{{short description|Japanese actor (born 1984)}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox social media personality | name = Hiro Mizushima | native_name = {{lang|ja|水嶋 ヒロ}} | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = {{Nihongo|Tomohiro Saitō|齋藤 智裕}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|04|13}} | birth_place = Tokyo, Japan | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} Death date then birth --> | death_place = | other_names = {{Nihongo|Satoshi Saitō|齋藤 智}}<ref name="poplar"/> | occupation = {{flatlist| * Writer * actor }} | years_active = {{Start date|2005}}–present <!-- | notable_works = ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' (2007), ''Zettai Kareshi'' (2008), ''Tokyo Dogs'' (2009) --> <!-- 'notable_works', 'lable_name', 'credits', and 'works' are all alternatives and are not used with each other. -->| spouse = {{marriage|Ayaka Iida|2009}} | children = 2 | website = {{URL|hiro-mizushima.com}} | label_name = {{flatlist| * A Station (present) * Ken-On}} <!-- 'notable_works', 'lable_name', 'credits', and 'works' are all alternatives and are not used with each other. --> | youtube_id = UClMyNfAcko34iqf2jsptgxA | youtube_display_name = Hiro Mizushima
| youtube_years_active = 2019{{ndash}}present | youtube_genre = {{flatlist| * Vlog }} | youtube_subscribers = 210 thousand<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | youtube_views = 8.9 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | stats_update = September 4, 2024{{nu|date=October 2025}} }} {{Nihongo|'''Tomohiro Saitō'''|齋藤 智裕|Saitō Tomohiro<ref name="poplar">{{Cite web|url=http://www.poplar.co.jp/taishou/5th/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102232417/http://www.poplar.co.jp/taishou/5th/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-11-02|script-title=ja:ポプラ社小説大賞 第五回|trans-title=5th Poplar Publishing Grand Prize for Fiction|year=2010|publisher=Poplar Publishing|access-date=2 November 2010|language=ja}}</ref>|born 13 April 1984}}, known professionally as {{Nihongo|'''Hiro Mizushima'''|水嶋 ヒロ|Mizushima Hiro}}, is a Japanese actor, creative director, and writer. He appeared in a number of Japanese TV dramas, including ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'', ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' and ''Zettai Kareshi''. Additionally, he was well known as the protagonist Souji Tendo in the tokusatsu series ''Kamen Rider Kabuto''. Mizushima serves as the co-producer, co-screenwriter and leading actor for the latest film ''Black Butler'' which is the live-action film adaptation of the popular manga. His birth name "Tomohiro Saito" is being credited as co-producer in the film.
Under his pen name {{Nihongo|'''Satoshi Saitō'''|齋藤 智|Saitō Satoshi}}, he wrote his first novel, ''Kagerou'', which was chosen as the winner of the 5th Popular Publishing Grand Prize for Fiction and was published in 2010.
==Career== Mizushima first appeared on Japanese television in 2005, where he played Hiro Misawa, a minor character in the second season of ''Gokusen''. In the same year, he found guest starring roles in Japanese dramas such as ''Ame to Yume no Ato ni'' and a small role in the TBS drama ''Brother Beat''.
In 2006, Mizushima became a main character in the series ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' and acted in the lead role in the film ''Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love''.
Beginning in 2007, Mizushima began taking on bigger roles in more high-profile productions, such as the supporting role of the Minami Nanba in ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' and the main role of Soshi Asamoto in ''Zettai Kareshi'' in 2008. Both dramas were among the most popular dramas of Japan at the time of their airing. Mizushima also provided the voice of Bruce Banner in the Japanese dub of ''The Incredible Hulk''. Mizushima took the role of Jiro Mori in the 2008 TV drama ''Room of King''.
In 2009, he starred in the drama ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'' as Rihito Shibata, a perfect butler. In the same year, he landed the role of Toranosuke Hayashida in the drama ''Mr. Brain'' in which he played a detective's assistant. Later that year, Mizushima starred alongside Shun Oguri in the drama ''Tokyo Dogs'', playing a detective who is a hot-blooded fighting expert due to his earlier days as a delinquent. He also starred in the feature film ''Drop'' in the same year in the role of Tatsuya Iguchi, a middle school student in a delinquent gang.
