# Kanji Ishimaru

Kanji Ishimaru (石丸 幹二, Ishimaru Kanji, born 15 August 1965 in Niihama, Ehime) is a Japanese musical actor and singer. Ishimaru is signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan. He grew up in Ichihara, Chiba and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.

## Biography

Ishimaru played various instruments, such as the piano, cello, trombone, and snare drum, since childhood. He studied the cello at a music course at Chiba Prefectural Makuhari-Nishin High School (now Chiba Prefectural Makuhari General High School), attempted to major in the saxophone at Tokyo College of Music, and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts Faculty of Music in Vocal music.
In 1990, he debuted in the role of Raoul of Shiki Theatre Company's The Phantom of the Opera. Since then, Ishimaru has acted as a signboard actor for the company. Among other activities, he appeared in advertisements for Oronamin C (co-starring with SMAP's Takuya Kimura) and Nescafé Gold Blend. In 2013, he played branch manager Tadasu Asano in the Tokyo Broadcasting System television drama Hanzawa Naoki. On 2 April 2017, he was named the sixth chairperson of TV Asahi's long-running music programme Daimei no nai Ongakukai.

## Filmography
### Stage
#### Part of Shiki

| Title | Role |
| Andersen | Hans Christian Andersen |
| Aspects of Love | Alex Dillingham |
| Beauty and the Beast | Beast |
| Black Comedy | Brinzley Miller |
| Cats | Skimbleshanks |
| Dreaming | Dog Chillow |
| Elkos no Inori | George |
| Hamlet | Hamlet |
| Hibari | Charles |
| Illya Darling—Nichiyō wa Dame yo! | Homer |
| John Manjirō no Yume | Manjiro |
| Kono Seimei Dare no mono? | Ken Hayata |
| La Sauvage | Florent |
| Musical Ikoku no Oka | Hidetaka Kokonoe |
| Omoide o Uru Otoko | Man selling memories |
| The passer-through-walls | Dutillur |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, the male ensemble |
| Song & Dance | Male singer |
| Undine | Hans |
| West Side Story | Jet Orchestra Tony |
| Yuriddis | Orphe |
| Rokumeikan | Einosuke Kiyohara |

#### After leaving Shiki

| Title | Role |
| Enoch Arden | |
| A New Brain | Gordon Shuin |
| Sunday in the Park with George | George |
| The Coast of Utopia | Nikolai Ogalov |
| L'Histoire du soldat | |
| The 39 Steps-Himitsu no Angō o Oe! | Richard Haney |
| Elisabeth | Tote |
| Twelfth Night | Marquess of Ocino / Bard / Traveler |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | |
| Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin |
| Jekyll & Hyde | Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Edmond Danthes, Earl of Monte Cristo |
| Lady Bess | Roger Ascam |
| Limelight | Calvero |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Percy Blakney |
| Cabaret | MC |
| The Secret Garden | Archibald Craven |
| Love Never Dies | The Phantom |

### Films

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2010 | Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Kazuo Fukamachi |
| 2015 | Ōhi no Yakata | Louis XIV of France |
| 2015 | Galaxy Turnpike | Doctor Muta |
| 2021 | Musicophilia | Ryū Kishino |
| 2022 | Sun and Bolero | Yoshifumi Tsuruma |
| 2022 | Akira and Akira | |
| 2024 | Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony | Wakner (voice) |
| 2025 | Yukikaze | Toshiyuki Kosho |
| TBA | Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2009 | Shirasujirō | Ushiba Tomohiko | |
| 2011 | Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana | Takashi Kusakabe | |
| 2012 | Usuzakura-ki | Raihaha Togashi | |
| 2013 | Oyarihaishaku: Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki | Gorobei Nomi | |
| 2013 | Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki | Gorobei Nomi | |
| 2013 | Hanzawa Naoki | Masa Asano | |
| 2014 | Roosevelt Game | Fumiko Mikami | |
| 2014 | Dark Suits | Kiyoomi Matsuki | |
| 2015 | Burning Flower | Sufu Masanosuke | Taiga drama |
| 2015 | Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken | Taisa Goriki | |
| 2015 | Scapegoat | Shun Yanagisawa | |
| 2015 | Flowers for Algernon | Daigo Hachisuka | |
| 2015 | 3ttsu no Machi no Monogatari | Akihiro Togo | |
| 2015 | Omotesandō Kōkō Gasshō-bu! | Yuki Uchida | |
| 2016 | Nobunaga Moyu | Akechi Mitsuhide | Television film |
| 2016 | Doctor Chōsa Ha: Iryō Jiko no Yami o Abake | Masahiko Kawagoe | |
| 2016 | Suizokukan Girl | Hisayuki Kurano | |
| 2016 | Shizumanu Taiyō | Ishiguro | |
| 2016 | Eigyō Buchō: Natsuko Kira | Ryoichi Saito | |
| 2016 | Daddy Sister | Koichi Kunizane | Asadora |
| 2016 | Chūshingura no Koi: Shitoya Hito-me no Chūshin | Ōishi Yoshio | |
| 2017 | Akira and Akira | Kazuma Kaidō | |
| 2019 | Shōnen Torajirō | Gozen-sama | |
| 2020 | Bones of Steel | Hajime Naitō | |
| 2021 | Reach Beyond the Blue Sky | Ōkubo Toshimichi | Taiga drama |

### Animation

| Title | Role |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo (dubbed) |

### Dubbing

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2015 | The Sound of Music | Colonel Georg von Trap (Christopher Plummer) |
| 2023 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem) |

### Advertisements

| Year | Title |
| | Oronamin C |
| | Nescafé Gold Blend |
| 2014 | Canon Inc. Pixus |
| 2014 | House Ukon no Chikara |
| | Zurich Insurance Group Anata Senyō Jidōsha Hoken |
| 2016 | The National Art Center, Tokyo "Dalí Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" |
| 2016 | Meiji Chocolate Kōka |

### Radio

| Year | Title | Network |
| 2010 | Kanji Ishimaru no Theater e yōkoso | NHK FM Broadcast |

### MC-Navigator

| Year | Title | Network |
| 2014 | Kanji Ishimaru no Mainichi ga Premiere | Eisei Gekijō |

### CD

| Title | Label |
| "Kanji Ishimaru" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "Distance" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "Love Songs" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "Kanji Ishimaru no Musical e yōkoso" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "Stravinsky: Heishi no Monogatari" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "Kaijin Hyakumensō" | Sony Music Japan International |
| "My Musical Life" | Sony Music Japan International |

### Music guides

| Year | Title |
| 2013 | The National Art Center "Andreas Guldsky Exhibition" |
| 2014 | Mori Arts Center Gallery "The Tutti of the Tate Art Museum Exhibition Prior to Rafael British Victorian Painting Dream" |
| 2015 | The National Art Center, "Magrid Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" |
| 2015 | Kyoto City Museum of Art "Magrid Exhibition Kyoto Exhibition" |

### Others

| Year | Title | Network |
| 2015 | Minna no Uta "Kaijin Hyakumensō" | NHK |
| 2016 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | |
| 2017 | Daimei no nai Ongakukai | TV Asahi |