is a Japanese actor and
voice actor. Until January 19, 2007, he was known by his birth name. He belonged to
Stardust Promotion
is a leading Japanese talent agency, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It was founded in 1979 and invests in entertainment forms including music, cinema, and modelling.
The agency has a dominant share in the management of actresses. For example, ...
until the end of May 2015. He is best known for portraying Kouga Saejima/GARO, the title character from the Japanese
tokusatsu television series ''
GARO'' from 2005 to 2006, its 2010 film adaptation, ''
Garo: Red Requiem'', and the 2011 television series ''
Garo: Makai Senki'' (which serves as a sequel to the original series).
Filmography
PV (Promotional Video)
*2003 Kou Shibasaki 「nemurenai yoru nemuranai yume」
*2004 Ruppina 「in the name of love」
Movies
*2004 Toshio no Heya
*2006 Luna Heights 2 , Runa haitsu 2
*2008 Heibon Ponch (Good-looking Mashima)
*2008 Triple Complex Returns
*2009 Hijoshi Zukan (Actor#2)
*2009 Hana Guerilla (Yusuke)
*2010 ''
Garo: Red Requiem'' .... Kouga Saejima/GARO
*2013 ''
Garo: Soukoku no Maryu'' .... Kouga Saejima/GARO
TV drama
*2003 Modoken Quill no Issho
*2003 Victory! Futto Girls no Seishun
*2005 ''
GARO'' .... Kouga Saejima/GARO
*2006 Komyo ga Tsuji (Takenaka Kyuusaku)
*2006 ''
Garo Special: Byakuya no Maju'' .... Kouga Saejima/GARO
*2007 Koibana
*2009 LOVE GAME (Shinozaki)
*2011 ''
Garo: Makai Senki'' .... Kouga Saejima/GARO
Anime television series (Voice acting roles)
*2004
School Rumble (
Ōji Karasuma)
*2005
Sugar Sugar Rune (Pierre, Glace)
*2006 G-9 (3-5-10/Sa-go-juu)
Theatre
*
The Prince of Tennis Musical (Shinji Ibu)
*
Hunter x Hunter Play (
Kuroro Lucifer)
*2007
The Light in the Piazza (Fabrizio Naccarelli)
*2007–2009
Les Misérables (Marius)
*2011
Dracula
''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking ...
(Jonathan Harker)
*2013
Piaf (Charles Aznavour)
*2013
Next to Normal (Gabe)
*2014
Thrill Me (Richard Loeb)
*2017–2020
Frankenstein (Henry Clerval Dupre, Monster)
*2019
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Anatole Kuragin)
*2021
Musical GOYA
Video game
*
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Dean)
External links
Official blog
*
1982 births
Living people
Former Stardust Promotion artists
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male voice actors
Male voice actors from Tokyo
21st-century Japanese male actors
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