Daisuke Honda Japanese Actor Biography and Filmography

Daisuke Honda (本田大輔) is a Japanese film and television actor. Born on August 29, 1978, in Tokyo, Japan, he stands 179 centimeters tall and has blood type A. Over a career spanning multiple decades, he has appeared in numerous Japanese films, television dramas, and TV movies.

Film Career

Daisuke Honda has maintained an active presence in Japanese cinema since the late 1990s, taking on diverse supporting roles across various genres including period pieces, action films, and monster features. Some of his notable film credits include:

• Give It All (1998) as Shunji Yasuda
• Railroad Man (1999)
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Godzilla Millennium (2000)
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
• Waterboys (2001)
• Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) as Keiji Igarashi
• The Hunter and the Hunted (2004)
• Into the Sun (2005) as Kawamura
• Tomie: Revenge (2005)
• Rurouni Kenshin (2012) as Kodama
• Platinum Data (2013)
• The Legend & Butterfly (2013/2023) as Hidesada Hayashi

Television Roles

In addition to his film work, Honda has featured in numerous television series, historical taiga dramas, and network programs produced by NHK, TV Asahi, WOWOW, and other broadcasters. Notable TV drama appearances include:

• There's Someone Watching (Fuji TV, 2003)
• Aibou: Season 6 (TV Asahi, 2008)
• Hanako and Anne (NHK, 2014) as Yusuke Mita
• Mare (NHK, 2015) as Watanabe
• Ashi-girl (NHK, 2017) as Nyokobo
• Scarlet (NHK, 2019–2020) as Toshiharu Kumagai
• Seven Secretaries (TV Asahi, 2020) as Tomohiko Yakumo
• Black Postman (TV Tokyo, 2023) as Goro Kashimura
• Daitsuiseki (TV Asahi, 2025–2026) as Dai Sakura