Gen Hoshino

Gen Hoshino

Born: January 28, 1981
in Saitama, Japan
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.

Movies for Gen Hoshino...

Last Mile
Title: Last Mile
Character: Kazumi Shima
Released: August 23, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: LIGHTHOUSE
Character: Self
Released: August 22, 2023
Type: TV
Two leading entertainers casually get together for some real talk, shedding light on their vulnerabilities and worries, with lots of laughs along the way.
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Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Title: Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Character: Self
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: Movie
From "Hitori Edge" to "Pop Virus" and beyond, this collection of live performances features highlights from a selection of Gen Hoshino's concert tours.
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Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Title: Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Character: Hoshi-sensei (voice)
Released: December 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Mr. Hoshi is the homeroom teacher of 2nd Year Class 4 at an average Girl’s School. He spends his days baffled by the puzzles his students doodle in their class diary, forced to take care of the dog someone brought to class, giving advice to a student who wants to be a manga artist, and occasionally going for drinks with his co-worker Mr. Kobayashi. The daily life of this awkward teacher is both endearing and amusing. Experience a hilarious slice-of-life story unlike anything you’ve seen before!
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Title: GAME GENOME
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Ogen-san no Sabusuku-do
Character: おげんさん
Released: August 6, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Teen Regime
Character: Taira Kiyoshi
Released: May 7, 2022
Type: TV
In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a country on the decline. Wanting to break free of this endless situation, Prime Minister Washida sets up an experimental project Utopi-AI. Commonly known as the UA concept, leaders are selected from all over the country by AI and made to govern cities that have degenerated. It has been said that the reason why young people cannot take charge of politics is their lack of experience. AI has a massive amount of data that one person cannot possibly “experience”. In other words, AI can supplement any amount of “experience”. As if to prove it, AI chooses 17-year-old Maki Aran who is immature and wants an ideal society, to be the Prime Minister. The other members are all young people around the age of 20. Maki and his compatriots use AI to push forward reforms to regenerate the degenerated regional cities as the experimental city UA.
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Title: Gen Hoshino's Music
Released: February 11, 2022
Type: TV
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Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu: Ganbare Jinrui! Shinshun Special!!
Title: Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu: Ganbare Jinrui! Shinshun Special!!
Released: January 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Mikuri and Hiramasa both work and share housework duties. They have peaceful days together. One day, Mikuri learns that she is pregnant. They decide to marry, but they soon face problems. Mikuri suffers from pregnancy sickness and Hiramasa decides to take a paternity leave before an important project is finished. The couple experience unfamiliar situations involving childbirth and rearing. They go through difficult times.
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The Voice of Sin
Title: The Voice of Sin
Character: Toshiya Sone
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
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Title: MIU404
Character: Kazumi Shima
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: TV
The Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours. Detective Kazumi Shima is selected as a new member of MIU. He is intelligent, with excellent observation and communication skills. Yet, he does not trust other people. He is unable to find a partner in MIU and is ordered to partner with Police Officer Ai Ibuki, who works at a police substation. Ibuki applied for MIU, but he failed. He is in excellent physical condition, but he lacks knowledge and experience as a detective. Shima learns about Ibuki's background and he becomes more nervous. Finally, Shima has his first meeting with Ibuki.
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Title: 逃げるは恥だが役に立つ ムズキュン!特別編
Released: May 19, 2020
Type: TV
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No Smoking
Title: No Smoking
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters. The footage traces his encounter with music in early childhood to his days in bands Happy End and YMO to his solo activities. It also includes in-depth coverage from recent years of his first overseas performances in London, New York and Los Angeles. In London, he was joined by Yukihiro Takahashi, and when Ryuichi Sakamoto made a surprise appearance onstage, the YMO members were reunited for the first time in five years, a must-see spectacle captured on film. Written by Nikkatsu
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GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR
Title: GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Singer-songwriter Gen Hoshino takes the stage at the sold out Tokyo Dome in his highly anticipated 2019 Pop Virus dome tour.
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Samurai Shifters
Title: Samurai Shifters
Character: Harunosuke Katagiri
Released: August 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission.
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Mirai
Title: Mirai
Character: Father (voice)
Released: June 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
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Title: Plage -Share House for Losers-
Character: Yoshimura Takao
Released: August 12, 2017
Type: TV
A humorous suspense drama starring Gen Hoshino, currently Japan's most popular actor. The story is set in a shared house for people with various complicated pasts who have no place to go. Once rejected by society, the residents help each other as they try to get back on their feet.
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Title: おげんさんといっしょ
Character: おげんさん
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: TV
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Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Title: Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Character: Senpai (voice)
Released: April 7, 2017
Type: Movie
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
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Title: The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Character: Tsuzaki Hiramasa
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: TV
A series of events leads single, 25-year-old Mikuri Moriyama and 36-year-old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.
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Chieri and Cherry
Title: Chieri and Cherry
Character: Cherry (voice)
Released: October 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral. Chieri and Cherry undertake a journey on the border between fantasy and reality.
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Title: Dr.STOЯKS
Character: Haruki Shinomiya
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: TV
