26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2013.jpg/1280px-Okada_Masaki_at_the_26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Masaki Okada, actor, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-050aa58c4a1b.jpg) Masaki Okada, actor, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Masaki_Okada_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Masaki Okada, actor, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-591f2efa1f49.jpg) Masaki Okada, actor, at 82nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. (2025) — LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Masaki_Okada_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg/1280px-Masaki_Okada_at_82nd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Masaki Okada](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-bacb2bd38e51.jpg) Masaki Okada — Image via TMDB - ![第26回 東京国際映画祭 岡田将生 忽那汐里 (オー!ファーザー) (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-d7fb8464e744.jpg) 第26回 東京国際映画祭 岡田将生 忽那汐里 (オー!ファーザー) (2013) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Okada_Masaki_%26_Kutsuna_Shiori_from_Oh%21_Father_%2814940969484%29.jpg/1280px-26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Okada_Masaki_%26_Kutsuna_Shiori_from_Oh%21_Father_%2814940969484%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第26回 東京国際映画祭 長澤まさみ 岡田将生 新城毅彦 (潔く柔く) (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1253708/gallery-8fb0a76bd515.jpg) 第26回 東京国際映画祭 長澤まさみ 岡田将生 新城毅彦 (潔く柔く) (2013) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Nagasawa_Masami%2C_Okada_Masaki_%26_Shinjo_Takehiko_from_Beyond_the_Memories_%2815383976069%29.jpg/1280px-26th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Nagasawa_Masami%2C_Okada_Masaki_%26_Shinjo_Takehiko_from_Beyond_the_Memories_%2815383976069%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer 2010: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Newcomer (won) - Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year 2010: Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year (won) - Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer 2009: Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer (won), for *A Pierrot* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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