is a Japanese actor.

Career

Born in

Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, ...

, Fukikoshi moved to

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at age 19 and joined the Wahaha Honpo theater troupe. Since leaving Wahaha in 1999, he has appeared in many films and television dramas, while continuing to act on stage. He works in both serious drama and comedy, and has often played police detectives. He starred in

Sion Sono Sion may refer to * an alternative transliteration of Zion People * Sion (name) or Siôn, a Welsh and other given name and surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Shion or Sion, a Japanese given name Plac ...

's ''

Cold Fish is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Sion Sono. ''Cold Fish'' premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2010, and received the best screenplay award in the Fantastic Features section at Fantastic Fest 2010. The film ...

''. He co-starred with

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's '' Lesson of the Evil''.

Personal life

In 1994, Fukikoshi married the actress

Reona Hirota is a Japanese actress. She won the Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Ōte'' and ''Yumeji''. In 1994, she married the actor Mitsuru Fukikoshi. They divorced in 2005 after having one child. Filmography ...

. They divorced in 2005 after having one child, but then remarried in 2012. The couple separated for the second time in December 2016.

Filmography

Film

* '' Gamera 2: Attack of Legion'' (1996) * '' Love & Pop'' (1998) * ''

Samurai Fiction is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and ''jidaigeki'' samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack se ...

'' (1998) * '' Whiteout'' (2000) * '' Red Shadow'' (2001) * ''

The Twilight Samurai ''The Twilight Samurai'' is a 2002 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life ...

'' (2002) * ''

Spy Sorge is a Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 2003, about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge. Shinoda intended the film, a long and lavish production that had only modest critical and commercial success, as his final feature. Plot The film presen ...

'' (2003) * '' Lady Joker'' (2004) * ''Year One in the North'' (2005) * '' Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * '' Kabei: Our Mother'' (2008) * ''The Chasing World'' (2008) * ''

Yoroi Samurai Zombie is a 2008 Japanese comic horror film directed by Tak Sakaguchi and written by Ryuhei Kitamura, who had previously collaborated on '' Versus''. A family taken hostage and their kidnappers become prey to an undead samurai in a haunted cemetery. ...

'' (2008) * ''Sweet Rain'' (2008) * ''

Love Exposure is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the crim ...

'' (2008) * ''

Shinjuku Incident ''Shinjuku Incident'' (, ja, 新宿インシデント ''Shinjuku Inshidento'') is a 2009 Crime film#Crime drama, Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Derek Yee, who also writer with Chun Tin-nam. The film stars Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Da ...

'' (2009) * '' Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky'' (2009) * ''Ballad'' (2009) * '' My Rainy Days'' (2009) * '' Listen to My Heart'' (2009) * '' Last Operations Under the Orion'' (2009) * ''

'' (2010) * ''

Heaven's Story is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It was screened in the Main Programme of the Forum section at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It has also won the Séquences Prize at the Fantasia I ...

'' (2010) * '' Himizu'' (2011) * ''

Antoki no Inochi is a Japanese film from 2011 directed by Takahisa Zeze. It is based on the novel of the same name by Masashi Sada. Cast * Masaki Okada, as Kyohei Nagashima * Nana Eikura, as Yuki Kubota * Taizo Harada, as coworker Saso * Tori Matsuzaka, as Shin ...

'' (2011) * '' Unfair 2: The Answer'' (2011) * ''

Afro Tanaka is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masaharu Noritsuke. It follows a 24-year-old Afro-haired young man named Hiroshi Tanaka who falls in love for the first time. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga maga ...

'' (2012) * '' Space Brothers'' (2012) * '' Land of Hope'' (2012) * '' Lesson of the Evil'' (2012) * '' The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji'' (2014) * ''

Age Harassment ''Age Harassment'' (エイジハラスメント) is a 2015 Japanese TV drama series focusing on harassment in the modern Japanese workplace. It is based on the novel ''Age Harassment'' by Uchidate Makiko. It is produced by TV Asahi. Storyline Yoshi ...

'' (2015) * '' The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio'' (2016) * ''Mori, The Artist's Habitat'' (2018) * ''Lady in White'' (2018) * ''According to Our Butler'' (2019) * ''

A Girl Missing is a 2019 drama film written and directed by Kōji Fukada. It was entered into numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Toronto, New York and Rotterdam. Plot Home nurse Ichiko works for the Oishi family, where she is treated a ...

'' (2019) * ''The Gun 2020'' (2020) * ''Angry Rice Wives'' (2021) * ''Between Us'' (2021) * ''The Mole Song: Final'' (2021) * '' Red Post on Escher Street'' (2021) * ''Tenjō no Hana'' (2022),

Sakutarō Hagiwara was a Japanese writer of free verse, active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He liberated Japanese free verse from the grip of traditional rules, and he is considered the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan". He publis ...

* ''Motherhood'' (2022) * ''We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams'' (2023) * ''Ginpei-cho Cinema Blues'' (2023) * ''Winny'' (2023), Masashi Akita

Television

* ''

Dondo Hare is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2007. It was the 76th Asadora. Cast * Manami Higa as Natsumi Asakura * Ren Osugi as Keigo Asakura, Natsumi's father * Masako Mori as Fusako Asakura, Natsumi's mother * Asahi Uchida as Masaki ...

'' (2007) * ''

Deka Wanko is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kozueko Morimoto. It was serialized in Japan by Shueisha in the magazine '' You'' and was collected in 12 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The series follows the adventures of Ichiko Hanamori, a ...

'' (2011) * ''

Inu o Kau to Iu Koto is a Japanese television series which premiered on TV Asahi on April 15, 2011. Its full title is . Cast * Ryo Nishikido as Yuji Hongo * Asami Mizukawa as Sachiko Hongo * Kokoro Kuge as Mako Hongo * Ryutaro Yamasaki as Masaru Hongo * Tetsu Wa ...

'' (2011) * ''

Amachan is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 1, 2013, and was broadcast until September 28, 2013. It was scripted by Kankurō Kudō and starred Rena Nōnen as Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo who moves to the Sanriku Coast i ...

'' (2013) * ''

Gunshi Kanbei is a 2014 Japanese historical drama television series and the 53rd NHK ''taiga'' drama. The series was broadcast from January 5 to December 21, 2014, and ran a total of 50 episodes. The drama depicts the life of Kuroda Kanbei (played by Junichi ...

'' (2014) –

Ashikaga Yoshiaki "Ashikaga Yoshiaki" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 625. was the 15th and final ''shōgun'' of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan who reigned from 1568 to 1573.Ackroyd, J ...

* '' Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit'' (2016) – Gakai * '' Specialist'' (2016) – Hiroki Takidō * '' Naotora: The Lady Warlord'' (2017) – Ono Masanao * ''Hello, Detective Hedgehog'' (2017) * ''Kishū Hanshu Tokugawa Yoshimune'' (2019) –

Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. He was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate and a favourite of the fifth shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. His second concubine was Ogimachi Machiko, a writer and scholar from the noble court who wrote ...

* ''

Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' drama and the 43rd entry of the Toei Company's long-running ''Super Sentai'' series, succeeding ''Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger'' and following the four week special TV miniseries ''Super Sent ...

'' (2019) - Naohisa Tatsui * '' Idaten'' (2019)

Video games

* ''

Yakuza 5 is an action-adventure video game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. The game is the fifth main entry in the ''Yakuza'' series. The game was released in December 2012 in Japan, and localized for North ...

'' (2012) - Naoki Katsuya

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fukikoshi, Mitsuru Japanese male actors 1965 births Living people Actors from Aomori Prefecture