Norito Yashima (八嶋 智人, Yashima Norito, born September 27, 1970 in Nara) is a Japanese actor, TV personality, narrator, voice actor and presenter. He is currently employed by ComeCome Miniki-Na Theater Company and SIS Company. He landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia, a show he co-hosted with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi,[1] and has also participated in a few anime productions, voicing characters such as Iwanbo in Rurouni Kenshin and Œufcoque in Mardock Scramble.

He is married to stage actress Kyōko Miyashita (宮下 今日子, Miyashita Kyōko), and their first son was born on May 12, 2007.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1999 Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris Sakurai
2000 Tales of the Unusual Man
2003 Kantoku kansen
2004 Yaku san-jû no uso Yokoyama
2005 Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji Hideki Haijima
2006 Rough Coach Furuya
2007 Hero Kenji Endo
2008 All Around Us Moroi
2008 Akifukaki Satoru Terada
2016 Rudolf the Black Cat Butch (voice)
2018 Killing For The Prosecution Odajima
2019 Touken Ranbu Hashiba Hideyoshi [2]
2022 Radiation House: The Movie Fukuo Tanaka [3]
2024 All of Tokyo! Kenji Hinuma [4]
2025 My Beloved Stranger Ken'ichi Kasuga [5]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2000 Aikotoba wa Yūki Rei Saitō
2001 Hero Kenji Endo
2002 Hey! Spring of Trivia Host
2003 Water Boys Kiyomasa
2004 Shinsengumi! Takeda Kanryuusai Taiga drama [6]
2004 Wonderful Life Masayoshi Tsumasaka
2008 Scrap Teacher Hisakimi Takasu
2010 Wagaya no Rekishi Shusaku Endo [7]
2012 Yûsha Yoshihiko to Akuryô no Kagi Instructor
2014 Massan Toshio Asadora
2018 Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final Kinpachi Television film
2019 Shiroi Kyotō Tomohiro Tsukuda
2021 Radiation House Fukuo Tanaka Season 2 [3]
2022 The 13 Lords of the Shogun Takeda Nobuyoshi Taiga drama [8]
2024 Extremely Inappropriate! Himself [9]

Anime

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Video games

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Dubbing

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References

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  1. ^ "Japanese Trivia Show Comes to Spike TV". Multichannel News. 4 November 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  2. ^ "映画刀剣乱舞". eiga.com. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b "窪田正孝主演「ラジエーションハウス」映画化! "チームラジハ"が史上最大の困難に立ち向かう". eiga.com. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "ゼンブ・オブ・トーキョー". eiga.com. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  5. ^ "知らないカノジョ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  6. ^ "新選組!の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  7. ^ "「わが家の歴史」を彩る昭和の著名人たち 2". Fuji TV. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
  8. ^ "鈴木京香がNHK大河「鎌倉殿の13人」丹後局役に「もう彼女の大ファン」". Nikkan Sports. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  9. ^ "「八嶋智人」がトレンド入り 『不適切にも』"八嶋無双"さく裂 ネット「プロ過ぎるw」」". Oricon. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  10. ^ "オープン・シーズン". Sony Pictures. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  11. ^ "アーロと少年". Fukikaeru. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  12. ^ "ドクター・ドリトル". Fukikaeru. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
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