A little bit about the famous Japanese actor Hiro Mizushima

It's hard to believe that this popular Japanese actor, screenwriter, producer, writer and model, as if created for covers of glossy magazines, once dreamed of a footballer's career. But, fortunately, fate decreed otherwise, and a talented young man with a beautiful appearance tried his hand at the film industry. And today, fans of his work can enjoy the game of Hiro on the big screen, and not on the football field. The international popularity of the actor began to benefit from the role of the demon in the movie "The Dark Butler."

Childhood and youth

Hiro was born in Tokyo on April 13, 1984. When the boy was six years old, the whole family moved from Japan to Switzerland, where his father was offered a job. For six years, Hiro and his older sister lived in Zurich, where the boy began to speak fluent English. Visiting the school, Mizushima showed interest and ability to football, which is not surprising, since his father was also a football player. In Japan, the family returned when Hiro Mizushima was twelve years old. Re-adapt to life in Japan and the native language cost the boy a lot of effort, but despite this, he studied well both in middle and high school. In addition, Hiro was a member of the school football team, where he was a midfielder. His team reached the semifinals of the youth soccer championship, and Mizushima thought about a professional football career, but the injury received in one of the matches changed his plans.

Hiro Mizushima: the biography of the actor

In April 2003, Mizushima entered the Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University, which he graduated in March 2008. In 2004 he received an offer to work as a model. Because the payment was pretty decent, Hiro, who dreamed of earning money to continue his studies abroad, agreed. At one of the shows, the director of a large Japanese entertainment company Ken-On groups offered Hiro Mizushima to try himself as an actor.

Television and cinema

The first acting work of Hiro became a secondary role in the second season of the television drama "Gokusen." Then there were insignificant roles in other television series. Popularity to the actor came in 2006, after working in the series "Rider in the mask of Kabuto", where he played the main role. It was the seventeenth series about superheroes-riders, timed to the 35th anniversary of the release of the first television story about their adventures.

After this work began to receive roles in the more popular and ambitious television projects of Hiro Mizushima. The films "The Perfect Guy" and "For You in All Color" brought the actor wide fame from an Asian audience. He is being invited to various talk- and talent shows. In 2008, the audience meets the favorite actor in the drama "Royal apartments", and in 2009 he performed leading roles in the films "Butler Mei-chan" and "Mr. Brain". In the movie "Tokyo Dogs", released on the screens in the same 2009, Hiro Mizushima happened to play the role of a detective, who in the past was a criminal, and in the feature film "Falling" to play the role of bandit Tatsuya Iguchi. In 2010, on a large screen, the Japanese viewer saw an actor in a youth picture "Beck", which tells the story of the formation of a rock band. Hiro's partner on the site was the Japanese film star Tekera Sato.

Attempt at writing

In September 2010, Mizushima left the Ken-On Group company and established his own independent agency. During this same period, he tries his hand at the writer's field. His first book, "Kagero", written under the pseudonym of Saito Satoshi, received a publisher award and a prize of twenty million yen as one of the best works written in the genre of fiction. The book was published in December 2010 and for the first week of sales it took third place in terms of their level after Joan Rowling ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows") and Haruki Murakami ("1Q84"). Hiro refused the money prize, giving it to charity, and after a while he published two more books that quickly became bestsellers in Japan.

The film "The Dark Butler" and the entrance to the international level

In 2014, Mizushima played the role of the demon Sebastian Michaelis in the film directed by Otani Kentaro and Sato Keichi, based on the manga "The Demon Butler" by author Toboso Jan. In this film, Hiro also acted as a screenwriter and co-producer. The world-wide popularity of the actor was after showing a picture at the festival of Japanese cinema in Toronto and the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Films. In August 2015, Hiro Mizushima received an offer from the American company Home Box Office to take part in the fifth season of the television series "Girls" as a guest star.

Personal life

In February 2009, Hiro married a Japanese pop singer Ayake Iida. But the happiness of the newlyweds darkened the news of Graves' disease diagnosed in Ayaky. For the time being, the couple retired from their creative activities to spend more time with each other during the course of treatment.

In 2014, fans of the artists were shocked by the news that after a long treatment, Ayaka's disease receded and the couple was waiting for the birth of her first-born. In June 2015, Mizushima announced through Instagram that he became the father of a beautiful daughter.