Raised in Yamanashi before moving between Tokyo and Matsue, he entered an art school in the capital and cut his teeth with several theatre groups, notably Jurō Kara’s Jōkyō Gekijō. A breakthrough arrived with a leading part in Kaizō Hayashi’s 1986 film To Sleep so as to Dream, while the 1992 television drama Zutto Anata ga Suki datta cemented his popularity through the character Fuyuhiko. Expandin…
