Horipro


Horipro is a Japanese talent agency that manages actors, entertainers and musicians, as well as commercial and television productions. It has locations in Nashville and Los Angeles in the United States.

History

It was founded in 1960 as Hori Productions and changed to its present name in 1990.
In the 1970s, Hori Productions managed singer Momoe Yamaguchi.
In 1989, Horipro purchased the publishing assets of rock band Kiss. Next, the company moved on to invest in more catalogs. A year later, HoriPro Entertainment Group opened their first U.S. location in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years, Horipro's songwriters would go on to write hits for country musicians.
In the late 1990s, Horipro planned to create a "virtual idol", an electronic rendition using motion capture methods of Kyoko Date. The virtual idol based on Date charted in Tokyo in 1996, and provided inspiration for the character of Idoru in William Gibson's eponymous novel.
In 2006, Horipro's first Los Angeles location opened. The company's catalog has expanded to include over 13,000 songs in each major genre. HEG's Los Angeles location is in partnership with Horipro Music Academy, a music enrichment school for children. Additionally, HEG Los Angeles began MusicTaste, a boutique artist development label that is placed within the publishing company. MusicTaste's artists include Matt Palmer and Dori Caymmi.
Horipro contracted with MediaHorse, an American music licensing and marketing firm, in 2015 for synchronization licensing in the United States. Horipro sold HoriPro Entertainment Group to Mojo Music & Media in 2019.

Notable talents

Female talents

  • Rika Adachi
  • Kazu Ando
  • Kei Aran
  • Ineko Arima
  • Haruka Ayase
  • Minori Chihara
  • Kyoko Date
  • Kyoko Fukada
  • Shoko Haida
  • Minami Hinase
  • Aya Hirayama
  • Miyuki Imori
  • Anna Ishibashi
  • Haruka Ishida
  • Satomi Ishihara
  • Tomomi Itano
  • Kazue Itoh
  • Nagisa Katahira
  • Tomomi Kasai
  • Yuu Kashii
  • Ibuki Kido
  • Haruka Kinami
  • Erika Mabuchi
  • Akira Matsu
  • Akane Matsunaga
  • Yurie Midori
  • Ayame Misaki
  • Karen Miyama
  • Miho Miyazaki
  • Sae Miyazawa
  • Seira Nagashima
  • Aoi Nakabeppu
  • Mami Nakamura
  • Chiharu Niiyama
  • Yui Ninomiya
  • Ayaka Ōhashi
  • Ito Ohno
  • Rin Okabe
  • Itsumi Osawa
  • Mai Oshima
  • Ayana Sakai
  • Ikue Sakakibara
  • Hinako Sano
  • Hitomi Sato
  • Sheila
  • Azusa Tadokoro
  • Hitomi Takahashi
  • Mitsuki Takahata
  • Naho Toda
  • Akiko Wada
  • Suzuran Yamauchi
  • Erii Yamazaki
  • Yoon Son-ha
  • Yuka
  • Mio Yūki
  • Nagisa Sekimizu
  • Rin Aira
  • Yuko Natori
  • Yoshiko Nakada
  • Yoko Kurita
  • Yoshiko Tokoshima
  • Mitsuko Oka
  • Mayumi Oka
  • Tomoko Fujita
  • Hiyori Hamagishi
  • Aki Takajō

    Male talents

  • Tsuyoshi Abe
  • Motomu Azaki
  • Bandō Minosuke II
  • Chen Bolin
  • Tatsuya Fujiwara
  • Eiichiro Funakoshi
  • Masachika Ichimura
  • Sosuke Ikematsu
  • Yuma Ishigaki
  • Takeshi Kaga
  • Ryo Kimura
  • Kin'ya Kitaōji
  • Gōki Maeda
  • Tsuyoshi Matsubara
  • Kenichi Matsuyama
  • Akiyoshi Nakao
  • Shunya Shiraishi
  • Kenta Suga
  • Kazuma Suzuki
  • Ryohei Suzuki
  • Shinji Takeda
  • Ryoma Takeuchi
  • Yoshitaka Tamba
  • Satoshi Tsumabuki
  • Shingo Tsurumi
  • Yasutaka Tsutsui
  • Asahi Uchida
  • Jundai Yamada
  • Kotaro Yoshida
  • Hiroshi Katsuno
  • Shinya Owada
  • Toshinori Omi

    Comedians

Solo

  • Hori
  • Hikaru Ijūin
  • Masanori Ishii
  • Kick☆
  • Ijiri Okada

    Duo

  • Bananaman
  • Summers
  • Speed Wagon (Jun Itoda and Kazuhiro Ozawa

    Musical artists

  • Aidan James
  • Ami Wajima
  • Atlantic Starr
  • Ayumi Shigemori
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  • Fake?
  • Fujioka Fujimaki
  • Liyuu
  • May'n
  • Nano
  • Shino
  • Takumi Mitani

    Athletes

  • Sho Aranami
  • Yukiya Arashiro
  • Yuichi Fukunaga
  • Shinjiro Hiyama
  • Junichi Inamoto
  • Naoya Inoue
  • Takuma Inoue
  • Takeomi Ito
  • Shinji Kazama
  • Yusei Kikuchi
  • Manabu Kitabeppu
  • Hirotoshi Kitagawa
  • Yu Koshikawa
  • Tomoaki Makino
  • Karina Maruyama
  • Kenta Matsudaira
  • Kazutomo Miyamoto
  • Junichi Miyashita
  • Takeshi Mizuuchi
  • Toshinori Muto
  • Motoko Obayashi
  • Katsuya Kakunaka
  • Kairi Sane
  • So Taguchi
  • Hisanori Takahashi
  • Nobuhiro Takeda
  • Dai Takeuchi
  • Yoshinori Tateyama
  • Yuichi Fukunaga

    Others

  • Kon Arimura
  • Tatsuya Egawa
  • Péter Frankl
  • Fumi Hirano
  • Shimako Iwai
  • Shoji Kokami
  • Shinichiro Kurimoto
  • Ayako Nishikawa
  • Takayuki Ohira
  • Girolamo Panzetta
  • Kosuke Takahashi
  • Takashi Yuasa
  • Akiko Iwata
  • Fusaho Izumi

    Former Horipro artists

  • Ryuji Sainei
  • Kiwa Ishii
  • Misaki Momose
  • Takurō Ōno
  • Mariko Seyama
  • Suzuka Morita
  • Sei Ashina
  • Daisuke Kikuta
  • Sawa Suzuki
  • Ryota Ozawa
  • Yuka Ogino
  • Miki Sato
  • Machico
  • Ruriko Kojima
  • Karen Iwata
  • Shigeru Izumiya
  • Yu Abiru
  • Yuki Furukawa