Naoki Tanaka (comedian)

Naoki Tanaka
Native name 田中 直樹
Born (1971-04-26) 26 April 1971
Toyonaka, Osaka, JapanJapan
Years active 1992–
Spouse
Shie Kohinata
(m. 2003; div. 2017)
[1]
Partner(s) Shozo Endo (Cocorico)

Naoki Tanaka (田中 直樹, Tanaka Naoki) is a Japanese comedian, actor and television presenter who is the leader and the boke of the owarai kombi Cocorico with his partner Shozo Endo. He has appeared in many television programmes and films. He is known for be a regular member of Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!, which he and Endo works since 1997.

Tanaka is also known for his love animals, especially sea creatures, and at 2018, June, 24 he became the Marine Stewardship Council ambassador on Japan. [2]

Biography

Born in Shōnai, Toyonaka, Osaka, at April, 26, 1971, the youngest of three children. Tanaka met Endo at Toshima Elementary school, they played baseball at their school team, Tanaka were the vice captain playing as a catcher. At high school, Tanaka studied at Sakurazuka High School and played handball. Tanaka studied design on a vocational school.

After his graduation, with the age of 20, Tanaka were invited by Endo to move to Tokyo where they was selected by the Yoshimoto Kogyo auditions and created his comedy duo, originally named as "Cocorico Bombers", but they were advised to shorten their name. At Tokyo, Tanaka also worked as waiter, on two different restaurants.

Tanaka acted on the movie Minna no Ie, and won the Japan Academy Awards prizes of newcoming of the year and popularity categories.

At May, 2003 Tanaka announced his marriage with the tarento Shie Kohinata [3], who worked with him at the comedy show Cocorico Miracle Type, at June of the same year and they had 2 children, the eldest born at June, 2004 and youngest at April, 24, 2008.

At 2017, may, Tanaka sent a fax announcing their divorce, apologizing for the inconvenience and saying that him and Kohinata wanted to fulfill their duties as father and mother. Different from the usual on Japan, Tanaka got the custody of his children. The reason of divorce weren't revealed. The news of the divorce surprised people of Japan because Tanaka and Kohinata were known as a happy living couple.

Filmography

Current appearances

TV programmes

Regular programmes
  • Zip! (6 Oct 2016 –, NTV) – Thursday Personality[4]
  • Ike no Mizu zenbu Nuku (15 Jan 2017 –, TX) – MC
  • Life!: Jinsei ni Sasageru Conte series-6 (13 Apr 2018 –, NHK G)
  • Nihon Sōzō Kikō: Watisuto (7 Apr 2018 –, BS11) – MC
Internet
  • YoshiLog (GyaO!)*Monthly regular
  • Gokuraku Tonbo KakeruTV (2017–, AbemaTV AbemaGolden9)*Quasi-regular
  • Tanaka • Nemu no Hirameke! Denkiki (2017-, KawaiianTV)

Former programmes

  • Music×Drama Special M no Shikai-sha (13 Oct 2006, CX)*Starring; as Susumu Kozukue
  • Rankin no Paradise (24 Nov 2006 – 12 Sep 2008, MBS–TBS)
  • ~Geodeki! Pop Company~ Pop-ya (7 Apr – 22 Sep 2008, CX)
  • Ojomama! F (Apr 2008 – Mar 2009, KTV)
  • Check! The No.1 (Oct 2008 – Mar 2009, MBS–TBS)
  • Tobidase! Kagaku-kun (Apr 2009 – Sep 2011, TBS)
  • Cocorico Naoki Tanaka no Onomichi Photo Sanpo (19 Sep 2009, HTV)
  • Uchimura–Tanaka no Shirarezaru How-to Sekai Tadashī Sora no Tobikata (9 Oct 2009, CX)
  • Chō Heibon Hakase Tanaka (5 Nov 2011 – 30 Mar 2013, TBS)
  • Cocorico Naoki Tanaka no (3 Apr 2012 – 19 Mar 2013, NHK E)*Navigator
  • TV de Chūgoku-go (8 Jul 2012, NHK BS Premium)
  • Life!: Jinsei ni Sasageru Conte series-0 to 5 (1 Sep 2012 – 6 Apr 2018, NHK G)
  • Quiz 100-Ninriki (27 Oct 2012 – Mar 2015, NHK G)
  • Conte no Gekijō: The Actors' Comedy (26 Jan, 31 May, 30 Aug, 29 Nov 2013, NHK BS Premium)
  • 100% Entertainment (18 Feb 2013, GT)
  • I Am Bōken Shōnen (23 Apr 2014 – 26 Mar 2015, TBS)
  • Tan Q! A Trip (24 Jan 2015 – 19 Mar 2016, TVA)*Monthly
  • 1-Ko dake Yellow (24 Apr 2015 – 30 Mar 2017, NBN) – MC[5]
  • Shitteru or Shittaka? Quiz! Balevel no Tō (17 Oct 2015, ABC)

