It is hard to believe that this popular Japanese actor, screenwriter, producer, writer and model, as if created for the covers of glossy magazines, once dreamed of a career as a football player. But, fortunately, fate decreed otherwise, and a talented young man with a beautiful appearance tried his hand at the film industry. And today, fans of his work can enjoy playing Hiro on the big screen, and not on the football field. The actor began to enjoy world-wide popularity due to the role of a demon in the film "The Dark Butler".
Childhood and youth
Hiro was born in Tokyo on April 13, 1984. When the boy was six years old, the whole family moved from Japan to Switzerland, where his father was offered a job. For six years, Hiro and his older sister lived in Zurich, where the boy began to speak English fluently. While attending school, Mizushima showed interest and ability in football, which is not surprising, since his father was also a football player at one time. The family returned to Japan when Hiro Mizushima was twelve years old. Adaptation to life in Japan and his native language cost the boy a lot of effort, but, despite this, he studied well in both high school and high school. In addition, Hiro was on the team of the school football club, where he was a midfielder. His team reached the semifinals of the youth soccer championship, and Mizushima was thinking about a professional football career, but the injury received in one of the matches changed his plans.
Hiro Mizushima: actor biography
In April 2003, Mizushima entered the Keio University Department of Environmental Information, where he graduated in March 2008. In 2004, he received an offer to work as a model. Since the payment was pretty decent, Hiro, who dreamed of making money to continue his studies abroad, agreed. At one of the shows, the director of Ken-On Group, a major Japanese entertainment company, suggested that Hiro Mizushima try himself as an actor.
Television and Cinema
Hiro's first acting job was a supporting role in the second season of the Gokusen television drama. Then there were minor roles in other television series. Popularity for the actor came in 2006, after working in the series "Rider in the Mask of Kabuto", where he played the main role. It was the seventeenth series about superhero riders, dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the release of the first television story about their adventures.
After this work, he began to receive roles in the more popular and ambitious television projects of Hiro Mizushima. The films “The Perfect Guy” and “For You In All Color” brought the actor wide popularity among the Asian audience. He is beginning to be invited to various talk and talent shows. In 2008, the viewer meets his beloved actor in the drama “Royal Apartments”, and in 2009 he played leading roles in the films “Butler Mei-chan” and “Mr. Brain”. In the film "Tokyo Dogs", which was released in the same 2009, Hiro Mizushima happened to play the role of a detective who was a criminal in the past, and in the full-length film "Fall" to play the role of the bandit Tatsuya Iguchi. In 2010, on a large screen, a Japanese audience saw an actor in the youth film Beck, which tells the story of the formation of a rock band. Hiro's partner on the site was Japanese movie star Tekeru Sato.
Attempt at writing
In September 2010, Mizushima left Ken-On Group and set up his own independent agency. In the same period, he tries his hand at the field of writing. His first book, Kagero, written under the pseudonym Saito Satoshi, received a publisher award and a prize of twenty million yen as one of the best works written in the science fiction genre. The book was published in December 2010 and, in its first week of sales, ranked third in terms of level after Joan Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Haruki Murakami (1Q84). Hiro refused the cash prize, giving it to charity, and after a while he published two more books, which quickly became bestsellers in Japan.
The film "The Dark Butler" and international access
In 2014, Mizushima played the role of the demon Sebastian Michaelis in the film directed by Otani Kentaro and Sato Keichi, based on the manga "Demon Butler" by Toboso Yang. In this film, Hiro also acted as a screenwriter and co-producer. The actor received worldwide popularity after showing the picture at the Japanese cinema festival in Toronto and the Brussels International Festival of science fiction films. In August 2015, Hiro Mizushima received an offer from the American company Home Box Office to take part in the fifth season of the television series Girls as a guest star.
Personal life
In February 2009, Hiro married Japanese pop singer Ayaka Iida. But the happiness of the newlyweds was overshadowed by the news of Graves' disease diagnosed with Ayaki. For a while, the couple departed from their creative activities in order to spend more time with each other during the course of treatment.
In 2014, fans of the artists were shocked by the news that after prolonged treatment, Ayaki’s disease receded and the couple awaited the birth of their first child. In June 2015, Mizushima announced via Instagram that he had become the father of a beautiful daughter.