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Tomokazu Miura
Tomokazu Miura
	Miura in 2014
Born	Minoru Miura; January 28, 1952 (age 72); Enzan, Yamanashi, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1972–present
Spouse	Momoe Yamaguchi (m. 1980);
Children	Yutaro Miura; Takahiro Miura;

Tomokazu Miura (三浦友和, Miura Tomokazu, born Miura Minoru (三浦稔) on January 28, 1952) is a Japanese actor.

Life and career

Miura attended Hino high school in Tokyo. He was originally a member of rock group RC Succession, but was asked to leave the group by their management when they signed a record contract.^[1]^[2] However, impressed by his looks, the management company asked him to try out acting.^[1] In 1974 he appeared in an advertisement for Glico with young singer Momoe Yamaguchi. When casting the male lead for her film Izu no Odoriko, they thought of Miura, and he was chosen as the male lead. The popularity of the Miura/Yamaguchi combination led to them starring together in a series of films and television series. They became known as the "Golden Combi". Although Yamaguchi had a separate career as a singer, this was Miura's main form of employment through the 1970s.

In 1980 Miura and Yamaguchi got married, and the 21-year-old Yamaguchi retired from show business. Initially Miura struggled with his acting career, which had consisted of playing Yamaguchi's romantic partner.^[3] However, after a few years of struggle, he was able to establish himself as an actor, changing his type from the "clean cut youth" roles he had played with Yamaguchi to "bad boy" roles. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award^[4] and at the 7th Yokohama Film Festival^[5] for Typhoon Club.^[6]

Miura is a keen pachinko player and was a smoker until he gave it up at the age of 50. Because of his appearance in cigarette advertisements, it was debated in the Japanese diet whether Miura was an "idol" who could be considered to have a strong influence on underage smoking. Due to his wife's relatively greater fame and popularity, he is sometimes referred to as just "Momoe's husband" (Momoe-chan no Danna-san), a name which he dislikes.^[1] The couple has two sons, Yutaro, who went on to marry singer and seiyuu Yui Makino, and Takahiro, and has repeatedly been chosen as "the ideal celebrity couple".^[7] According to Miura, they have never had a marital quarrel.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes	Ref.
1974	Izu no Odoriko
1975	Aoi Sanmyaku^[ja]
1976	Shunkinshō	Sasuke
1977	House	Auntie's Fiancé
1978	Furimukeba Ai	Tetsuo	Lead role
1979	White Love		Lead role
1980	Koto
1984	Sayonara Jupiter	Dr. Eiji Honda	Lead role
1984	Tengoku no Eki: Heavenly Station	Kouichi Hashimoto
1985	Typhoon Club	Teacher Umemiya
1986	His Motorbike, Her Island	Hidemasa Sawada
1990	Tokyo Heaven	Takeo		^[8]
1990	Ruten no umi	Mokichi
1991	Deer Friend	Masao Yagi		^[9]
1994	Rampo	Producer Tagawa
1994	Chonouryoku-sha Michi Eno Tabibito	Hikaru Takatsuka
1998	Wait and See
2004	The Taste of Tea	Nobuo Haruno
2004	Survive Style 5+	Doctor Yamauchi
2005	Always: Sunset on Third Street	Shiro "Akuma" Takuma
2007	Adrift in Tokyo	Aiichiro Fukuhara
2007	Always: Sunset on Third Street 2	Dr. Takuma
2008	Flowers in the Shadows	Ryōtarō
2009	Heaven's Door	Hasegawa
2009	Shizumanu Taiyō	Shiro Gyoten
2010	Outrage	Kato
2010	Arrietty	Pod (voice)
2012	Outrage Beyond	Kato
2016	64: Part I	Katsutoshi Matsuoka
	64: Part II	Katsutoshi Matsuoka
	The Katsuragi Murder Case	Kiyoshi Katsuragi	Lead role
2017	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	Kōtarō Isshiki
2018	A Forest of Wool and Steel	Sōichirō Itadori
2020	AI Amok	Kyōichi Gōda
2020	Voices in the Wind	Kōhei
2021	Detective Chinatown 3	Watanabe	Chinese film
2022	Small, Slow But Steady	Sasaki		^[10]
	Goodbye Cruel World			^[11]
	The Lines That Define Me	Kozan Shinoda		^[12]
2023	Perfect Days	Tomoyama	Japanese-German film	^[13]
2023	The Pearl Legacy	Sentarō		^[14]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1975–1980	Akai series	Various
1981	Sekigahara	Ukita Hideie
1982–1983	Seibu Keisatsu Part II	Gorou Okita	First appeared in Episode 1 of Part II, left after episode 6 of Part III
1987	Hissatsu Shigotonin V Fuunryūkohen	Kagetaro	Hissatsu series
1987	Dokuganryu Masamune	Date Shigezane	Taiga drama	^[15]
1993	Unmeitōge	Miyamoto Musashi	Television film
2002	Toshiie and Matsu	Maeda Toshihisa	Taiga drama	^[16]
2004	Socrates in Love	Makoto Hirose
2008	Ryusei no Kizuna	Yasutaka Kashiwabara
2009	Tokyo Dogs	Otomo Kozo
2016–2020	Cold Case	Hidetoshi Motoki	3 seasons	^[17]
2022	The Black Swindler	Toshio Katsuragi		^[18]
2024	Beyond Goodbye	Hiro		^[19]