Name
Gen Hoshino
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-01-28 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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- 2021 The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special as Hiramasa Tsuzaki
- 2013 Why Don't You Play in Hell? as Kouji Hashimoto
- 2023 Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023 as Self
- 2013 Saint☆Young Men as Gautama Buddha (voice)
- 2013 Blindly in Love as Kentaro
- 2022 Hoshi of the Girls' Garden as Hoshi-sensei (voice)
- 2008 Non-ko as Masaru
- 2015 Chieri and Cherry as Cherry (voice)
- 2009 Brass Knuckle Boys as Band Member
- 2024 Last Mile as Kazumi Shima
- 2004 69 as Yuzuru Nakamura
- 2017 Night Is Short, Walk On Girl as Senpai (voice)
- 2015 The Day Kouhaku Was Born as George Mabuchi
- 2015 Love & Peace as PC-300 (voice)
- 2018 Mirai as Father (voice)
- 2019 GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
- 2019 Samurai Shifters as Harunosuke Katagiri
- 2019 No Smoking as Self
- 2020 The Voice of Sin as Toshiya Sone
- 2025 Slow Train as Doumeki Mi
- 2025 Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly” as Self
- 2024 Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome as Himself
- 2026 Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
- 2026 GROTESQQQUE as Kento Kurikura (voice)
- 2006 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」 ( 1 episode )
- 2004 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」 ( 1 episode )
- 2009 大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」 ( 1 episode )
- 2023 LIGHTHOUSE ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 2005 Tiger and Dragon ( 11 episodes ) as Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
- 2011 Odd Family 11 ( 9 episodes ) as Hiroyuki Sanada
- 2008 Mirai koshi Meguru ( 10 episodes ) as Hideo Eguchi
- 2016 The Full-Time Wife Escapist ( 11 episodes ) as Tsuzaki Hiramasa
- 2022 Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron ( 12 episodes )
- 2013 LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto ( 7 episodes )
- 2017 おげんさんといっしょ ( 7 episodes ) as おげんさん
- 2020 We Married as a Job: New Year's Special ( 11 episodes )
- 2015 Dr.STOЯKS ( 21 episodes ) as Haruki Shinomiya
- 1951 NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen ( 2 episodes ) as Himself
- 2022 Teen Regime ( 5 episodes ) as Taira Kiyoshi
- 2006 Akihabara@DEEP ( 12 episodes ) as Taiko
- 2017 Plage -Share House for Losers- ( 5 episodes ) as Yoshimura Takao
- 2022 おげんさんのサブスク堂 ( 12 episodes ) as おげんさん
- 2010 My Husband is a Cartoonist ( 156 episodes )
- 2014 Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread ( 7 episodes ) as 寺山一樹
- 2006 Once Again Sugar & Spice ( 4 episodes ) as Koyama
- 2007 Detective School Q ( 11 episodes ) as Detective Nekota
- 2012 Saint☆Young Men ( 2 episodes ) as Buddha (voice)
- 2020 MIU404 ( 11 episodes ) as Kazumi Shima
- 1951 NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
- 2004 Gekidan Engimono ( 1 episode )
- 2004 弟 ( 5 episodes )
