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Daijiro Kawaoka

Daijiro Kawaoka

Birthday: 1978-03-14 | Place of Birth: Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Daijiro Kawaoka (born March 14, 1978, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He made his film debut in Time Leap (1997) and has since built an extensive career in film, television, and theater. Kawaoka is known for appearances in films such as Summer Time Machine Blues (2005), Udon (2006), Gachi Boy (2008), and the Death Forest film series (2014–2016), in which he played Kazuki Uchida. His television credits include Beach Boys (1997), Emergency Room 24 Hours (2005), the NHK historical drama Ryomaden (2010), and Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger (2021–2022). In 2007, Kawaoka co-founded the theater group Sputnik with actor Takeshi Yoshioka. He later expanded into producing, and his short film Help!!, filmed largely in Nasushiobara, won the Grand Prix at the Sanuki Film Festival in 2018.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2016
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 4

as    Daijiro Kawaoka

2016
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 5

as    Kazuki Uchida

2015
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 3

as    Kazuki Uchida

2015
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest 2

as    Uchida Kazuki

2014
Death Forest: Forbidden Forest

as    Kazuki Ichida

2014
Samurai of the Dead

as    Susumu Yamazaki

2009
Ring of Gundam

as    Eiji

2008
Gachi Boy: Wrestling with a Memory

as    Masaki Sada

2005
Summer Time Machine Blues

as    Shunsuke Koizumi

2000
19

as    Chiba

2000
Boogiepop and Others

as    Keiji Takeda

1998
With Love

as    Kentaro Kinoshita

1998
Open House

as    Tomonori

1998
Beach Boys Special

as    Yusuke Naito

1997
Beach Boys

as    Yosuke Naito