Tenma Shibuya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tenma Shibuya

Japanese actor

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1969

Place of Birth: Saitama, Kantō region, Japan

Profession: actor, television actor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Tenma Shibuya

  • Tenma Shibuya (?? ??, Shibuya Tenma, born January 13, 1969) is a Japanese actor, Japanese classical dancer, and cultural exchange activist.
  • He began his career as an actor in 1993 after returning from US, where he attended college.
  • He made appearances in a number of films, stages, and TV dramas in his early acting career in Japan.
  • In 2006, Shibuya, aged 36, visited China for the first time, leading his jump into Chinese show business.
  • In 2008, Shibuya played Colonel Sato, an impressive villain in Yip Man(Ip Man), a Hong Kong kung-fu movie that won the best film award of 28th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 2010,he appeared in The Flowers of War(directed by Zhang Yimou,cast:Christian Bale). He starred in the top-rated Chinese TV drama in 2011, Borrow Gun, in which Shibuya successfully portrayed Kato, a character that won him an overnight fame in all of China.
  • He appeared in the 2014 No.
  • 1 movie "KANO" in the Taiwanese film box-office income history.
  • In 2017, appeared in the Russian national television drama "Sorge." In 2018, China, the United States, Korea three-country joint film "Air Strike: ??? ”(Art Director: Mel Gibson, Cast: Bruce Willis, Liu Ye, Adrian Brody, Song Seung Heon etc.) Plays the role of the Zero Fighter pilot as the only Japanese main cast in the play.
  • Up until 2018, Shibuya has appeared in over 100 productions including movies, TV dramas and stage works in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S, gaining a great popularity in Asian areas especially in Chinese-speaking areas In addition to acting, he has been a Japanese classical dancer and songwriter for over 20 years.
  • Shibuya has also volunteered in international cultural exchange activities for over 25 years.
  • He taught Japanese in high schools as a volunteer in Eugene, OR.
  • Shibuya also founded Japan-China cultural exchange promotion, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization aiming to promote cultural exchange between Japan and China in 2009.
  • He serves the general director of this organization since the beginning.

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