Koshi Mizukami

**Koshi Mizukami** (水上 恒司, *Mizukami Kōshi*), formerly known under the stage name **Kenshi Okada** (岡田 健史, *Okada Kenshi*), is a Japanese actor, who portrayed Hakota/Kamen Rider Ion in *Kamen Rider Gears*.

## Biography

He started playing baseball in the second grade of elementary school and mainly served as a catcher. He graduated from Soseikan High School. In addition, Riku Kawahara of the professional baseball team Hanshin Tigers was a junior in the baseball club, Mizukami was a catcher and Kawahara was a pitcher.

In the winter of his first year of junior high school, he was first scouted by the entertainment agency Spice Power (the male division of Sweet Power). After that, he was pursued by the agency for five years, but he kept refusing as he was immersed in baseball and was aiming to play in Koshien.

In 2017, after retiring from the baseball club when he was in his third year of high school, he was scouted by a teacher who was an adviser to the drama club, and played as a kamikaze member in a work called "*Hair combing August*" and participated in the national high school drama competition. This work would win the highest award at the Kyushu block competition and was recommended for the national competition. However, this did not came to be due to the format of the high school drama competition, which is held within the year up to the block competition, but the national competition is held in the following year, and Mizukami graduated from high school in the following year and did not appear in the national competition. Originally, he planned to go to college and continue playing baseball, but after participating in the prefectural tournament, he began to desire becoming an actor. His parents, who were against his decision at first came around eventually because they were so pleased with his acting debut.

After auditioning for the TV drama "*Middle School Hijiri Diary*" on TBS, which started broadcasting in October 2018, he was selected as the main character's partner and made his debut as an actor. For this work he received the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 99th Drama Academy Awards sponsored by **Weekly Television**.

In July 2019, he starred in the special drama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the opening of Fukuoka Broadcasting *Don't you think girls with Hakata dialect are cute?*.

In 2020 he made his film debut in the movie *All About March*, he then appeared in his second television drama *MIU404*.

In December 2020, he won first place in the *NEXT* category of the popular voting project "National Treasure Class Handsome Ranking" in the second half of 2020 of the women's fashion magazine ViVi.

In 2021, he appeared in the NHK Taiga drama *Seiten wo Tsuke*. On March 19 of the same year, he won the New Actor Award in the 44th Japan Academy Award for three works; *All About March*, *The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File*, and *Hope*.

In May 2021, he filed a provisional injunction with the court to cancel the contract with his agency, Mizukami agreed to continue working with the same agency until the expiration of the contract at the end of March 2023, and not to renew the contract after expiration, and a settlement was reached.

On 31 August 2022, he announced that his contract with his agency had ended ahead of schedule and that he would continue his activities under his real name, Koshi Mizukami.

On 14 February 2023, it was announced that he would play Aisuke Murayama in the NHK serial TV drama remake of *Boogie Woogie*.

In 2024, he joined the cast of Kamen Rider Gears, ultimately landing the role of Hakota.

## Filmography

### Television

* *Kamen Rider Gears* (2024-2025) - Hakota/Kamen Rider Ion

## External Link

* Official profile at HAKU
* Official profile at TVer
* Official Twitter
* Official Instagram