Hirofumi Arai

Hirofumi Arai
Japanese name
Kanji 新井浩文
Rōmaji Arai Hirofumi
Korean name
Hangul 박경식
Hanja 朴慶植
Revised Romanization Bak Gyeong-sik
McCune-Reischauer Pak Kyŏng'sik

Hirofumi Arai (born January 18, 1979 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture) is a third-generation Zainichi South Korean actor.

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Career

Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's GO in 2001. His next film role that year was the emotionally disturbed senior high school student Aoki in Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring, which won him the Best New Actor award at the 17th Takasaki Film Festival.

In a Josei Seven interview, Arai had stated that, in spite of the critically acclaimed Blue Spring, The Whispering of the Gods, Sway and Blood and Bones, he regarded the satirical crime film The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006) as his true breakthrough film. His role had allowed him to exhibit a wider range of his acting abilities including comic timing. Since the film release, he was offered comedic roles he had wanted but couldn't get, including The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio, Korede iinoda!! Eiga★Akatsuka Fujio and Slapstick Brothers.

In 2011, Arai co-stars as Detective Kazuhiko Soga in an one-off TV crime thriller Douki with co-stars Ryuhei Matsuda as Detective Ryota Udagawa and Chiaki Kuriyama as Michiru Soga.

Personal

Tokyograph announced in 2007 that Arai was in a "serious relationship" with singer Miu Sakamoto, the eldest daughter of noted musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and singer-songwriter Akiko Yano, after they met during a television talk show in 2006. After Arai was formally introduced to Miu's father on TV in 2008, the couple sought to keep their relationship private from the media. As of May 2011, it's reported that the couple are still in relationship.

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