Yōsuke Kubozuka
窪塚洋介
Kubozuka at the 2023 Tokyo International Film Festival
Born (1979-05-07) 7 May 1979
Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation(s)Actor, musician
Years active1994–present
Spouse
Yuka Sugawara
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(m. 2015)​
[1]
ChildrenAiru Kubozuka[1]
Websitewww.manjiline-amatorecordz.com

Yōsuke Kubozuka (窪塚 洋介, Kubozuka Yōsuke, born May 7, 1979 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese actor and musician.

Career

Yosuke Kubozuka has been a model for many magazines and TV commercials before starting out his acting career where he debuted in a 1995 TV crime drama Kindaichi Case Files. In 1998, he starred in the TV series GTO as the role of an honors student, Yoshito Kikuchi. In 2000, he starred in Ikebukuro West Gate Park along with Tomoya Nagase, Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Inception) and Tomohisa Yamashita (Nobuta wo Produce, Kurosagi, Operation Love, Code Blue). In this drama he starring as the role of "King" of the G-Boys, Takashi Ando.

In 2001, he starred in Strawberry on the Shortcake along with other popular young artists such as Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Fukada. In the drama he took the role of being Kyoko Fukada's first love.

In October of that same year, Go (directed by Isao Yukisada), which tells the story of a Zainichi chosenjin teenager who falls in love with a Japanese girl, was officially released. For his performance in this role, Kubozuka took home two awards (Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Newcomer of the Year) at Japan Academy Film Prize.[2] Kubozuka also appeared in Mr. Children's 2002 "Kimi ga Suki" music video, which won MTV Video Music Award Japan for Video of the Year in 2002 (Mr. Children also nominated in Best Group Category but losing to Backstreet Boys).[3]

Since then, Kubozuka took on projects starring in Ping Pong, Kyoki no Sakura as well as Samurai Resurrection.

He also appeared in films such as Tokyo Island,[4] Monsters Club,[5] Helter Skelter,[6] and the 2016 remake of Silence directed by Martin Scorsese.

Kubozuka has also been pursuing his career as a reggae musician by the name 'Manji Line' (卍 LINE) since 2006.

Personal life

Kubozuka graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School. He married in May 2003 and had one son. In 2004, he survived after falling 26 metres from his 9th floor apartment. On July 12, 2012, Kubozuka announced through his official website that he had divorced his wife a month earlier. Kubozuka has official custody of his son.[7] Kubozuka remarried in December 2015, a daughter was born in 2017.

