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Akira (actor)

Akira
Exile Akira in 2020
Born
Ryōhei Kurosawa

(1981-08-23) 23 August 1981 (age 43)
NationalityJapanese
Occupations
  • Actor
  • dancer
Years active1997–present
AgentLDH
Spouse
(m. 2019)
Children1

Ryōhei Kurosawa (黒澤 良平, Kurosawa Ryōhei, born 23 August 1981), known by the stage name Akira, is a Japanese actor and dancer. He is also a member of the all-male J-Pop groups Exile and Exile The Second.

Participating Groups

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Name Period of Time Ref.
Exile 2006 -
Exile The Second 2016 -
Rag Pound unknown

Life and career

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Akira was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He moved to Iwata, Shizuoka, at the age of three.[citation needed]

Akira started dancing at the age of 16, at dance club events around the Shizuoka area. He then moved to Tokyo and went on to find the talent agency Makidai & USA. In December 2004, he debuted as a performer in Rather Unique. In June 2006, he joined the group Exile as a performer.[1][2]

He began working as an actor in March 2006, appearing in the "No.1 Attack" stage troupe Gumi Honan. Since then, he has acted in a number of TV dramas in Japan, including the 2012 remake of the Great Teacher Onizuka series, which has been broadcast on Fuji TV since July 2012.[3]

In 2015, Akira provided the voice of Mad Max in the Japanese dub of the film Mad Max: Fury Road.[4]

In September 2016, was announced that he was joining the group Exile The Second as a performer.

In June 2019, he announced that he will marry Lin Chi-ling, a Taiwanese supermodel and actress.[5][6][7] Lin gave birth to a son on 31 January 2022.[8]

Works

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TV Drama

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  • Around 40 - Chuumon no Ooi Onnatachi (TBS, April 2008-), role of Tatsuya Ogata
  • Toomawari no Ame (NTV, 2010-Mar-27 start), role of Yasushi Kikuchi
  • Tumbling (TBS, 2010-Apr-17 start), role of Yutaka Kashiwagi
  • Gou - Himetachi no sengoku (NHK, 2011-Jan-09 to 2011-Nov-27), role of Hidekatsu Toyotomi
  • GTO (Fuji TV, July 2012 - September 2012), role of Eikichi Onizuka
  • Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō (Fuji TV, January 2013 - March 2013), role of Daisuke Goura
  • Honey Trap (Fuji TV, October 2013 - December 2013), role of Yuuichi Miyama
  • GTO (2nd season) (Fuji TV, July 2014 - September 2014), role of Eikichi Onizuka
  • HEAT (Fuji TV, July 2015 - September 2015), role of Tatsuya Ikegami
  • High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D. (NTV, October 2015 - December 2015), role of Kohaku
  • High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D. (2nd season) (NTV, April 2016 - June 2016), role of Kohaku

Film

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Short film

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  • Cinema Fighters "Kimochirabo no Kaihō"(2018)
  • Cinema Fighters Project "Beautiful" (2019)[10]

TV Show

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  • Exile Generation (NTV, January 2009 - March 2010)
  • EXH: Exile House (TBS, April 2009 - March 2010)
  • Hiruxile (NTV, April 2010 - March 2011)
  • EXE (TBS, April 2010 - September)
  • Exile Tamashii (MBS TV MBS, TBS, October 2010)

Radio

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  • Sessions Four (FM North Wave)
  • Radio Mashup MASHUP (Yokohama FM radio, October 2010 -)

References

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  1. ^ "Exile Official Website", 2012, webpage: [1] Archived 2012-09-17 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ MTV Exile Bio
  3. ^ "Live-Action GTO Remake Confirmed with EXILE Member Akira". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  4. ^ "6月20日(土)公開!! アクション超大作『マッドマックス』敵役ジョー軍の最強ファイター・エレクトスの吹き替え声優で真壁刀義が出演!!". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). 2015-04-14. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  5. ^ "Taiwan supermodel Lin Chi-ling marries Japanese…". Taiwan News. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  6. ^ "EXILE boy band's Akira marries Taiwan actress and model Lin Chi-ling". Mainichi Daily News. 2019-06-07.
  7. ^ "Akira of Exile marries Taiwanese supermodel and actress Lin Chiling". 2019-06-06.
  8. ^ "Taiwanese model Lin Chi-ling welcomes first child on LNY Eve". Taiwan News. 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  9. ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  10. ^ "All the details of all the five works in "CINEMA FIGHTERS project Part 3" unveiled! | LDH - LOVE + DREAM + HAPPINESS TO THE WORLD -". www.ldh.co.jp. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
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