Yōsuke Kubozuka

Yōsuke Kubozuka
窪塚洋介
Yōsuke Kubozuka; 窪塚洋介
Born	7 May 1979; Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Actor, musician
Years active	1994-present
Website	www.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 as 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 2001, Go! was officially released for evaluation and this production describes the love story of a young Korean boy living in Japan. The film portrays the day to day challenges faced by foreigners living in Japan. For his performance in this role, Kubozuka took home two awards during the Japan Oscar Awards.

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,[1] Monsters Club,[2] Helter Skelter,[3] 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.[4]　Kubozuka remarried in December 2015, a daughter is born in 2017.

Filmography

Movie

Year	Title	Role	Director
1996	Midori	Minoru Kobayashi	Ryūichi Hiroki
1998	Ping Pong Bath Station	Atsusi Fujiki	Gen Yamakawa
2000	Oboreru Sakana	Munetaka Akiyoshi	Yukihiko Tsutsumi
2000	Tomie: Replay	Fumihito Sato	Fujiro Mitsuishi
2001	Go!	Sugihara	Isao Yukisada
2001	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
2005	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
2007	Paradise Now	Khaled (Japanese dubbed)	Hany Abu-Assad
2008	Ichi	Toraji Shirakawa	Fumihiko Sori
2008	Where the Legend Lives	Kazuma Sasaki	Yukihiko Tsutsumi
2009	Pandora's Box	Tsukushi	Masanori Tominaga
2010	Tokyo Island	Watanabe	Makoto Shinozaki
2010	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
	sanbunnoichi	Sho Hama	Hiroshi Shinagawa
	Tokyo Tribe	Nkoi	Sion Sono
	Fuja	Kikuo Himura	Izo Hashimoto
2013	The extreme sukiyaki	Ohkawa	Shirou Maeda
2015	z-island	Shirakawa	Hiroshi Shinagawa
2016	Silence	Kichijiro	Martin Scorsese
2017	Alley cat	Hideaki Asa / Maru	Hideo Sakaki
2019	The First Supper	Shun	Shirō Tokiwa
2020	Mio Tsukushi Ryōri-chō	Komatsubara	Haruki Kadokawa

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo	Mitsuru Fukamachi	NTB
1996	Wakaba no Koro	Itaru Toda	NTV
1996	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
2001	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

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

25th Television Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Ikebukuro West Gate Park
28th Television Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Strawberry on the Shortcake
2002: Award of the Japanese Academy: Best Actor & Newcomer of the Year for Go!
2001: Hochi Film Awards: Best Actor for Go![5]
2001: Nikkan Sports Film Awards: Ishihara Yujiro New Actor Award for Go!
2002: Kimema Junpo Awards: Best Actor for Go! & Oboreru Sakana, Best New Actor for Go!
2002: Mainichi Film Concurs: Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award
2002: Marrakech International Film Festival: Best Actor for Go!
2002: Yokohama Film Festival: Best Actor for Go! & Oboreru Sakana[6]
2017: Parenting Award：Best Father Category

References

Schilling, Mark (27 August 2010). "'Tokyo-jima (Tokyo Island)' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
Kaufman, Anthony (10 September 2011). "Monsters Club - Review - Screen". Screen International.
Mack, Andrew (12 January 2012). "SAKURAN Director Mika Ninagawa Returns With HELTER SKELTER". Twitch Film.
http://www.tokyohive.com/article/2017/03/kubozuka-yosukes-wife-pinky-is-pregnant-with-their-first-child
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.
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.

External links

Yosuke Kubozuka on IMDb
窪塚洋介 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Manji Line in Twitter

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[1] Schilling, Mark (27 August 2010). "'Tokyo-jima (Tokyo Island)' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.

[2] Kaufman, Anthony (10 September 2011). "Monsters Club - Review - Screen". Screen International.

[3] Mack, Andrew (12 January 2012). "SAKURAN Director Mika Ninagawa Returns With HELTER SKELTER". Twitch Film.

[4] ttp://www.tokyohive.com/article/2017/03/kubozuka-yosukes-wife-pinky-is-pregnant-with-their-first-child

[5] 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.

[6] 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.