Acting
Jan 17, 1974
Ogi, Saga, Japan
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
Acting
Biography
Yoshiyoshi Arakawa is a Japanese actor born on January 18, 1974, in Ogi, Saga Prefecture, Japan. His real name is Yoshitomo Arakawa, and he is represented by the talent agency Otona Keikaku. He is known for his roles in films like Survive Style 5+ (2004), Fine, Totally Fine (2008), and Cloud (2024). He played his first leading role in Fine, Totally Fine, released in 2008. Beyond film, he's also built a steady career in Japanese television dramas, with credits spanning from the mid-2000s through recent projects like Dr. Ashura (2025).
Feature Films (64)
Set in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end up founding their own successful IT venture called Crook. But Nakagomi, president of an influential electronics company called Digital Capital, will do anything to get his hands on Crook.
Akihabara@DEEP
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
Memories of Matsuko
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Kamikaze Girls
Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.
Fine, Totally Fine
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
Ping Pong
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
Survive Style 5+
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Kubi
Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime and Reika. Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone else and straightforward. He works at the post office. Reika is a young woman, who is usually a step slower than everyone else. After Valentine's Day, Hajime wakes up and is unable to remember what happened that day.
One Second Ahead, One Second Behind
A boy genius named "Kadokawa" invents the ultimate anesthetic for SM play. Kadokawa's madness is turned into reality by his childhood friends Oyamada and Saigo. "A near-future science fiction work that will burn out the "endless everyday life.
エロスの果て
Television & Series (53)
An aging pro wrestler returns to fight for his inheritance when his father — a respected Noh actor — threatens to leave his fortune to his caregiver.
Story of My Family!!!
The stabbed corpse of IT company president Kinji Shiroyama (Yuichi Haba) is found in the Gulf warehouse at Hinode Pier. Unemployed Satoru Oki (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa) who ran away from the scene of the incident is arrested as the murderer. Fujiko Kajiwara (Yuki Matsushita), who was asked to be a duty lawyer meets him, but Ooki denies the charges makes repeats vague statements and refuses to tell the truth.