TV dramas

  • Moero!! Robocon (1 Aug 1999, EX) – as Passerby
  • Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari Autumn Special Edition "" (Sep 1999, CX) – Starring; as Shimura
  • Ashita Ga Arusa (2001, NTV)
  • Gakko no Sensei (2001, TBS) – as Atsushi Onodera
  • Kaiki Daisakusen: Second File (Apr 2007, BS-hi) – Starring; as Kyosuke Misawa
  • Mirai Yuenchi (28 Sep 2007, EX) – Starring; as Tatsuya Hasebe
  • Loss:Time:Life (8 Mar 2008, CX) – Starring; as Koichi Kitazawa
  • Mirai Yuenchi 2 (28 Mar 2008, EX)
  • Reset (15 Jan 2009, NTV) – Starring; as Henry
  • Renzoku Drama Shōsetsu Kinoshita-buchō to Boku (2010, YTV) – as Daisuke Kanagawa
  • Honjitsu wa Taian Nari (2012, NHK) – as Junichi Tokura
  • Platina Town (2012, Wowow) – as Kotaro Ushijima
  • Yūsha Yoshihiko to Akuryō no Kagi (7 Dec 2012, TX) – as Morgan
  • Link (2013, Wowow) – as Tsutomu Sawada
  • Isha-ryō Bengoshi: Anata no Namida, Okane ni Kaemashou (Jan–Mar 2014, YTV) – Starring; as Yukio Hakamada
  • Alice no Toge (Apr–Jun 2014, TBS) – as Junichi Chihara
  • Mother Game: Kanojo-tachi no Kaikyū (Apr–Jun 2015, TBS) – as Okinawa Ward Office official
  • I'm Home (23 Apr 2015, EX) – as Toshi Yamanobe
  • KariKare (Nov 2015, NHK BS Premium) – as Yoshiharu Sano
  • Neko Zamurai Tamanojō Edo e Iku (Feb 2016, JAITS co-production) – Starring; as Himatsu
  • Eiko Kyōju no Jiken-bo (21 May 2016, EX) – as Haruto Nanba[6]
  • Asa ga Kuru (Jun–Jul 2016, THB–CX) – as Kiyokazu Kurihara[7]
  • Suna no Tō~Shiri sugita Rinjin (Oct–Dec 2016, TBS) – as Kenichi Takano
  • Kasei Otto no Mitazono (Oct–Dec 2016, EX) – as Kengo Tomita
  • Masuyama Chō Nōryoku-shi Jimusho (5 Jan – Mar 2017, YTV) – Starring; as Keitaro Masuyama
  • Renzoku Drama J Jiro Asada: Prison Hotel (Oct–Dec 2017, BS Japan) – Starring; as Kazuma Hanazawa

Internet dramas

  • Utsunuke (scheduled Fall 2018) – Starring; as Keiichi Tanaka

Films

  • Minna no Ie (2001) – as Naosuke Iijima*won the Japan Academy Film Prize New Actor Award
  • Walking with the Dog (2004) – Starring; as Yasuyuki Okamura
  • Gyakkyō Nine (2005) – as Takeshi Sakakibara
  • The Uchōten Hotel (2006) – as Naosuke Iijima*Cameo appearance
  • Forbidden Siren (2006) – as Yutaka Minamida
  • Argentine Hag (2007) – as Mamoru Mukai
  • Fine, Totally Fine (2007) – as Yuhara
  • Team Batista no Eikō (2008) – as Makoto Himuro
  • Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010) – as Zebraman TV ver./Junichi Ichiba
  • Okaeri, Hayabusa (2012) – as Daigo Iwamatsu
  • Da Color?~The Datsugoku Survival (2016) – Starring[8]
  • Neko Zamurai Tamanojō Edo e Iku (2016) – as Himatsu (Hikuaku)
  • Kin Medal Otoko (2016) – as Nakano-sensei
  • Masuyama Chō Nōryoku-shi Jimusho: Gekijō-ban wa Koi no Aji (2018) – Starring; as Keitaro Masuyama
  • Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger: en film (2018) – as Herlock Sholmes[9]/Unknown Gangler Monster
  • Ano Hi no Organ (2019) – as Shigeru Wakimoto

