He graduated from the Faculty of Letters of Chuo University; and worked part time at Magazine House publishing. In 2001 he joined the Bungakuza literary arts theater institute as a part of the 41st generation. In 2002, he first appeared on stage in "BENT" with TPT (Tokyo Theater Project). In 2004 he completed his training and became an associate player. In the same year, he won the Bungakuza Supporters Best Newcomer Award (zanaisho). In 2006, he was promoted to a resident player. He left Bungakuza in the same year.
In 2007, he transferred to Foster co.,ltd., and in 2010, transferred to Hirata Office, where he is now affiliated.
In 2010 he appeared in the NHK drama "Second Virgin". In 2011, he starred in his first commercial TV drama "Suzuki Sensei" by TV Tokyo. In the same year, he played a useless, indecisive father in Nippon TV's "Kaseifu no Mita".
In 2014, he played the villain, Higashi Kazuo, in the TBS and WOWOW co-produced broadcast "MOZU".
Starting January 19, 2015, he played a jobless otaku in the Fuji Television "Monday 9" drama "Date ~koi to wa donna mono kashira~".
He played the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yaguchi Rando in the 29th movie in the Godzilla series "Shin Godzilla" which was released on July 17, 2016.
Starting April 16, 2017, he will play Kosaka Shinichiro in the weekly "Sunday Theater" TBS drama "Chiisana Kyojin", broadcast every Sunday at 9:00.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/eYyR6K_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sasano Takashi", "alternateName": "笹野高史", "birthDate": "June 22, 1948", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Takashi Sasano is a Japanese actor born in Awaji, Japan. He graduated from Sumoto High School and attended Nihon University College of Art.
(Source: IMDb)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/2z182_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matsuda Ryuhei", "alternateName": "松田龍平", "birthDate": "May 9, 1983", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Matsuda Ryuhei is a Japanese film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in Japanese films such as Taboo and Nana.
Matsuda was born in Tokyo to Matsuda Yusaku, a Japanese actor, and Matsuda Miyuki, a Japanese actress. He has two siblings, one of whom is Japanese actor Shota Matsuda. Yusaku Matsuda was half-Korean, thus Shota and Ryuhei are a quarter Korean His father died from bladder cancer in 1989 when Ryuhei was six years old. He attended Horikoshi High School, a Japanese high school that caters to celebrity students but did not graduate.
At the age of 15, Matsuda was offered the role of the desirable young samurai Kanou Souzaburou in Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Gohatto. The role helped boost him from an entirely unknown actor to a film star.
Since appearing in Gohatto, Matsuda has played a wide range of roles, from the high school student Kujo in the 2001 film Blue Spring to the rock star Ren Honjo in the 2005 film Nana.
On January 11, 2009, Matsuda married Ohta Lina, a Russian-Japanese model. Their first child, a baby girl, was born on July 4, 2009. They divorced in December 2017. On October 20, 2021, Matsuda married Mala Morgan (モーガン茉愛羅, Mōgan Maara), a British-Japanese model. Their son was born on March 13, 2022.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/wb23Y_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nagasawa Masami", "alternateName": "長澤まさみ", "birthDate": "June 3, 1987", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Nagasawa Masami, born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or, as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her, "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself as "Gasawa", a nickname chosen by fans. She is the daughter of Nagasawa Kazuaki, the former manager of the J. League team Jubilo Iwata; she was born on the season when they won their first league championship.
In 2002, her appearance in the Nabisco CM earned her the title of "The Pretty Girl from the Nabisco CM" in magazines and TV shows, as her name was not yet well-known at the time.
In 2003, she had her very first leading role in the movie, Robokon and Masami commented that it was this movie that first brought out her acting skills and that it remains one of her favourite works to this day.
In 2004, Masami starred as the heroine of the story, a teenage girl who died of leukemia, in the big hit movie, Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World. The movie was a box office hit in Japan, earning 8.5 billion Yen in total. It was in this movie that she decided to shave off all her hair to accommodate her role as a leukemia patient. Her outstanding performance in this movie gave her recognition as an actress and earned her numerous awards including the Best Supporting Actress Prize (the youngest ever) in the 28th Japanese Academy Awards.
Nagasawa graduated from Horikoshi High School, which also counts among alumni performers like Hamasaki Ayumi, Haruka Ayase, Ueto Aya, Matsumoto Jun, Yuya Tegoshi, Yamashita Tomohisa, Toma Ikuta and Koki Tanaka.
For three consecutive years since 2005, she has been the cover girl for Toho Calendar, which has a history of over 50 years.
In April 2007, she co-starred with Yamashita Tomohisa for the second time in the fantasy love comedy, Proposal Daisakusen (first time was in Dragon Zakura), featuring the former model Eikura Nana. The show enjoyed high ratings, and the cast also swept the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix Awards for Spring of 2007, winning in all 5 categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Drama.
In summer 2007, Masami was ranked 9th in 2007 Most Influential People In Japan and was the only female in the ranking. The order is as follows: Takuya Kimura, Takeshi Kitano, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Monta Mino, Sanma Akashiya, Shingo Katori, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Nagasawa Masami, Masahiro Nakai, according to magazine Flash.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/Bd7goq_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Takasugi Mahiro", "alternateName": "高杉真宙", "birthDate": "July 4, 1996", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Takasugi Mahiro is a Japanese actor who is affiliated with Spice Power. He is best known for his role as the character Mitsuzane Kureshima/Kamen Rider Ryugen from the Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Gaim.
He had a guest role as Hiroki Tsuboi in the tenth episode of Garo: Yami wo Terasu MonoIcon-crosswiki, a show that his co-star Tsunenori Aoki had a more major role in.
He officially left Spice Power on April 11, 2021, his agency since 2009. Then on April 17, 2021, through his official Instagram account, he revealed the launch of his own agency, POSTERS.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/QWy77_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tsunematsu Yuri", "alternateName": "恒松祐里", "birthDate": "October 9, 1998", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "In 2004 Tsunematsu Yuri, she made her debut as a child actor in the drama "Ruri no Shima". After that, she made her movie debut with "Killer Virgin Road" in 2009.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/xw1ZN_5c.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kurosawa Kiyoshi", "alternateName": "黒沢清", "birthDate": "July 19, 1955", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.
Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, though he has never expressly listed those directors as influences. Nevertheless, he admitted in an interview that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujirou Ozu features analyzed and discussed under the guidance of Shigehiko Hasumi contributed to shape his personal vision of the medium. He also expressed admiration for American film directors such as Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Tobe Hooper.
In a 2009 interview with IFC, Kurosawa talked about the reason why he has cast the actor Koji Yakusho in many of his films: "He has similar values and sensitivities. We’re from the same generation. That’s a big reason why I enjoy working with him on the set."
According to Tim Palmer, Kurosawa's films occupy a peculiar position between the materials of mass genre, on the one hand, and esoteric or intellectual abstraction, on the other. They also clearly engage with issues of environmental critique, given Kurosawa's preference for shooting in decaying open spaces, abandoned (and often condemned) buildings, and in places rife with toxins, pestilence and entropy", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/odQLkc.jpg" } ]
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