Filmography

Movie

Year Title Role Director Notes Ref.
1996 Midori Minoru Kobayashi Ryūichi Hiroki
1998 Ping Pong Bath Station Atsusi Fujiki Gen Yamakawa
2000 Oboreru Sakana Munetaka Akiyoshi Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Tomie: Replay Fumihito Sato Fujiro Mitsuishi
2001 Go Sugihara Isao Yukisada
Laundry Teru Junichi Mori
2002 Ping-Pong Yutaka Hoshino / Peco Fumihiko Sori
Kyoki no Sakura Susumu Yamaguchi Kenji Sonoda
Doing Time Hamamura Yoichi Sai
2003 Samurai Resurrection Shiro-Tokisada Amakusa Hideyuki Hirayama
2005 Tobi ga kururito Beautician Kenji Sonoda
Onaji Tsuki o Miteiru Tetsuya Kumakawa Kenta Fukasaku
2006 Amour-Legende Oshima Mi-sen Wu
2007 Ore wa Kimi no Tame ni Koso Shini ni Iku Katsuji Bando Taku Shinjyo
Paradise Now Khaled (Japanese dubbed) Hany Abu-Assad
2008 Ichi Toraji Shirakawa Fumihiko Sori
Where the Legend Lives Kazuma Sasaki Yukihiko Tsutsumi
2009 Pandora's Box Tsukushi Masanori Tominaga
2010 Tokyo Island Watanabe Makoto Shinozaki
Strangers in the City Nakagome Junji Sakamoto
2011 Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo Abe Seimei Yasuo Tsuruhashi
UGLY Kazuya Kensaku Kakimoto
Monsters Club Yuki Kakiuchi Toshiaki Toyoda
Himizu Teruhiko Sion Sono
2012 Helter Skelter Takao nanbu Mika Ninagawa
2014 Love's Whirlpool clerk Daisuke Miura
One Third Sho Hama Hiroshi Shinagawa
Tokyo Tribe Nkoi Sion Sono
Fuja Kikuo Himura Izo Hashimoto
2013 The extreme sukiyaki Ohkawa Shirou Maeda
2015 Deadman Inferno Shirakawa Hiroshi Shinagawa
2016 Silence Kichijiro Martin Scorsese American film
2017 Alley cat Hideaki Asa / Maru Hideo Sakaki
2019 The First Supper Shun Shirō Tokiwa
2020 Mio's Cookbook Komatsubara Haruki Kadokawa [8]
2021 First Love Gamon Makabe Yukihiko Tsutsumi
DIVOC-12 Hirokawa Hayashida Anthology film [9]
Go Seppuku Yourselves Toshiaki Toyoda [10]
2023 Sin Clock Shinji Takagi Kenji Maki [11]
Home Sweet Home Takumi Saitoh [12]
Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower George (voice) Shōjirō Nishimi [13]
Knuckle Girl Shiraishi Chang South Korean-Japanese film [14]
2024 Transcending Dimensions Toshiaki Toyoda [15]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo Mitsuru Fukamachi NTV
1996 Wakaba no Koro Itaru Toda TBS
Hen Chizuru-chan to Azumi-Chan (TV Series) Ryûichi Kobayashi ANB
1997 machi Kenji Kawabe CX
1998 ATHENA Hiroki Ohsawa TX
Bisyoujyo H -Rokugatsu No Tebukuro- Toru Kawashima CX
Great Teacher Onizuka Yoshito Kikuchi CX
Nachan-chi Onodera ANB
Hashire Koumuin Hayato Onoda CX
1999 Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko Satoru Yuki TBS
Lipstick Koki Makimura CX
Meguriai Keisuke Nakamaru CX
Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashi -Natsu No Houmonsha- Kenji Morii CX
SP Drama Shounen H Keisaburou Hanahusa CX
2000 A un Kenichiro Tsujimoto TBS
Soshite Tomodachi Takashi Nishimori ANB
Omiai Kekkon Junichi Ohata CX
Ikebukuro West Gate Park （IWGP) Takashi Ando, G-Boys King TBS
Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashi2 -Mouhitori no Watashi- Atsushi Sugiyama CX
Moichido Kiss Ayumu Saegusa NHK
2001 Strawberry on the Shortcake Tetsuya Saeki TBS
Number One Ryunosuke Araki TBS
2002 Long Love Letter Akio Asami CX
Shiritsu Tantei Hama Mike -hana- Akio Kitamura NTV
Kaidan Hyaku Monogatari Shokichi CX
2003 Ikebukuro West Gate Park （IWGP) 「Soup」SP Drama Takashi Ando TBS
2019 Giri/Haji Yuto Mori BBC/Netflix
2023 Phoenix: Eden17 George (voice) Disney+[13]

Stage Play

Year Title Role Director
2010 Chiha-tattamama-nemutteiru Yukio Ninagawa
2011 blood wedding (Chino-konrei) Yukio Ninagawa
2012 Cymbeline Iachimo Yukio Ninagawa
2013 iSAMU Noguchi Isamu Amon Miyamoto
2015 The Teachings Of Kaiju(kaijuno-oshie) Toshiaki Toyoda
2016 The Teachings Of Kaiju(kaijuno-oshie)Replay Toshiaki Toyoda

Awards and nominations

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "窪塚洋介、妻・PINKY&長男・愛流らと家族4ショット「美男美女家族」「素敵な家族写真」". Oricon. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  2. ↑ "GO". Cut Japan. Archived from the original on 2013-08-26. Retrieved 2013-03-29.
  3. ↑ "VIDEOS 歴代VMAJアーカイブ 2002年│MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2007". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  4. ↑ Schilling, Mark (27 August 2010). "'Tokyo-jima (Tokyo Island)' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
  5. ↑ Kaufman, Anthony (10 September 2011). "Monsters Club - Review - Screen". Screen International.
  6. ↑ Mack, Andrew (12 January 2012). "SAKURAN Director Mika Ninagawa Returns With HELTER SKELTER". Twitch Film.
  7. ↑ "Kubozuka Yosuke's wife PINKY is pregnant with their first child". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. February 28, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  8. ↑ "みをつくし料理帖". eiga.com. Retrieved August 22, 2023.
  9. ↑ "横浜流星×石橋静河×小野翔平×窪塚洋介×笠松将、『DIVOC-12』藤井道人監督チームに出演". Real Sound. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  10. ↑ "全員切腹". eiga.com. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Sin Clock". eiga.com. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
  12. ↑ "スイート・マイホーム". eiga.com. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  13. 1 2 Pineda, Rafael Antonio (July 14, 2023). "Phoenix: Eden17 Anime Reveals Teaser, Cast, More Staff, September 13 Debut, Film Version With Different Ending". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 14, 2023.
  14. ↑ "ナックルガール". eiga.com. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
  15. ↑ "次元を超える TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS". eiga.com. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
  16. ↑ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 9 December 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  17. ↑ 第23回ヨコハマ映画祭 日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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