The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a gifted jazz pianist. His mother had died in childbirth and he was brought up in an orphanage, which is what fueled his ambition to be an ob-gyn. He hopes to be able to deliver every baby to this world, congratulating them on the gift of life given to their little bodies. (Source: TBS)
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Love & Peace
Title: Love & Peace
Character: PC-300 (voice)
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
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The Day Kouhaku Was Born
Title: The Day Kouhaku Was Born
Character: George Mabuchi
Released: March 21, 2015
Type: Movie
This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in 1945, when the country was under General Headquarters.
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Title: Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
Character: 寺山一樹
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: TV
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Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Title: Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Character: Kouji Hashimoto
Released: September 14, 2013
Type: Movie
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
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Blindly in Love
Title: Blindly in Love
Character: Kentaro
Released: June 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. However, the pair soon run into unexpected obstacles. Nahoko is vision impaired and can’t seem to break free of her doting parents. Meanwhile, Kentaro has no idea how to deal with the surge of new emotions he’s feeling.
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Saint☆Young Men
Title: Saint☆Young Men
Character: Gautama Buddha (voice)
Released: May 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment while taking a vacation on Earth. The comedy often involves jokes about Christianity, Buddhism, and all things related, as well as the main characters' attempts to hide their identities and understand modern society in Japan.
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Title: Saint☆Young Men
Character: Buddha
Released: December 3, 2012
Type: TV
Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment while taking a vacation on Earth. The comedy often involves jokes about Christianity, Buddhism, and all things related, as well as the main characters' attempts to hide their identities and understand modern society in Japan. This is a 2 episode OVA preceding the movie of the same name.
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Title: LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
Released: September 1, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Odd Family 11
Character: Hiroyuki Sanada
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: TV
Minoru Sanada is a cameraman with little skills in his profession. His wife Megumi runs a cafe, but the cafe doesn't have any customers. Yet, the couple has 8 chidren.
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Title: My Husband is a Cartoonist
Released: March 29, 2010
Type: TV
The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru. The story revolves around the life of the married couple, told from the perspective of Mura. --Tokyograph
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Title: 大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
Released: October 3, 2009
Type: TV
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Brass Knuckle Boys
Title: Brass Knuckle Boys
Character: Band Member
Released: February 14, 2009
Type: Movie
A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.
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Non-ko
Title: Non-ko
Released: December 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. Her father is always in a stubborn rage, her mother is always trying to calm things down. However, Nonko’s married sister, who already has a daughter, scathingly says of Nonko, “It’s all over for her.”
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Title: Mirai koshi Meguru
Character: Hideo Eguchi
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: TV
Meguru Yoshida (Kyoko Fukada) is an English instructor at a cram school who is forced to support her family after her debt-ridden father disappears. Meguru has a strange condition. Whenever she eats too much, she has visions of what the future holds for those in her presence. One day, while eating barbecued beef, she realizes that her boyfriend, Yuki, will become bald and fat 20 years down the line. She becomes discouraged with the idea that she may end up living her life with Yuki, especially after attending a party with some former classmates who she finds will turn into very handsome men.
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Title: Detective School Q
Character: 猫田刑事
Released: July 3, 2007
Type: TV
The city is filled with countless urban legends. Strange incidents that occur in the midst of these legends lead people into a labyrinth... It is the five young detective hatchlings who take on these difficult cases. Overflowing with intellectual curiosity, they make the most of their abilities. They are full of intellectual curiosity and show their abilities to the fullest as they run through the city and get to the bottom of the mystery. And what lurks behind the scenes is a professional criminal planner... Through fierce battles with the enemy and encounters with various people, they are sometimes hurt, but they gradually grow up. This is a pop youth mystery that depicts the friendship and adventures of a group of talented detectives.
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.10「ウーマンリブ先生」
Released: November 11, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: Once Again Sugar & Spice
Character: Koyama
Released: August 30, 2006
Type: TV
Stories about how sweet and bitter love can be.
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Title: Akihabara@DEEP
Character: Taiko
Released: June 19, 2006
Type: TV
Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of manga, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers fanatics of such themes, people who are commonly referred to as otaku. Page, Box, Akira, Taiko, Daruma, and Izumu are six otaku each with his/her own troubles and sought relief through a website called "Yui's Lifeguard." When site owner Yui died of a mysterious death, the six who are each experts in their own fields gathered to form "Akihabara@DEEP", a "trouble shooter" group that vows to protect Akihabara and solve the problems of its inhabitants.
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Title: Tiger and Dragon
Character: Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: TV
A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets.
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Title: 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.8「轟天VS港カヲル」
Released: September 8, 2004
Type: TV
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69
Title: 69
Character: Yuzuru Nakamura
Released: July 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
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Title: NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen
Character: Himself
Released: January 3, 1951
Type: TV
NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kouhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special held on December 31 every year, and produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on NHK General TV, BS4K, BS8K and NHK radio (nationally) and internationally on NHK World Premium and some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program. The program divides the most popular music artists of the year into competing teams of red and white. The 'red' team or 'akagumi' (紅組) is composed of all female artists (or groups with female vocals), while the 'white' team or 'shirogumi' (白組) is all male (or groups with male vocals).