Taro Suruga
Taro Suruga is a Japanese musician and actor from Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture.
Biography
His father is rakugo performer Shōfukutei Tsurube II. He graduated from Shinko Gakuen Shinko High School and Osaka University of Arts Junior College. After studying in England for two years, he made his debut music release on the label Polystar as "taro" in 2003. After that, he formed the band "sleepydog", performing vocals and guitar. In 2008, when he became 30 years old, he decided to turn to acting. He has appeared in both films and television dramas.In February 2011, he finished his "sleepydog" activities and started, along with sleepydog guitarist Takayuki Moriya. a new unit named "Human Note".
From 3 October 2011, he played the main role of Masaru Kawamoto in the Carnation television series.
In 2013, he played a role in TBS Television's Hanzawa Naoki.
Appearances
Films
- Detroit Metal City - as Tetra Pot Melon Ti Watanabe
- '
- Kondo wa Aisai-ka
- Troubleshooting! The Ancient Dogoo Girl: Special Movie Edition - as Yosuke Isobe
- Bakuhatsu! Suke-ban Hunters Sōkatsu Magurikomi Sakusen - as Kato
- The Lone Scalpel - as Kobayashi
- Flowers - as Taichi Hirano
- Saiban-chō! Koko wa Chōeki 4-nen de dō suka
- SP The Motion Picture Kakumei-hen - as Sawajiri
- Runway Beat
- Tomie Unlimited
- Tezuka Osamu no Buddha -Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku- - as executioner
- *Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha -Owarinaki Tabi- - as Baddika
- Princess Toyotomi
- Helldriver - as Ishino
- Gekiatsu –Manatsu no Etude– - as Tetsuo Kumada
- Kamisama no Karute
- Gokudō Meshi - as Mitsuharu Kotani
- Kurosawa Eiga 2011 –Warai ni Dekinai Koi ga aru– - as Morita
- Inu no Kubiwa to Croquette to - as Yasushimoto
- Arakawa Under the Bridge: The Movie - as Last Samurai
- Subete wa "Hadaka ni naru" kara Hajimatte - as Machida
- Ouran High School Host Club - as Secretary Lawrence
- Home Itoshino Zashikiwarashi - as Saito
- The Boy Inside
- Tabi no Okurimono Ashita e
- Kita no Kanaria-tachi - as Toda
- Fly With the Gold
- Soul Flower Train - as Hajime Tachibana
- Miss Zombie
- Kimi o Omou - as Hiraiwa
- Short Movie Crash 2013 1st "Crash Return of the bad girl"
- The Eternal Zero
- Girl in the Sunny Place - as Wataru
- Crows Explode
- A Family - as Furuya
- Climbing to Spring - as Taichi Nishimura
- Naniwa Zenidō - as Atsushi Usui
- ' Chapter 6 - as Yoshida
- Kakashi to Racket –Aki to Tamako no Natsuyasumi– - as Kazuo Ozuki
- 7s
- Yume ni–Ai no tobashiri - Starring-as Yumeji Takehisa
- Sanada 10 Braves - as Kiyomi Miyoshi
- Cinderella Game - as Takimoto
- Her Love Boils Bathwater - as Takimoto
- Samurai's Promise
- The Blood of Wolves
- Bunbuku Chagama
TV dramas
- Rinjō Dai 1-shō Episode 4 - as Yamamoto
- Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite - as Jiro Kato
- Saturday Night at the Mysteries Shinbun Kisha Goro Tsurumaki 3 - as Narimiya
- Yusuke Kamiji no Genki no deru Koi Episodes 6–10 - as Kazuya
- The Ancient Dogoo Girl Episode 5 - as Yosuke Isobe
- Taiga drama
- *Ryōmaden Episode 4 – Final Episode - as Seikichi Nogami
- *Taira no Kiyomori Episode 14 – Final Episode - as Taira no Tsunemori
- SMAP×SMAP Hontōni atta Koi no Hanashi 2 Episode6 "Sewa-yakuna Koi" - as Sanda
- Clone Baby - as Haruki Wakabayashi
- Q10 Episode 2 - as Chaka
- Seicho Matsumoto Special: Kyūkei no Arano - as Detective Ogura
- Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana - as Zenji Sudo
- Try Age –Sansedai no Chōsen– Episode 2 "Kazuya Kaneda Mitsuyo no Monogatari" - as Shinkichi Hashimoto
- Saturday Night at the Mysteries Ai to Shi no Kyōkai-sen
- Shimashima - as Hiiragi Futaba
- Getsuyō Golden Zeimu Chōsakan Taro Madogiwa no Jiken-bo 22 - as Tomoyuki Naruse
- Arakawa Under the Bridge - as Last Samurai
- Unfair the special –Double Meaning Nijūteigi– - as Producer
- ' Episode 3 - as Ozawa
- Asadora Carnation Episodes 33–60 - as Sho Ohara
- Kasōken no Onna Dai 11 Series Episode 4 - as Hiroshi Takasaki
- Kaitō Royale Episode 6 - as Yuta Ito
- Saiko no Jinsei Episodes 3–4, 7, Final Episode - as Sota Ichinose
- 3.11 Sonohi, Ishinomaki de Nani ga Okita no ka –6-mai no Kabeshinbun–
