is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...
, Japan.
When he was still in high school, he was discovered by a talent agent while out shopping with friends.
He made his debut in the drama ''Am I Weird?'' (私ってへん? ''Watashitte Hen?'') in 1998. Tamaki became better known with his appearance in the 2001 film ''
Waterboys
The Waterboys are a folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Mike Scott has remained ...
''.
His singing career started with the single "Seasons" in the summer of 2004.
He was cast as Shinichi Chiaki in the drama ''
Nodame Cantabile
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomoko Ninomiya. It was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the ''josei'' manga magazine ''Kiss'' from July 2001 to October 2009 and collected in 23 ''tankōbon'' volumes. A two-v ...
'', which aired in Japan on
Fuji TV
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned and operated by the it is the key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network Sys ...
on 16 October 2006. The drama was a hit, and he became most known for this role.
He starred in the revival of the ''
Iron Chef
is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, was a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle bui ...
'' Japanese
cooking show
A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program (also spelled cooking programme in British English) is a television genre that presents food preparation, often in a restaurant kitchen or on a studio set, or at the host's personal home. Ty ...
on Fuji TV in October 2012, portraying the chairman of the Kitchen Stadium.
He also lended his voice to dub Western productions; for example he voiced Owen Grady (played by
Chris Pratt
Christopher Michael Pratt (born June 21, 1979) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Andy Dwyer in the NBC sitcom '' Parks and Recreation'' (2009–2015). He also appeared in The WB drama series ''Everwood'' (2002–2006) an ...
) in the ''
Jurassic World
''Jurassic World'' is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Derek Connolly from a story by Jaffa and Silver. It is the first installment in the ...
'' film series and Alex the Lion (original voice:
Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of the comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Stiller was a member of a group of comedic actors colloquially known as ...
) in the ''
Madagascar
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'' animated film series.
Filmography
Films
* ''Christmas Eve'' (クリスマス・イヴ) (21 April 2000)
* ''
Waterboys
The Waterboys are a folk rock band formed in Edinburgh in 1983 by Scottish musician Mike Scott. The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. Mike Scott has remained ...
'' (15 September 2001)
* ''Sabu'' (さぶ) (5 October 2002)
* ''Gunjō no Yoru no Umōgire'' (群青の夜の羽毛布) (5 October 2002)
* ''Rockers'' (27 September 2003)
* ''Spirit'' (21 February 2004)
* ''Renai Shōsetsu'' (恋愛小説) (19 June 2004)
* ''Amemasu no Kawa: First Love'' (雨鱒の川-ファーストラブ) (13 November 2004)
* ''Ghost Shout'' (ゴーストシャウト) (18 December 2004)
* ''Nagurimono'' (23 September 2005)
* ''Henshin'' (変身) (19 November 2005)
* ''
Heavenly Forest
is a 2006 Japanese romance and drama film based on the novel written by Takuji Ichikawa. It was also released as a manga. The film was directed by Takehiko Shinjo, and focuses on the relationship that evolves between a photographer named Makoto, ...
'' (28 October 2006)
* ''
Midnight Eagle
is a 2007 action film directed by Izuru Narushima and written by Yasuo Hasegawa and Kenzaburo Iida, based on the novel by Tetsuo Takashima. ''Midnight Eagle'' is the third film directed by Izuru Narushima.
The film opened in the United States on ...
'' (23 November 2007)
* ''Smile Seiya no Kiseki'' (スマイル 聖夜の奇跡) (15 December 2007)
* ''Kids'' (2 February 2008)
* ''
Nodame Cantabile – The Movie I and II'' (19 December 2009 and 17 April 2010)
* ''
MW'' (4 July 2009)
* ''
Ōoku
The refers to the women's quarters of Edo Castle, the section where the women connected to the reigning resided. Similar areas in the castles of powerful , such as the Satsuma Domain, were also referred to by this term.
History
The ''Ōok ...
'' (1 October 2010)
* ''Princess Toyotomi'' (28 May 2011)
* ''
The Assassins'' (October 2012)
* ''
It All Began When I Met You'' (2013)
* ''Time Trip App'' (2014) –
Katsu Kaishū
Count , best known by his nickname , was a Japanese statesman and naval engineer during the late Tokugawa shogunate and early Meiji period. Kaishū was a nickname which he took from a piece of calligraphy (Kaishū Shooku ) by Sakuma Shōzan. He ...
