Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 28, 1981
Place of Birth
Saitama, Japan
Credits
68 titles
Gen Hoshino
Biography
Gen Hoshino (星野 源, Hoshino Gen, born January 28, 1981) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Hoshino's movie debut, Lee Sang-il's 69, was an adaptation of the Ryū Murakami novel of the same name. He previously acted in various television dramas and stage plays. In 2012, he debuted as a voice actor, voicing Buddha in the original video animation (OVA) adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura's manga Saint Young Men, and also provided a theme song called "Gag" for its 2013 theatrical version, where he reprised his role. In 2013, he played the lead character in Masahide Ichii's Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Hakoiri Musuko no Koi) alongside Kaho, and starred in the Sion Sono film Why Don't You Play in Hell?. In 2016, Hoshino starred in TBS's The Full-Time Wife Escapist. With Yui Aragaki as his co-star, he portrayed a salaryman named Hiramasa Tsuzaki. The drama achieved steadily rising ratings, with a real-time viewership peak rating of 20.8% on the final episode, and an overall rating of 14.5%. Hoshino's performance earned him several Best Supporting Actor awards. He also provided the theme song for the drama, titled "Koi". In 2017, Hoshino lent his voice to the main character of award-winning animated film Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. He also became the voice of the Father in Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, which was released into theaters in Japan on July 20, 2018. Idaten, NHK's 2019 Taiga drama, chosen for the theme to encourage the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hoshino portrayed Kazushige Hirasawa, who delivered the persuasive speech that helped determine the venue for the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. On April 30, 2018, it was announced that Hoshino will star in Samurai Shifters, the film adaptation of Akihiro Dobashi's historical novel Hikkoshi Daimyo Sanzenri, set to premier on August 30, 2019. In the movie, he plays a bookworm samurai called Harunosuke Katagiri, who receives the mission to help a daimyo move. It will be Hoshino's first lead role in a live-action movie since Blindly in Love in 2013.
Known For
Filmography
GROTESQQQUE
Kento Kurikura (voice)
Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
A Moon in the Ordinary
Theme Song Performance
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
Self
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Writer
Slow Train
Doumeki Mi
Last Mile
Kazumi Shima
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
Himself
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Theme Song Performance
LIGHTHOUSE
Self
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Self
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Hoshi-sensei (voice)
おげんさんのサブスク堂
おげんさん
Ghost Book
Theme Song Performance
Teen Regime
Taira Kiyoshi
SPY x FAMILY
Theme Song Performance
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
Cube
Theme Song Performance
Why I Dress Up for Love
Theme Song Performance
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
Hiramasa Tsuzaki
The Voice of Sin
Toshiya Sone
MIU404
Kazumi Shima
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
No Smoking
Self
108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Theme Song Performance
GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
Achikochi Audrey
Theme Song Performance
Samurai Shifters
Harunosuke Katagiri
Mirai
Father (voice)
Half Blue Sky
Theme Song Performance
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Theme Song Performance
Plage -Share House for Losers-
Yoshimura Takao
Overprotected Kahoko
Theme Song Performance
おげんさんといっしょ
おげんさん
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Senpai (voice)
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Tsuzaki Hiramasa
Moriyamachu Driving School
Theme Song Performance
Chieri and Cherry
Cherry (voice)
Dr.STOЯKS
Haruki Shinomiya
Love & Peace
PC-300 (voice)
Crazy for Me
Theme Song Performance
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
George Mabuchi
Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
寺山一樹
昨夜のカレー 明日のパン
Creator
Tamako in Moratorium
Theme Song Performance
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Kouji Hashimoto
LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
Blindly in Love
Kentaro
Saint☆Young Men
Gautama Buddha (voice)
Saint☆Young Men
Buddha (voice)