Kanji Ishimaru
Kanji Ishimaru | |
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Native name | 石丸 幹二 |
Born |
Niihama, Ehime,[1] Japan | 15 August 1965
Nationality | Japanese |
Education | Tokyo University of the Arts |
Occupation |
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Agent | The Library |
Height | 174[1] cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Television |
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Awards | 37th Kazuo Kikuta Theater Awards Theater Prize |
Website | Official website |
Kanji Ishimaru (石丸 幹二 Ishimaru Kanji, born 15 August 1965 in Niihama, Ehime)[1] is a Japanese actor and singer. He is represented with The Library, and his record label is Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.
Biography
Ishimaru played various instruments such as the piano, cello, trombone and snare drum from childhood.[2][3] He studied the cello at an ordinary music course at Chiba Prefectual Makuhari-Nishin High School (now Chiba Prefectural Makuhari General High School),[3] attempted to enroll in majoring the saxophone at the Tokyo College of Music, shocked by the singing voice of American classing singer Jessye Norman at three years, and passed the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music of Vocal Music.[2] Ishimaru learned songs and graduated from the same university.[2]
In 1990, he debuted in the role of Raoul of Shiki Theatre Company's The Phantom of the Opera.[2] Since then, Ishimaru acted as a signboard actor for the theatre company.[2]
During his activities outside the theatre company, he appeared in advertisements for Oronamin C (co-starring with SMAP's Takuya Kimura)[2] and Nescafé Gold Blend. Ishimaru enrolled in a theater company for seventeen years and then left in 2007.[2]
In 2012, he won the 37th Kazuo Kikuta Theater Awards Theater Prize.
In 2013, Ishimaru played as branch manager Tadasu Asano in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's television drama Hanzawa Naoki, and made his breakthrough.[2]
In 2 April 2017, he took place as the sixth chairperson of TV Asahi's long-running music programme Daimei no nai Ongakukai.[4]
Filmography
Stage
Part of Shiki
Title | Role |
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Andersen | Hans Christian Andersen |
Aspects of Love | Alex Dillingham |
Beauty and the Beast | Beast |
Black Comedy | Brinzley Miller |
Cats | Skimble Shanks |
Dreaming | Dog Chillow |
Elkos no Inori | George |
Hamlet | Hamlet |
Hibari | Charles |
Illya Darling—Nichiyō wa Dame yo! | Homer |
John Manjirō no Yume | Manjiro |
Kono Seimei Dare no mono? | Ken Hayata |
La Sauvage | Florent |
Musical Ikoku no Oka | Hidetaka Kokonoe |
Omoide o Uru Otoko | Man selling memories |
The passer-through-walls | Dutillur |
The Phantom of the Opera | Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, the male ensemble |
Song & Dance | Male singer |
Undine | Hans |
West Side Story | Jet Orchestra Tony |
Yuriddis | Orphe |
Rokumeikan | Einosuke Kiyohara |
After leaving Shiki
Title | Role | Ref. |
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Enoch Arden | ||
A New Brain | Gordon Shuin | |
Sunday in the Park with George | George | |
The Coast of Utopia | Nikolai Ogalov | |
L'Histoire du soldat | ||
The 39 Steps-Himitsu no Angō o Oe! | Richard Haney | |
Elisabeth | Tote | |
Twelfth Night | Marquess of Ocino / Bard / Traveler | |
Glengarry Glen Ross | ||
Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin | |
Jekyll & Hyde | Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Edmond Danthes, Earl of Monte Cristo | |
Lady Bess | Roger Ascam | |
Limelight | Calvero | |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Percy Blakney | |
Cabaret | MC | [5] |
The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven |
Films
Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
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2010 | Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Kazuo Fukamachi | |
2015 | Ōhi no Yakata | Louis XIV of France | |
Galaxy Turnpike | Doctor Muta | [6] |
TV dramas
Year | Title | Role | Network | Ref. |
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2009 | Shirasujirō | Ushiba Tomohiko | NHK | |
2011 | Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana | Takashi Kusakabe | TBS | |
2012 | Usuzakura-ki | Raihaha Togashi | NHK BS Premium | |
2013 | Oyarihaishaku: Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki | Gorobei Nomi | NHK | |
Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki | NHK BS Premium | |||
Hanzawa Naoki | Masa Asano | TBS | ||
2014 | Roosevelt Game | Fumiko Mikami | ||
Dark Suits | Kiyoomi Matsuki | NHK | ||
2015 | Hana Moyu | Sufu Masanosuke | ||
Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken | Taisa Goriki | Fuji TV | ||
Scapegoat | Shun Yanagisawa | Wowow | [7] | |
Flowers for Algernon | Daigo Hachisuka | TBS | ||
3ttsu no Machi no Monogatari | Akihiro Togo | [8] | ||
