Cast & creator
Gen Hoshino
Best known for SPY x FAMILY, SAKAMOTO DAYS, My Husband is a Cartoonist
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.
Also known as: 星野 源, جن هوشینو
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film credits
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television credits
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1951–2026 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (72)
Showing 72 of 72 credits
SPY x FAMILY
Theme Song Performance
2022
SAKAMOTO DAYS
Writer
2025
My Husband is a Cartoonist
2010
NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
Himself
1951NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen
Self - Performer
1951
Half Blue Sky
Theme Song Performance
2018
Dr.STOЯKS
Haruki Shinomiya
2015
MIU404
Kazumi Shima
2020
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White
Theme Song Performance
2023
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Tsuzaki Hiramasa
2016The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Theme Song Performance
2016
Why I Dress Up for Love
Theme Song Performance
2021
Detective School Q
Detective Nekota
2007
Tiger and Dragon
Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
2005
Achikochi Audrey
Theme Song Performance
2019
Mirai
Father (voice)
2018
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Theme Song Performance
2018
Overprotected Kahoko
Theme Song Performance
2017
LIGHTHOUSE
Self
2023
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Senpai (voice)
2017
We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
2020
Odd Family 11
Hiroyuki Sanada
2011
Your Love So Invincible
Theme Song Performance
2026
Saint☆Young Men
Buddha (voice)
2012
Cube
Theme Song Performance
2021
Mirai koshi Meguru
Hideo Eguchi
2008
Crazy for Me
Theme Song Performance
2015
GROTESQQQUE
Kento Kurikura (voice)
2026
Gekidan Engimono
2004
おげんさんといっしょ
おげんさん
2017
Akihabara@DEEP
Taiko
2006
LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
2013
Once Again Sugar & Spice
Koyama
2006
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
Kouji Hashimoto
2013
Teen Regime
Taira Kiyoshi
2022
Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread
寺山一樹
2014
Plage -Share House for Losers-
Yoshimura Takao
2017
Ghost Book
Theme Song Performance
2022
おげんさんのサブスク堂
おげんさん
2022
The Woodsman and the Rain
Theme Song Performance
2012
Last Mile
Kazumi Shima
2024
69
Yuzuru Nakamura
2004
The Voice of Sin
Toshiya Sone
2020
Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
2022
Saint☆Young Men
Gautama Buddha (voice)
2013Saint☆Young Men
Theme Song Performance
2013
弟
2004
A Moon in the Ordinary
Theme Song Performance
2025
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」
2004
大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
2009
Slow Train
Doumeki Mi
2025
大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」
2006
Love & Peace
PC-300 (voice)
2015
Brass Knuckle Boys
Band Member
2009
The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special
Hiramasa Tsuzaki
2021
Samurai Shifters
Harunosuke Katagiri
2019
Tamako in Moratorium
Theme Song Performance
2013
Chieri and Cherry
Cherry (voice)
2015
Hoshi of the Girls' Garden
Hoshi-sensei (voice)
2022昨夜のカレー 明日のパン
Creator
2014
108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba
Theme Song Performance
2019
Blindly in Love
Kentaro
2013
Moriyamachu Driving School
Theme Song Performance
2016
No Smoking
Self
2019
Paikaji Nankai Sakusen
Theme Song Performance
2012
Non-ko
Masaru
2008
GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
2019
The Day Kouhaku Was Born
George Mabuchi
2015
Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023
Self
2023
Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
2026
Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome
Himself
2024
Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly”
Self
2025