is a Japanese actor, director and voice actor.

Career

Born to a theater director father, Tetsuya Oguri, and having an actor brother, Ryo Oguri, Shun Oguri started his acting career quite early in his life. At the age 12, he started as a kid actor.

Oguri's debut role was playing the bullied and abused child Noboru Yoshikawa from the drama

Japanese television drama

, also called , are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including murder romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, and many others...

 Great Teacher Onizuka

Great Teacher Onizuka

, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga written and illustrated by Tohru Fujisawa. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old ex-bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private high...

 in 1998, when he was about sixteen years old. His acting attracted him great attention and from there, he moved onto bigger roles. In 2000, he played a deaf person in Summer Snow

Summer Snow

Summer Snow is a Japanese television drama that aired from July 7, 2000 to September 15, 2000 on TBS. It is a love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an activity-restricting ailment. The title refers to marine snow, which the two promise to...

. Two years later, he starred in the popular drama Gokusen

Gokusen

is a manga series by Kozueko Morimoto. The story follows Kumiko Yamaguchi, the granddaughter of a Yakuza boss and teacher at an all-male private high school. In 2008, a SP manga was out, featuring some of Yankumi's old students who are by now working adults.In 2002, the manga was adapted into a...

, in which he played the part of a bully, rather than the bullied, as he did in Great Teacher Onizuka.

His brother Ryo Oguri and Shun performed together in the animation movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, and the drama of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

His first lead role in a drama was in 2006 as Shinichi Kudo

Jimmy Kudo

Jimmy Kudo, also known as in Japan, is the protagonist of Gosho Aoyama's series Case Closed, which is known in Japan as . A High-school Detective, he is forced to in ingest the lethal poison APTX 4869 after his encounter with Gin and Vodka. Due to a rare side effect, the poison shrinks him into a...

 from Detective Conan

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...

. Oguri also lent his voice as a seiyū

Seiyu

Voice acting in Japan has far greater prominence than in most other countries. Japan's large animation industry produces 60% of the animated series in the world; as a result, Japanese voice actors, or , are able to achieve fame on a national and international level.Besides acting as narrators and...

 in Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

is a 2005 Japanese animated film directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Sho Aikawa, and acts as a continuation of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series...

 together with his brother Ryo Oguri in 2005. He also landed the role of Rui Hanazawa in the drama Hana Yori Dango

Hana Yori Dango (TV series)

Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II in Taiwan. It also resulted in...

, in which he once again acted alongside Gokusen co-star Jun Matsumoto

Jun Matsumoto

, often called by the portmanteau nickname , is a Japanese idol, singer, actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to Japanese television drama audiences for his portrayal as Tsukasa Dōmyōji in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which he won GQ Japan's Man Of...

. In 2007 he gained even more attention starring in the drama Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

, also known as Ike-para, is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television and first aired on July 3, 2007. It is based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi. Filming locations include the Ryutsu Keizai University....

 as Izumi Sano

Izumi Sano

is one of the main characters in the manga series Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo. He is considered to be the leading male character of the series, central to the plot of the story.-Character:...

. In 2008, Oguri took up another lead drama role in Binbō Danshi, playing a poor college student named Kazumi Koyama. Oguri also played in the drama "Tokyo Dogs

Tokyo Dogs

is a Fuji TV Japanese television drama, which stars Oguri Shun and Mizushima Hiro.-Synopsis:Takakura So witnessed his father's murder at a young age. Pledging to catch the killer, he grows up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cool-headed and...

" as a lead role American detective.

He reunited with Hana Yori Dango co-star Mao Inoue

Mao Inoue

is a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as in and Makino Tsukushi in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which she won Best Actress in the 47th Television Drama Academy Awards and received a newcomer award at the 16th Hashida...

 for the drama , which began airing in October 2010.