Stage

  • OneOr8: Bakugyaku no Inu (2008)

TV anime

  • Oden-kun (Apr 2005 – Feb 2009, NHK E) – as Kamisama
  • Ganbare! Oden-kun (Jan 2013 – Dec 2014, ABC) – as Kamisama
  • It is Living Happily on Ground Every Day (Apr 2013 – Mar 2014, NHK BS Premium) – Narrator

Anime films

Dubbing

Documentaries

  • NHK Special Yamai no Kigen Prologue Jinrui Shinka 700 Man-nen no Shukumei (18 May 2013, NHK)

DVD

  • Personal Katsudō – From 26 October 2005, Tanaka himself released a volume of his conte DVDs every three months, and ended with five volumes

Internet

  • Yoshimoto Online "Yoshomoto Gakuen! Yahoo! Sensei" (27 Jan 2009 –, Yoshimoto Gekijō, Saturdays 22:00–23:20)

In-flight programmes

  • JAL original in-flight programme Yoshimoto JALTV First Shot (Dec 2009 – Jan 2010, screened in Japan Airlines)

Advertisements

Serialisations

  • National Geographic Channel – Column serialisations on its official website. "Cocorico Tanaka no " (Jun 2015 –)[14]

Publications

  • Cocorico Tanaka×Takeshi Naganuma presents Zukai: Ikimono ga Miteiru Sekai (Jul 2015, Gakken Publishing) ISBN 978-4054063112[15]

References

  1. ↑ "ココリコ田中直樹と小日向しえが離婚 2児の親権は田中「責任を果たしていきたい」" (in Japanese). Oricon News. Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 25 Jun 2018.
  2. ↑ http://msc-japan.blog.jp/archives/76029074.html
  3. ↑ http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/3/5/27/n319416.htm
  4. ↑ "まさか自分が…ココリコ田中「ZIP!」新メインパーソナリティに就任". Owarai Natalie (in Japanese). 30 Aug 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-31. Retrieved 17 Jun 2018.
  5. ↑ "1個だけイエロー公式HP". Nagoya Broadcasting Network (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2015-04-13. Retrieved 19 Jun 2018.
  6. ↑ "藤木直人&ココリコ田中、文系の天才教授&ダメ刑事でドラマ初共演". Oricon Style (in Japanese). 5 Apr 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. Retrieved 20 Jun 2018.
  7. ↑ "ココリコ田中が新ドラマで安田成美の夫役、養子持つ父の優しさと苦悩演じる". Owarai Natalie (in Japanese). 26 Apr 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 20 Jun 2018.
  8. ↑ "福田雄一脚本×ココリコ田中主演の密室コメディ「だCOLOR?」予告編公開". Eiga Natalie (in Japanese). 15 Jun 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-15. Retrieved 22 Jun 2018.
  9. ↑ "劇場版「ルパパト」に新勢力"探偵"が登場、演じるのはココリコ田中直樹". Eiga Natalie (in Japanese). 27 May 2016. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018. Retrieved 23 Jun 2018.
  10. ↑ "河童のクゥと夏休み" (in Japanese). Media Arts Database. 27 May 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 23 Jun 2018.
  11. ↑ "クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ!オラと宇宙のプリンセス" (in Japanese). Media Arts Database. Archived from the original on 2016-10-23. Retrieved 23 Jun 2018.
  12. ↑ "『ジュラシック・ワールド』新吹替え版にココリコ田中、永野、水卜麻美&森圭介アナ" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2018-04-05. Retrieved 24 Jun 2018.
  13. ↑ https://tv-rider.jp/column/2467#%2
  14. ↑ "ピックアップ特集!驚くべき地球上の生きものたち「ココリコ田中の生きものこれ知ってた?」" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2015-07-27. Retrieved 25 Jun 2018.
  15. ↑ "ココリコ田中 手掛けた動物図鑑発売" (in Japanese). Daily Sports. 16 Aug 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 25 Jun 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.