Satoshi Tsumabuki (Actor)

Satoshi Tsumabuki is a Japanese actor from Fukuoka Prefecture. He was also lead singer and bassist for the band Basking Lite, which he formed with his brother in 1999 (their last album was released in 2001).

Native name: 妻夫木聡 (TSUMABUKI Satoshi)
Occupation: Actor
Birthplace: Mitsuhashi, Fukuoka Prefecture
Born: December 13, 1980 (age 35)
Height: 5' 7" (171 cm)
Blood type: O
Debuted: 1997
Genres: Films, stage, TV dramas
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Filmography as writer

Year	Movie
2014	Judge!

Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2016	Kazoku wa Tsurai yo
2014	The Vancouver Asahi	Reggie Kasahara
2014	Lady Maiko	Yuichiro Akagi
2014	The World of Kanako	Asai
2014	Our Family	Satoshi Tsumabuki
2014	The Little House	Takeshi
2014	Judge!	Kiichiro Ota
2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Oda Nobukatsu
2013	Tokyo Family
2012	Fly With the Gold	Koda
2012	For Love’s Sake	Makoto Taiga
2011	Smuggler	Ryosuke Kinuta
2011	My Back Page
2010	Villain	Yuichi Shimizu
2010	Surely Someday
2009	Villon’s Wife	Okada
2009	The Boat	Toru
2009	Pandemic	Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, Emergency physician
2008	Paco and the Magical Book	Muromachi
2008	The Magic Hour
2008	Tokyo!	Takeshi
2007	Welcome to the Quiet Room
2007	Dororo
2005	Lorelei	Yukito Origasa
2004	Thirty Lies or So
2003	Josee, the Tiger and the Fish	Tsuneo
2003	Dragon Head	Teru Aoki
2002	Jam Films
2002	Sabu	Sabu
2001	Waterboys	Suzuki

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Yoji Yamada to direct family comedy "Kazoku wa Tsurai yo"

Veteran director Yoji Yamada is set to direct a new movie titled Kazoku wa Tsurai yo (lit. "It's tough being a family"), his first comedy since the final installment of the Otoko...

2 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki to star in movie about the Vancouver Asahi baseball club

Satoshi Tsumabuki is set to star in Yuya Ishii's upcoming baseball movie Vancouver no Asahi, which depicts the experiences of a team of Japanese immigrants who played on a team in Canada...

2 years ago
Full trailer for "Judge!" starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Keiko Kitagawa

Shochiku has released a new full 90-second trailer for Akira Nagai’s upcoming advertising industry comedy Judge! starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Keiko Kitagawa.

2 years ago
Koji Yakusho and rookie actress Nana Komatsu to star in Tetsuya Nakashima’s "Kawaki"

Today it was announced that Koji Yakusho will star in Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kawaki (lit. “Thirst”), a movie adaptation of Akio Fukamachi’s debut novel Hateshinaki Kawaki, winner of the 3rd...

3 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki and Keiko Kitagawa to star in upcoming comedy “Judge!”

Satoshi Tsumabuki (32) and Keiko Kitagawa (26) are set to co-star as a “fake couple” in Judge! - an upcoming film by two prodigies of the television commercial industry. Although...

3 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki and Sosuke Ikematsu to star in Yuya Ishii’s "Bokutachi no Kazoku"

On Wednesday it was announced that Satoshi Tsumabuki and Sosuke Ikematsu will co-star together for the first time in Yuya Ishii’s Bokutachi no Kazoku (lit. “Our Family”), a film adaptation of a...

3 years ago
Takako Matsu and Chieko Baisho to star in Yoji Yamada’s "Chiisai Ouchi"

On Friday it was announced that actresses Chieko Baisho (71) and Takako Matsu (35) will star in Yoji Yamada’s 82nd feature film, Chiisai Ouchi (lit. “The Little House”).The movie is based on a...

3 years ago
More clips from Takashi Miike’s "For Love’s Sake"

One thing you can never say about Takashi Miike’s For Love’s Sake (Ai to Makoto) is that it’s been misrepresented in its promotion.In the past few days, several new videos have been released...

4 years ago
New special video for Takashi Miike’s "For Love’s Sake"

Over the past two years, director Takashi Miike has hosted a series of live interview events to help promote upcoming movies. On Wednesday, he hosted one for his own movie, For Love’s Sake at...

4 years ago
Cast revealed for Yoji Yamada’s ‘Tokyo Kazoku’

Back in December, it was announced that director Yoji Yamada was working on a contemporary take on Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 film “Tokyo Story” called Tokyo Kazoku. Earlier today, the cast was...

5 years ago
Cast revealed for Katsuhito Ishii’s live-action “Smuggler”

Back on October 25th, a live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe’s manga Smuggler was announced in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine. Earlier today, further details were revealed. The film...

5 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki and Kenichi Matsuyama to star in Nobuhiro Yamashita’s “My Back Page”

It’s been known for a while now that Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, A Gentle Breeze in the Village) was working on a new film, thanks to a mysterious listing added to IMDb a while back for...

6 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki stars in Sang-il Lee’s “Akunin”

28-year-old actor Satoshi Tsumabuki is set to star in Sang-il Lee’s next film, Akunin (English title: Villain), which is based on a story by Shuichi Yoshida original serialized in Asahi Shimbun in...

6 years ago
First teaser for “School Days with a Pig”

No offense intended to the governor of Alaska, as she seems to be especially sensitive about these things, but Tetsu Maeda’s School Days with a Pig (Buta ga Ita Kyoshitsu) now has a teaser...

8 years ago
More on Takahisa Zeze’s “Pandemic”

The official website for Takahisa Zeze’s Pandemic (Kansen Rettou) went live today and there have been all sorts of new developments since the movie was first announced at the beginning of the...

8 years ago
“The Magic Hour” and “Cyborg She” stars stop by Mechaike for some Yabecchi Sushi

This discussion over at Jason Gray’s blog about Koki Mitani's media whorin’ ways reminded me about this “Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!” clip from last month where Satoshi Tsumabuki, Koichi Sato,...

8 years ago
Satoshi Tsumabuki to star in “Pandemic”

Satoshi Tsumabuki (Waterboys, Dororo) has been cast alongside actress Rei Dan in Takahisa Zeze‘s upcoming thriller Pandemic (Kansen Rettou). The story, inspired by recent fear of avian flu,...

8 years ago
Review: Dragon Head

Ever had one of those dreams where you’re trying your hardest to run from something but your legs just don’t want to work properly? That’s kind of the feeling I had the entire time I was...

10 years ago