Kōtarō Yoshida (actor)
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Kōtarō Yoshida | |
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吉田 鋼太郎 | |
| Born | January 14, 1959 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, theatre director |
| Agent(s) | Performance Unit AUN Horipro |
| Height | 174 cm (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | aun |
Kōtarō Yoshida (吉田 鋼太郎, Yoshida Kōtarō, born January 14, 1959, in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor and theatre director. He is currently affiliated with Horipro.
Biography[edit]
Yoshida spent six years in Osaka during his grade school days, and later grew up in Hino, Tokyo. While a student at St. Paul High School, he saw the Shakespearean comedy "Twelfth Night" by the Kumo Theater Company and decided to become an actor. While studying at the Department of German Literature in the Faculty of Literature at Sophia University, he made his debut by performing Twelfth Night in the Shakespeare Study Group. He later dropped out of the same university.
After working with the Shiki Theatre Company for six months, he worked with Shakespeare Theatre, Lyming Theatre Company, and Tokyo Ichigumi before forming Performance Unit AUN with director Yoshihiro Kurita in 1997, which he also directed. He was valued as an actor capable of performing the roles required of foreign classics such as Shakespeare and Greek tragedies, and was a regular in Yukio Ninagawa's productions. He is a close friend of Tatsuya Fujiwara and Shun Oguri, who often appeared in Ninagawa's works. Starting in 2010, he expanded his activities into television dramas and films on the advice of Oguri.
Yoshida played Hanzawa's boss in Hanzawa Naoki in 2013 and Densuke Kanō, who was modeled after businessman Den'emon Itō, in Hanako to Anne in 2014. These performances attracted attention, which led to an increase in his appearances in films, his first starring role being in Tokyo Sentimental.
He got married on January 1, 2016 (his fourth marriage, including one de facto marriage) and hosted a wedding in February 2017. In October 2016, he succeeded Yukio Ninagawa as the second artistic director of the Sai no Kuni Shakespeare Series.
Filmography[edit]
Stage[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Refs |
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| 1985 | Twelfth Night | Harumi Nakashima | |||
| 1997 | Othello | Othello | Yukio Ninagawa | ||
| 1998 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | Norio Deguchi | ||
| 2001 | Hamlet | Hamlet | Norio Deguchi | ||
| 2008 | King Lear | Earl of Gloucester | Yukio Ninagawa | ||
| 2014 | Julius Caesar | Cassius | Yukio Ninagawa | ||
| 2015 | Death Note: The Musical | Ryuk | Tamiya Kuriyama |
Film[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | Refs |
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| 2010 | Surely Someday | Kitō | Shun Oguri | ||
| 2015 | Assassination Classroom | Kensaku Ōno | Eiichirō Hasumi | ||
| Shinjuku Swan | Amano | Sion Sono | |||
| 2017 | To Each His Own | Mamoru Yamagami | Izuru Narushima | ||
| Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High | Jōsuke Akaba | Akira Nagai | |||
| The Third Murder | Daisuke Settsu | Hirokazu Koreeda | |||
| Mixed Doubles | Seiichirō Yamashita | Junichi Ishikawa | |||
| Shinjuku Swan II | Amano | Sion Sono | |||
| 2018 | The Lies She Loved | Kazuhito Nakae | |||
| Love × Doc | Osamu Suzuki | ||||
| Over Drive | Issei Tsuzuki | Eiichirō Hasumi | |||
| 2019 | Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration | Diabolo (voice) | Shinnosuke Yakuwa | ||
| Ossan's Love the Movie | Musashi Kurosawa | Tōichirō Rutō | |||
| Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV | Akio's father | Teruo Noguchi | Lead role | ||
