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Kanji Ishimaru

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Kanji Ishimaru
石丸 幹二
Born (1965-08-15) 15 August 1965 (age 59)
Niihama, Ehime,[1] Japan
EducationTokyo University of the Arts
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
Years active1990–present
AgentThe Library
Television
Awards37th Kazuo Kikuta Theater Awards Theater Prize
Websitethelibrary-pastorale.com

Kanji Ishimaru (石丸 幹二, Ishimaru Kanji, born 15 August 1965 in Niihama, Ehime) is a Japanese musical actor and singer.[1] Ishimaru is signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.

Biography

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Ishimaru played various instruments, such as the piano, cello, trombone, and snare drum, since childhood.[2][3] He studied the cello at a music course at Chiba Prefectural Makuhari-Nishin High School (now Chiba Prefectural Makuhari General High School),[3] attempted to major in the saxophone at Tokyo College of Music, and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music in Vocal music.[2]

In 1990, he debuted in the role of Raoul of Shiki Theatre Company's The Phantom of the Opera.[2] Since then, Ishimaru has acted as a signboard actor for the company.[2] Among other activities, he appeared in advertisements for Oronamin C (co-starring with SMAP's Takuya Kimura)[2] and Nescafé Gold Blend. In 2013, he played branch manager Tadasu Asano in the Tokyo Broadcasting System television drama Hanzawa Naoki.[2] On 2 April 2017, he was named the sixth chairperson of TV Asahi's long-running music programme Daimei no nai Ongakukai.[4]

Filmography

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Stage

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Part of Shiki

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Title Role
Andersen Hans Christian Andersen
Aspects of Love Alex Dillingham
Beauty and the Beast Beast
Black Comedy Brinzley Miller
Cats Skimbleshanks
Dreaming Dog Chillow
Elkos no Inori George
Hamlet Hamlet
Hibari Charles
Illya Darling—Nichiyō wa Dame yo! Homer
John Manjirō no Yume Manjiro
Kono Seimei Dare no mono? Ken Hayata
La Sauvage Florent
Musical Ikoku no Oka Hidetaka Kokonoe
Omoide o Uru Otoko Man selling memories
The passer-through-walls Dutillur
The Phantom of the Opera Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, the male ensemble
Song & Dance Male singer
Undine Hans
West Side Story Jet Orchestra Tony
Yuriddis Orphe
Rokumeikan Einosuke Kiyohara

After leaving Shiki

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Title Role Ref.
Enoch Arden
A New Brain Gordon Shuin
Sunday in the Park with George George
The Coast of Utopia Nikolai Ogalov
L'Histoire du soldat
The 39 Steps-Himitsu no Angō o Oe! Richard Haney
Elisabeth Tote
Twelfth Night Marquess of Ocino / Bard / Traveler
Glengarry Glen Ross
Camille Claudel Auguste Rodin
Jekyll & Hyde Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Danthes, Earl of Monte Cristo
Lady Bess Roger Ascam
Limelight Calvero
The Scarlet Pimpernel Percy Blakney
Cabaret MC [5]
The Secret Garden Archibald Craven
Love Never Dies The Phantom

Films

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Year Title Role Ref.
2010 Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Kazuo Fukamachi [6]
2015 Ōhi no Yakata Louis XIV of France [7]
Galaxy Turnpike Doctor Muta [8]
2021 Musicophilia Ryū Kishino [9]
2022 Sun and Bolero Yoshifumi Tsuruma [10]
Akira and Akira [11]
2024 Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony Wakner (voice) [12]
TBA Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final [13]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2009 Shirasujirō Ushiba Tomohiko
2011 Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana Takashi Kusakabe
2012 Usuzakura-ki Raihaha Togashi
2013 Oyarihaishaku: Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki Gorobei Nomi
Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki
Hanzawa Naoki Masa Asano
2014 Roosevelt Game Fumiko Mikami
Dark Suits Kiyoomi Matsuki
2015 Burning Flower Sufu Masanosuke Taiga drama
Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken Taisa Goriki
Scapegoat Shun Yanagisawa [14]
Flowers for Algernon Daigo Hachisuka
3ttsu no Machi no Monogatari Akihiro Togo [15]
Omotesandō Kōkō Gasshō-bu! Yuki Uchida [16]
2016 Nobunaga Moyu Akechi Mitsuhide Television film [17]
Doctor Chōsa Ha: Iryō Jiko no Yami o Abake Masahiko Kawagoe [18]
Suizokukan Girl Hisayuki Kurano [19]
Shizumanu Taiyō Ishiguro [20]
Eigyō Buchō: Natsuko Kira Ryoichi Saito [2][21]
Daddy Sister Koichi Kunizane Asadora
Chūshingura no Koi: Shitoya Hito-me no Chūshin Ōishi Yoshio [22]
2017 Akira and Akira Kazuma Kaidō
2019 Shōnen Torajirō Gozen-sama [23]
2020 Bones of Steel Hajime Naitō [24]
2021 Reach Beyond the Blue Sky Ōkubo Toshimichi Taiga drama [25]

Animation

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Title Role
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quasimodo (dubbed)

Dubbing

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Year Title Role
2015 The Sound of Music Colonel Georg von Trap (Christopher Plummer)
2023 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem)[26]

Advertisements

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Year Title Ref.
Oronamin C
Nescafé Gold Blend
2014 Canon Inc. Pixus
House Ukon no Chikara
Zurich Insurance Group Anata Senyō Jidōsha Hoken
2016 The National Art Center, Tokyo "Dalí Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" [27]
Meiji Chocolate Kōka

Radio

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Year Title Network
2010 Kanji Ishimaru no Theater e yōkoso NHK FM Broadcast

MC-Navigator

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Year Title Network
2014 Kanji Ishimaru no Mainichi ga Premiere Eisei Gekijō

CD

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Title Label
"Kanji Ishimaru" Sony Music Japan International
"Distance"
"Love Songs"
"Kanji Ishimaru no Musical e yōkoso"
"Stravinsky: Heishi no Monogatari"
"Kaijin Hyakumensō"
"My Musical Life"

Music guides

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Year Title
2013 The National Art Center "Andreas Guldsky Exhibition"
2014 Mori Arts Center Gallery "The Tutti of the Tate Art Museum Exhibition Prior to Rafael British Victorian Painting Dream"
2015 The National Art Center, "Magrid Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition"
Kyoto City Museum of Art "Magrid Exhibition Kyoto Exhibition"

Others

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Year Title Network Ref.
2015 Minna no Uta "Kaijin Hyakumensō" NHK [28]
2016 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [29]
2017 Daimei no nai Ongakukai TV Asahi

References

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  3. ^ a b プロフィール (in Japanese). Sony Music. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  4. ^ 『題名のない音楽会』司会交代で一新へ 五嶋龍からミュージカル俳優・石丸幹二にバトン。. Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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  24. ^ "内野聖陽、中村獅童、土屋太鳳、柴田恭兵が神木隆之介の主演ドラマ「鉄の骨」に出演". Natalie. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  25. ^ "栄一 × 慶喜の人生が交わる舞台 〜江戸・京で出会う人々〜". NHK. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
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