Omotesandō Kōkō Gasshō-bu! | Yuki Uchida | [9] | ||
2016 | Nobunaga Moyu | Akechi Mitsuhide | TV Tokyo | [10] |
Doctor Chōsa Ha: Iryō Jiko no Yami o Abake | Masahiko Kawagoe | [11] | ||
Suizokukan Girl | Hisayuki Kurano | NHK | [12] | |
Shizumanu Taiyō | Ishiguro | Wowow | [13] | |
Eigyō Buchō: Natsuko Kira | Ryoichi Saito | Fuji TV | [2][14] | |
Toto Neechan | Koichi Kunizane | NHK | ||
Chūshingura no Koi: Shitoya Hito-me no Chūshin | Ōishi Yoshio | NHK G | [15] | |
2017 | Akira and Akira | Kazuma Kaidō | Wowow | |
Animation
Title | Role |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo (dubbed) |
Dubbing
Year | Title | Role |
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2015 | The Sound of Music | Colonel Georg von Trap (Christopher Plummer) |
Advertisements
Year | Title | Ref. |
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Oronamin C | ||
Nescafé Gold Blend | ||
2014 | Canon Inc. Pixus | |
House Ukon no Chikara | ||
Zurich Insurance Group Anata Senyō Jidōsha Hoken | ||
2016 | The National Art Center, Tokyo "Dalí Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" | [16] |
Meiji Chocolate Kōka |
Radio
Year | Title | Network |
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2010 | Kanji Ishimaru no Theater e yōkoso | NHK FM Broadcast |
MC-Navigator
Year | Title | Network |
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2014 | Kanji Ishimaru no Mainichi ga Premiere | Eisei Gekijō |
CD
Title | Label |
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"kanji ishimaru" | Sony Music Japan International |
"distance" | |
"Love Songs" | |
"Kanji Ishimaru no Musical e yōkoso" | |
"Stravinsky: Heishi no Monogatari" | |
"Kaijin Hyakumensō" | |
"My Musical Life" |
Music guides
Year | Title |
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2013 | The National Art Center "Andreas Guldsky Exhibition" |
2014 | Mori Arts Center Gallery "The Tutti of the Tate Art Museum Exhibition Prior to Rafael British Victorian Painting Dream" |
2015 | The National Art Center, "Magrid Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" |
Kyoto City Museum of Art "Magrid Exhibition Kyoto Exhibition" |
Others
Year | Title | Network | Ref. |
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2015 | Minna no Uta "Kaijin Hyakumensō" | NHK | [17] |
2016 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | [18] | |
2017 | Daimei no nai Ongakukai | TV Asahi |
References
- 1 2 3 幹二/ "俳優、歌手・アーティスト 石丸幹二". Nihon Tarento Meikan (in Japanese). VIP Times. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "『営業部長 吉良奈津子』松嶋菜々子の上司役で出演中の石丸幹二 マルチな才能でひっぱりだこ". music.jp News (in Japanese). MTI. 11 Aug 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- 1 2 "プロフィール" (in js). Sony Music. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "『題名のない音楽会』司会交代で一新へ 五嶋龍からミュージカル俳優・石丸幹二にバトン。". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 9 Feb 2017. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "長澤まさみ、松尾スズキ演出「キャバレー」でミュージカル初挑戦". Stage Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 3 Aug 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "遠藤憲一が両性具有の宇宙人!三谷最新SFコメディーで出産シーンも" (in Japanese). Cinema Today. 20 Apr 2015. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "黒木瞳が総理大臣を目指す女性政治家役で主演!相手役は初共演の石丸幹二" (in Japanese). Cinema Today. 4 Feb 2015. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "吉田羊&こじはる、ローソン舞台の感動オムニバスドラマに出演!" (in Japanese). Cinema Today. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "堀内敬子と石丸幹二、元劇団四季の同期 退団後初デュエット". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 4 Sep 2015. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "石丸幹二、初の戦国時代劇 ヒガシ"信長"のライバル・明智光秀役". Oricon Style (in Japanese). oricon ME Co., Ltd. 12 Nov 2015. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "石丸幹二が独裁者、山本未來が死神ナース!谷原章介主演ドラマで異色キャラを熱演". Excite News (in Japanese). 22 Apr 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "いきものがかり、水族館の飼育員が主人公のドラマに挿入歌提供 主演は松岡茉優". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 4 Apr 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "WOWOW『沈まぬ太陽』第2部 長塚京三、陣内孝則ら豪華俳優陣が出演". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "松嶋菜々子主演ドラマ、DAIGOら追加キャスト発表「YYD!」〈コメント到着〉". Model Press (in Japanese). Net Native. 13 Jun 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "武井咲、NHKドラマ初主演 忠臣蔵を題材にした女の成功物語". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 12 Aug 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "さまぁ~ず、ダリ展の応援団に就任「だり(誰)よりも光栄」". Owarai Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 25 Aug 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "NHK みんなのうた - かいじん百面相 - 石丸幹二" (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
- ↑ "石丸幹二、「音楽の百科事典のようなミュージカル」の応援サポーターに就任". Stage Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha. 14 Apr 2016. Retrieved 12 Apr 2017.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Sony Music - Kanji Ishimaru (in Japanese)
- Eisei Hekijō Kanji Ishimaru no Mainichi ga Premiere Special Site (in Japanese)