Gen Hoshino

Q: Has Gen Hoshino won any awards?

Yes, Gen Hoshino has received various awards, including the Best Actor award at the 2017 Tokyo Drama Awards for his role in 'Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu'.

Q: What was Gen Hoshino's first film?

Gen Hoshino made his film debut in the 2007 movie 'Kamikaze Girls', where he played a supporting role. This marked the beginning of his successful acting career.

Q: Which films are considered Gen Hoshino's most successful?

Some of Gen Hoshino's most successful films include 'Kirin no Tsubasa', 'Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu', and 'Kimi wa Petto', all of which received critical acclaim and commercial success.

Q: What is known about Gen Hoshino's personal life?

Gen Hoshino is known to be private about his personal life. He married Akiyo in 2020 and they have one child together, though details about his family are kept out of the public eye.

Q: What is Gen Hoshino's estimated net worth?

Gen Hoshino's estimated net worth is around 5 million USD, reflecting his success in both acting and music.

Q: What are some milestones in Gen Hoshino's filmography?

Milestones in Gen Hoshino's filmography include his breakout role in 'Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu' and his musical contributions, which have significantly increased his popularity and recognition in Japan.

Q: How has Gen Hoshino influenced Japanese pop culture?

Gen Hoshino has influenced Japanese pop culture through his unique blend of music and acting. His songs often feature in popular dramas, and his performances have captivated audiences, making him a beloved figure in the entertainment industry.

Known for

Mirai (2018)

IMDb 7 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 98mins

Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in...

Name

Gen Hoshino

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

8 March 1981, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan

Spouses

Akiyo (2020–present)

Children

1 child (name not publicly known)

