Norito Yashima

Norito Yashima (八嶋智人; Yashima Norito) (born September 27, 1970, Nara-city, Nara) is a Japanese stage actor who has been featured in movies, television shows (Furuhata Ninzaburo), and specials. He eventually landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia, a show he currently co-hosts with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi.[1] At the end of the Hey! Spring of Trivia show, host Norito Yashima gives out "The Golden Brain" (Japanese: 金の脳; Kin-no-nō), a brain shaped trophy that has a melon bread inside that is in the shape of a brain, to the sender of the highest rated trivia. He also has loaned his voice to a few anime, such as Iwanbo in Rurouni Kenshin.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
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
2008 Akifukaki Satoru Terada

Television

Year Title Role
2000 Aikotoba wa Yūki Rei Saitō
2001 Hero Kenji Endo
2002 Hey! Spring of Trivia Host
2003 Water Boys Kiyomasa
2004 Shinsengumi! Takeda Kanryuusai
2004 Wonderful Life Masayoshi Tsumasaka
2008 Scrap Teacher Hisakimi Takasu
2010 Wagaya no Rekishi Shusaku Endo
2012 Yûsha Yoshihiko to Akuryô no Kagi Instructor
2014 Massan Toshio

Anime

References

  1. ↑ "Japanese Trivia Show Comes to Spike TV". Multichannel News. 4 November 2004. Retrieved 10 January 2011.



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