* ''
Bali Big Brother
is a 2015 Japanese comedy drama film directed by Toshio Lee ( ja). It was released on January 17, 2015.
Cast
*Shinichi Tsutsumi
*Machiko Ono
*Naoto Inti Raymi
* Nanao
*Hiroshi Tamaki
is a Japanese actor, singer, and model from Nagoya, Japan. ...
'' (2015)
* ''Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current'' (2016)
* ''Love × Doc'' (2018)
* ''Evil and the Mask'' (2018)
* ''
Laplace's Witch'' (2018)
* ''
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki'' (2019) – Nariaki Seto
* ''Hokusai'' (2021) –
Kitagawa Utamaro
Kitagawa Utamaro ( ja, 喜多川 歌麿; – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his ''bijin ōkubi-e'' "large-headed ...
* ''
The Way of the Househusband: The Cinema'' (2022) – Tatsu
* ''The Good Father'' (2022)
* ''Kingdom 2: Far and Away'' (2022) –
Lord Changping
Lord Changping (昌平君; died 223 BC) was an important military commander and lord of Qin, who later departed from the state of Qin and went to the state of Chu where he became the last king of Chu (223 BC) in the last days of the Chinese Warri ...
* ''7 Secretaries: The Movie'' (2022) – Kōichi Ogata
* ''
Black Night Parade
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from November 2016 to July 2019, before transferring to ''Ultra Jump'' starting in September ...
'' (2022), Knecht (voice)
* ''Kingdom 3'' (2023) – Lord Changping
TV shows
* ''Great Teacher Onizuka'' (Fuji TV, 1998, guest)
* ''Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko'' (
TBS, 1999, guest)
* ''Abunai Hokago'' (
TV Asahi
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, 1999, guest)
* ''
Wakaresaseya
are Japanese businesses that specialize in breaking up relationships, often by drawing one of the partners into an affair or by producing other incriminating evidence. For a fee, a customer names a target, and an undercover employee of the compa ...
'' (
YTV, 2001, guest)
* ''Remote'' (
NTV, 2002)
* ''
Shopping Hero'' (TV Asahi, 2002)
* ''Boku ga Chikyu wo Suku'' (TBS, 2002)
* ''Water Boys'' (Fuji TV, 2003)
* ''Itoshi Kimi e'' (Fuji TV, 2004)
* ''Last Christmas'' (Fuji TV, 2004)
* ''Akai Unmei'' (TBS, 2005)
* ''Chibi Maruko-Chan'' (Fuji TV, 2006)
* ''
Nodame Cantabile'' (Fuji TV, 2006)
* ''
Top Caster
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Once set in motion, a top will ...
'' (Fuji TV, 2006)
* ''Hyoheki'' (TBS, 2006)
* ''
Kōmyō ga Tsuji'' (
NHK, 2006) – Yamauchi Yasutoyo
* ''Teki wa Honnoji ni Ari'' (TV Asahi, 2007)
* ''Hoshi Hitotsu no Yoru'' (Fuji TV, 2007)
* ''Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi'' (Fuji TV, 2008)
* ''
Atsuhime'' (NHK, 2008) –
Sakamoto Ryōma
* ''Nodame Cantabile SP'' (Fuji TV, 2008)
* ''Love Shuffle'' (TBS, 2009)
* ''MW Dai-0-sho'' (NTV, 2009)
* ''Guilty Akuma to Keiyakushita Onna'' (Kansai TV, 2010)
* ''Iron Chef'' (Fuji TV, 2012)
* ''
Taira no Kiyomori'' (NHK, 2012) –
Minamoto no Yoshitomo
* ''Wonderful Single Life'' (Fuji TV, 2012)
* ''Watashi no Kirai na Tantei'' (TV Asahi, 2014)
* ''
Kyō wa Kaisha Yasumimasu.'' (NTV, 2014)
* ''Zannen na Otto'' (Fuji TV, 2015)
* ''
Asa ga Kita'' (NHK, 2015) – Shinjiro Shiraoka
* ''Kyoaku wa Nemurasenai'' (TV Tokyo, 2016) – Tominaga
* ''Kyaria Okiteyaburi no Keisatsu Shocho'' (Fuji TV, 2016) – Kinshiro Toyama
* ''Anata niwa Kaeru Ie ga Aru / You have someone to come home to'' (TBS, 2018) – Sato Hideaki
* ''
The Way of the Househusband
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kousuke Oono. Published in the online manga magazine ''Bunch'' since 2018, ''The Way of the Househusband'' follows an ex-yakuza member who retires from crime to become a househusband. T ...
