en Norito Yashima

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.

Career

Yashima 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.

Family

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

Film

Year	Title	Role	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	Love Song for Hiroshima	UFO expert	^[5]
2025	My Beloved Stranger	Ken'ichi Kasuga	^[6]

Television

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	^[7]
2004	Wonderful Life	Masayoshi Tsumasaka
2008	Scrap Teacher	Hisakimi Takasu
2010	Wagaya no Rekishi	Shusaku Endo		^[8]
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	^[9]
2024	Extremely Inappropriate!	Himself		^[10]

Anime

Boys Over Flowers (1996) - Lighting Staff
Rurouni Kenshin (1996) - Iwanbo, Kameo, et al
Kero Kero Chime (1997) - Poppo, Frog C, Kabayan
Hatsumei Boy Kanipan (1998) - Kanburi
Mardock Scramble (2010-2012) - Œufcoque Penteano
Rudolf the Black Cat (2016) - Buchi

Video games

Kowloon's Gate (1996) - Mushroom Seller Charlie
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2010) - King Tom Tildrum XIV

Dubbing

Open Season (2006) - Elliot^[11]
The Good Dinosaur (2016) - Nash^[12]
Dolittle (2020) - Plimpton^[13]

References

^ "Japanese Trivia Show Comes to Spike TV". Multichannel News. 4 November 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "映画刀剣乱舞". eiga.com. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
^ ^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.
^ "ゼンブ・オブ・トーキョー". eiga.com. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
^ "惑星ラブソング". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 February 2025.
^ "知らないカノジョ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "新選組！の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
^ "｢わが家の歴史｣を彩る昭和の著名人たち 2". Fuji TV. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
^ "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.
^ "「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.
^ "オープン・シーズン". Sony Pictures. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
^ "アーロと少年". Fukikaeru. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
^ "ドクター・ドリトル". Fukikaeru. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

External links

ComeCome profile (in Japanese)
SIS company profile (in Japanese)
Norito Yashima on NHK Archives (in Japanese)
Norito Yashima on Twitter

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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.

[RadiationHouse-3] "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] "惑星ラブソング". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 February 2025.

[6] "知らないカノジョ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.

[7] "新選組！の出演者・キャスト一覧". The Television. Retrieved June 25, 2024.

[8] "｢わが家の歴史｣を彩る昭和の著名人たち 2". Fuji TV. Retrieved April 9, 2024.

[9] "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.

[10] "「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.

[11] "オープン・シーズン". Sony Pictures. Retrieved December 30, 2021.

[12] "アーロと少年". Fukikaeru. Retrieved January 7, 2022.

[13] "ドクター・ドリトル". Fukikaeru. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

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