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Gen Hoshino
Saitama, Japan
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…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
GROTESQQQUE
Movie Kento Kurikura (voice)
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2026
Your Love So Invincible
TV show Theme Song Performance
- 2026
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2025
A Moon in the Ordinary
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2025
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
Movie Self
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2025
SAKAMOTO DAYS
TV show Writer
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2025
Slow Train
Movie Doumeki Mi
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2024
Last Mile
Movie Kazumi Shima
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2024
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
Movie Himself
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2023
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2023
LIGHTHOUSE
TV show Self
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2023
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Movie Self
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2022
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Movie Hoshi-sensei (voice)
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2022
おげんさんのサブスク堂
TV show おげんさん
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2022
Ghost Book
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2022
Teen Regime
TV show Taira Kiyoshi
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2022
SPY x FAMILY
TV show Theme Song Performance
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2022
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
TV show
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2021
Cube
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2021
Why I Dress Up for Love
TV show Theme Song Performance
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2021
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
Movie Hiramasa Tsuzaki
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2020
The Voice of Sin
Movie Toshiya Sone
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2020
MIU404
TV show Kazumi Shima
- 2020
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2019
No Smoking
Movie Self
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2019
108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Movie Theme Song Performance
- 2019
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2019
Achikochi Audrey
TV show Theme Song Performance
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2019
Samurai Shifters
Movie Harunosuke Katagiri
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2018
Mirai
Movie Father (voice)
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2018
Half Blue Sky
TV show Theme Song Performance
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2018
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2017
Plage -Share House for Losers-
TV show Yoshimura Takao
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2017
Overprotected Kahoko
TV show Theme Song Performance
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2017
おげんさんといっしょ
TV show おげんさん
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2017
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Movie Senpai (voice)
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2016
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
TV show Tsuzaki Hiramasa
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2016
Moriyamachu Driving School
Movie Theme Song Performance
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2015
Chieri and Cherry
Movie Cherry (voice)
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2015
Dr.STOЯKS
TV show Haruki Shinomiya
