Hirofumi Arai (Actor)

Hirofumi Arai is a Zainichi Korean actor in Japan.

Arai is a high school dropout. Originally intending to go to film school, he moved to Tokyo at 19 and got his first acting role in Isao Yukisada’s 2001 film GO. He has been working steadily as a film actor ever since.

Native name: 新井浩文 (ARAI Hirofumi)
Occupation: Actor
Birthplace: Aomori Prefecture
Born: January 18, 1979 (age 37)
Height: 5' 11" (181 cm)
Blood type: A
Debuted: 2001
Genres: Films, TV dramas
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Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2015	Bakuman	Rival manga artist
2015	Parasyte - Part 2	Uragami
2014	Parasyte - Part 1	Uragami
2014	100 Yen Love	Yuuji
2014	Kinkyori Renai	Akachi, Yuni's cousin and Haruka's co-worker
2014	Tada's Do-It-All House: Disconcerto
2014	Climbing to Spring
2014	Ai no Uzu
2013	The Eternal Zero	Zero fighter pilot (young)
2013	The Ravine of Goodbye
2012	The Samurai That Night
2012	Beyond Outrage
2012	A Road Stained Crimson	Ken
2012	Blazing Famiglia
2012	Ushijima the Loan Shark
2012	Helter Skelter	Kinji Sawanabe
2012	Space Brothers
2012	Liar Game: Reborn
2012	Fish on Land	Kazuo
2011	Love Strikes!	Yuichi Shimada (31 years old)
2011	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai	Matsuzaki Hayatonoshō
2011	Slapstick Brothers
2010	A Yakuza’s Daughter Never Cries
2010	Tokyo Stray Girls
2010	Confessions	Shuya's father
2010	BOX: The Hakamada Case
2009	A Crowd of Three
2009	The Blood of Rebirth	Shuma
2009	Villon’s Wife
2009	The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
2009	Kanikosen	Shioda
2009	The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones	Akira Ushiyama
2008	All Around Us
2008	My Darling of the Mountains	Police officer
2006	Sway	Yohei Okajima
2005	The Neighbor No. Thirteen	Toru Akai
2004	Blood and Bones	Masao Kim
2003	Josee, the Tiger and the Fish	Koji
2002	Jam Films
2001	Blue Spring	Aoki

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