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

Television dramas

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''