Filmography

Drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Hachidai Shogun Yoshimune	Munemoto Tokugawa	Jidaigeki Jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...
1995	Kaiki Club
1996	Hideyoshi		Taiga drama Taiga drama is the name NHK gives to the annual, year-long historical fiction television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white Hana no Shōgai, starring kabuki actor Onoe Shōroku and Takarazuka star Awashima Chikage, the network has hired a producer, director, writer, music...
1996	Shōri no Megami
1997	Sore Ga Kotae Da!
1998	Great Teacher Onizuka	Noboru Yoshikawa
2000	Aoi Tokugawa Sandai		Taiga drama
2000	Ikebukuro West Gate Park	Yoshikazu	Episode 2 guest appearance Guest appearance In show business , a guest appearance is a participation of an outsider performer , usually called guest artist , in an event , i.e., the participation of a performer which does not belong to the regular crew In performance...
2000	Summer Snow Summer Snow Summer Snow is a Japanese television drama that aired from July 7, 2000 to September 15, 2000 on TBS. It is a love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an activity-restricting ailment. The title refers to marine snow, which the two promise to...	Jun Shinoda
2000	Ashita o Dakishimete
2000	Henshuuou
2001	X Sensei	Tekuri Hamazaki
2001	Pure Soul	Manabu Takahara
2001	Cherry	Hiroshi Yamazaki
2001	Heart
2001	Ao to Shiro de Mizuiro	Takumi Kishida	Television special
2002	Gokusen	Haruhiko Uchiyama (Uchi)
2003	Tengoku no Daisuke e	Daisuke Sato	Television special
2003	Okaasan to Issho	Kensuke Aramaki
2003	Gokusen Special	Haruhiko Uchiyama (Uchi)	Television special
2003	Stand Up!! Stand Up!! is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, centers around the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high...	Kōji Enami
2004	Fire Boys	Ken Yazawa	Episode 2 guest appearance
2004	Hungry Kid		Four-episode drama
2005	Taika no Kaishin as Nakano Oenomiko	Ōenomiko Nakano	Two-episode drama
2005	Kyumei Byoto 24 Ji 3	Kazuya Kono
2005	Aikurushii	Junichi Yaguchi
2005	Yoshitsune	Kagesue Kajiwara	Jidaigeki
2005	Koto	Shinichi Mizuki	Television special
2005	Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashi		Weekly television special
2005	Densha Otoko Densha Otoko (drama) is a Japanese television drama that aired on Fuji Television. It is based on the Densha Otoko story, which has also been portrayed in other media.The drama's 11 episodes were aired on Fuji TV from July 7 to September 22, 2005 . A two hour long TV special, Densha Otoko Deluxe, aired on September 23,...	Munetaka Minamoto
2005	24 no Hitomi
2005	Hana Yori Dango Hana Yori Dango (TV series) Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II in Taiwan. It also resulted in...	Rui Hanazawa	Fuji TV
2006	El Poporazzi ga Yuku!!
2006	Yūki	Hama	Television special
2006	Densha Otoko Deluxe	Munetaka Minamoto
2006	Detective Conan 1	Shinichi Kudo Jimmy Kudo Jimmy Kudo, also known as in Japan, is the protagonist of Gosho Aoyama's series Case Closed, which is known in Japan as . A High-school Detective, he is forced to in ingest the lethal poison APTX 4869 after his encounter with Gin and Vodka. Due to a rare side effect, the poison shrinks him into a...	Television special, lead role
2007	Hana Yori Dango 2 Hana Yori Dango Returns (TV series) Hana Yori Dango Returns is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2007. It is the sequel to 2005 Hana Yori Dango TV series, based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio, and followed by movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final.-Synopsis:Hana Yori Dango returns for...	Rui Hanazawa
2007	Hanazakari no Kimitachi e Hanazakari no Kimitachi e , also known as Ike-para, is a Japanese drama produced by Fuji Television and first aired on July 3, 2007. It is based on the comic by Hisaya Nakajo, published in English as Hana-Kimi. Filming locations include the Ryutsu Keizai University....	Izumi Sano Izumi Sano is one of the main characters in the manga series Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo. He is considered to be the leading male character of the series, central to the plot of the story.-Character:...
2007	Detective Conan 2	Shinichi Kudo	Lead role, television special
2008	Binbo Danshi	Kazumi Koyama	Lead role
2008	Yume wo Kanaeru Zo	Kohei Nogami	Lead role
2008	Hanazakari no Kimitachi e Special	Izumi Sano	Television special
2009	Tenchijin Tenchijin is the 48th NHK Taiga drama. It airs on NHK from January 4, 2009 every Sunday from 20:00 to 20:44 JST to November 22, 2009 spanning 47 episodes. The story centers on the life of the 16th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu....	Mitsunari Ishida	Jidaigeki
2009	Smile Smile (Japanese Drama) Smile is a Japanese television drama series, shown on TBS started last April 17, 2009. Jun Matsumoto, the lead star plays the role of Vito, a half-Filipino, half-Japanese who always smile despite all the problems and difficulties he is facing.-Synopsis:...	Seiji Hayashi
2009	Tokyo Dogs Tokyo Dogs is a Fuji TV Japanese television drama, which stars Oguri Shun and Mizushima Hiro.-Synopsis:Takakura So witnessed his father's murder at a young age. Pledging to catch the killer, he grows up to become an elite cop in New York City, where the criminal lives. His character is cool-headed and...	So Takakura	Lead role
2010	Jūi Dolittle	Kenichi Tottori	Lead role
2011	Arakawa Under the Bridge	Village leader Sonchou

