Gen Seto

Gen Seto (born 1955 in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese film and theater actor .

Life

Seto graduated from the Vienna Conservatory in 1989 . From 1994, the first smaller roles in cinema and television films followed. In 2001 he was seen in the film Her Majesty's Men . In the biopic Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero , he took on the role of the Japanese ambassador to Berlin during the Second World War, General Ōshima Hiroshi . In 2012 Seto appeared in Sushi in Suhl as Dr. Hayashi up. Since 2016 he can be heard in the radio play series Geisterjäger John Sinclair in the role of the opponent Shimada .

In addition to his mother tongue, Seto is also fluent in German, English and Italian. He lives in Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

• 1994: Joint venture
• 1995: Business (TV movie)
• 1996: Lisa and the saber-toothed tigers
• 1998: Happy Chaoten (TV movie)
• 1999: In Heaven
• 2001: The praying mantis
• 1999–2001: Julia - An Unusual Woman (TV series, two episodes)
• 2001: The Queen's Men (All the Queen's Men)
• 2003: Dinner for Two (TV movie)
• 2004: Antares
• 2005: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
• 2005: Oktoberfest
• 2006: SOKO Kitzbühel - Deadly Hands (TV series, an episode)
• 2007: Ich boss, du nix (TV movie)
• 2008: Der Winzerkönig - Across the Border (TV series, an episode)
• 2011: How to Live
• 2012: SOKO Donau - Donauweibchen (TV series, one episode)
• 2012: Sushi in Suhl
• 2012: Never Trust Your Wife (TV Movie)
• 2013: two-seat rocket
• 2016: The Forest
• 2017: Schreckenstein Castle II - kissing is (not) prohibited
• 2017: City Comedy - God for Beginners
• 2019: The Dream Ship - Japan (TV series)
• 2019: Treadstone (TV series, two episodes)

theatre

• 1997–1998: Insalata mista ( Volkstheater Vienna )
• 1997–1998: An unequal couple (Kammerspiele Vienna, Theater in der Josefstadt )
• 1998–2006: Musical The King and I (Stadthalle Vienna and others)
• 2003: Blond under supervision (Teamtheater Munich, Kosmos Theater Vienna)
• 2005: Mitsuko - Love overcomes all boundaries (Museums Quartier Wien)
• 2005–2006: The Robbers (Rabenhof Theater Vienna)
• 2006: The Land of Smiles (Langenlois Castle Festival)
• 2006–2007: Crackhouse of Horrors (Rabenhof Theater Vienna)
• 2009: The score for the crisis (Depot Vienna)

Web links

• Official homepage genseto.com
• Gen Seto in the Internet Movie Database (English)