Joe Odagiri
Gender: Male
Born: 16th February 1976 (currently 35 years old)
Nationality: Japan
TV programs: Mushishi, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Visual Battle, Le Parfum De La Jaolusie, Tentai Kanzoku, Zaion: I Wish You Were Here, Jikou Keisatsu, Beginner, Satorare, Kao
Movies: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Blood and Bones, Bright Future, Retribution, Princess Raccoon, House of Himiko, The Uchoten Hotel, Adrift In Tokyo, Dangkou, The Warrior and the Wolf, Sway, Scrap Heaven, Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad, Dream, Air Doll, Hazard, Bugmaster, Break Through!, Big River, Out of This World, HAZARD, My Way, I Wish, Hei no naka no chûgakkô
Joe Odagiri (オダギリ ジョー, Odagiri Jō), born Jou Odagiri (小田切 譲, Odagiri Jō) (February 16, 1976 in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor.
Commonly known just as Odajō, and also known for his unusual hairstyle and eclectic style of dressing, he is the epitome of Cool Japan. He has achieved considerable success as an actor, having been awarded Best New Actor by the Japanese Academy for his role in Azumi, and Best Supporting Actor in Blood and Bones.
He has starred in such films as the Katsuhiro Otomo-directed live-action movie adaptation of the manga and anime series, Mushishi, where he was featured as the main character, Ginko, as well as other well-known films such as Shinobi: Heart Under Blade.
He is also well known by much of the tokusatsu fandom in his starring role as Yusuke Godai from Kamen Rider Kuuga. Odagiri has expressed on multiple occasions his difficulty playing the role however.
Odagiri is also very famous in Brazil due to his roles of Bijomaru Mogami in Azumi and Yusuke Godai in Kamen Rider Kuuga.
He applied to the Fresno State University, to study film directing, but enrolled at the Theater and Arts Department by mistake where he referred to his
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