Caramel Corn

Name
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1974-01-18 (52 years old)

Place of Birth
Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa is a Japanese actor born on January 18, 1974, in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan. His real name is Yoshitomo Arakawa, and he is represented by the talent agency Otona Keikaku. He is known for his roles in films like Survive Style 5+ (2004), Fine, Totally Fine (2008), and Cloud (2024). He played his first leading role in Fine, Totally Fine, released in 2008. Beyond film, he's also built a steady career in Japanese television dramas, with credits spanning from the mid-2000s through recent projects like Dr. Ashura (2025).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2006 Akihabara@DEEP as Taiko
2006 Memories of Matsuko as Kenji Shimazu
2004 Kamikaze Girls as Grocery Store Manager
2008 Fine, Totally Fine as Teruo Toyama
2002 Ping Pong as Ota
2007 Yakuza: Like a Dragon as Gun Seller
2004 Survive Style 5+ as Killer's Translator
2023 Kubi as Shimizu Muneharu
2023 One Second Ahead, One Second Behind as Ken Mikurube
2021 白昼夢
2001 エロスの果て
Soon あぶない刑事にヨロシク
Soon 愛が世界を救います
Soon 3年B組皆川先生～2.5時幻目～
2011 Quirky Guys and Gals as Masuteo
2012 Key of Life as Junichi Kudo
2020 大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
2002 Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
2016 Too Young To Die! as Hotoke
2014 Judge! as Carlos
2008 Tokyo! as Pizza Delivery Girl's Neighbor (segment "Shaking Tokyo")
2023 Woman’s Lib Vol. 15 ”Mo Gaman Dekinai”
2013 The Apology King as Gosaku Wada
2006 Manji as Eijiro
2015 Prophecy as Metabo / Shinichi Terahara
2008 The Taste of Fish as Takuya
2008 I Want to Be a Shellfish as Private Takita
2009 Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto as Makoto Sugawara
2024 Cloud as Ichiro Takimoto
2003 JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE
2015 A Farewell to Jinu as Aoki
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2011 Happy Together –All About My Dog– as Voice of Koro
2003 Robot Contest as Gohara
2005 Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims as Spirit of the Dead
2010 Liar Game: The Final Stage as Jiro Nishida
2011 A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip as Iijima
2005 All About My Dog as Koro (voice)
2003 Josee, the Tiger and the Fish as Bookstore Clerk
2018 Hard-Core as Ushiyama
2000 Another Heaven as Survivor
2001 Gore from Outer Space as Taxi Driver
2017 The Anthem of the Heart as Kazuki Joshima
2004 Drugstore Girl as Shinji
2018 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side as Banpei Tatara
2003 A Larva to Love as Fumio Nishio
2019 The 47 Rōnin in Debt as Yasubei Horibe
2015 Wife of a Kamikaze as Koguma Isamu
2014 Fukuchan of Fukufuku Flats as Shimacchi (Takuro Shimaki)
2019 A Murder Is Announced as Tatara Banpei
2002 The Labor Cop
2007 Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Enomoto
2012 Ikkyu-san as New fake Ikkyu
2023 ドクター皆川～手術成功5秒前～
2024 At the Bench
2001 Kirei kamisama to machiawase shita on'na
2024 fukusuke
2002 Parco Fiction as Kanzo Osu
2005 Summer of Ubume as Kazutora
2004 Aka-sen
2024 唐茄子屋不思議国之若旦那
2026 The Samurai and the Prisoner as Muhen
2025 大パルコ人⑤オカタイロックオペラ「雨の傍聴席、おんなは裸足…」
2024 The Cherry Orchard

