Kenichi Matsuyama
Acting
Biography
Kenichi Matsuyama (松山 ケンイチ, Matsuyama Ken'ichi, born March 5, 1985) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles, and he is best known internationally for playing L in the 2006 films Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name and L: Change the World in 2008, as well as voicing Gelus in the Death Note animated adaptation. He was cast to play lead character Toru Watanabe in the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood, which was released in December 2010.
Born: March 5, 1985
Place of Birth: Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Something Like, Something Like It
Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.
歪んだ波紋
Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
1 Litre of Tears
1 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father’s footsteps?
Dokonjō Gaeru
Hiroshi is now 30-years-old and lethargic, but Pyonkichi, the frog imprinted on his shirt, is always energetic. Sometimes Hiroshi does not wear t-shirts with Pyonkichi, but Pyonkichi always encourages Hiroshi.
Mio's Cookbook
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.
Custom Made 10.30
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.
Fortress of Skulls
Japan, 1590. Following the death of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's seizure of power, the mysterious warlord Tenmaō and his fierce warriors terrorize the inhabitants of the Kantō Plain.
Filmography
as Hayase Riku(Before Reboot)
as Kiyoharu Ando
as Yoshiteru Matsukaze
as 桂场等一郎
as Shinjiro Matsudaira
as Munenori Shiba
as Uozumi Yuzuru
as Honda Masanobu
as Jun Tanabe
as Takeshi Yamada
as Kōichi Tokiwa
as Nobuto Urita
as Nobunaga Oda
as Satoshi Miyagawa
as イエス
as Kazuo Jinbo
as Jesus
as Galo Thymos (voice)
as Galo Thymos (voice)
as Galo Thymos (voice)
as Shuji Satomi
as Jesus Christ
as 神保和夫
as Daiki Igarashi
as Yosuke
as Naoe Kanetsugu
as Igawa Sota
as Satoshi Murayama
as Tetsuya Tashiro
as Taro Yamada
as Shinden Defunetei
as Takeo Sasaki
as Hiroshi
as Chasuke
as Kojiro Masakado
as Shindo Tatsuya
as Toru
as Jiro
as Tatta (voice)
as Hidemasa Hori
as Kei Komachi
as Taira no Kiyomori
as Daikichi Kawachi
as Umeyama
as Masaru Kato
as Masaru Kato
as Masaru Kato
as Toru Watanabe
as Yûji Miwa
as Self/L
as Self/L
as Makoto Sahara
as Kamui
as Youjin Mizuki
as Gamagori Futaro
as Sôichi Negishi / Johannes Krauser II
as Makoto Hokazono (voice)
as Mirume
as Iori Isaka
as Officer Niigaki
as Oto Kikuna
as Robo
as Yuji Kawamoto
as Shotaro
as Geius (voice)
as Tomohiko
as L
as Shingo
as Tamotu
as Yuji Kawamoto
as Shinichi Okazaki
as Makihara
as Young Man in Red T-Shirt
as Jun Kawabata
as Yôsuke Shinohara
as Jun
as Kenichi Mori