- Friend-Ship Project –Taku no Taxi– - Starring; as Taku Tanaka
- Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari –Minna chigatte, minna ī– - as Kensuke Kaneko
- Kuro no Jokyōshi - as Taro Noguchi
- Ōoku–Tanjō Episodes 1 and 2 - as Myoe
- Pillow Talk –Bed no Omowaku– Episode 4 - as Koji Koizumi
- Irodori Himura Episode 7 - as Imai
- Kuroyuri Danchi ~Josho~ Episodes 1–2, 11–12 - as Yosuke Imura
- Take Five –Oretachi wa Ai o Nusumeru ka– - as Bartender/Takashi Kogori
- Kuroi 10-ri no Hitomi Kuroki III "Kuroi Shachō," "Kuroi Senpai"
- Hanzawa Naoki Part 2 - as Tadashi Yuasa
- Yorozu Uranai Sho Onmyō-ya e yōkoso - as Hideyuki Makihara
- Hanasaku Ashita - as Kazuki Miyazaki
- Border: Keishichō Sōsa Ichi-ka Satsujin-han Sōsa Dai 4 Kakari Episode 3 - as Yasuo Shimamura
- Sanuki udon Yūshi-ka - as Haruhiko Shigematsu
- Roosevelt Game Episode 6 - as Hideo Sawaki
- Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo N Episodes 5–6 - as Toru Shimonomiya
- Endless Affair–Owari naki Jōji - as Yoji Tamura
- Drama Special: Iryū Sōsa - as Shoichi Kuzumaki
- Sakura –Jiken o Kiku Onna– - as Saburo Kajiwara
- Watashitachi ga Propose sa renai no ni wa, 101 no Riyū ga atteda na Episode 2 - as Takahiro
- Shuryō Sekki - as Kunihiko Nanko
- Tamagawa Kuyakusho Of The Dead Episodes 10–12 - as Sakuranosuke Shimao
- Suiyō Mystery 9 Tsumihi - as Shinobu Wakamiya
- Sono Otoko, Ishiki Takai Kei. - as Takashi Ninomiya
- Kasane Episode 4 - as Dōzaki Yamamoto Hajime
- Keishichō Sōsaikka 9 Kakari: season10 Episode 1 - as Akira Toyohara
- Lunch no Akko-chan
- Saikyō no futari –Kyoto Fukei Tokubetsu Sōsahan– Episode 5 - as Shimsuke Shimamura
- Tsuribaka Nisshi - as Masayuki Suzuki
- Wakako Sake Season2 Episode 1 - as Admiral
- Seicho Matsumoto Ni-yo Renzoku Drama Special Dai Ichi-yo Seicho Matsumoto Drama Special Chihōshi o Kau Onna–Sakka Ryuji Sugimoto no Suiri - as Sakiji Shoda
- Love Song - as Kenta Nomura
- Drama Special Gold Woman - as Tsutomu Saita
- Seisei suru hodo, Aishiteru Episode 2 - as Joichi Mori
- Doyō Wide Gekijō Okashina Keiji 14 - as Susumu Igarashi
- Codename Mirage - Kohei Himeshima
- Onna no Kunshō - as Keita Nomoto
- Chīsana Kyojin - as Ryoichi Fujikura
- Keishichō Zero Kakari –Seikatsu Anzen-ka nan demo Sōdan-shitsu– Second Season - as Haruuma Date
- BS Shōten Drama Special Katsura Utamaru - as Tatekawa Danshi VII
- Akagi "Ryūzaki-Yagi-hen/Ichikawa-hen" - as Nango
- Akahige - Fujiyoshi
- Kansayaku Shuhei Nozaki - Masayoshi Sakamoto
- Koshiji Fubuki Monogatari - Yoshio Shoji
- ' Episode 4 - as Tsunoi
- Idaten - as Haruhide Matsushita
Variety
- run for money Tōsō-chū - as Kakeru Kisaragi
Direct-to-video
- Highway Battle R×R Vol.1 - as Keita Ishida
- Highway Battle R×R Vol.2 - as Keita Ishida
- Ayakashi Kagura - as Otomo-sensei
Music videos
- Atsuko Maeda "Kimi wa Boku Da" - as Shinji
- Osamu Kimura ""
Stage
- Rody Musical - as Cham
- Warau Kyotō - as Nonomura
- TV no namida - as Shinji Taki
- Sanada Jūyūshi - as Kiyomi Miyoshi
- Complex Sticker
- Kira desuga, nani ka? - as Masatake
- Hachigatsu Nōryō Kabuki: Kuruwa Hanashi Yamana-ya Urazato - as Gyūtarō no Tomozō
Voice acting
- UFC Gatekeeper TUF Two Class Tournament - as Stephen Siler
Advertisements
- Sony α350
- Heian-kaku Marriyell
- Shionogi Popon S
- Chubu Electric Power "Denki ga Kurashi o Kaeru"
- Cabinet Office "Kodomo Kosodate Shien–Mirai-tachi e"
- Bathclin Yakuyō Nyūyoku-zai Bathclin
- Kirin Brewery Kirin Free
- Yamaki
- *Katsuobushi-ya no dashi men tsuyu
- *Katsuobushi-ya no dashi Kappō Shiradashi
- Kao Corporation Attack Neo Kōkin EX Power
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Calpis "Calpis wa Suki?"
- Nihon Full Hop
- The Asahi Shimbun Company Asahi Shimbun
CS, cable television
- Space Shower Music Update - Wednesday regular VJ
- 8-Jidesu! Namahōsō!! - Friday regular
Radio
- Mozaiku Night –No.1 Music Factory– (5 Apr 2010 – 28 Mar 2011, bayfm78 - Monday personality
Discography
As taro
Singles
- Dōshite konna ni Kanashī 'ndarou *Cover of Takuro Yoshida
Mini albums
- Relationship
- Loop To The Roots
With sleepydog
Singles
- Start Line
Mini albums
- air
Music provided
- Ken Miyake "Yūgure Orange"