Tsuyoshi Ihara
Tsuyoshi Ihara is a Japanese actor of Korean descent.
Early life
Ihara, a third-generation Zainichi Korean by birth, was born on November 6, 1963, in Kitakyūshū as Yun Yu-gu and grew up in Ikuno-ku "Korea Town" section of Osaka. He is a graduate of Imamiya Senior High School, Naniwa-ku, Osaka. He received his Japanese citizenship in 1995.Career
Ihara joined Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club after leaving high school. Soon after, he began to work in numerous feature films and television dramas, including the 1996 NHK series Futarikko. In 2006, Ihara appeared as the Baron Takeichi Nishi in Clint Eastwood's critically acclaimed Academy Award-winning film Letters from Iwo Jima, introducing him to a wider international audience.Ihara authored a book, Kokorozashite Sōrō, published in Japan by Amoeba Books.
In 2016, he became an apprentice to Katsura. He made his debut as a rakugo artist.
Filmography
Films
- Kotaro Makaritoru - Sadoya Shunper
- Bakayarō! Watashi Okkote Masu - Kazuki Numayama
- Byôin e ikô - Hizaki
- Hong Kong Paradise - Ando
- Onna ga ichiban niau shokugyo - Fumio Tsukada
- Daida Kyōshi Akiba, Shinken Desu!
- Jingi
- Shura no Teiou
- Yonshima Monogatari
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe - Yoshinari Yonemori
- Abunai Deka Returns
- Hiroin! Naniwa bombers
- Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
- Drug - Masashi Kurata
- Minna no Ie - Arakawa Jr
- Hanochi
- Hinagon - Ichiro Igarashi
- Retribution - Tôru Miyaji
- Letters from Iwo Jima - Baron Takeichi Nishi
- Heat Island - Kakizawa
- Ginmaku ban Sushi ôji!: Nyûyôku e iku - Haruki / Rin
- Tsukiji uogashi sandaime - Eiji
- Ninja - Masazuka
- Nakumonka
- Thirteen Assassins - Kujuro Hirayama
- Dirty Hearts - Takahashi
- The Tang of Lemon
- Ai to makoto - Kenta Zaô
- Brave Hearts: Umizaru - Kazuhiko Shima
- Aibou: The Movie III
- Samurai Hustle - Danzo Kumogakure
- Last Knights - Ito
- Ashura 2003
- Sutoreiyâzu kuronikuru - Koichiro Watase
- Kazoku no hi
- Chô kôsoku! Sankin kôtai ritânzu - Danzo Kumogakure
- Iine! Iine! Iine!
- The Old Capital
- Lámen Shop - Kazuo
- They Say Nothing Stays the Same
- Signal: The Movie - Junki Aoki
- Yakuza Princess - Takeshi
- Sidonie in Japan - Kenzo Mizoguchi
- ''La Campanella''
Television dramas
- Shadow Warriors
- *Kage no Gundan IV
- *Kage no Gundam Bakumatsu-hen
- Takeda Shingen
- Oishii no ga suki
- Kyō, Futari
- Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari
- Futarikko - Masao kuroiwa
- Only You ~Aisarete~
- Ichigen no Koto
- Star no Koi
- Kowloon de Aimashō
- Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho
- Mibu Gishi Den ~Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko~
- Koi wa Tattakai
- Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho 2
- Chūshingura ~ Ketsudan no Toki
- Sky High 2
- Shinsengumi!
- Last Christmas
- Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho 4
- Magari Kado no Kanojo - Masamitsu Horiuchi
- Shiawase ni Naritai!
- Koi no Jikan
- Grave of the Fireflies - Genzo Sawano
- Umeko
- Kuroi Taiyō
- Jotei
- Team Batista no Eiko - Kiryu Kyoichi
- Hanako to An
- Hana Moyu
- The Naked Director Season 2''
Anime
- ''Karasu''
Theater
- We Love JAC
- Jōji ta JAC Kōen
- Mayonaka no Party
- Honkon Rhapsody
- Dā! Dā! Dā!
- Hikoma ga Yuku
- Blood Gets in Your Eyes
- Rōnin Gai
- Kātenkōru
- shuffle
- ''Letters from Iwo Jima''
Other programs
- Kimama ni Toygyazā
- ''Ōra no Izumi''
Books
- ''Kokorozashite Sōrō''