Masaharu Fukuyama

Masaharu Fukuyama is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, radio personality, and photographer. Born in 1969, he left Nagasaki for Tokyo in 1987, and a year later won a co-lead role in Hon no 5g through an Amuse Inc. audition. Signed to Amuse, he debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1990 with Tsuioku no Ame no Naka. His breakthrough came in 1992 with Good Night, which he wrote for the drama Ai wa douda and co-starred in; it reached the Oricon Top 10. By 1994 he had a chart-topping million-seller, It's Only Love/Sorry Baby. A 1993 television series brought him popularity in Japan and other Asian countries, and he later led Galileo and the year-long drama Ryomaden. His first major film lead was Suspect X (2008), from the Galileo franchise. In 2013 he reprised that role in Midsummer's Equation, co-composing its music, and won Best Actor at the Yokohama and Takasaki film festivals for Like Father Like Son.