Gen Hoshino
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 28, 1981 (age 45)
- Birthplace
- Saitama, Japan
Biography
Gen Hoshino (星野 源, Hoshino Gen, born January 28, 1981) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Hoshino's movie debut, Lee Sang-il's 69, was an adaptation of the Ryū Murakami novel of the same name. He previously acted in various television dramas and stage plays. In 2012, he debuted as a voice actor, voicing Buddha in the original video animation (OVA) adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura's manga Saint Young Men, and also provided a theme song called "Gag" for its 2013 theatrical version, where he reprised his role. In 2013, he played the lead character in Masahide Ichii's Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Hakoiri Musuko no Koi) alongside Kaho, and starred in the Sion Sono film Why Don't You Play in Hell?. In 2016, Hoshino starred in TBS's The Full-Time Wife Escapist. With Yui Aragaki as his co-star, he portrayed a salaryman named Hiramasa Tsuzaki. The drama achieved steadily rising ratings, with a real-time viewership peak rating of 20.8% on the final episode, and an overall rating of 14.5%. Hoshino's performance earned him several Best Supporting Actor awards. He also provided the theme song for the drama, titled "Koi". In 2017, Hoshino lent his voice to the main character of award-winning animated film Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. He also became the voice of the Father in Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, which was released into theaters in Japan on July 20, 2018. Idaten, NHK's 2019 Taiga drama, chosen for the theme to encourage the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hoshino portrayed Kazushige Hirasawa, who delivered the persuasive speech that helped determine the venue for the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. On April 30, 2018, it was announced that Hoshino will star in Samurai Shifters, the film adaptation of Akihiro Dobashi's historical novel Hikkoshi Daimyo Sanzenri, set to premier on August 30, 2019. In the movie, he plays a bookworm samurai called Harunosuke Katagiri, who receives the mission to help a daimyo move. It will be Hoshino's first lead role in a live-action movie since Blindly in Love in 2013.
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Filmography
Sacrée frousse !
Movie · as Cherry (second segment) (voice)
Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
Movie
GROTESQQQUE
Movie · as Kento Kurikura (voice)
Slow Train
Movie · as Doumeki Mi
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
Movie · as Self
Last Mile
Movie · as Kazumi Shima
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
Movie · as Himself
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Movie · as Self
LIGHTHOUSE
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Movie · as Hoshi-sensei (voice)
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
TV · 12 eps
Teen Regime
TV · as Taira Kiyoshi · 5 eps
おげんさんのサブスク堂
TV · as おげんさん · 12 eps
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
Movie · as Hiramasa Tsuzaki
The Voice of Sin
Movie · as Toshiya Sone
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
TV · 11 eps
MIU404
TV · as Kazumi Shima · 11 eps
GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
Movie
Samurai Shifters
Movie · as Harunosuke Katagiri
No Smoking
Movie · as Self
Mirai
Movie · as Father (voice)
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Movie · as Senpai (voice)
おげんさんといっしょ
TV · as おげんさん · 7 eps
Plage -Share House for Losers-
TV · as Yoshimura Takao · 5 eps
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
TV · as Tsuzaki Hiramasa · 11 eps
Chieri and Cherry
Movie · as Cherry (voice)
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
Movie · as George Mabuchi
Love & Peace
Movie · as PC-300 (voice)
Dr.STOЯKS
TV · as Haruki Shinomiya · 21 eps
Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
TV · as 寺山一樹 · 7 eps
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Movie · as Kouji Hashimoto
Saint☆Young Men
Movie · as Gautama Buddha (voice)
Blindly in Love
Movie · as Kentaro
LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
TV · 7 eps
Saint☆Young Men
TV · as Buddha (voice) · 2 eps
Odd Family 11
TV · as Hiroyuki Sanada · 9 eps
My Husband is a Cartoonist
TV · 156 eps
Brass Knuckle Boys
Movie · as Band Member
大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
TV · 1 ep
Non-ko
Movie · as Masaru
Mirai koshi Meguru
TV · as Hideo Eguchi · 10 eps
Detective School Q
TV · as Detective Nekota · 11 eps
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」
TV · 1 ep
Akihabara@DEEP
TV · as Taiko · 12 eps
Once Again Sugar & Spice
TV · as Koyama · 4 eps
Tiger and Dragon
TV · as Dontsuku Hayashiyatei · 11 eps
69
Movie · as Yuzuru Nakamura
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」
TV · 1 ep
Gekidan Engimono
TV · 1 ep
弟
TV · 5 eps
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
TV · as Himself, Self - Performer · 2 eps