Gen Hoshino

Known for ActingBorn 1981-01-28 (age 45)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.Read more

Movies & web series

おげんさんといっしょ

Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron

We Married as a Job: New Year's Special

Akihabara@DEEP

SPY x FAMILY

My Husband is a Cartoonist

Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023

LIGHTHOUSE

SAKAMOTO DAYS

Achikochi Audrey

Plage -Share House for Losers-

Crazy for Me

Detective School Q

A Moon in the Ordinary

おげんさんのサブスク堂

The Full-Time Wife Escapist

Half Blue Sky

Saint☆Young Men

Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread

Dr.STOЯKS

Hoshi of the Girls' Garden

Teen Regime

Overprotected Kahoko

MIU404

Night Is Short, Walk On Girl

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen

The Voice of Sin

SPY x FAMILY CODE: White

Slow Train

Mirai

The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special

Saint☆Young Men

GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"

No Smoking

Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island

Tiger and Dragon

Love & Peace

Last Mile

Odd Family 11

Why I Dress Up for Love

69

Brass Knuckle Boys

Non-ko

Ghost Book

108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba

The Woodsman and the Rain

Moriyamachu Driving School