His film debut was in the 1990 Swimming Upstream (Bataashi Kingyo), though his first major critical success was in Shunji Iwai's Fried Dragon Fish (1993).
Debut filmnya adalah pada 1990 Swimming Upstream (Bataashi Kingyo), sedangkan kesuksesan secara kritis utama pertamanya adalah dalam Fried Dragon Fish (1993) karya Shunji Iwai.