Yu Shirota is a Japanese actor and singer, most known for his role as Kagurazaka Makoto in the Japanese television drama live action adaption of Hana-Kimi, Kunimitsu Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis Musicals, Tuxedo Mask in the Sailor Moon Musicals and as Kei Shinjo in Rookies.
24 Facts About Yu Shirota
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Yu Shirota is a former member of the Watanabe Entertainment group, D-BOYS.
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Yu Shirota lived in Barcelona, Spain from when he was three to about seven years old.
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Yu Shirota returned to Japan for elementary school and can still speak Spanish in ordinary conversation.
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Yu Shirota attended high school at Horikoshi High along with NEWS member Tomohisa Yamashita, WaT's Teppei Koike, Japanese actor Toma Ikuta and KAT-TUN's Jin Akanishi and Koki Tanaka.
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Yu Shirota composed his first piece when he was in the fourth grade, titled "The Tear".
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Yu Shirota's acting career began from 2003 to 2004, when Shirota became the 7th actor to play Tuxedo Kamen in the Sailor Moon Musicals.
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Yu Shirota began working for a year on the Japanese program, Hanamaru Cafe, as part of the Hanamaru apron team, often leaving set for locations and displaying prizes for viewers during game corners.
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Yu Shirota made his debut as Tezuka on January 8,2005, in the Side Yamabuki performance in Osaka.
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Yu Shirota released a Best Actor's album in 2005, for his role as Tezuka.
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In 2007, after nearly a year away from musicals, Yu Shirota returned to stage and starred as Anthony Hope, the cheerful young sailor, in the Japanese stage production of Sweeney Todd.
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Yu Shirota then began appearing in a string of dramas, the first being the TV drama, Dignity of Haken, featured Yu Shirota as the half-Spanish Ryuto Amaya, premiered on January 10,2007, on NTV and ended its run on March 21,2007.
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The second of his three films, Yu Shirota played a main supporting actor in the film adaptation of Gettsu Itaya's semi-autobiographical novel, Waruboro and was released on September 8,2007, as principal filmography began on September 20,2006.
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Yu Shirota is set to be in the Japanese stage production of Elisabeth as Der Tod from August 2010 to October 2010.
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Yu Shirota played Ryuji Danma in the 2012 live-action version of Great Teacher Onizuka.
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Yu Shirota joined the Watanabe Entertainment group, the D-BOYS in October 2004.
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Yu Shirota hosted a radio show called "Marvelous Radio Vibration" with fellow D-BOYS member Kotaro Yanagi and Yukki.
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The D-BOYS then starred in their own drama documentary variety show called, DD-Boys in which Yu Shirota's appeared in multiple episodes as himself.
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The D-BOYS then starred in their 2nd musical, The Last Game to which on June 27,2008, Yu Shirota announced his graduation during the encore of the play while assuring the media that he would still remain under the Watanabe Entertainment management and still participate in certain D-BOYS projects and events.
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Yu Shirota officially graduated from the group on July 6,2008.
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Yu Shirota's experiences were recorded in the Language Study studying abroad 2007 journal series and covered in detail over 13 pages of his thoughts after the experience and the return home.
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Yu Shirota has dated "Seventeen" model Keiko Kitagawa and actress Misako Yasuda.
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Yu Shirota has currently released two solo EP albums with Avex Trax, one solo album for the Prince of Tennis musical and three with the D-BOYS in Japan, only.
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On November 16,2005, Shirota released an Idol DVD called With U The DVD includes an acoustic performance for the song "Natsu no Owari ~ Mou Kako no Koi", for which he had composed and written lyrics.