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Shun Oguri (小栗 旬, Oguri Shun?, born December 26, 1982) is a Japanese actor, seiyu and film director.
Shun Oguri has been dating actress & model Yu Yamada for 4 years, the couple officially registered their marriage on March 14, 2012.
Born to a theater director father, Tetsuya Oguri, and having an actor brother, Ryo Oguri, Shun Oguri started his acting career quite early in his life. At the age 12, he started as a kid actor.
Oguri's debut role was playing the bullied and abused child Noboru Yoshikawa from the drama Great Teacher Onizuka in 1998, when he was about sixteen years old. His acting attracted him great attention and from there, he moved onto bigger roles. In 2000, he played a deaf person in Summer Snow. Two years later, he starred in the popular drama Gokusen, in which he played the part of a bully, rather than the bullied, as he did in Great Teacher Onizuka.
His brother Ryo Oguri and Shun performed together in the animation movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, and the drama of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
Naoyuki Oguri (Oguri) is a dancer and choreographer from Japan who lives in Los Angeles, California where he works creating and teaching dance. His work is influenced by the tradition of the Japanese Butoh style of dance. Prior to coming to LA he studied with master Tatsumi Hijikata, the founder of a genre of Butoh dance. He also studied and danced with Min Tanaka's Body Weather in a mountain village in Yamanashi in rural Japan where he met dancer/choreographer Roxanne Steinberg. In 1990 he came to Los Angeles and married Steinberg. In 2002 he was featured in the book In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art by Meiling Cheng. Oguri was also featured in the film Height of Sky a documentary by Morleigh Steinberg.
Recent works include Kalpa, performed at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in January 2012 as well as an upcoming performance of Cold Dream Colour as a member of the Arcane Collective at the REDCAT Theater, part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex.
Kim Hyun Joong (Hangul: 김현중, Hanja: 金賢重) was born on 6 June 1986. He is a South Korean entertainer and the leader of boyband SS501. Kim is well-known for his role as Yoon Ji Hoo in the 2009 Korean drama Boys Over Flowers, winning Best Actor Award at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2009, and Popularity Award at the 45th PaekSang Arts Awards. He is also known for playing in the late 2010 Korean drama Playful Kiss, as Baek Seung Jo. He is a style icon in Korea, winning several icon awards.
He dropped out of school when he decided to become a singer. During his school days, he played bass guitar in a band. During the years 2001 and 2002 when he was 14–15, while working as a waiter in a family restaurant, located at Jamsil-dong, he was introduced to a new set up management company CEO. Initially he was to debut in a 5 member group. Han Yeon of B2Y (now disbanded) was to be the Leader and Kim the maknae. While the group underwent training together, they were asked by their company to debut in China as a Hallyu project group, but the group rejected the offer and disbanded. Kim proceeded to audition for DSP Media (formerly DSP Entertainment) and became a member and leader of SS501. Kim returned to school and graduated in 2006 after debuting as a member of SS501. In 2011, he enrolled in Chungwoon University to study stage production management.
Toma Ikuta (生田 斗真, Ikuta Tōma?) (born October 7, 1984) is a Japanese talent artist part of Johnny's Jr. under the supervision of Johnny & Associates.
Ikuta Toma used to be in a variety show for kids called Tensai Terebi kun. Being a member of a then all-children band called Strawberry Parfait, he was popular with the audience. He was then offered an opportunity to join Johnny's Entertainment, together with a bandmate in Strawberry Parfait, Mai-kun Iida (who is presently the other half of the singing duo, J Boyz). He auditioned, got accepted and began to participate under Johnny's Jr in February 1996.
Soon after he was grouped with three of the five members of the Johnny's boy band Arashi. Together, they formed a group called M.A.I.N., a name that was formed from the initial of each member's family name: Jun Matsumoto, Masaki Aiba, Toma Ikuta, and Kazunari Ninomiya.
With the debut of the three members into Arashi in 1999, Toma was grouped with a Jr. unit named B.I.G. (Bad Image Generation), along with ten other popular Juniors of that time, which included Koki Tanaka of KAT-TUN. Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, with whom Toma is still very good friends with, had also been part of that group. Soon after, B.I.G. was reduced to just Toma and Tomohisa.
Kenichi Matsuyama (松山 ケンイチ, Matsuyama Ken'ichi?, born March 5, 1985) is a Japanese actor.
He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the Death Note animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the movie adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010. His real given name written in kanji as "研一".
On April 1, 2011, he married Koyuki Katō, who co-starred with him in Kamui Gaiden. Together they have a son (b. January 5, 2012).