In 2010, Mizushima landed the role of Ryusuke Minami in the film ''Beck'', in which once again acted alongside ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'' co-star Takeru Satoh.
In September 2010, Mizushima left his talent agency, Ken-On, to create an own independent agency called A Station.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/article/2010/09/24/0003469197.shtml|script-title=ja:水嶋ヒロ「俳優やめない」夫婦で独立へ|language=ja|publisher=Daily Sports|date=24 September 2010|access-date=7 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926223820/http://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/article/2010/09/24/0003469197.shtml|archive-date=26 September 2010}}</ref> Several weeks later, on 31 October 2010, it was announced that Mizushima had won the 5th Poplar Publishing Grand Prize for Fiction and a cash prize of 20 million yen for his debut work, titled ''Kagerou'', written under the pen name {{Nihongo|Satoshi Saitō|齋藤 智|Saitō Satoshi}}<ref name="spohochi20101101">{{Cite web|url=http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20101101-OHT1T00063.htm|script-title=ja:水嶋ヒロに小説大賞！「第５回ポプラ社―」デビュー作で２０００万円|trans-title=Hiro Mizushima wins 5th Poplar Prize for fiction: 20 million yen for debut work|date=1 November 2010|work=Sports Hōchi|publisher=The Hochi Shimbun|access-date=1 November 2010|language=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102175357/http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/news/20101101-OHT1T00063.htm|archive-date=2 November 2010}}</ref> but he decided to decline the 20 million yen prize money.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/ent2215.html|title=Mizushima gives up Y20 mil award after winning literature prize|date=2 November 2010|work=Whats on Xiamen|access-date=4 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110210704/http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/ent2215.html|archive-date=10 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The book was published in December 2010. In the two and a half years of Oricon's book charts, ''Kagerou'' recorded the third highest first-week sales, behind J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' (1.191 million) and Haruki Murakami's ''1Q84 Book 3'' (398,000).
In 2014, Mizushima starred as Sebastian Michaelis in the film ''Black Butler'', in which he also serves as the co-screenwriter and co-producer. The film was shown at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tokyohive.com/2013/01/mizushima-hiro-to-make-a-comeback-as-an-actor-with-black-butler-movie/|title = Mizushima Hiro to make a comeback as an actor with "Black Butler" movie}}</ref>
In August 2015, Mizushima announced that he would appear as a guest cast in the fifth season of HBO's ''Girls'', which aired in 2016. This was his first international TV appearance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpopasia.com/news/hiro-mizushima-to-appear-in-season-5-of-hbos-girls::18224.html|title=Hiro Mizushima to Appear in Season 5 of HBO's Girls|access-date=21 August 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073037/http://www.jpopasia.com/news/hiro-mizushima-to-appear-in-season-5-of-hbos-girls::18224.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On January 14, 2020, Hiro was announced as an ambassador of the upcoming eight installment of ''Shimajiro'' 3D CGI animated movie, which was released on February 28, 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://daisukitoku.com/2020/01/12/hiro-mizushima-appointed-as-shimajiro-movie-ambassador/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115141519/http://daisukitoku.com/2020/01/12/hiro-mizushima-appointed-as-shimajiro-movie-ambassador/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=15 January 2020|title = Hiro Mizushima Appointed as Shimajiro Movie Ambassador|date = 12 January 2020}}</ref>
==Personal life== Mizushima is bilingual, being fluent in English and Japanese. He spent his whole elementary school years (1990 to 1996) in Zürich, Switzerland. He was bullied and discriminated against as a child at International School in Switzerland. When he came back to Japan, he attended the junior high school and the high school of Toin Gakuen, and belonged to the soccer club of the school. When he was in the twelfth grade, he worked as a regular midfielder in The 81st All Japan High School Soccer Tournament.
Mizushima graduated from Keio University and has a degree in Environmental Information.
