Shunsuke Kazama


Shunsuke Kazama is a Japanese actor, voice actor and tarento affiliated with Johnny & Associates.

Biography

In 1997, when Kazama was in his second year of junior high school, he entered Johnny & Associates and started activities as a trainee. He made his debut on stage that same year in a Shonentai stageplay.
In 1999, he played Kenjiro Kanesue in Kinpachi-sensei. His performance earned him the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix award for Best Newcomer.
In 2002, Kazama formed a unit, "4TOPS" with fellow trainees Tomohisa Yamashita, Toma Ikuta, and :ja:長谷川純|Jun Hasegawa. The quartet hosted Shounen Club, a Johnny's Jr. variety show. In September 2003, Yamashita was chosen to be a member of a new unit, News. 4TOPS was dissolved with News' debut and the remaining members would focus on acting.
In 2011, Kazama won a Television Drama Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Kazama married a non-celebrity woman in 2013, after dating for ten years.
He was also a member of TU→YU along with V6's Hiroshi Nagano, NEWS's Takahisa Masuda, Hey! Say! JUMP's Hikaru Yaotome and actor Tatsuya Takeda.
He starred in the feature-length film Maebashi Visual Kei, as a young farmer who tries to make it big in a visual kei band.

Filmography

Film

Television

Animation

Awards