Gen Hoshino
Gen Hoshino (星野 源, Hoshino Gen, born January 28, 1981) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer.
Hoshino's movie debut, Lee Sang-il's 69, was an adaptation of the Ryū Murakami novel of the same name. He previously acted in various television dramas and stage plays. In 2012, he debuted as a voice actor, voicing Buddha in the original video animation (OVA) adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura's manga Saint Young Men, and also provided a theme song called "Gag" for its 2013 theatrical version, where he reprised his role. In 2013, he played the lead character in Masahide Ichii's Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Hakoiri Musuko no Koi) alongside Kaho, and starred in the Sion Sono film Why Don't You Play in Hell?. In 2016, Hoshino starred in TBS's The Full-Time Wife Escapist. With Yui Aragaki as his co-star, he portrayed a salaryman named Hiramasa Tsuzaki. The drama achieved steadily rising ratings, with a real-time viewership peak rating of 20.8% on the final episode, and an overall rating of 14.5%. Hoshino's performance earned him several Best Supporting Actor awards. He also provided the theme song for the drama, titled "Koi".
In 2017, Hoshino lent his voice to the main character of award-winning animated film Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. He also became the voice of the Father in Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, which was released into theaters in Japan on July 20, 2018.
Idaten, NHK's 2019 Taiga drama, chosen for the theme to encourage the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hoshino portrayed Kazushige Hirasawa, who delivered the persuasive speech that helped determine the venue for the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games.
On April 30, 2018, it was announced that Hoshino will star in Samurai Shifters, the film adaptation of Akihiro Dobashi's historical novel Hikkoshi Daimyo Sanzenri, set to premier on August 30, 2019. In the movie, he plays a bookworm samurai called Harunosuke Katagiri, who receives the mission to help a daimyo move. It will be Hoshino's first lead role in a live-action movie since Blindly in Love in 2013.
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Movies (35)
GROTESQQQUE
2026 · Kento Kurikura (voice)
Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
2026
A Moon in the Ordinary
2025 · Theme Song Performance
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
2025 · Self
Slow Train
2025 · Doumeki Mi
Last Mile
2024 · Kazumi Shima
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
2024 · Himself
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
2023 · Theme Song Performance
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
2023 · Self
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
2022 · Hoshi-sensei (voice)
Ghost Book
2022 · Theme Song Performance
Cube
2021 · Theme Song Performance
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
2021 · Hiramasa Tsuzaki
The Voice of Sin
2020 · Toshiya Sone
No Smoking
2019 · Self
108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
2019 · Theme Song Performance
GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
2019
Samurai Shifters
2019 · Harunosuke Katagiri
Mirai
2018 · Father (voice)
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
2018 · Theme Song Performance
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
2017 · Senpai (voice)
Moriyamachu Driving School
2016 · Theme Song Performance
Chieri and Cherry
2015 · Cherry (voice)
Love & Peace
2015 · PC-300 (voice)
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
2015 · George Mabuchi
Tamako in Moratorium
2013 · Theme Song Performance
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
2013 · Kouji Hashimoto
Blindly in Love
2013 · Kentaro
Saint☆Young Men
2013 · Gautama Buddha (voice), Theme Song Performance
Paikaji Nankai Sakusen
2012 · Theme Song Performance
The Woodsman and the Rain
2012 · Theme Song Performance
Brass Knuckle Boys
2009 · Band Member
Non-ko
2008 · Masaru
69
2004 · Yuzuru Nakamura
Sacrée frousse !
· Cherry (second segment) (voice)
TV shows (36)
Your Love So Invincible
2026 · Theme Song Performance
SAKAMOTO DAYS
2025 · Writer
Faro
2023 · Self
おげんさんのサブスク堂
2022 · おげんさん
Teen Regime
2022 · Taira Kiyoshi
SPY x FAMILY
2022 · Theme Song Performance
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
2022
Why I Dress Up for Love
2021 · Theme Song Performance
UIM404
2020 · Kazumi Shima
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
2020
Achikochi Audrey
2019 · Theme Song Performance
Half Blue Sky
2018 · Theme Song Performance
Plage -Share House for Losers-
2017 · Yoshimura Takao
Overprotected Kahoko
2017 · Theme Song Performance
おげんさんといっしょ
2017 · おげんさん
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
2016 · Tsuzaki Hiramasa, Theme Song Performance
Dr.STOЯKS
2015 · Haruki Shinomiya
Crazy for Me
2015 · Theme Song Performance
Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
2014 · 寺山一樹
昨夜のカレー 明日のパン
2014 · Creator
LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
2013
Saint☆Young Men
2012 · Buddha (voice)
Odd Family 11
2011 · Hiroyuki Sanada
My Husband is a Cartoonist
2010
大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
2009
Mirai koshi Meguru
2008 · Hideo Eguchi
Detective School Q
2007 · Detective Nekota
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」
2006
Once Again Sugar & Spice
2006 · Koyama
Akihabara@DEEP
2006 · Taiko
Tiger and Dragon
2005 · Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
弟
2004
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」
2004
Gekidan Engimono
2004
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
1951 · Himself, Self - Performer
Hirayasumi
· Theme Song Performance