2021 Story of My Family!!! ( 10 episodes ) as Ryoichi Suehiro
2020 Touban Bengoshi ( 1 episode )
2003 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．７「熊沢パンキース０３」 ( 1 episode )
2006 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」 ( 1 episode )
2011 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１２「サッドソング・フォー・アグリードーター」 ( 1 episode )
1999 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．４「ウーマンリブ発射！」 ( 1 episode )
2001 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．６「キラークイーン６６６」 ( 1 episode )
2019 Kirei 〜 The Woman Who Met Up With God 〜 ( 1 episode )
2004 愛情イッポン！ ( 10 episodes ) as Saieunji Teruo
2002 大人計画「春子ブックセンター」 ( 1 episode )
2004 大人計画「ドライブイン　カリフォルニア」 ( 1 episode )
2002 The Private Detective Mike ( 1 episode )
2001 大人計画「エロスの果て」 ( 1 episode )
2020 劇場の灯を消すな！Ｂｕｎｋａｍｕｒａシアターコクーン編 ( 1 episode )
2006 大人計画「まとまったお金の唄」 ( 1 episode )
2005 Tiger and Dragon ( 11 episodes ) as Yukio Awashima
2023 The Greatest Teacher ( 10 episodes ) as Gashuin Manabu
2013 Clinic on the Sea ( 11 episodes ) as Akira Hiuchi
2020 劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編 ( 1 episode )
2021 ３年Ｂ組皆川先生～２．５時幻目～ ( 1 episode )
2010 大人計画「母を逃がす」 ( 1 episode )
2012 大人計画「ウェルカム・ニッポン」 ( 1 episode )
2023 A Town Without Seasons ( 10 episodes ) as Kawaguchi Hatsutaro
2014 Oh, Love Hotel ( 9 episodes )
2017 And Then There Were None ( 2 episodes ) as Banpei Tatara
2016 Sleepeeer Hit! ( 10 episodes ) as Heita Mibu
2007 Liar Game ( 9 episodes ) as Yuichi Nishida
2022 Tall Order ( 10 episodes ) as Tsuyoshi Miyauchi（宮内剛）
2017 My High School Business ( 10 episodes ) as Tatsuki Gohara
2022 Uzukawamura Incident ( 6 episodes ) as Yoshimi Tadahiko
2006 Miracle Zoo ~ The Asahiyama Zoo Story ~ ( 5 episodes ) as 佐々木征也
2018 Survival Wedding ( 10 episodes ) as Master
2018 Legal V ( 9 episodes ) as Yuichi Baba
2016 Chef: Three Star School Lunch ( 10 episodes ) as Minoru Komatsu
2001 School Teachers ( 11 episodes ) as Saburo
2012 Resident: Story of 5 Interns ( 10 episodes ) as Maeda Ippei
2011 The Full Throttle Girl ( 11 episodes ) as Hayashi Samao
2010 Detective Lovesick ( 11 episodes ) as Masaru Saeki
2015 Angels and Demons: The Cold Case Unit ( 9 episodes ) as Tadaomi Ano
2011 Bartender ( 8 episodes ) as Sugiyama Kaoru
2022 Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama ( 20 episodes )
2024 Double Cheat: Itsuwari no Keikan ( 16 episodes ) as Yashiba Toru
2007 Ganjisu-gawa de batafurai ( 2 episodes ) as Takano Akinori
2009 Mission To Kill ( 1 episode )
2023 Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? ( 10 episodes ) as Ikezawa Eisuke
2013 Amachan ( 157 episodes ) as Masayoshi Yoshida
2020 Today's Nekomura ( 24 episodes ) as Fish shop owner
2020 Ju-On: Origins ( 6 episodes ) as Yasuo Odajima
2021 An no Lyric -Sakuragi An, Haiku Hajimetemimashita- ( 2 episodes )
2006 Happy! ( 2 episodes ) as 海野家康
2026 Canned Mackerel Heads to Space ( 11 episodes ) as Masaki Kurose
2019 Fruits Delivery Service ( 12 episodes ) as Masakane
2026 Goodbye Noir ( 10 episodes ) as Eiji Kuwabara

Powered By