Yōsuke Kubozuka

Yosuke Kubozuka
Born	May 7, 1979 (1979-05-07) (age 32) Kanagawa, Japan

Yosuke Kubozuka (窪塚洋介, Kubozuka Yōsuke^?, born May 7, 1979) is a male Japanese actor born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He graduated from Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School (神奈川県立横須賀高等学校). Yosuke is married and has one son.

Contents 1 Film career 2 Filmography 2.1 Movies 2.2 TV Dramas 3 Awards and nominations 3.1 Awards 4 References 5 External links

Film career

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, 菊池善人 Kikuchi Yoshito. In 2000, he starred in Ikebukuro West Gate Park aka IWGP (TBS) as Andoh Takashi.

In 2001, he starred in Strawberry on the Shortcake (TBS) 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 2001, GO! was officially released for evaluation and this production describes the love story of a young Korean boy living in Japan. The film portrays the day to day challenges faced by foreigners living in Japan. For his performance in this role, Yosuke took home two awards during the Japan Oscar Awards.

Since then, Yosuke took on projects starring in Ping Pong (ピンポン^?)、Kyouki no Sakura (凶気の桜^?) as well as Samurai Resurrection (魔界転生^?).

Filmography

Movies

• 1996: Midori
• 1998: Ping Pong Bath Station
• 2000: Oboreru Sakana
• 2000: Tomie: replay (富江, Tomie^?)
• 2001: Go!
• 2001: Laundry
• 2002: Ping-Pong (ピンポン^?)
• 2002: Kyouki no Sakura (凶気の桜^?)
• 2003: Samurai Resurrection (魔界転生^?)
• 2005: Onaji Tsuki wo Miteiru (Under the Same Moon)
• 2006: Amour-Legende
• 2007: Ore wa, Kimi no Tame ni Koso Shini ni Iku (lit. I Will Surely Go to My Death For You) (俺は、君のためにこそ死ににいく^?)
• 2008: Ichi
• 2011: Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo

TV Dramas

• 1995: Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo
• 1998: Wakaba no koro
• 1999: Great Teacher Onizuka as Kikuchi Yoshito
• 1999: Tengoku ni ichiban chikai otoko as Yuki Satoru
• 1999: Lipstick as Makimura
• 2000: Soshite, tomodachi
• 2000: Moichido Kiss
• 2000: Omiai Kekkon as Ohata Junichi
• 2000: Ikebukuro West Gate Park (King, Leader of the G-Boys) as Takashi
• 2001: Strawberry on the Shortcake as Saeki Tetsuya
• 2001: Number One
• 2002: Long Love Letter as Asami Akio
• 2002: Laundry
• 2002: Kaidan Hyaku Monogatari in story 6

Awards and nominations

Awards

• 25th Television Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Ikebukuro West Gate Park
• 28th Television Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for Strawberry on the Shortcake
• 2002: Award of the Japanese Academy: Best Actor & Newcomer of the Year for Go!
• 2001: Hochi Film Awards: Best Actor for Go!^[1]
• 2001: Nikkan Sports Film Awards: Ishihara Yujiro New Actor Award for Go!
• 2002: Kimema Junpo Awards: Best Actor for Go! & Oboreru sakana, Best New Actor for Go!
• 2002: Mainichi Film Concurs: Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award
• 2002: Marrakech International Film Festival: Best Actor for Go!
• 2002: Yokohama Film Festival: Best Actor for Go! & Oboreru Sakana^[2]

References

External links

• Yosuke Kubozuka at the Internet Movie Database

Awards Hochi Film Award for Best Actor Tatsuya Fuji (1976) · Ken Takakura (1977) · Ken Ogata (1978) · Kenji Sawada (1979) · Masato Furuoya (1980) · Toshiyuki Nagashima (1981) · Mitsuru Hirata (1982) · Yusaku Matsuda (1983) · Saburō Tokitō (1984) · Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) · Yuya Uchida (1986) · Takanori Jinnai (1987) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1988) · Rentaro Mikuni (1989) · Bunta Sugawara (1990) · Masatoshi Nagase (1991) · Masahiro Motoki (1992) · Ken Tanaka (1993) · Kenichi Hagiwara (1994) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1995) · Kōji Yakusho (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Akira Emoto (1998) · Tomakazu Miura (1999) · Yūji Oda (2000) · Yosuke Kubozuka (2001) · Seiichi Tanabe (2002) · Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) · Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) · Somegoro Ichikawa (2005) · Ken Watanabe (2006) · Ryō Kase (2007) · Shinichi Tsutsumi (2008) · Ken Watanabe (2009) Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Ken Takakura (1978) · Ken Ogata (1979) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1980) · Ken Takakura (1981) · Ken Takakura (1982) · Mitsuru Hirata (1983) · Ken Ogata (1984) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1985) · Minoru Chiaki (1986) · Ken Ogata (1987) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1988) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1989) · Rentaro Mikuni (1990) · Ittoku Kishibe (1991) · Rentaro Mikuni (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Toshiyuki Nishida (1994) · Kōichi Satō (1995) · Rentaro Mikuni (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Kōji Yakusho (1998) · Akira Emoto (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Akira Terao (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2003) · Kiichi Nakai (2004) · Akira Terao (2005) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2006) · Ken Watanabe (2007) · Hidetaka Yoshioka (2008) · Masahiro Motoki (2009) · Ken Watanabe (2010) Yokohama Film Festival Best Actor Ken Ogata (1980) · Masato Furuoya (1981) · Toshiyuki Nagashima (1982) · Ruudo Uzaki (1983) · Yusaku Matsuda (1984) · Takeshi Kaga (1985) · Minori Terada (1986) · Kouichi Iwaki (1987) · Saburō Tokitō (1988) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1989) · Ryo Ishibashi (1990) · Masato Furuoya (1991) · Hidekazu Akai (1992) · Masahiro Motoki (1993) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1994) · Eiji Okuda (1995) · Etsushi Toyokawa (1996) · Kōji Yakusho / Tadanobu Asano (1997) · Yoshio Harada (1998) · Kiichi Nakai / Claude Maki (1999) · Ken Takakura (2000) · Tadanobu Asano (2001) · Yōsuke Kubozuka (2002) · Kyōzō Nagatsuka / Seiichi Tanabe (2003) · Satoshi Tsumabuki (2004) · Kōji Yakusho (2005) · Joe Odagiri (2006) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2007) · Ryō Kase (2008) · Kaoru Kobayashi (2009) · Masato Sakai (2010)

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Name	Kubozuka, Yosuke
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Date of birth	May 7, 1979
Place of birth	Kanagawa, Japan
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