is a Japanese actor, TV personality, narrator, voice actor and presenter. He is currently employed by ComeCome Miniki-Na Theater Company and SIS Company.
Career Yashima landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia, a show he co-hosted with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi, and has also participated in a few anime productions, voicing characters such as Iwanbo in Rurouni Kenshin and Œufcoque in Mardock Scramble.
Family He is married to stage actress , and their first son was born on May 12, 2007.
Filmography Film Year Title RoleNotes1999Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris Sakurai2000Tales of the Unusual Man2003Kantoku kansen 2004Yaku san-jû no uso Yokoyama2005Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji Hideki Haijima2006Rough Coach Furuya2007Hero Kenji Endo2008All Around Us MoroiAkifukaki Satoru Terada2016Rudolf the Black Cat Butch (voice)2018Killing for The Prosecution Odajima2019Touken Ranbu Hashiba Hideyoshi2022Radiation House: The MovieFukuo Tanaka2024All of Tokyo!Kenji Hinuma2025Love Song from HiroshimaUFO expertMy Beloved StrangerKen'ichi Kasuga2026Goodbye My CarKota Yasuda
Television Year Title RoleNotes2000Aikotoba wa Yūki Rei Saitō2001Hero Kenji Endo2002Hey! Spring of Trivia Host2003Water Boys Kiyomasa2004Shinsengumi! Takeda KanryuusaiTaiga dramaWonderful Life Masayoshi Tsumasaka2008Scrap Teacher Hisakimi Takasu2010Wagaya no Rekishi Shusaku Endo2012Yûsha Yoshihiko to Akuryô no Kagi Instructor2014Massan ToshioAsadora2018Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final KinpachiTelevision film2019Shiroi KyotōTomohiro Tsukuda2021Radiation HouseFukuo TanakaSeason 22022The 13 Lords of the Shogun Takeda NobuyoshiTaiga drama2024Extremely Inappropriate!Himself2026Extremely Inappropriate! SpecialHimselfTelevision filmBlossomKozo IwataAsadora
Anime Boys Over Flowers (1996) - Lighting Staff Rurouni Kenshin (1996) - Iwanbo, Kameo, et al Kero Kero Chime (1997) - Poppo, Frog C, Kabayan Hatsumei Boy Kanipan (1998) - Kanburi Mardock Scramble (2010-2012) - Œufcoque Penteano Rudolf the Black Cat (2016) - Buchi Dive in Wonderland (2025) - March Hare
Video games Kowloon's Gate (1996) - Mushroom Seller Charlie Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2010) - King Tom Tildrum XIV
Dubbing Open Season (2006) - Elliot The Good Dinosaur (2016) - Nash Dolittle (2020) - Plimpton
References
External links
Norito Yashima on NHK Archives