is a Japanese actor and singer. He is one of Japan's 11 most popular male entertainers, according to an NHK survey taken in 2004. In one survey, he was the second most popular actor after
Takuya Kimura
is a Japanese actor, singer, and radio personality. He is regarded as a Japanese icon after achieving success as an actor. He was also a popular member of SMAP, one of the best-selling boy bands in Asia. In the media, he is known as a huge hea ...
in Japan during the
Heisei era (1989-2019).
Biography
Oda was born in
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama ...
. In the late 1980s, he launched his career with the release of two singles on records.
In 1989, he appeared in the television drama ''Mama Haha Boogie'', from which point he started to gain popularity as an actor, which also brought attention to his singing aspirations.
In 1991, he appeared in the enormously popular television drama ''Tokyo Love Story'', a breakout role. He then became a leading man in Japanese film and television, generally playing the role of a
sympathetic character
A sympathetic character is a fictional character in a story whom the writer expects the reader to identify with and care about, if not admire. Protagonists, almost by definition, fit into the category of a sympathetic character; so, however, do ...
.
His most famous role is Shunsaku Aoshima, a police detective in the ''
Bayside Shakedown
is a Japanese police comedy-drama television series originally broadcast by the Fuji Television group in 1997. The series was developed by Ryoichi Kimizuka and stars Oda Yūji, Toshirō Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Chosuke Ikariya, Miki Mizuno, ...
'' film and television drama series.
Personal life
On August 16, 2010, Oda married a non-celebrity woman 12 years younger than him. His wife gave birth to their son in October 2014. After the birth, Oda took a break from work for two years to help focus on
child rearing.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Albums
Singles
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Official website*
*
Yuji Oda on Universal Music Japan
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1967 births
Living people
Male actors from Kanagawa Prefecture
Singers from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Japanese male film actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male television actors