, known professionally as and sometimes as Shigeru BROWN, is a Japanese singer and actor. He is most known in the West for his contributions to the

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soundtrack, performing the theme songs of ''

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'' and acting as its lead character, and playing the title character in the film version of ''

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''. Matsuzaki is left-handed, as seen whenever he plays bass or guitar, his string instruments are usually tuned with the lower E string at the bottom. He has also collaborated with the popular music group ''

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''. Matsuzaki is also a baseball fan, having sung the theme song of the

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of the

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that began to be used when they moved to

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in 1979. In an interview with Weekly Baseball, he said that he "loved drinking whiskey behind the net at the Seibu Dome."

Discography

*''Yes or No'' (1991) * (1994) * (2000) *''Old Fashion Love Song'' (2000) * (2003) *''My Favorite Songs'' (2005) *''Yes We Can!!'' (2009) *''Shigeru Matsuzaki All Time Best “Old & New”～I'm a Singer～'' (2011) *''Black on Black'' (2014)

Selected filmography

*''

'' (1982) *''

Ponytail wa Furimukanai is a Japanese television drama series that aired on TBS in 1985. It is based on a novel by Takashi Kitajima. Cast * Kazue Itoh * Yu-ki Matsumura * Tappie Shimokawa * Shingo Tsurumi * Shinobu Sakagami is a Japanese ''tarento'', essayist, fi ...

'' (1985) *''

Chōshichirō Edo Nikki (''Choshichiro's Edo Diaries'') was a long-running prime-time television series in Japan. The title character was Matsudaira Choshichiro Nagayori, the son of Tokugawa Tadanaga. The premise of the show focuses on Tadanaga's death as a result of a ...

'' (1987) *'' Bikkuriman 2000'' (1999) *''

Cromartie High School is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka and published in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from August 2000 to May 2006. It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie Hig ...

'' (2005) *''

Fugo Keiji is a 2005 Japanese drama broadcast by TV Asahi based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Synopsis Miwako Kanbe, the granddaughter of a millionaire, becomes a detective and starts working at a police station where there are few women. Her style, ele ...

'' (2005) *''

'' (2006) *'' Tokyo Girl'' (2008) *''

Dead Sushi is a 2012 Japanese comedy horror film directed by Noboru Iguchi. The film involves Keiko (Rina Takeda) who is the daughter of a famous sushi chef. She leaves home for an inn where she is bullied by the president of Komatsu Pharmaceuticals. A Koma ...

'' (2012)

References

External links

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Shigeru Matsuzaki official blog
1949 births Japanese male film actors Japanese male singers Japanese radio personalities Japanese television personalities Japanese television presenters Living people People from Edogawa, Tokyo Victor Entertainment artists 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-singer-stub