He married Japanese pop singer Ayaka on 22 February 2009. In December 2014, the couple announced through their agency that they are expecting their first child. In June 2015, Mizushima announced via Instagram that he had become a father to a baby girl.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/4F2y0yFFfy|title=Hiro Mizushima Official - Instagram. First daughter post|website=Instagram}}</ref> In October 2019 they welcomed their second daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B3x2974n0l9|title=Hiro Mizushima Official - Instagram. Second daughter post|website=Instagram}}</ref>
On October 8, 2019, he became a YouTuber starring his own YouTube cooking show, ''Hiro-Meshi: Japanese Home-Style Cooking''. One of the aired episode also guest starring his fellow actor from ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'', Yūki Sato.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMyNfAcko34iqf2jsptgxA|title = Hiro Mizushima - YouTube|website = YouTube}}</ref>
==Filmography== {{BLP unsourced section|date=December 2012}}
===Dramas=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Network ! Notes |- | rowspan=4| 2005 || ''Gokusen'' (season 2) || Hiro Misawa || NTV || |- | ''Ame to Yume no Ato ni''|| || TV Asahi || Episode 7 |- | ''Brother Beat'' || Yoshi || TBS || |- | ''Pink no Idenshi'' || Ikushima Mizuki || TV Tokyo || Episode 3 |- | 2006 || ''Kamen Rider Kabuto'' || Souji Tendou/Souji Tendou (Mimic) || TV Asahi || |- | rowspan=5| 2007 || ''Kanojo to no Tadashii Asobikata'' || Kyoji Fujiki || TV Asahi || |- | ''Watashitachi no Kyokasho'' || Yahata Daisuke || Fuji TV || |- | ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' || Nanba Minami || Fuji TV || |- | ''Gutannubo'' (Gout Temps Nouveau) Drama Special || || Fuji TV || |- | ''Churaumi Kara no Nengajo'' || Kota Miyashita || Fuji TV || |- | rowspan=3| 2008 || ''Zettai Kareshi'' || Soshi Asamoto || Fuji TV || |- | ''Room of King'' || Moriji/Jiro Mori || Fuji TV || |- | ''Hanazakari no Kimitachi e'' SP || Minami Nanba || Fuji TV || |- | rowspan=4| 2009 || ''Mei-chan no Shitsuji'' || Rihito Shibata || Fuji TV || |- | ''Zettai Kareshi'' SP || Soshi Asamoto || Fuji TV || |- | ''Mr. Brain'' || Toranosuke Hayashida || TBS || |- | ''Tokyo Dogs'' || Maruo Kudo || Fuji TV || |- | 2016 || ''Girls'' (season 5) || Yoshi Kadokura || HBO || Episodes 3, 5 |}
===Films=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role |- | rowspan=3| 2006 || ''Hatsukare'' || Ibushi |- | ''Lovely Complex'' || Ryoji Suzuki |- | ''Kamen Rider Kabuto: God Speed Love'' || Souji Tendou |- | rowspan=3| 2007 || ''Kanojo to no Tadashii Asobikata'' || Takeshi Fujiki |- | ''100 Scene no Koi'' || Yoji/Sota/Kazuya |- | ''GS Wonderland'' || Shun Masamiya |- | 2009 || ''Drop'' || Tatsuya Iguchi |- | 2010 || ''Beck'' || Ryūsuke Minami |- | 2014 || ''Black Butler'' || Sebastian Michaelis |}
===Dubbing=== *''The Incredible Hulk'', Bruce Banner (Edward Norton)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.star-ch.jp/channel/detail.php?movie_id=18929|title= インクレディブル・ハルク|access-date= 31 August 2019|work= Star Channel}}</ref>
==Books== *''Kagerou'' (2010) {{ISBN|978-4-591-12245-7}}
==Photo books== *''Hiro'' (January 2007) *''With You'' (November 2007) *''Hiromode'' (December 2008) *''Water Island: Peace'' (December 2009)
==Music videos== *''Silent Scream'' Girl Next Door - Guest appearance and co-scriptwriter (2011)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://hiro-mizushima.com/}} {{in lang|ja}} *{{IMDb name|2281916}}
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