is a Japanese actor. His real name is . He is represented with
Horipro Booking Agency. His father is actor and singer
Ryōtarō Sugi
(born 14 August 1944, Kobe) is a Japanese singer and actor. He is the father of actor Jundai Yamada.
He appeared in ''Sukima Kaze'', which sold over a million copies. His acting credits include 18 films. On television, he specialized in ''jid ...
.
He graduated from
Seijo Gakuen Primary School. After graduating from junior high and high school in
Hawaii
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, he also graduated from
Pepperdine University
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Department of Asian Studies and Department of International Relations. His notable works include ''Roosevelt Game''.
Biography
Transferred from the
University of Hawaii
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, he graduated from Department of Pepperdine University International Relations, in the United States and in 1997, he went on to play as Junnosuke Mochizuki on the
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 terrestri ...
Asadora
, colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Take ...
''Aguri'' to debut his acting career. After that, he is active in films, television dramas and stage, including the popular
Tokyo Broadcasting System
formerly is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network and radio network . It has a 28-affiliate television network called JNN (Japan News Network), as well as a 34-affili ...
drama ''
Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-''sh ...
'' (as Atsumi Kakunoshin) and the film ''
Merdeka 17805
is a 2001 Japanese war film by Yukio Fuji which depicts a Japanese soldier who arrives in the Dutch East Indies during the occupation and stays to fight in the Indonesian National Revolution. The film emphasised the Empire of Japan's role in Ind ...
'' (in which he starred).
In 2013, he wrote a book about
Setsuzo Kotsuji, who helped the
Jewish
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refugees arriving at
Vladivostok
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at the
Trans-Siberian Railway
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under the persecution of
Nazi Germany
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and travelled to the country of desire, ''Inochi no Visa o Tsunaida Otoko — Setsuzo Kotsuji to Yudaya Nanmin'' (A Man who Connected the Visa of Life — Setsuzo Kotsuji and the Jewish Refugees) and debuted as a non-fiction writer.
In his private life, he and former ''Mito Kōmon'' actress Kei Takyo married in the spring of 2016, in which they had been dating in 2001. Their first child was a girl born on 19 December 2016.
Filmography
Film
TV dramas
Variety
Stage
Bibliography
References
External links
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Ameba Blog (Aug 2011 – )
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Japanese male actors
Horipro artists
People from Tokyo
1973 births
Living people