Akira (actor)
Akira | |
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Exile Akira in 2020 | |
Born | Ryōhei Kurosawa 23 August 1981 |
Nationality | Japanese |
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Years active | 1997–present |
Agent | LDH |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Ryōhei Kurosawa (黒澤 良平, Kurosawa Ryōhei, born 23 August 1981), known by the stage name Akira, is a Japanese actor and dancer. He is also a member of the all-male J-Pop groups Exile and Exile The Second.
Participating Groups
[edit]Name | Period of Time | Ref. |
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Exile | 2006 - | |
Exile The Second | 2016 - | |
Rag Pound | unknown |
Life and career
[edit]Akira was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He moved to Iwata, Shizuoka, at the age of three.[citation needed]
Akira started dancing at the age of 16, at dance club events around the Shizuoka area. He then moved to Tokyo and went on to find the talent agency Makidai & USA. In December 2004, he debuted as a performer in Rather Unique. In June 2006, he joined the group Exile as a performer.[1][2]
He began working as an actor in March 2006, appearing in the "No.1 Attack" stage troupe Gumi Honan. Since then, he has acted in a number of TV dramas in Japan, including the 2012 remake of the Great Teacher Onizuka series, which has been broadcast on Fuji TV since July 2012.[3]
In 2015, Akira provided the voice of Mad Max in the Japanese dub of the film Mad Max: Fury Road.[4]
In September 2016, was announced that he was joining the group Exile The Second as a performer.
In June 2019, he announced that he will marry Lin Chi-ling, a Taiwanese supermodel and actress.[5][6][7] Lin gave birth to a son on 31 January 2022.[8]
Works
[edit]TV Drama
[edit]- Around 40 - Chuumon no Ooi Onnatachi (TBS, April 2008-), role of Tatsuya Ogata
- Toomawari no Ame (NTV, 2010-Mar-27 start), role of Yasushi Kikuchi
- Tumbling (TBS, 2010-Apr-17 start), role of Yutaka Kashiwagi
- Gou - Himetachi no sengoku (NHK, 2011-Jan-09 to 2011-Nov-27), role of Hidekatsu Toyotomi
- GTO (Fuji TV, July 2012 - September 2012), role of Eikichi Onizuka
- Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō (Fuji TV, January 2013 - March 2013), role of Daisuke Goura
- Honey Trap (Fuji TV, October 2013 - December 2013), role of Yuuichi Miyama
- GTO (2nd season) (Fuji TV, July 2014 - September 2014), role of Eikichi Onizuka
- HEAT (Fuji TV, July 2015 - September 2015), role of Tatsuya Ikegami
- High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D. (NTV, October 2015 - December 2015), role of Kohaku
- High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D. (2nd season) (NTV, April 2016 - June 2016), role of Kohaku
Film
[edit]- Hana Yori Dango Final (2008), Sunny
- Yamagata Scream (2009), Santaro
- Properly convey (2009), North Shiro
- Legend of the Fist:The Return of Chen Zhen (2010), Sasaki
- Hanjiro (2010), Yaichiro Nagayama
- Working Holiday (2012), Yamato Okita
- Kusahara no Isu (2013), Kagiyama
- Unfair: the end (2015),
- High & Low: The Movie (2016), Kohaku
- High&Low The Red Rain (2016), Kohaku
- High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky (2017), Kohaku
- High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission (2017), Kohaku
- Tatara Samurai (2017)
- This Old Road: Konomichi (2019), Kosaku Yamada
- The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022), Yamamoto Tatewaki[9]
Short film
[edit]- Cinema Fighters "Kimochirabo no Kaihō"(2018)
- Cinema Fighters Project "Beautiful" (2019)[10]
TV Show
[edit]- Exile Generation (NTV, January 2009 - March 2010)
- EXH: Exile House (TBS, April 2009 - March 2010)
- Hiruxile (NTV, April 2010 - March 2011)
- EXE (TBS, April 2010 - September)
- Exile Tamashii (MBS TV MBS, TBS, October 2010)
Radio
[edit]- Sessions Four (FM North Wave)
- Radio Mashup MASHUP (Yokohama FM radio, October 2010 -)
References
[edit]- ^ "Exile Official Website", 2012, webpage: [1] Archived 2012-09-17 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ MTV Exile Bio
- ^ "Live-Action GTO Remake Confirmed with EXILE Member Akira". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- ^ "6月20日(土)公開!! アクション超大作『マッドマックス』敵役ジョー軍の最強ファイター・エレクトスの吹き替え声優で真壁刀義が出演!!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ "Taiwan supermodel Lin Chi-ling marries Japanese…". Taiwan News. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- ^ "EXILE boy band's Akira marries Taiwan actress and model Lin Chi-ling". Mainichi Daily News. 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Akira of Exile marries Taiwanese supermodel and actress Lin Chiling". 2019-06-06.
- ^ "Taiwanese model Lin Chi-ling welcomes first child on LNY Eve". Taiwan News. 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- ^ "All the details of all the five works in "CINEMA FIGHTERS project Part 3" unveiled! | LDH - LOVE + DREAM + HAPPINESS TO THE WORLD -". www.ldh.co.jp. Retrieved 2019-06-22.