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Shiawase Kazoku Keiga	Hirose
2002	Hitsuji no Uta	Takashiro
2003	Azumi	Nachi
2003	Robot Contest	Koichi Aida
2003	Spring Story
2004	Haken Kuroitsu no Tsubasa	Rikuo
2004	Is. A	Yuya Kaitsu
2005	The Neighbor No. Thirteen	Murasaki Juzo
2005	Azumi 2 Azumi 2: Death or Love is the sequel to the Japanese film Azumi based on the manga series by Yū Koyama.- Plot :Azumi 2 continues shortly after the end of the previous film with Aya Ueto returning in the title role of a young assassin charged with keeping the nation from falling into a new civil war.Azumi and her only...	Ginkaku
2005	Life on the Long Board	Kenta
2005	Reincarnation Reincarnation (film) is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Takashi Shimizu and Masaki Adachi. Preceded by Infection and Premonition , Reincarnation is the third film in producer, Takashige Ichise's, as part of J-Horror Theater....	Kazuya Onishi
2006	Gigolo Wannabe Gigolo Wannabe Gigolo Wannabe Gigolo Wannabe Gigolo Wannabe (also known as Waters is a comedy genre film, released March 11, 2006. It was directed by Ryo Nishimura, edited by Kusakabe Mototaka, sound recording by Iwakura Masayuki, music by Nakamura Jin "Boys♥Girls" by Koda Kumi, produced by Yagi Seiji and Hirose...	Ryohei
2006	Ghost Train	Shunichi
2007	Sakuran	Florist	Cameo Appearance
2007	Kisaragi	Iemoto
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django	Akira
2007	Crows Zero Crows ZERO is a film based on the manga Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi. The film was directed by Takashi Miike, written by Shogo Muto and stars Shun Oguri and Takayuki Yamada...	Genji Takiya	Lead role
2007	Surf's Up Surf's Up (film) Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated mockumentary family comedy film directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck. It stars the voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel and Jon Heder among others....	Cody Maverick	Lead role, Japanese dub
2008	Hana Yori Dango Final Hana Yori Dango Final Hana Yori Dango Final is a 2008 Japanese film, directed by Yasuharu Ishii, and starring Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto. The film is the last chapter of the Hana Yori Dango trilogy in Japan, based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio....	Rui Hanazawa
2008	Hebi ni Piasu		Cameo appearance Cameo appearance A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
2008	Crows Zero 2 Crows Zero 2 is a sequel to Crows Zero, a loose adaptation of Hiroshi Takahashi's best-selling manga, Crows.The film was written by Shogo Muto and directed by Takashi Miike, featuring Shun Oguri and Takayuki Yamada who, among some actors originally appeared in Crows Zero, returned to revive their roles as Genji...	Genji Takiya	Lead role
2009	Gokusen: The Movie	Haruhiko Uchiyama (Uchi)
2009	Tajomaru	Hatakeyama Naomitsu/Tajomaru
2010	Surely Someday	Policeman B	Cameo appearance/director
2010	Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose	Seiichi Torikai
2011	Gaku
2012	Kitsutsuki to Ame	Koichi
2012	Ucha Kyodai (Space Brothers: Let's Go to Space, Brother)	Nanba Mutta
2012	Arakawa Under the Bridge: The Movie	Village leader Sonchou

