is a
Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
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actor
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. His breakthrough film was ''
Waterboys
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'' for which he was nominated for the 'Best Actor' award at the
Japanese Academy Awards
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, and won the 'Newcomer of the Year' prize. He is also the bassist and lead singer of the Japanese band Basking Lite.
Filmography
Film
TV dramas
Puppetry
* ''
Sherlock Holmes
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'' (2014 NHK) ''as Jefferson Hope'' (voice)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Official agency profile
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1980 births
Living people
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male television actors
People from Yanagawa, Fukuoka
Actors from Fukuoka Prefecture
Taiga drama lead actors
Horipro artists
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
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