Koji Yamamoto (山本 耕史) is a Japanese actor and singer, who was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

He began his career as a baby model at under one year of age. He also played Gavroche in the original Japanese cast and later Marius in the Japanese TOHO production of Les Misérables and appears on the 2003 "green" cast recording. His first major role was in 2004 in Shinsengumi!, as Hijikata Toshizō, a role he reprised for the 2006 sequel. This sequel portrays the last day of Hijikata Toshizō, Vice Commander of Shinsengumi and he reprised the role in Asa ga Kita eleven years later. In 2022 he also played Alien Mefilas in Shinji Higuchi's critically acclaimed tokusatsu superhero film Shin Ultraman.

Personal life

Yamamoto married actress Maki Horikita on 22 August 2015, and their first child was born in December 2016. The couple became close in May 2015 when playing the role of lovers in the theatrical production Arashi ga Oka (Wuthering Heights) and had commenced dating in June.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Video games

Dubbing

Awards