Kōtarō Yoshida (actor)
{{short description|Japanese actor and theatre director (born 1959)}}
{{BLP sources|date=December 2015}}
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| native_name = 吉田 鋼太郎
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|1|14}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
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| occupation = Actor, theatre director
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| children = 1
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- Performance Unit AUN
- Horipro
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{{nihongo|Kōtarō Yoshida|吉田 鋼太郎|Yoshida Kōtarō|born January 14, 1959, in Tokyo}} is a Japanese actor and theatre director. He is currently affiliated with Horipro.
Biography
Yoshida spent six years in Osaka during his grade school days, and later grew up in Hino, Tokyo. While a student at St. Paul High School, he saw the Shakespearean comedy "Twelfth Night" by the Kumo Theater Company and decided to become an actor. While studying at the Department of German Literature in the Faculty of Literature at Sophia University, he made his debut by performing Twelfth Night in the Shakespeare Study Group. He later dropped out of the same university.
After working with the Shiki Theatre Company for six months, he worked with Shakespeare Theatre, Lyming Theatre Company, and Tokyo Ichigumi before forming Performance Unit AUN with director Yoshihiro Kurita in 1997, which he also directed. He was valued as an actor capable of performing the roles required of foreign classics such as Shakespeare and Greek tragedies, and was a regular in Yukio Ninagawa's productions. He is a close friend of Tatsuya Fujiwara and Shun Oguri, who often appeared in Ninagawa's works. Starting in 2010, he expanded his activities into television dramas and films on the advice of Oguri.
Yoshida played Hanzawa's boss in Hanzawa Naoki in 2013 and Densuke Kanō, who was modeled after businessman Den'emon Itō, in Hanako to Anne in 2014. These performances attracted attention, which led to an increase in his appearances in films, his first starring role being in Tokyo Sentimental.
He got married on January 1, 2016 (his fourth marriage, including one de facto marriage) and hosted a wedding in February 2017. In October 2016, he succeeded Yukio Ninagawa as the second artistic director of the Sai no Kuni Shakespeare Series.
Filmography
=Stage=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes ! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| 1985
| | Harumi Nakashima | | |
| 1997
| Othello | Othello | | |
| 1998
| Shylock | Norio Deguchi | | |
| 2001
| Hamlet | Hamlet | Norio Deguchi | | |
| 2008
| Earl of Gloucester | Yukio Ninagawa | | |
| 2014
| Cassius | Yukio Ninagawa | | |
| 2015
|Ryuk |Tamiya Kuriyama | | |
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes ! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| 2010
| Surely Someday | Kitō | | |
| rowspan="2"| 2015
| Kensaku Ōno | | |
| Shinjuku Swan
| Amano | | |
| rowspan="5"| 2017
| Mamoru Yamagami | | |
| Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High
| Jōsuke Akaba | | |
| The Third Murder
| Daisuke Settsu | | |
| Mixed Doubles
| Seiichirō Yamashita | | |
| Shinjuku Swan II
| Amano | | |
| rowspan="3"| 2018
| The Lies She Loved | | | |
| Love × Doc
| | | |
| Over Drive
| Issei Tsuzuki | | |
| rowspan="6"| 2019
| Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration | Diabolo (voice) | | |
| Ossan's Love the Movie
| Musashi Kurosawa | | |
| Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV
| Akio's father | Lead role | |
| Dragon Quest: Your Story
| Ladja (voice) | | |
| Lupin III: The First
| Lambert (voice) | | |
| Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion the Movie: Mirai Kara Kita Shinsoku no ALFA-X
| Ohanefu (voice) | |
| rowspan="2"| 2020
| Yoshihiro Kurosaki | |
| From Today, It's My Turn!!
| Ichirō Mitsuhashi | |
| rowspan="2"| 2021
| Cube | Kazumasa Ando | |
| Last of the Wolves
| Yōzō Watafune | |
| 2022
| Kondō | | {{cite web |url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-02-24/live-action-way-of-the-househusband-film-reveals-7-cast-members-june-debut/.182973|title= Live-Action Way of the Househusband Film Reveals 7 Cast Members, June Debut|date= February 24, 2022|access-date= February 24, 2022|work= Anime News Network}} |
| rowspan="2"| 2023
| Yudō | Critic | |
| We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie
| Iwao Aso | |
| rowspan="4" | 2024
| Love You as the World Ends: The Final | Saijō | |
| Hey Handsome!!
| Gentaro Ito | Lead role |
| Maru
| Akimoto | | {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/101747/|title= まる|access-date= 15 July 2024|work= eiga.com}} |
| Oshi no Ko: The Final Act
| Ichigo Saitō | |
| rowspan=2|2025
| Showtime 7 | Shōji | |
| Stigmatized Properties 2
| Kioshi Fujiyoshi | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes ! {{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| rowspan="2"| 2013
| The Brothers Karamazov | Bunzō Kurosawa | | |
| Hanzawa Naoki
| Hiroshi Naitō | | |
| rowspan="2"| 2014
| Densuke Kanō | Asadora | |
| Mozu
| Jin Nakagami | | |
| rowspan="4"| 2016
| |
| Totto TV
| | |
| Yuriko-san no Ehon
| Hiroshi Harashima | | |
| We're Millennials. Got a Problem?
| Iwao Aso | |
| 2018
| ''From Today, It's My Turn!!' | Ichirō Mitsuhashi | | |
| 2018–24
| Musashi Kurosawa | 3 seasons |
| 2019
| Ieyasu, Edo wo Tateru | Gotō Tokujō | | |
| rowspan="2"|2020
| The Yagyu Conspiracy | Lead role; TV movie | |
| The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse
| Tōru Nagashima | | |
| 2020–21
| Taiga drama | |
| rowspan="2"|2021
| Nakamura Nakazo: Shusse no Kizahashi | | Miniseries |
| Japan Sinks: People of Hope
| Mamoru Amami |Special appearance |
| 2022
| Hey Handsome!! | Gentaro Ito | Lead role |
| 2024
|Ichigo Saitō | |
| 2025
| Anpan | Kamaji Asada | Asadora |
Awards
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!Year !Award ceremony !Category !Result !{{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |
| 2014
| 7th International Drama Festival in Tokyo | Best Supporting Actor |{{won}} |
| 2018
| 11th International Drama Festival in Tokyo | Best Supporting Actor |{{won}} | |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.horipro.co.jp/yoshidakoutarou/|Official profile}} {{in lang|ja}}
- [https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/jinbutsu/detail.cgi?das_id=D0009070391_00000 Kōtarō Yoshida on NHK Archives] {{in lang|ja}}
- {{IMDb name|7139946}}
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Category:Japanese male film actors
Category:Japanese male stage actors
Category:Japanese male television actors
Category:Japanese male voice actors
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Category:Male actors from Tokyo