Kanji Ishimaru
Kanji Ishimaru is a Japanese actor and singer. Ishimaru is signed up with Sony Music Entertainment Japan record label. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.Biography
Ishimaru played various instruments, such as the piano, cello, trombone, and snare drum, since childhood. He studied the cello at a music course at Chiba Prefectual Makuhari-Nishin High School, attempted to major in the saxophone at Tokyo College of Music, and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music in Vocal music.
In 1990, he debuted in the role of Raoul of Shiki Theatre Company's The Phantom of the Opera. Since then, Ishimaru has acted as a signboard actor for the theatre company.
During his activities outside the theatre company, he appeared in advertisements for Oronamin C and Nescafé Gold Blend. Ishimaru enrolled in a theater company for seventeen years and then left in 2007.
In 2012, he won the 37th Kazuo Kikuta Theater Awards Theater Prize.
In 2013, Ishimaru played as branch manager Tadasu Asano in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's television drama Hanzawa Naoki, and made his breakthrough.
On 2 April 2017, he took place as the sixth chairperson of TV Asahi's long-running music programme Daimei no nai Ongakukai.Filmography
Stage
Part of Shiki
After leaving Shiki
Films
Animation
Dubbing
Advertisements
Radio
MC-Navigator
CD
Music guides
Others
