My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler

Sep 21, 2018

1h 50m

★ 7.3

Overview

Takashi Omura (Hiroshi Tanahashi) was once a popular professional wrestler, but he isn't popular anymore. He now wears a cockroach mask and wrestles as a villain. He is married to Shiori (Yoshino Kimura) and they have an elementary school aged son named Shota (Kokoro Terada). Takashi and Shiori have not yet told their son what Takashi does for a living. One day, Shota finds out that Takashi is a professional wrestler and a villain with a cockroach mask. Shota is shocked and tells a lie to his classmate that his dad is a popular professional wrestler.

Genres

Family

Drama

Production Companies

Bridgehead

Pipeline

AMUSE

Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures

TV Asahi

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

Bushiroad

My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler Trailers

Cast

Takashi Omura

Hiroshi Tanahashi

Shiori Omura

Yoshino Kimura

Shota Omura

Kokoro Terada

Michiko Oba

Riisa Naka

Dragon George

Kazuchika Okada

Blue Bottle Mask

Ryusuke Taguchi

SweetGorilla Maruyama

Togi Makabe

Satoshi Kojima

Yuji Nagata

Manabu Nakanishi

Hirooki Goto

Ukyo Matsumoto

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