is a Japanese talent agency headquartered in

Shibuya Shibuya ( 渋谷区 ''Shibuya-ku'') is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. As a major commercial and finance center, it houses two of the busiest railway stations in the world, Shinjuku Station (southern half) and Shibuya Station. As of April 1 ...

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. It was founded in 1993 and focuses on talent management for actors, comedians, musical artists and ''

tarento Television personalities in Japan, known as in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows. During the Golden Age of Hollywood, bankable stars in America were described as "tal ...

'' alongside its subsidiary . The main K Dash agency consists of mainly actors and tarento while K Dash Stage emphasizes on managing comedians, variety tarento and theater production. The current CEO, Hideo Matsuda was formerly the manager of veteran comedian Masaaki Sakai.

Notable talents

K Dash

Tsuyoshi Ihara is a Japanese actor, martial artist, and writer of Korean descent. Biography Ihara is a Japanese person of Korean descent, born on November 6, 1963, in Kitakyūshū as Yun Yu-gu (윤유구/尹惟久) and who grew up in Ikuno-ku, Osaka. He is a ...

Katsunori Takahashi is a Japanese singer and actor who is represented by the talent agency, K-Dash. Filmography TV series Films Awards References External links * Official profile Japanese male actors Japanese male singers 1964 births Living peop ...

* Hatsunori Hasegawa *

Yoko Minamino , also known as Nanno (ナンノ), is a Japanese actress and singer. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She played Saki Asamiya in the second season of the live action ''Sukeban Deka'' TV series replacing fellow idol star Yuki Saitō. She ...

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in '' Letters from Iwo Jima'' and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in ''The Last Samurai'', for which he was nomi ...

K Dash Stage

Audrey Audrey () is an English feminine given name. It is the Anglo-Norman form of the Anglo-Saxon name ''Æðelþryð'', composed of the elements '' æðel'' "noble" and ''þryð'' "strength". The Anglo-Norman form of the name was applied to Saint Aud ...

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Masayasu Wakabayashi is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, and author. He performs ''tsukkomi'' in the comedy duo Audrey. His partner is Toshiaki Kasuga. He is represented with K Dash Stage. He has a sister who is two years older than him. Wakabayashi ...

, Toshiaki Kasuga) *Tom Brown (Hiroki Nunokawa, Michio) *

Hi-Hi Hi-Hi is a Japanese comedy (manzai) duo ''( kombi)'' from Saitama prefecture consisting of as boke and as tsukkomi under the entertainment agency, K Dash Stage. Formed in 1998, they are best known for their stand-up acts and TV ''tarento'' ac ...

(Kojiro Ueda, Kazunori Iwasaki) *

Hanawa is a Japanese singer and comedian raised in Saga City. He plays the bass guitar. He rose to fame in Japan for a comical song about Saga Prefecture and its oddities. TV commercials * Yukiguni Maitake bean sprouts Sprouting is the natural ...

*Hamakan (Kenji Hamatani, Shinichiro Kanda) *Akimasa Haraguchi * Suzanne *

Mika Hagi is the 2007 winner of the Miss Nippon contest selected out of 3000 girls held by a diet gym company. The 2007 was her 3rd challenge. She graduated from Mie University in Mie Prefecture. She moved to Tokyo to graduate the graduate school at Rikkyo ...

Masafumi Akikawa is a Japanese tenor singer. He has released a number of CDs, in which he has sung a broad range of genres, from classical to pop. He appeared on the 57th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen broadcast. Biography His single (released 24 May 2006) made it ...

* Fudanjuku

References

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External links

K Dash Official website

K Dash Stage Official website
Talent agencies based in Tokyo Mass media companies established in 1993 Mass media companies based in Tokyo Entertainment companies of Japan Japanese companies established in 1993 Japanese talent agencies