Parents

Yoshiko Hoshino, Masashi Hoshino

Estimated Net Worth

5 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie GROTESQQQUE Anthology film made up of 3 separate segments: Æliens, 4649Girl, and Nocturn: En Cette Nuit Grotesque.	(voice)	Not rated
2026	Movie Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC Celebrating the release of his sixth album, Gen Hoshino takes the stage on his sold-out Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie Slow Train Set in Kamakura and Busan. The Shibuyas who live in Kamakura lost their grandmother and parents in an accident. On...	Doumeki Mi	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2024	Movie Last Mile On the night before ‘Black Friday,’ which is the one of the busiest commerce days, a cardboard box, that is...	Kazumi Shima	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2024	Movie Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome To celebrate their 15th year of hosting their weekly show on All Night Nippon, Audrey records live in front of...	Himself	Not rated
2023	TV LIGHTHOUSE Two leading entertainers casually get together for some real talk, shedding light on their vulnerabilities and worries, with lots of...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2023	Movie Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023 From "Hitori Edge" to "Pop Virus" and beyond, this collection of live performances features highlights from a selection of Gen...	Self	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2022	Movie Hoshi of the Girls' Garden Mr. Hoshi is the homeroom teacher of 2nd Year Class 4 at an average Girl’s School. He spends his days...	Hoshi-sensei (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV おげんさんのサブスク堂	おげんさん	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2022	TV Teen Regime In the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a...	Taira Kiyoshi	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron An educational program hosted by Gen Hoshino and his puppet "Kaisetsuin" that focuses on a "history changing" musician in each...	Unknown character	TMDB 9.5 / 10
2021	Movie The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special Mikuri and Hiramasa both work and share housework duties. They have peaceful days together. One day, Mikuri learns that she...	Hiramasa Tsuzaki	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	Movie The Voice of Sin Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case...	Toshiya Sone	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2020	TV MIU404 The Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department attempts to solve cases within 24 hours....	Kazumi Shima	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	TV We Married as a Job: New Year's Special	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2019	Movie No Smoking A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS" Singer-songwriter Gen Hoshino takes the stage at the sold out Tokyo Dome in his highly anticipated 2019 Pop Virus dome...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie Samurai Shifters Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance...	Harunosuke Katagiri	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2018	Movie Mirai Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in...	Father (voice)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2017	TV Plage -Share House for Losers- A humorous suspense drama starring Gen Hoshino, currently Japan's most popular actor. The story is set in a shared house...	Yoshimura Takao	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2017	TV おげんさんといっしょ	おげんさん	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2017	Movie Night Is Short, Walk On Girl As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The...	Senpai (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	TV The Full-Time Wife Escapist A series of events leads single, 25-year-old Mikuri Moriyama and 36-year-old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.	Tsuzaki Hiramasa	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2015	Movie Chieri and Cherry Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding...	Cherry (voice)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	TV Dr.STOЯKS The drama revolves around Kounotori Sakura, an Ob-Gyn doctor working at the Persona General Medical Centre who is also a...	Haruki Shinomiya	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2015	Movie Love & Peace A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument...	PC-300 (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	Movie The Day Kouhaku Was Born This drama focuses on the story of how NHK's famous New Year's Eve program "Kohaku Uta Gassen" came about in...	George Mabuchi	Not rated
2014	TV Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread	寺山一樹	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2013	Movie Why Don't You Play in Hell? In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a...	Kouji Hashimoto	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2013	TV LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto	Unknown character	Not rated
2013	Movie Blindly in Love Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set...	Kentaro	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie Saint☆Young Men Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment...	Gautama Buddha (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2012	TV Saint☆Young Men Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment...	Buddha (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2011	TV Odd Family 11 Minoru Sanada is a cameraman with little skills in his profession. His wife Megumi runs a cafe, but the cafe...	Hiroyuki Sanada	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	TV My Husband is a Cartoonist The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2009	TV 大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」	Unknown character	Not rated
2009	Movie Brass Knuckle Boys A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through...	Band Member	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2008	Movie Non-ko Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager...	Masaru	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2008	TV Mirai koshi Meguru Meguru Yoshida (Kyoko Fukada) is an English instructor at a cram school who is forced to support her family after...	Hideo Eguchi	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2007	TV Detective School Q The city is filled with countless urban legends. Strange incidents that occur in the midst of these legends lead people...	Detective Nekota	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	TV 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」	Unknown character	Not rated
2006	TV Once Again Sugar & Spice Stories about how sweet and bitter love can be.	Koyama	Not rated
2006	TV Akihabara@DEEP Akihabara is a Tokyo district full of manga, anime, electronics, video games, figurines, etc. It is a place that gathers...	Taiko	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2005	TV Tiger and Dragon A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic "rakugo" performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the...	Dontsuku Hayashiyatei	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2004	TV 弟	Unknown character	Not rated
2004	TV 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」	Unknown character	Not rated
2004	Movie 69 Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a...	Yuzuru Nakamura	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	TV Gekidan Engimono Fuji-TV reserves the late-night time period to be used for experimental projects, giving up-and-coming young screenwriters, producers and directors a...	Unknown character	Not rated
1951	TV NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New...	Himself	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1951	TV NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen (NHK紅白歌合戦, "NHK Red and White Song Battle"), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New...	Self - Performer	TMDB 8.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie A Moon in the Ordinary Kensho Aoto reunites with Yoko Sudo, whom he had feelings for in junior high school, for the first time in...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2025	TV SAKAMOTO DAYS Once the greatest hitman of all, Taro Sakamoto retired in the name of love. But when his past catches up,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2023	Movie SPY x FAMILY CODE: White While under the guise of taking his family on a weekend winter getaway, Loid's attempt to make progress on his...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	Movie Ghost Book The forbidden book that will make any wish come true "The Ghostly Book of Books". However, in order to make...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	TV SPY x FAMILY A spy, an assassin and a telepath come together to pose as a family, each for their own reasons, while...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2021	Movie Cube Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2021	TV Why I Dress Up for Love A busy publicist learns to open her mind and heart when she moves into a luxury apartment with a friend...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	Movie 108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba Screenwriter Goro Kaiba is horrified to learn via Facebook that his wife Ayako is having an affair. Furthermore, her post...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	TV Achikochi Audrey Achikochi Audrey is a variety show lead by the comedic duo Audrey. Every week, different guests are invited to the...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2018	TV Half Blue Sky Suzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her hearing in...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2018	Movie Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island Upon hearing about the story of Treasure Island, Nobita dreams of discovering and exploring his own treasure island, despite the...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	TV Overprotected Kahoko College student Kahoko is the quintessential overprotected child born out of today's Japanese society. Shielded by her parents, Kahoko grew...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	TV The Full-Time Wife Escapist A series of events leads single, 25-year-old Mikuri Moriyama and 36-year-old Hiramasa Tsuzaki to marry as a cover.	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2016	Movie Moriyamachu Driving School Kiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	TV Crazy for Me Everyone has a worry or two in life. Not to mention all the anxieties of the modern world that add...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	TV 昨夜のカレー明日のパン	Creator Creator	Not rated
2013	Movie Tamako in Moratorium Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie Saint☆Young Men Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2012	Movie Paikaji Nankai Sakusen Sasaki has had a difficult period, going through a divorce and losing his job. To take a break and start...	Theme Song Performance Sound	Not rated
2012	Movie The Woodsman and the Rain A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help...	Theme Song Performance Sound	TMDB 6.1 / 10

Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC

2026

Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”

2025

Slow Train

2025 / TMDB 7.1

Last Mile

2024 / TMDB 6.8

Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023

2023 / TMDB 8.3

Hoshi of the Girls' Garden

2022 / TMDB 7.5

Got a question about Gen Hoshino?

What are some highlights of Gen Hoshino's career?

Gen Hoshino has achieved significant success as an actor and musician, with notable roles in television dramas and films. His music also gained popularity, leading to several hit singles and albums.

Has Gen Hoshino won any awards?

What was Gen Hoshino's first film?

Which films are considered Gen Hoshino's most successful?

What is known about Gen Hoshino's personal life?

What is Gen Hoshino's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in Gen Hoshino's filmography?

How has Gen Hoshino influenced Japanese pop culture?