Gen Hoshino (星野 源, Hoshino Gen, born January 28, 1981) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Hoshino's movie debut, Lee Sang-il's 69, was an adaptation of the Ryū Murakami novel of the same name. He previously acted in various television dramas and stage plays. In 2012, he debuted as a voice actor, voicing Buddha in the original video animation (OVA) adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura's manga Saint Young Men, and also provided a theme song called "Gag" for its 2013 theatrical version, where he reprised his role. In 2013, he played the lead character in Masahide Ichii's Blindly in Love (箱入り息子の恋, Hakoiri Musuko no Koi) alongside Kaho, and starred in the Sion Sono film Why Don't You Play in Hell?. In 2016, Hoshino starred in TBS's The Full-Time Wife Escapist. With Yui Aragaki as his co-star, he portrayed a salaryman named Hiramasa Tsuzaki. The drama achieved steadily rising ratings, with a real-time viewership peak rating of 20.8% on the final episode, and an overall rating of 14.5%. Hoshino's performance earned him several Best Supporting Actor awards. He also provided the theme song for the drama, titled "Koi". In 2017, Hoshino lent his voice to the main character of award-winning animated film Night Is Short, Walk On Girl. He also became the voice of the Father in Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, which was released into theaters in Japan on July 20, 2018. Idaten, NHK's 2019 Taiga drama, chosen for the theme to encourage the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hoshino portrayed Kazushige Hirasawa, who delivered the persuasive speech that helped determine the venue for the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. On April 30, 2018, it was announced that Hoshino will star in Samurai Shifters, the film adaptation of Akihiro Dobashi's historical novel Hikkoshi Daimyo Sanzenri, set to premier on August 30, 2019. In the movie, he plays a bookworm samurai called Harunosuke Katagiri, who receives the mission to help a daimyo move. It will be Hoshino's first lead role in a live-action movie since Blindly in Love in 2013.

Filmography

• 2026GROTESQQQUE — Kento Kurikura (voice)
• 2026Gen Hoshino presents MAD HOPE MAD MUSIC
• Your Love So Invincible — Theme Song Performance
• 2025A Moon in the Ordinary — Theme Song Performance
• SAKAMOTO DAYS — Writer
• 2025Slow Train — Doumeki Mi
• 2024Last Mile — Kazumi Shima
• 2023SPY x FAMILY CODE: White — Theme Song Performance
• 2022Ghost Book — Theme Song Performance
• 2022Hoshi of the Girls' Garden — Hoshi-sensei (voice)
• Hoshino Gen no Ongaku Kōron
• SPY x FAMILY — Theme Song Performance
• Teen Regime — Taira Kiyoshi
• おげんさんのサブスク堂 — おげんさん
• 2021Cube — Theme Song Performance
• 2021The Full-Time Wife Escapist: New Year's Special — Hiramasa Tsuzaki
• Why I Dress Up for Love — Theme Song Performance
• MIU404 — Kazumi Shima
• 2020The Voice of Sin — Toshiya Sone
• We Married as a Job: New Year's Special
• 2019108: Revenge and Adventure of Goro Kaiba — Theme Song Performance
• Achikochi Audrey — Theme Song Performance
• 2019GEN HOSHINO STADIUM TOUR "POP VIRUS"
• 2019Samurai Shifters — Harunosuke Katagiri
• 2018Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island — Theme Song Performance
• Half Blue Sky — Theme Song Performance
• 2018Mirai — Father (voice)
• 2017Night Is Short, Walk On Girl — Senpai (voice)
• Overprotected Kahoko — Theme Song Performance
• Plage -Share House for Losers- — Yoshimura Takao
• おげんさんといっしょ — おげんさん
• 2016Moriyamachu Driving School — Theme Song Performance
• The Full-Time Wife Escapist — Tsuzaki Hiramasa, Theme Song Performance
• 2015Chieri and Cherry — Cherry (voice)
• Crazy for Me — Theme Song Performance
• Dr.STOЯKS — Haruki Shinomiya
• 2015Love & Peace — PC-300 (voice)
• 2015The Day Kouhaku Was Born — George Mabuchi
• Last Night's Curry, Tomorrow's Bread — 寺山一樹
• 昨夜のカレー 明日のパン — Creator
• 2013Blindly in Love — Kentaro
• LIFE! Jinsei ni Sasageru Konto
• 2013Saint☆Young Men — Gautama Buddha (voice), Theme Song Performance
• 2013Tamako in Moratorium — Theme Song Performance
• 2013Why Don't You Play in Hell? — Kouji Hashimoto
• 2012Paikaji Nankai Sakusen — Theme Song Performance
• Saint☆Young Men — Buddha (voice)
• 2012The Woodsman and the Rain — Theme Song Performance
• Odd Family 11 — Hiroyuki Sanada
• My Husband is a Cartoonist
• 2009Brass Knuckle Boys — Band Member
• 大人計画「サッちゃんの明日」
• Mirai koshi Meguru — Hideo Eguchi
• 2008Non-ko — Masaru
• Detective School Q — Detective Nekota
• Akihabara@DEEP — Taiko
• Once Again Sugar & Spice — Koyama
• 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１０「ウーマンリブ先生」
• Tiger and Dragon — Dontsuku Hayashiyatei
• 200469 — Yuzuru Nakamura
• Gekidan Engimono
• 大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．８「轟天ＶＳ港カヲル」
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Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2025Gen Hoshino presents “Reassembly” — Self
• 2024Audrey's All Night Nippon in Tokyo Dome — Himself
• 2023Gen Hoshino Concert Recollections 2015-2023 — Self
• LIGHTHOUSE — Self
• 2019No Smoking — Self
• NHK Kōhaku Uta-Gassen — Himself, Self - Performer