Kenichi Matsuyama

In 2000 he entered . While there, he debuted as a model, in 2001, for PARCO, after winning the Grand Prix "New Style Audition", an event in colaboration with the agency Horipro. from among 16,572 applicants. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School. Matsuyama made his acting debut in the television series Gokusen in 2002. He starred in the film '''' in 2004, a movie with its main character modeled after real–life wheelchair basketball player . Matsuyama starred in '''' in 2009, He played a police detective in the 2023 drama ''Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times?'' He was in the stage play '''' in 2017. ==Personal life==

On April 1, 2011, he married Koyuki Katō, who co-starred with him in Kamui Gaiden. The couple's first child was born in January 2012, and their second child was born in January 2013 in South Korea. In July 2015, the couple had their third child. He speaks in the Shimokita dialect. He also presumably speaks English, judging from a scene in L: Change The World where he plays L, who is talking to Near in English. == Filmography ==

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