Hollywood Stars: Oguri Shun

Oguri Shun

Profile

Name: Shun Oguri (小栗旬 Oguri Shun)
Birth date: December 26, 1982
Birthplace: Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
Blood type: O
Height: 6' 0½" (184cm)

Career

Born to a theater director father, Tetsuya Oguri, and having an actor brother, Ryo Oguri, Shun Oguri started his acting career quite early in his life. At the age 12, he started as a kid actor. As his busy work schedule tended to result in his frequent absence from the school, Shun was often a bullying target. Because of the escalated violent bullying against Shun, his father suggested him not to go to school anymore. Therefore, his educational path ended in 9th grade.

Oguri's debut role was playing the bullied and abused child Noboru Yoshikawa from the drama Great Teacher Onizuka in 1998, when he was about sixteen years old. His acting attracted him great attention and from there, he moved onto bigger roles. In 2000, he played a deaf person in Summer Snow. Two years later, he starred in the popular drama Gokusen, in which he played the part of a bully, rather than the bullied, as he did in Great Teacher Onizuka.

His brother Ryo Oguri and Shun performed together in the animation movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, and the drama of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

His first lead role in a drama was in 2006 as Shinichi Kudo from Detective Conan. Oguri also lent his voice as a seiyū in Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa together with his brother Ryo Oguri in 2005. He also landed the role of Rui Hanazawa in the drama Hana Yori Dango, in which he once again acted alongside Gokusen co-star Jun Matsumoto. In 2007 he gained even more attention starring in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e as Izumi Sano. In 2008, Oguri took up another lead drama role in Binbō Danshi, playing a poor college student named Kazumi Koyama. Oguri also played in the drama "Tokyo Dogs" as a lead role American detective.

He reunited with Hana Yori Dango co-star Mao Inoue for the drama Jūi Dolittle (獣医ドリトル Veterinarian Dolittle), which began airing in October 2010.

Bibliography

Photo Books

so (27 October 2003)
Oguri Note (26 December 2006)
high (21 September 2007)
Shun x Genji (October 2007)

Books

Dōkyū sei: Aoi no Foto Essei Series -Personart- (25 March 2005)
Oguri Shun First Stage (27 September 2006)

Essay

I love movie,You love movie? in Shukan Zipper
Oguri Shunpo Danyū Kurabu (Kinema Shunpo-sha)

Shun Oguri (小栗旬 Oguri Shun) is a Japanese actor. He attented Myojo Gakuen High School in Mitaka, Tokyo but quit early to pursue his acting career. He made his acting debut at the age of 16 in the television drama GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka but didn't truly gain popularity until starring in the TV drama Hana Yori Dango and Hana Yori Dango 2. Today he splits his time between film and television work and is one of Japan's rising stars both as an actor and as an idol/personality. He is currently represented by Tristone Entertainment, Inc.