'' (NTV, 2020) – Tatsu
* ''
Reach Beyond the Blue Sky'' (NHK, 2021) –
Takashima Shūhan
was a samurai and military engineer in Bakumatsu period Japan. He is significant in having started to import flintlock guns from the Netherlands at the end of Japan's period of Seclusion, during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate.Jansen, Marius. (20 ...
* ''Sakura no To'' (TV Asahi, 2021) - Ren Kamijo
TV films
* ''Ghost System'' (2002)
* ''Revolver Aoi Haru'' (July 2003)
Video games
* ''
Rogue Galaxy
''Rogue Galaxy'' is an action role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. The game was released in Japan in December 2005, in North America in January 2007, and in most Europea ...
'' (2005) – Jaster Rogue
* ''
Lost Judgment
''Lost Judgment'' is an action-adventure
The action-adventure genre is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.
Typically, pure adventure games have situational problems f ...
'' (2021) – Kazuki Soma
Dubbing roles
Live-action
*''
Jurassic World
''Jurassic World'' is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Derek Connolly from a story by Jaffa and Silver. It is the first installment in the ...
'' – Owen Grady (
Chris Pratt
Christopher Michael Pratt (born June 21, 1979) is an American actor. He rose to prominence for playing Andy Dwyer in the NBC sitcom '' Parks and Recreation'' (2009–2015). He also appeared in The WB drama series ''Everwood'' (2002–2006) an ...
)
*''
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom'' – Owen Grady (Chris Pratt)
*''
Jurassic World Dominion
''Jurassic World Dominion'' is a 2022 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Emily Carmichael from a story by Derek Connolly and Trevorrow. The sequel to '' Jurassic World: Fallen ...
'' – Owen Grady (Chris Pratt)
*''
Timeline
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Timelines can use any suitable scale representi ...
'' – Chris Johnston (
Paul Walker)
Animation
*''
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
'' – Alex the Lion
*''
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'' – Alex the Lion
*''
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted'' – Alex the Lion
Discography
Singles
* ''Seasons'' (
Yoshimoto R&C, 2 June 2004)
* ''Emotion'' (Yoshimoto R&C, 10 November 2004)
* ''Love Goes/eyes'' (
Avex Trax, 15 February 2006)
* ''Kibou no Umi/Ame'' (希望の海/雨 ''Sea of Desire/Rain'') (Avex Trax, 26 April 2006)
* ''Yakusoku/question'' (約束/question ''Promise/Question'') (Avex Trax, 24 May 2006)
* ''Reviver ~Kanashimi ga Mata Kurikaesou to Dareka ni Ai wo Utau~'' (ラバイバー~悲しみがまた繰り返そうと誰かに愛を唄う~ ''Reviver ~When the Sadness Returns, Who Will I Sing my Love to?'' (Avex Trax, 28 June 2006)
* ''Odorou Yo'' (踊ろうよ ''Let's Dance'' (Avex Trax, 6 February 2008)
* ''Dakishimetai'' (抱きしめたい ''I Want to Hug You'') (Avex Trax, 19 March 2008)
* ''Slow Time'' (Avex Trax, 22 April 2009)
* ''Free'' (
Far Eastern Tribe, 25 May 2011)
Albums
* ''Ripple'' (Yoshimoto R&C, 15 December 2004)
* ''Bridge'' (Avex Trax, 19 March 2008)
* ''Times...'' (Avex Trax, 6 May 2009)
* ''Start'' (Far Eastern Tribe, 22 June 2011)
DVDs
* ''Secret of Tamaki Hiroshi "Spirit"'' (2004)
* ''"Realize" Hiroshi Tamaki music films 01'' (30 June 2004)
References
External links
*
*
Official Avex profile
Official UMG profile
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1980 births
Living people
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
People from Nagoya
Universal Music Japan artists
Avex Group artists
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers