Hirofumi Arai Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Hirofumi Arai (born January 18, 1979 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture) is a third-generation Zainichi South Korean actor. Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's GO in 2001. His next film role that year was the emotionally disturbed senior high school student Aoki in Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring, which won him the Best New Actor award at the 17th Takasaki Film Festival. In a Josei Seven interview, Arai had stated that, in spite of the critically acclaimed Blue Spring, The Whispering of the Gods, Sway and Blood and Bones, he regarded the satirical crime film The Matsugane Potshot... MORE

Hirofumi Arai (born January 18, 1979 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture) is a third-generation Zainichi South Korean actor. Arai made his screen debut in Isao Yukisada's GO in 2001. His next film role that year was the emotionally disturbed senior high school student Aoki in Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring, which won him the Best New Actor award at the 17th Takasaki Film Festival. In a Josei Seven interview, Arai had stated that, in spite of the critically acclaimed Blue Spring, The Whispering of the Gods, Sway and Blood and Bones, he regarded the satirical crime film The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006) as his true breakthrough film. His role had allowed him to exhibit a wider range of his acting abilities including comic timing. Since the film release, he was offered comedic roles he had wanted but couldn't get, including The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio, Korede iinoda!! Eiga★Akatsuka Fujio and Slapstick Brothers. In 2011, Arai co-stars as Detective Kazuhiko Soga in an one-off TV crime thriller Douki with co-stars Ryuhei Matsuda as Detective Ryota Udagawa and Chiaki Kuriyama as Michiru Soga. Tokyograph announced in 2007 that Arai was in a "serious relationship" with singer Miu LESS