Norito Yashima

Norito Yashima (八嶋 智人, Yashima Norito, born September 27, 1970 in Nara) 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,^[1] 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 Kyōko Miyashita (宮下 今日子, Miyashita Kyōko), and their first son was born on May 12, 2007.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1999	Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris	Sakurai
2000	Tales of the Unusual	Man
2003	Kantoku kansen
2004	Yaku san-jû no uso	Yokoyama
2005	Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji	Hideki Haijima
2006	Rough	Coach Furuya
2007	Hero	Kenji Endo
2008	All Around Us	Moroi
2008	Akifukaki	Satoru Terada
2016	Rudolf the Black Cat	Butch (voice)
2018	Killing For The Prosecution	Odajima
2019	Touken Ranbu	Hashiba Hideyoshi		[2]
2022	Radiation House: The Movie	Fukuo Tanaka		[3]
2024	All of Tokyo!	Kenji Hinuma		[4]
2025	Love Song for Hiroshima	UFO expert		[5]
	My Beloved Stranger	Ken'ichi Kasuga		[6]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Aikotoba wa Yūki	Rei Saitō
2001	Hero	Kenji Endo
2002	Hey! Spring of Trivia	Host
2003	Water Boys	Kiyomasa
2004	Shinsengumi!	Takeda Kanryuusai	Taiga drama	[7]
2004	Wonderful Life	Masayoshi Tsumasaka
2008	Scrap Teacher	Hisakimi Takasu
2010	Wagaya no Rekishi	Shusaku Endo		[8]
2012	Yûsha Yoshihiko to Akuryô no Kagi	Instructor
2014	Massan	Toshio	Asadora
2018	Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final	Kinpachi	Television film
2019	Shiroi Kyotō	Tomohiro Tsukuda
2021	Radiation House	Fukuo Tanaka	Season 2	[3]
2022	The 13 Lords of the Shogun	Takeda Nobuyoshi	Taiga drama	[9]
2024	Extremely Inappropriate!	Himself		[10]

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^[11]

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^[12]
• The Good Dinosaur (2016) - Nash^[13]
• Dolittle (2020) - Plimpton^[14]