Anime

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa is a 2005 Japanese animated film directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Sho Aikawa, and acts as a continuation of the first Fullmetal Alchemist television series...	Alfons Heiderich
2006	Jyu-Oh-Sei	"Third"/Sigurd Heiza
2006	Dōbutsu no Mori	Totakeke
2007	Wangan Midnight Wangan Midnight is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Michiharu Kusunoki and serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits since 1990, later in Kodansha's Young Magazine. In 1999, it won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga....	Akio Asakura	Lead role
2008	Highlander: The Search for Vengeance	Colin MacLeod	Lead role
2010	Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin	Mario Minakami	Lead role

Photo Books

• so (27 October 2003)
• Oguri Note (26 December 2006)
• high (21 September 2007)
• Shun x Genji (October 2007)

Books

• Dōkyū sei: Aoi no Foto Essei Series -Personart- (25 March 2005)
• Oguri Shun First Stage (27 September 2006)

Essay

• I love movie,You love movie? in Shukan Zipper
• Oguri Shunpo Danyū Kurabu (Kinema Shunpo-sha)

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Color	Jū Yamazaki
2000	Jinsei wa Gatagoto Ressha ni Notte
2003	Uchū de Ichiban Hayai Tokei	Fox-Trot
2003	Hamlet Hamlet The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...	Fortinbras
2004	Joker	Mitsuhashi
2004	As You Like It As You Like It As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...	Orlando
2005	Gūzen no Ongaku	Jack Pozzi
2006	The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...	Antipholus of Ephesus, Antipholus of Syracuse	Lead role, dual role Dual role Dual role refers to one actor playing two or more roles, which may be deliberately scripted in a play or film, or merely be a by-product of a low budget. In a theatrical production where more than one actor plays multiple characters, it is sometimes referred to as an "Ironman" cast...
2006	Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were...	Aaron
2007	As You Like It	Orlando
2007	Caligula Caligula (play) Caligula is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It was part of what the author called the "Cycle of the Absurd", with the novel The Outsider and the essay The Myth...	Caligula	Lead role
2008	Musashi	Sasaki Kojirō Sasaki Kojiro was a prominent Japanese swordsman widely considered as a Kensei, born in Fukui Prefecture. He lived during the Sengoku and early Edo periods and is most remembered for his death while battling Miyamoto Musashi in 1612.-History:...
2011	A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....	Alex DeLarge	Lead role
2011	Dokurojo no Shinichijin aka Seven Souls in the Skull Castle	Sutenosuke

Awards and nominations

Year	Organization	Award	Work	Result
2008	2008 Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer Award
	45th Golden Arrow Awards	Broadcast (drama)
	17th Japan Movie Critics Awards	Best Actor	Crows Zero
	TVnavi Drama of the Year 2007 Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
	16th Hashida Awards	Newcomer Award	Hana Yori Dango 2
	1st Eigakan Taisho
	21st DVD Data Awards	Best Talento Award
	2008 MTV Student Voice Awards	Best Actor

External links and sources