| Dragon Quest: Your Story | Gema (voice) | Takashi Yamazaki | |||
| Lupin III: The First | Lambert (voice) | Takashi Yamazaki | |||
| Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion the Movie: Mirai Kara Kita Shinsoku no ALFA-X | Ohanefu (voice) | Takahiro Ikezoe | |||
| 2020 | Kaiji: Final Game | Yoshihiro Kurosaki | Tōya Satō | [1] | |
| From Today, It's My Turn!! | Ichirō Mitsuhashi | Yūichi Fukuda | |||
| 2021 | Cube | Kazumasa Andō | Yasuhiko Shimizu | [2] | |
| Last of the Wolves | Yōzō Watafune | Kazuya Shiraishi | [3] | ||
| 2022 | The Way of the Househusband | Kondō | Tōichirō Rutō | [4] | |
| 2023 | Yudō | Critic | Masayuki Suzuki | [5] | |
| We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie | Iwao Aso | Nobuo Mizuta | [6] | ||
| 2024 | Love You as the World Ends: The Final | Saijō | Shintarō Sugawara | [7] |
Television[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Brothers Karamazov | Bunzō Kurosawa | Fuji TV | ||
| Hanzawa Naoki | Hiroshi Naitō | TBS | |||
| 2014 | Hanako and Anne | Densuke Kanō | NHK | Asadora | |
| Mozu | Jin Nakagami | TBS | |||
| 2016 | Sanada Maru | Oda Nobunaga | NHK | Taiga drama | |
| Totto TV | Hisaya Morishige | NHK | |||
| Yuriko-san no Ehon | Hiroshi Harashima | NHK | |||
| We're Millennials. Got a Problem? | Iwao Aso | NTV | [6] | ||
| 2018 | From Today, It's My Turn!!' | Ichirō Mitsuhashi | NTV | ||
| 2018–24 | Ossan's Love | Musashi Kurosawa | TV Asahi | 3 seasons | [8] |
| 2019 | Ieyasu, Edo wo Tateru | Gotō Tokujō | NHK | ||
| 2020 | The Yagyu Conspiracy | Yagyū Munenori | NHK | Lead role; TV movie | |
| The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse | Tōru Nagashima | Wowow | |||
| 2020–21 | Awaiting Kirin | Matsunaga Hisahide | NHK | Taiga drama | |
| 2021 | Nakamura Nakazo: Shusse no Kizahashi | NHK | Miniseries | [9] | |
| Japan Sinks: People of Hope | Mamoru Amami | TBS | Special appearance | [10] | |
| 2022 | Oi Handsome!! | Kentaro Ito | Tokai TV | Lead row | [11] |
Awards[edit]
| Year | Award ceremony | Category | Result |
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| 2014 | 7th International Drama Festival in Tokyo | Best Supporting Actor | Won[12] |
| 2018 | 11th International Drama Festival in Tokyo | Best Supporting Actor | Won |
References[edit]
- ^ "「カイジ」藤原竜也主演で9年ぶり映画化、福本伸行による完全オリジナルストーリー". Natalie. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
- ^ "菅田将暉主演で密室劇「CUBE」をリメイク！男女6人に杏、岡田将生、斎藤工ら". Natalie. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
- ^ "松坂桃李主演『孤狼の血 LEVEL2』8.20公開決定 鈴木亮平、西野七瀬らキャスト解禁". Crank-in!. 4 February 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ "Live-Action Way of the Househusband Film Reveals 7 Cast Members, June Debut". Anime News Network. February 24, 2022. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
- ^ "生田斗真主演、映画『湯道』"銭湯"に吉田鋼太郎、夏木マリ、柄本明ら大集合". Oricon. Retrieved August 19, 2022.
- ^ a b "『ゆとりですがなにか』続編映画に安藤サクラ・仲野太賀・吉田鋼太郎らキャスト再集結". Oricon. 8 June 2023. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
- ^ "劇場版「君と世界が終わる日に」シリーズ史上最大の敵役に吉田鋼太郎 "首藤シンジ"須賀健太も参戦". eiga.com. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
- ^ "『おっさんずラブ』続編放送開始日決定 内田理央&眞島秀和らレギュラーキャスト全員続投". Oricon. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
- ^ "中村勘九郎がNHKドラマで"伝説の歌舞伎俳優"中村仲蔵に、共演に上白石萌音ら". eiga.com. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ "吉田鋼太郎、『日本沈没』で小栗旬の父親役に「本当にうれしく気合いが入りました」". Real Sound. 19 September 2021. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
- ^ "おいハンサム!!". Fuji TV. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
- ^ "吉田鋼太郎、『花アン』伝助人気を分析「男らしさが新鮮だった」". oricon. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
External links[edit]
- Official profile (in Japanese)
- Kōtarō Yoshida on NHK Archives (in Japanese)
- Kōtarō Yoshida at IMDb
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