He's the gorgeous drummer of Tokio and also a talented actor, a good singer and, more recently, the director of some of the Tokio's PVs. Here's his profile:
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Name: Matsuoka Masahiro
Birth: 11 January 1977, in Sapporo, Hokkaido
Blood Type: A
Height: 1,81 cm
Weight: 65 Kg
He debuted at Johnny's talent agency in 1990. He was one of the members of Skater Boys, a group of background dancers for Hikaru Genji. In 1994, some of the Skater Boys, including Matsuoka, formed Tokio, which, in the first moment, was only a vocal band, just like Smap and other bands of Johnny's. But, soon, Tokio would became a band properly and Matsuoka choose the drums to play, because his father is a formely drummer.
His debut in dramas was in "Aishiteruyo! Sensei" (unfortunatey, I don't know the year). Since them, he acted in several dramas as "Love And Peace" (1994), "Tengoku Ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko" (1999), "Psychometer Eiji 1 and 2" (1999), "Nurseman", "Shokatsu", among others. He also acted in three Taiga Dramas (the traditional NHK's historic dramas): "Hana No Ran" (1994), one about Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1996, and "Musashi" (2003), in witch he played Sasaki Kojiro, the most famous rival of Miyamoto Musashi. His last jobs in TV were in "Manhatthan Love Story", in witch he played a owner of a cafe, and "Nurseman Special", both in 2004.
He also acted in some plays, such as "Susano" and, more recently, "True West". In cinema, he'll be the lead actor of the last Godzilla movie: "Godzilla Final Wars", witch will be released in Japan in december of this year.
More about him:
- His favorite color is purple. His least favorite color is brown.
- He loves dogs. He has four: Komugi, Koimo, Koume and Jazz.
- His family moved from Sapporo to Yokohama when he was in the first year of the Junior High School. He moved again, few years later, to Tokio and, later, Nara.
- His was the voice of the young Hercules in the japanese version of Disney's "Hercules".
- Some people claim he cooks very well.
- He lended his image and his voice to the lead character of the Playstation 2 game "Glass Rose" (or "Glass No Bara", in Japanese), released this year.
- He loves to play soccer, swim, sleep (specially when he's drunk :hehe: :hehe: )
- When he was younger, he wanted to be a Policeman :shocked: .
- He directed the PVs of Ambitious Japan, Transistor G, Ding Dong, Love, Love, Love Manhattan. He wants to direct movies in a near future.