Kōtarō Yoshida (actor)

Kōtarō Yoshida
Native name	吉田 鋼太郎
Born	January 14, 1959 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Agent	Horipro
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)
Children	1

Kōtarō Yoshida (吉田 鋼太郎 Yoshida Kōtarō, born January 14, 1959 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.

Biography

Yoshida is originally a stage actor. Starting in 2010, he expanded his activities into television dramas and films on the advice of Shun Oguri.

Filmography

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes/Refs
1985	Twelfth Night		Harumi Nakashima
1997	Othello	Othello	Yukio Ninagawa
1998	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	Norio Deguchi
2001	Hamlet	Hamlet	Norio Deguchi
2008	King Lear	Earl of Gloucester	Yukio Ninagawa
2014	Julius Caesar	Cassius	Yukio Ninagawa

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes/Refs
2010	Surely Someday	Kitō	Shun Oguri
2015	Assassination Classroom	Kensaku Ōno	Eiichirō Hasumi
	Shinjuku Swan	Amano	Sion Sono
2017	Chotto imakara shigoto yametekuru	Yamagami	Izuru Narushima
	Teiichi's Country	Jōsuke Akaba	Akira Nagai

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes/Refs
2013	The Brothers Karamazov	Bunzō Kurosawa	CX
	Hanzawa Naoki	Hiroshi Naitō	TBS
2014	Hanako to Anne	Densuke Kanō	NHK	Asadora
	Mozu	Jin Nakagami	TBS
2016	Sanada Maru	Oda Nobunaga	NHK	Taiga drama
	Totto TV	Hisaya Morishige	NHK
	Yuriko-san no Ehon	Hiroshi Harashima	NHK

Awards

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Result
2014	7th International Drama Festival in Tokyo	Best Supporting Actor	Won[1]

References

1. "吉田鋼太郎、『花アン』伝助人気を分析「男らしさが新鮮だった」". oricon. Retrieved December 14, 2015.

External links

• Official profile (Japanese)
• Kōtarō Yoshida at the Internet Movie Database