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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 28, 1981
Place of Birth
Saitama, Japan
Also Known As
- 星野 源
- جن هوشینو
Gen Hoshino
1.8 Popularity
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
0.0
Self
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
2025
6.8
Doumeki Mi
Slow Train
2025
6.9
Kazumi Shima
Last Mile
2024
0.0
Himself
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
2024
8.2
Self
LIGHTHOUSE
2023
8.3
Self
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
2023
7.3
Hoshi-sensei (voice)
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
2022
7.8
おげんさん
おげんさんのサブスク堂
2022
7.5
Taira Kiyoshi
Teen Regime
2022
9.5
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
2022
Credits
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
as Self
2025
0.0
Slow Train
as Doumeki Mi
2025
6.8
Last Mile
as Kazumi Shima
2024
6.9
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
as Himself
2024
0.0
LIGHTHOUSE
as Self
2023
8.2
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
as Self
2023
8.3
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
as Hoshi-sensei (voice)
2022
7.3
おげんさんのサブスク堂
as おげんさん
2022
7.8
Teen Regime
as Taira Kiyoshi
2022
7.5
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
2022
9.5
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
2021
7.1
The Voice of Sin
as Toshiya Sone
2020
7.0
MIU404
as Kazumi Shima
2020
7.4
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
2020
9.0
No Smoking
as Self
2019
7.3
GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
2019
7.0
Samurai Shifters
as Harunosuke Katagiri
2019
5.7
Mirai
as Father (voice)
2018
7.1
Plage -Share House for Losers-
as Yoshimura Takao
2017
8.0
おげんさんといっしょ
as おげんさん
2017
10.0
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
as Senpai (voice)
2017
7.4
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
as Tsuzaki Hiramasa
2016
7.8
Chieri and Cherry
as Cherry (voice)
2015
5.5
Dr.STOЯKS
as Haruki Shinomiya
2015
7.6
Love & Peace
as PC-300 (voice)
2015
6.9
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
as George Mabuchi
2015
0.0
Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
as 寺山一樹
2014
7.7
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
as Kouji Hashimoto
2013
7.4
LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
2013
0.0
Blindly in Love
as Kentaro
2013
6.0
Saint☆Young Men
as Gautama Buddha (voice)
2013
7.7
Saint☆Young Men
as Buddha (voice)
2012
7.3
Odd Family 11
as Hiroyuki Sanada
2011
6.9
My Husband is a Cartoonist
2010
8.5
大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
2009
0.0
Brass Knuckle Boys
as Band Member
2009
6.4
Non-ko
as Masaru
2008
6.3
Mirai koshi Meguru
as Hideo Eguchi
2008
5.5
Detective School Q
as Detective Nekota
2007
8.0
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」
2006
0.0
Once Again Sugar & Spice
as Koyama
2006
0.0
Akihabara@DEEP
as Taiko
2006
8.8
Tiger and Dragon
as Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
2005
6.6
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」
2004
0.0
69
as Yuzuru Nakamura
2004
6.2
Gekidan Engimono
2004
0.0
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
as Himself
1951
8.0
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
as Self - Performer
1951
8.0