Houka Kinoshita
Acting Born Jan 24, 1964 Osaka, Japan 207 credits
Biography
Houka Kinoshita is a Japanese actor born on January 24, 1964, in Daito, Osaka, Japan. Also known as Hoka Kinoshita, he graduated from Osaka Prefectural Nozaki High School and Osaka University of Arts. Formerly represented by the talent agency Cast Power, his professional career is documented with 203 known credits in the acting field. Biographical data lists his place of birth as Osaka, Japan, and he is identified on professional databases under his Japanese stage name.
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Career overview
Houka Kinoshita is a Japanese actor born on January 24, 1964, in Daitō, Osaka, Japan. Also known as Hôka Kinoshita, he graduated from Osaka Prefectural Nozaki High School and the Osaka University of Arts. Throughout his career in the entertainment industry, he has accumulated 203 known credits in acting across movies and television shows.
In addition to his professional credits, he was formerly represented by the talent agency Cast Power. His biographical profile lists his place of birth as Osaka, Japan, and includes his Japanese stage name.
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My Name Is Lucienヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
Modern Young MonhaHoly Mother
MushobokeNO CALL NO LIFEThe Supporting Actors in ByplaywoodNaked Angel : The Red RoomThe Butterfly Collector: The Red Room
Isekai Izakaya "Nobu"Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical OncologistGOKU-OH 6Bones of SteelDiscord
Yasuragi no Toki: MichiSignMillion JoePatalliro! The Movie
A Little Room for HopeMiss SherlockWe Are Rockets!The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great RevengeRecall
Thrill!Akira and AkiraTayutauTemporary Hostess AyakaMy High School Business
Cain and AbelOtoko MeshiLove SongNight Hero NAOTORetake
One Piece: Adventure of NebulandiaJINXEDMurder on D StreetSmoke and Mist: Gold RushFight! Bookstore Girl
Hanako & AnneHanasaki Mai Speaks OutHirugao: Love Affairs in the AfternoonGreatful DeadGreatful Dead · Producer
TenshinNonmetal NightNobody's Perfect
Keigo Higashino MysteriesHitori ShizukaTSY: Time Slip YankeeInnocentFujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Conductor
CSI: Crime Scene TalksSukiyakiKarate-Robo ZaborgarThe Parasite Doctor Suzune: GenesisThe Parasite Doctor Suzune: Evolution
Chase: National Taxation InspectorAny And Every Which WayPostcardHissatsu shigotonin 2010The King of Jail Breakers
The Hovering Blade
Kamen Rider KivaTeam Batista no EikōKamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon WorldNagai Nagai SatsujinFlavor of Happiness
Kitokito!Lost & Found at Tokyo StationFuckin' Runaway
Memories of MatsukoYo-Yo Girl CopMoyuru Toki: The Excellent CompanyDiary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your EyesM
GAROGAROShinobi: Heart Under BladeWe Shall Overcome SomedayA Hardest Night!!
竜馬がゆくSasoriDéracineWild FlowersMaking-of１７才
Sky HighKaraoke TerrorAge 17Age 17 · DirectorFREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective DuoShangri-LaRyûji ForeverDoing TimeOnmyoji Abe no Seimei
Ichi the KillerOnmyojiThe King of Minami: Formula for DeceptionOtoko Michi 6 The End
Isola: Multiple Personality GirlAndo Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5SenriganAndo Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 4School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Jubaku: SpellboundDon't Look Back
Chaka: The Lonely HitmanSchool Ghost Story GWait and SeeDog RaceBonds
Yusuri: The BlackmailerWoman in Witness ProtectionDemon Fighter Kocho 2: School of Evil SpiritsDemon Fighter Kocho
The Liangshan Pachinko GangThe Liangshan Pachinko Gang 2Boys, Be AmbitiousDoll from HellNaughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife
High-Heeled Punishers
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzillaOsaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
Full Filmography
207 titles- My Name Is Lucien (2023) as Cult Leader
- ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止 (2023)
- Modern Young Monha (2022)
- Holy Mother (2022)
- Mushoboke (2021)
- NO CALL NO LIFE (2021)
- The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)
- Naked Angel : The Red Room (2021)
- The Butterfly Collector: The Red Room (2021)
- First Gentleman (2021)
- Nishinari Goro's 400 Million Yen: Deadly Battle (2021) as Hyakki Mario
- Angry Rice Wives (2021)
- Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" (2020) as Bretano
- Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist (2020) as Akira Akutsu
