Loading ...Name: Matsumoto Jun
Country: Japan
Profession: Actor, Singer, Show host
Date of birth: 1983 August 30
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 173cm
Weight: 58kg
Star sign: Virgo
Blood type: A-
Talent agency: Johnny’s Entertainment
Jpop Group: Arashi
Music career
Although the majority of Matsumoto’s solos for albums and concerts are written by Arashi’s staff, he has contributed lyrics for two of his solos: “La Familia” for the 2004 Arashi! Iza, Now Tour!! and “Naked” in 2008 for the album Dream “A” Live under the penname “Jun”.
Acting career
Stage
In 1997, Matsumoto was cast in his first stage play, which was based on the American coming of age film Stand by Me with future bandmates Masaki Aiba and Kazunari Ninomiya. He did not return to do any major stage productions for nearly seven years after Stand by Me, instead focusing on dramas and movies. However, in 2004, Matsumoto appeared in the stage play West Side Story with bandmates Satoshi Ohno and Sho Sakurai. In 2005 and 2006, Matsumoto was given his first lead stage play roles in Eden no Higashi and Byakuya no Onna Kishi (respectively.
Drama
Like bandmate Sakurai, Matsumoto made his acting debut as a television actor in April 1997 in the TBS drama special Hoken Chousain (Insurance Investigator). A few months later, he co-starred with the members of KinKi Kids and future bandmate Masaki Aiba in the mystery-thriller series Bokura no Yūki: Miman Toshi (Our Courage: Miman City.
Matsumoto gained further popularity as an actor in 2002 when he starred in the first season of Gokusen with Yukie Nakama, Shun Oguri, Tomohiro Waki, Hiroki Narimiya and Yuma Ishigaki. His portrayal of the troubled but highly intelligent guy, Shin Sawada, drew acclaim and won him Best Supporting Actor at the 33rd Television Drama Academy Awards. He later returned with most of the original cast to star in the special epilogue episode in 2003. Soon after, his character also made a cameo in Sakurai’s comedy series Yoiko no Mikata (Ally of Good Children). In the same year, Matsumoto took another high-profile role in the live-action adaptation of manga series Kimi wa Pet as Takeshi “Momo” Goda, starring opposite Koyuki.
In 2005, Matsumoto took the most prominent role of his career to date when he was cast as Tsukasa Domyōji in the live-action adaptation of shōjo manga Hana Yori Dango. Co-starring opposite Mao Inoue, Shun Oguri, Shota Matsuda and Tsuyoshi Abe, the series was a success with an average viewership rating of 19.6%. Matsumoto’s portrayal as the air-headed and arrogant leader of four heirs to billionaire business empires won him Best Supporting Actor again at the 47th Television Drama Academy Awards.[10]
In 2007, due to the success of Hana Yori Dango, it spawned a second season, which was an even bigger hit with television audiences as it had a peak rating of 27.6% on the final episode and an overall rating of 21.57%. Matsumoto won Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix for his role. The same year, Matsumoto starred in Bambino!, which won him his first Best Actor award at the 53rd Television Drama Academy Awards.
In 2008, he re-united with Bambino! co-star Karina for the drama special Myū no Anyo Papa ni Ageru (Myū will Give Daddy Her Legs), which aired as part of the 24-hour Television telethon in 2008. He portrayed a man diagnosed with CIDP struggling to recuperate and return to normal life with his wife and young daughter.
In 2009, Matsumoto starred in his first drama series in nearly two years. He portrayed Vito Hayakawa a half-Japanese, half-Filipino young man who always faces life with a smile in the drama Smile. Matsumoto subsequently won Best Actor for his role in the 13th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix. Fuji TV announced on September 10, 2009 that Matsumoto would star in a three-part drama special called Wagaya no Rekishi scheduled to air for three consecutive days in the spring of 2010.
In January 2010, Matsumoto co-starred with the other members of Arashi in their first drama in nearly ten years in the human suspense drama special Saigo no Yakusoku (Last Promise). Matsumoto portrayed Nozomu Gotō a 27-year-old motorcycle courier rider who is caught up in a building hijack
.
Film
Matsumoto appeared on the silver screen for the first time a year later in Shinjuku Tanteidan Shōnen but his breakthrough did not come until 2001 when he was cast as Hajime Kinda’ichi in the third season of Kinda’ichi Shōnen no Jikenbo, taking over the role from Tsuyoshi Domoto and co-starring opposite Anne Suzuki.
In 2002, Arashi co-starred in their first movie together called Pikanchi Life is Hard Dakedo Happy (Life is Hard,Happy, Pikanchi Life is Hard But Happy). They came together again for its sequel Pikanchi Life is Hard Dakara Happy (Life is Hard,Happy, Pikanchi Life is Hard Therefore Happy) in 2004. He also starred in the film Tokyo Tower as a womanizer with a preference for older women with Junichi Okada the same year.
In 2007, Arashi starred in their third movie together Kiiroi Namida while Matsumoto was cast in the independent film Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru with Nana Eikura as his co-star. He portrayed the lead character Yori Yūki who falls in love and develops a romantic relationship with his younger twin sister.
In 2008, Matsumoto took on his first jidaigeki role in a re-make of Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin: The Last Princess, with award-winning actors Hiroshi Abe, Kippei Shiina and Masami Nagasawa. Soon after, TBS decided to end the Hana Yori Dango series through a film. Hana Yori Dango Final, which hit the big screen on June 28, 2008 in Japan, became a box office hit.
TV Shows
Saigo no Yakusoku (Fuji TV, 2010)
Wagaya no Rekishi as Yame Yoshio (Fuji TV, 2010)
Smile as Hayakawa Bito (TBS, 2009)
Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru as Yamaguchi Hayato (NTV, 2008)
Bambino! as Ban Shogo (NTV, 2007)
Hana Yori Dango 2 as Domyoji Tsukasa (TBS, 2007)
Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari Imakiyo-san (Fuji TV, 2006)
Hana Yori Dango as Domyoji Tsukasa (TBS, 2005)
Propose (NTV, 2005, ep1)
Kimi wa Pet as “Momo” Goda Takeshi (TBS, 2003)
Yoiko no Mikata as Sawada Shin (NTV, 2003, cameo)
Gokusen as Sawada Shin (NTV, 2002)
Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo 3 as Kindaichi Hajime (NTV, 2001)
Kowai Nichiyobi (NTV, 1999)
Bokura no Yuki as Mori (NTV, 1997)
Movies
Kakushi Toride no San Akunin / The Last Princess (2008)
Hana Yori Dango -Final- (2008)
Kiiroi Namida / Yellow Tear (2007)
Boku wa Imouto ni Koi wo Suru / I Love My Younger Sister (2007) as Yori
Tokyo Tower as “Koji” (2004)
Pika*nchi Life is Hard Dakara Happy (2004) as “Bon”
Pika*nchi Life is Hard Dakedo Happy
Shinjuku Tanteidan Shonen (Shinjuku B.O.Y Detectives) (1998)
