| Yōsuke Kubozuka | |
| Native Name: | 窪塚洋介 |
| Birth Date: | 1979 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Years Active: | 1994–present |
| Children: | 2, including Airu Kubozuka |
| Occupation: | Actor, musician |
is a Japanese actor and musician.
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 along with Tomoya Nagase, Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha, Inception) and Tomohisa Yamashita (Nobuta wo Produce, Kurosagi, Operation Love, Code Blue). In this drama he starring as the role of "King" of the G-Boys, 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 October of that same year, Go (directed by Isao Yukisada), which tells the story of a Zainichi chosenjin teenager who falls in love with a Japanese girl, was officially released. For his performance in this role, Kubozuka took home two awards (Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Newcomer of the Year) at Japan Academy Film Prize.[1] Kubozuka also appeared in Mr. Children's 2002 "Kimi ga Suki" music video, which won MTV Video Music Award Japan for Video of the Year in 2002 (Mr. Children also nominated in Best Group Category but losing to Backstreet Boys).[2]
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,[3] Monsters Club,[4] Helter Skelter,[5] 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.
Kubozuka graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School. He married a non-celebrity woman 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, and that he has official custody of his son. Kubozuka remarried in December 2015, a daughter was born in 2017.[6] [7]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Midori | Minoru Kobayashi | Ryūichi Hiroki | ||
| 1998 | Ping Pong Bath Station | Atsusi Fujiki | Gen Yamakawa | ||
| 2000 | Oboreru Sakana | Munetaka Akiyoshi | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | ||
| Fumihito Sato | Fujiro Mitsuishi | ||||
| 2001 | Go | Sugihara | Isao Yukisada | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Paradise Now | Khaled (Japanese dubbed) | Hany Abu-Assad | |||
| 2008 | Ichi | Toraji Shirakawa | Fumihiko Sori | ||
| Where the Legend Lives | Kazuma Sasaki | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | |||
| 2009 | Pandora's Box | Tsukushi | Masanori Tominaga | ||
| 2010 | Tokyo Island | Watanabe | Makoto Shinozaki | ||
| Strangers in the City | Nakagome | Junji Sakamoto | |||
| 2011 | 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 | ||
| One Third | Sho Hama | Hiroshi Shinagawa | |||
| Tokyo Tribe | Nkoi | Sion Sono | |||
| Fuja | Kikuo Himura | Izo Hashimoto | |||
| 2013 | The extreme sukiyaki | Ohkawa | Shirou Maeda | ||
| 2015 | Deadman Inferno | Shirakawa | Hiroshi Shinagawa | ||
| 2016 | Silence | Kichijiro | Martin Scorsese | American film | |
| 2017 | Alley cat | Hideaki Asa / Maru | Hideo Sakaki | ||
| 2019 | The First Supper | Shun | Shirō Tokiwa | ||
| 2020 | Mio's Cookbook | Komatsubara | Haruki Kadokawa | [8] | |
| 2021 | First Love | Gamon Makabe | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | ||
| DIVOC-12 | Hirokawa Hayashida | Anthology film | [9] | ||
| Go Seppuku Yourselves | Toshiaki Toyoda | [10] | |||
| 2023 | Sin Clock | Shinji Takagi | Kenji Maki | [11] | |
| Home Sweet Home | Takumi Saitoh | [12] | |||
| Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower | George (voice) | Shōjirō Nishimi | [13] | ||
| Knuckle Girl | Shiraishi | Chang | South Korean-Japanese film | [14] | |
| 2024 | Transcending Dimensions | Toshiaki Toyoda | [15] | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo | Mitsuru Fukamachi | NTV |
| 1996 | Wakaba no Koro | Itaru Toda | TBS |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2023 | Phoenix: Eden17 | George (voice) | Disney+ |
| 2024 | Tokyo Vice (TV series) | Naoki Hayama | Max |
| GTO Revival[16] [17] | Yoshito Kikuchi | Fuji TV |
| 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 | |