Hisashi Yoshizawa

Hisashi Yoshizawa ( Japanese 吉 沢 悠 , Yoshizawa Hisashi ; born August 30, 1978 in Tokyo ), also known under the name Yū Yoshizawa ( 吉 沢 悠 , Yoshizawa Yū ), is a Japanese actor. He is under contract with the Ten Carat agency .

Personal

Yoshizawa graduated from the Kinjo private high school in Tokyo.

In 1997 he started his career in show business under the name Yū Yoshizawa when he took part in the Yume Karaoke Audition and received a prize in the Semi Grand Prix . He then came under contract at Watanabe Entertainment , but when he left the agency in April 2005, his career initially came to a standstill. It was only when he switched to the Ten Carat agency in June 2006 that he resumed his activities in show business. From then on he worked under his real name, Hisashi Yoshizawa.

He made his debut in 1998 with the TV drama Ao no jidai , his first leading role he received in 2003 in the drama Dōbutsu no o-isha-san . His film debut followed in 2000 in Kurosufaia , and he secured his first leading role in 2003 in Hoshi ni negai o . In addition to TV dramas and films, he shot commercials and appeared in several plays, and he was seen three times in music videos by J-Pop singer Misako Sakazume .

Filmography

Television dramas

• 1998: Ao no jidai (as Masashi Kimura )
• 1999: Mamachari deka (as Keiji Sakuragi )
• 1999: Semidaburu (as Jōji Kazama )
• 1999: to Heart ~ koishte shinitai ~ (as Ryōsuke Sawaki )
• 1999: Chiipu rabu (as Ryō Kagatani )
• 2000: Basu stoppu (as Fumiya Kotani )
• 2000: Sōhōkō bōken katsudeki torejā! (as Kenta Wakabayashi )
• 2001: Joshiana (as Tomoya Kuramoto )
• 2001: Shiroi kage (as Jiro Tōda )
• 2001: Shin hoshi no kinka (as Makoto Iwase )
• 2001: Saotome taifūn (as Arashi Wakutsu )
• 2001: Saigo no kazoku (as Hideki Uchiyama )
• 2002: Koi suru toppu redi (as Yusuke Kazama )
• 2002: Puriti gāru (as Tarō Kobuke )
• 2002: Koi-seyo otome (as Takashi Hagiwara )
• 2002: Tō-san no natsu-matsuri (as Toshiya )
• 2002: Arujānon ni hanataba o (as Haruhiko Takaoka )
• 2002: Mama no idenshi (as Kōsuke Fujiki )
• 2003: Dōbutsu no o-issha-san (as Masaki Nishine )
• 2003: Hakoiri musume (as Tetsurō Takamura )
• 2003: VICTORY! ~ futtobāruzu no seishun ~ (as Tokyo Hanayama )
• 2004: Ēsu o nerae! (as Takayuki Tōdō )
• 2004: Honto ni atta kowai hanashi (as Hideaki )
• 2004: Santa ga furita kassōro (as Satoshi Takamiya )
• 2005: Doyō waido gekijō "Keishichō sōsa ikka kyōkōhan nana kakari" (as Jōtarō Tsubaki )
• 2005: Renai naika (as Seitarō Sakaki )
• 2006: Diron ~ kurisumasu no yakusoku (as Kai Takeuchi )
• 2006: Ōoku supesharu ~ mou hitotsu no monogatari ~ (as Nobuyoshi )
• 2007: Yamada Tarō monogatari (as Makoto Nagahara )
• 2007: Hataraki man (as Shinji Yamashiro )
• 2008: 4 Shimai tantei-dan (as Yasusuki Kunitomo )
• 2008: Arigatou, okan (as Hiroaki Komazawa )
• 2008: Buraddi mandei (as Gorō Kirishima )
• 2009: Sumairu (as Yōtarō Sagami )
• 2009: Kaze ni mai agaru biniiru shiito (as Shinji Terashima )
• 2009: JIN -jin- (as Tanosuke Sawamura )
• 2010: Buraddi mandei shiizun 2 (as Gorō Kirishima )
• 2010: GM ~ odore dokuta (as Jun Ushiroda )
• 2011: JIN -jin- (as Tanosuke Sawamura )
• 2011: Nankyoku tairiku (as Shinkichi Yokomine )

Movies

• 2000: Kurosufaia (as Kōichi Kido )
• 2003: Hoshi ni negai o (as Shōgo Amami )
• 2004: Believer (as Eiji Tanaka )
• 2005: The Call 2 (as Naoto Sakurai )
• 2007: Yūnagi no machi (as Yutaka Uchikoshi )
• 2007: Tōbō kuso tawake (as Nagoyan )
• 2010: Teida kankan - Umi to sango to chiisa-na kiseki (as Tamotsu Sakai )
• 2010: Kokō no mesu (as Ryūzō Aoki )
• 2010: Morisaki shoten no hibi (as an employee in the Morisaki bookstore )
• 2012: Michi - Hakuji no hito (as Takumi Asakawa )
• 2015: I Am a Hero
• (no release date yet): Tomato no Shizuku (as Makoto Tsubakiyama )
• (no release date yet): Tabibito no uta (as Kimura )

Plays

• 2002: Rabu retāzu
• 2007: Hanbun Tōkyō
• 2008: Bokumatsu junjōden
• 2011: Ōdyubon no inori

Web links

• Hisashi Yoshizawa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Profile at Ten Carat