Tomokazu Miura
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1952-01-28 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Enzan, Yamanashi, Japan
Also Known As Minoru Miura, 三浦友和, Miura Minoru, 三浦稔, Томокадзу Миура
Tomokazu Miura
Biography
Tomokazu Miura (三浦 友和, Miura Tomokazu, born Miura Minoru (三浦 稔) on January 28, 1952) is a Japanese actor. Miura attended Hino high school in Tokyo. He was originally a member of rock group RC Succession, but was asked to leave the group by their management when they signed a record contract.[1][2] However, impressed by his looks, the management company asked him to try out acting.[1] In 1974 he appeared in an advertisement for Glico with young singer Momoe Yamaguchi. When casting the male lead for her film Izu no Odoriko, they thought of Miura, and he was chosen as the male lead. The popularity of the Miura/Yamaguchi combination led to them starring together in a series of films and television series. They became known as the "Golden Combi". Although Yamaguchi had a separate career as a singer, this was Miura's main form of employment through the 1970s. In 1980 Miura and Yamaguchi married, and the 21-year-old Yamaguchi retired from show business. Initially Miura struggled with his acting career, which had consisted of playing Yamaguchi's romantic partner.[3] However, after a few years of struggle, he was able to establish himself as an actor, changing his type from the "clean cut youth" roles he had played with Yamaguchi to "bad boy" roles. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award[4] and at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival[5] for Typhoon Club.[6] Miura is a keen pachinko player and was a smoker until he gave it up at the age of 50. Because of his appearance in cigarette advertisements, it was debated in the Japanese diet whether Miura was an "idol" who could be considered to have a strong influence on underage smoking. Due to his wife's relatively greater fame and popularity, he is sometimes referred to as just "Momoe's husband" (Momoe-chan no Danna-san), a name which he dislikes.[1] The couple have two sons, Yutaro, who went on to marry singer and seiyuu Yui Makino, and Takahiro, and have repeatedly been chosen as "the ideal celebrity couple".[7] According to Miura, they have never had a marital quarrel.[
Known For
Actor
as Hiro
as Tomoyama
as Sentaro
as Katsumi Sasaki
as Shinoda Kozan
as Toshio Katsuragi
as Watanabe Wasaru
as Kyoichi Goda
as Kohei
as Imadegawa Takao
as Soichiro Itadori
as Goshiro Kotaki
as Katsutoshi Matsuoka
as Katsutoshi Matsuoka
as Motoki Hidetoshi
as Takano Shigeru
as Chiaki Kaneko
as Suiho Tagawa
as Kenjiro Fujioka
as Tooru Wada
as Seiichiro Watari
as Watari Seiichiro
as Minoru Kato
as Isao Ohashi
as Dr. Takuma
as Toru Takishima
as Shiraishi
as Shimizu Hisanori
as Pod (voice)
as Kato
as Senior
as Naohiro Kiyose
as 的場彰一
as Shiro Gyoten
as Hasegawa
as Kozo Otomo
as Ryokutaro
as Kashiwabara Yasutaka
as Teruo Anzai
as Aiichiro Fukuhara
as Dr. Takuma
as Mr. Kusonoki
as Director Sugita
as Toyomichi
as Shibusawa
as Toshiaki Namiki
as Doctor Takuma
as Ginsaku Kawara
as Dr. Yamauchi
as Nobuo Haruno
as Hirose Makoto
as Mori
as Toshihisa Maeda
as Toru Aoyama
as Yohei Ishiyama
as Mario Baba (adult)
as Fujio Kawajiri
as I
as Tetsuro
as Hiroshi's Brother
as Kentaro, Kobayashi
as Kazuo Kurume
as Man with sunglasses
as Takeo Amamiya
as Teruzo Ando
as Tatsuro Nakazato
as 伊達成實
as Soutaroh's Father
as Hidemasa Sawada
as Jin Nishimura
as Teacher Umemiya
as Kouichi
as Dr. Eiji Honda
as Senta Naruse
as Goichi Odajima
as Koji Mimura
as 北村明夫
as Kohei Uesugi
as Ken Yamanobe
as Kosuke Noguchi
as Takuji
as Tetsuo Tamaru
as Keiichi Abe
as Sanshiro Sugata
as Auntie's Fiancé
as Jiro Takashima
as Sasuke(佐助)
as Shinji Kubo
as Rokusuke Kaneya
as Mitsuo sagara
as Kawashima
Writer
as Writer