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 eas ...

, Fukikoshi moved to

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.46 ...

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 ...

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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

Hideaki Itō is a Japanese actor. Biography Ito is best known for starring in the hit franchise ''Umizaru'' film series which consistently topped the Japanese box office of the year. He has also head-lined many other major Japanese films such as Takashi M ...

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Lesson of the Evil , known in English as ''Lesson of the Evil'', is a 2012 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike starring Hideaki Itō. It is an adaptation of Yusuke Kishi's 2010 novel of the same name. A seinen manga under the same name, illustrated by ...

''.

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 is a 1998 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno, based on the novel ''Topaz II'' by Ryū Murakami''.'' It was Anno's first live action feature-length film. The film was shot almost entirely on hand-held ...

'' (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 l ...

'' (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 is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, based on a story by Kaoru Takamura. Cast * Tetsuya Watari as Seizo Monoi * Satoshi Tokushige as Yuichiro Gouda * Koji Kikkawa as Shuhei Handa * Jun Kunimura as Satoru Hirose * Ren Osugi as J ...

'' (2004) * ''Year One in the North'' (2005) * '' Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * '' Kabei: Our Mother'' (2008) * ''The Chasing World'' (2008) * '' Yoroi Samurai Zombie'' (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 cri ...

'' (2008) * ''

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

'' (2009) * '' Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky'' (2009) * ''Ballad'' (2009) * ''

My Rainy Days is a 2009 Japanese romance drama film based on the popular cell phone novel of the same name. Director Yuri Kanchiku made her directorial debut in this film. Japanese model Nozomi Sasaki stars in her first lead role in a film, as a seventeen-yea ...

'' (2009) * '' Listen to My Heart'' (2009) * ''

Last Operations Under the Orion is a Japanese action drama film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara depicting an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine battling a United States Navy destroyer near the end of World War II. Plot The story alternates between the past and present, linked by a ...

'' (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 In ...

'' (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 ...

'' (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) * ''

'' (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'' (2019) * ''The Gun 2020'' (2020) * ''Angry Rice Wives'' (2021) * ''Between Us'' (2021) * ''The Mole Song: Final'' (2021) * ''

Red Post on Escher Street ''Red Post on Escher Street'' () is a 2020 comedy-drama film written, edited, and directed by Sion Sono, starring a large ensemble cast. It has been described as a "love-letter to cinema itself, its makers and, more than anything else, its perf ...

'' (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'' (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 ...

'' (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, ...

* '' 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 * ''

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 Skanda (Chinese:塞建陀, 室建陀), also known as Wei Tuo (Chinese: 韋馱) and Idaten (Japanese: 韋駄天) is a Mahayana bodhisattva regarded as a devoted guardian of Buddhist monasteries who protects the teachings of Buddhism. He is also ...

'' (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