is a Japanese actor and television personality from Tokyo. He is married to professional golfer
Riko Higashio
is a Japanese professional golfer and former member of the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Higashio was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As a teenager, she won the 1993 Japan Amateur Championship and the 1994 Japan Junior Championship.
Higashio ...
.
Biography
Junichi Ishida was born in Tokyo.
His father was a foreign correspondent for
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
, and he lived in the U.S. from the ages of three to six.
He attended
Waseda University
, mottoeng = Independence of scholarship
, established = 21 October 1882
, type = Private
, endowment =
, president = Aiji Tanaka
, city = Shinjuku
, state = Tokyo
, country = Japan
, students = 47,959
, undergrad = 39,382
, postgrad ...
, but dropped out before graduating.
Ishida has been married three times.
He first married while he was a student, fathering a son,
Issei Ishida, who became an actor and musician.
His second marriage, to , lasted for 11 years before they divorced in 1999.
They had one daughter,
Sumire, who became an actress.
He was subsequently in a relationship with TV personality , but their 8-year relationship ended in 2004.
In October 2009, Ishida announced his engagement to professional golfer
Riko Higashio
is a Japanese professional golfer and former member of the LPGA Tour.
Amateur career
Higashio was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As a teenager, she won the 1993 Japan Amateur Championship and the 1994 Japan Junior Championship.
Higashio ...
. They registered their marriage on 12 December 2009.
Their first son, , was born on 5 November 2012.
Ishida is famous for not wearing socks in public. He claims that this started after he saw Italians not wearing socks while he was in Milan in 1985.
Appearances
Film
*''
Tekkihei, Tonda
is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Keiichi Ozawa.
Cast
* Jun'ichi Ishida
*Miyuki Matsuda
is a Japanese actress, the widow of Yūsaku Matsuda, and the sister of Mami Kumagai.
At the age of 17 she appeared in a television series, '' Tante ...
'' (1980)
* ''Against'' (1981)
* ' (1982)
* ' (1983)
* ''
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis'' (1988)
* ' (1989)
* ' (2000)
Television
*
Kage no Gundan4 (1984)
* ''
Marco Polo'', (1982-1983)
TBS
* ''
The Cowra Breakout'' (1984)
Books
*
*
References
External links
*
Sky Corporation agency profile*
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1954 births
Living people
Male actors from Tokyo
Waseda University alumni