- GOKU-OH 6 (2020)
- Bones of Steel (2020)
- Discord (2020) as Yoshiro Maruyama
- GOKU-OH 5 (2020)
- GOKU-OH 4 (2020)
- We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous (2020) as Nishida
- Stigmatized Properties (2020) as Yuji Matsuo
- メビウスの悪女 赤い部屋 (2020)
- Yakuza (2020)
- Rock and Roll Strip (2020)
- Beautiful Escape (2020)
- Yasuragi no Toki: Michi (2019)
- Sign (2019) as Mitsuru Sasaoka
- Million Joe (2019) as Taxi Driver
- Patalliro! The Movie (2019)
- A Little Room for Hope (2018) as Takeshita Ryu
- Miss Sherlock (2018) as Hirotsugu Takakura
- We Are Rockets! (2018) as Shinsuke Sakurazawa
- The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great Revenge (2018) as Eiichiro Morio
- Recall (2018) as Hiroaki Kashiwara
- We Make Antiques! (2018) as Nishida
- Our Departures (2018) as Masaki Aiba
- ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え (2018)
- Thrill! (2017) as Sokichi Kuroiwa
- Akira and Akira (2017)
- Tayutau (2017)
- Temporary Hostess Ayaka (2017)
- My High School Business (2017) as Yuji Oikawa
- HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky (2017) as Tatsuo Fujimori
- Thrill! The Red Chapter (2017) as Kuroiwa Sokichi
- Love and Lies (2017) as Takuto Takachiho
- Thrill! The Black Chapter (2017) as Kuroiwa Sokichi
- Hamon: Yakuza Boogie (2017) as Hatsumi
- Tensai Bakabon 2 (2017) as Owner of the greengrocer
- Solitary Scream (2017)
- Solitary Scream 2 DARKNESS (2017)
- Cain and Abel (2016) as Dan Mamoru
- Otoko Meshi (2016) as 出版社面接官
- Love Song (2016)
- Night Hero NAOTO (2016) as 田之上裕三
- Retake (2016) as Shuzo Kunisaki
- Lowlife Love (2016) as Sato
- Stop the Old Fox (2016)
- The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016) as Kojima
- Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken (2016)
- Civil Violence 2 (2016)
- 貌斬りKAOKIRI～戯曲「スタニスラフスキー探偵団」より (2016)
- Civil Violence (2016)
- One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia (2015) as Kansho (voice)
- JINXED (2015) as Takao Koshimizu
- Murder on D Street (2015)
- Smoke and Mist: Gold Rush (2015) as Minowa
- Fight! Bookstore Girl (2015) as Nojima Takanori
- Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015) as Kusuyama (school teacher)
- Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion (2015) as Teacher Kusuyama
- Kiyamachi Daruma (2015) as Akimi Kaneuchi
- Munesue keiji no kuroi matsuri (2015)
- NEET of the Living Dead (2015)
- Kazoku gokko (2015) as (segment "Satou-ka no tsuya")
- 原宿デニール (2015)
- Hanako & Anne (2014) as Shimoyama
- Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out (2014) as Tsutomu Ogino
- Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon (2014) as Toru Takigawa
- Greatful Dead (2014) as Kiyonao Shiomi
- Greatful Dead (2014) Producer
- Suicide Love (2014)
- Itsukano, Genkantachi to (2014) as Tsuyoshi Otsuka
- Mosaic Japan (2014) as Jonathan Wong
- Tenshin (2013) as Shimomura Kanzan
- Nonmetal Night (2013)
- Nobody's Perfect (2013)
- Keigo Higashino Mysteries (2012) as Yukio Sano
- Hitori Shizuka (2012) as 島倉
- TSY: Time Slip Yankee (2012) as Araki
- Innocent (2012)
- Fujimi Orchestra: Cold Front Conductor (2012) as Kazuo Ichiyama
- Eden (2012)
- The Little Girl in Me (2012)
- The Centenarian Clock (2012)
- Aa... kakugi (2012)
- Hiromi-Kun! The Road to National Bancho (2012)
- CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
- Sukiyaki (2011)
- Karate-Robo Zaborgar (2011) as Wakasugi
- The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Genesis (2011)
- The Parasite Doctor Suzune: Evolution (2011)
- Moonlight Mask (2011) as Utamaro Tsubakiya
- Chase: National Taxation Inspector (2010) as Shohei Tadokoro
- Any And Every Which Way (2010)
- Postcard (2010)
- Hissatsu shigotonin 2010 (2010)
- The King of Jail Breakers (2010) as Iizuka
- The Hero Show (2010)
- Hissatsu Shigotonin 2010 (2010)
- The Hovering Blade (2009)
- Kamen Rider Kiva (2008) as Akira Kido
- Team Batista no Eikō (2008) as Tamotsu Kishikawa
- Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World (2008) as Akira Kido
- Nagai Nagai Satsujin (2008) as Male commentator
- Flavor of Happiness (2008) as Yoshio Nomura
- Samurai Gangsters (2008)
- Detective Ushio VS Case Reporter Saeko at the Terminal Station (2008) as Gunji Tsumada
- Kitokito! (2007)
- Lost & Found at Tokyo Station (2007)
- Fuckin' Runaway (2007)
- Memories of Matsuko (2006) as Resident
- Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)
- Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company (2006)
- Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2006) as Takahashi
- M (2006)
- Humoresque (2006)
- Baian Fujieda the Assassin (2006)
- A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006) as Hayashi
- Yaneura no Sanposha (2006)
- red letters (2006)
- Divide (2006)
- GARO (2005) as Makai Priest Latus
- GARO (2005) as Superior
- Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (2005) as Kisaragi Saemon
- We Shall Overcome Someday (2005)
- A Hardest Night!! (2005) as Kyoshi
- いらっしゃいませ、患者さま。 (2005)
- In the Pool (2005)
- Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Haru no Kai (2005)
- 竜馬がゆく (2004)
- Sasori (2004) as Onda Michizane
- Déracine (2004)
- Wild Flowers (2004)
- Making-of１７才 (2004)
- Making-of１７才 (2004) Director
- Sky High (2003)
- Karaoke Terror (2003)
- Age 17 (2003) as Man 1
- Age 17 (2003) Director
- FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES (2003)
- FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES (2003) Director
- Get Up! (2003)
- Shinobi 3: Hidden Techniques (2003)
- Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)
- Gold Dust Butterfly - Flap Your Wings and Open the Door (2003)
- Gozamareji (2003)
- IKKA (2003)
- Jingi 35: Ambition Compensation (2003)
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
- Shangri-La (2002) as Umekawa
- Ryûji Forever (2002) as Norihisa Ishihara
- Doing Time (2002) as Ouchi
- Onmyoji Abe no Seimei (2002)
- Harmful Insect (2002) as Truck Driver
- Pakodate-jin (2002)
- Igyō no koi (2002)
- Shinobi: The Law of Shinobi (2002)
- Concent (2002) as Takayuki Asakura
- Ichi the Killer (2001) as Sailor's Lover
- Onmyoji (2001) as Kanmu-Ten'nou
- The King of Minami: Formula for Deception (2001)
- Otoko Michi 6 The End (2001)
- Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (2000)
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5 (2000)
- Senrigan (2000)
- Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 4 (2000)
- School Ghost Story: Curse Special (2000)
- The Face Burglar (2000)
- Swing Man (2000) as Hozumi Kida
- Thug Business Worker Sabu (2000)
- Requiem of Darkness (2000)
- Jubaku: Spellbound (1999) as Nagayama
- Don't Look Back (1999)
- Chaka: The Lonely Hitman (1998)
- School Ghost Story G (1998)
- Wait and See (1998) as Drunk Man
- Dog Race (1998)
- Bonds (1998) as Shinji Miyake
- Shomuni (1998)
- Getting Even With Bad Boys (1998)
- Yusuri: The Blackmailer (1997)
- Woman in Witness Protection (1997) as Eiji
- Demon Fighter Kocho 2: School of Evil Spirits (1997)
- Demon Fighter Kocho (1997)
- The Liangshan Pachinko Gang (1996)
- The Liangshan Pachinko Gang 2 (1996)
- Boys, Be Ambitious (1996)
- Doll from Hell (1996)
- Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife (1996) as Sakurai
- Restructuring Daimon History's Strongest Civil Servant (1996)
- High-Heeled Punishers (1995)
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) as Moguera Pilot
- Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare (1994)
- Sonatine (1993) as Kitajima Gang Member
- Dochinpira 4 (1993)
- Dochinpira 2 (1993)
- Slow Down (1991)
- Kamen Rider (1971) as Akira Kido
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Houka Kinoshita best known for?
Houka Kinoshita is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including Yasuragi no Toki: Michi (2019), Love Is a Funny Thing (1969), A Hullaballoo at the Castle (1959), Lowlife Love (2016).
When and where was Houka Kinoshita born?
Houka Kinoshita was born on January 24, 1964 in Osaka, Japan.
How many credits does Houka Kinoshita have?
Houka Kinoshita has accumulated over 207 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1971 to 2023.
What is Houka Kinoshita's background in cinema and television?
Houka Kinoshita is a Japanese actor born on January 24, 1964, in Daito, Osaka, Japan. Also known as Hoka Kinoshita, he graduated from Osaka Prefectural Nozaki High School and Osaka University of Arts. Formerly represented by the talent agency Cast Power, his professional career is documented with 203 known credits in t...
Houka Kinoshita by the numbers
207credits
162films
45TV series
1971–2023active years
Age in their best-rated roles
- Yasuragi no Toki: Michi (2019) — aged about 55
- Kamen Rider Kiva (2008) as Akira Kido — aged about 44
- One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia (2015) as Kansho (voice) — aged about 51
- GARO (2005) as Makai Priest Latus — aged about 41
- GARO (2005) as Superior — aged about 41
- AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002) — aged about 38
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