Cube (talent agency)

This article is about the Japanese talent agency. For the Korean talent agency, see Cube Entertainment.

CUBE. Inc. (株式会社キューブ) is a Japanese talent agency headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. It was founded in 1997 and focuses on talent management for actors, musicians, announcers, content creators and tarento.^[1] Cube also provides music, theater and other entertainment production services. The company also operates in Osaka as another agency called Ricomotion inc. (株式会社リコモーション).^[2]

CUBE. Inc.

Native name	株式会社キューブ
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha (Joint-stock company)
Traded as	Unlisted
Industry	Service industry (entertainment)
Genre	Tarento, entertainment industry management, musical production
Founded	July 1997
Headquarters	T&T Building 8th Floor, Higashi 3-25-10, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; ZIP 150-0011
Area served	Japan
Key people	Hiroyuki Kitamaki (Representative director)
Website	www.cubeinc.co.jp

In January 2020, one of the agency's talents, Ikimono-gakari's guitarist, Yamashita was reported by entertainment tabloid magazine Friday for non-consensual advances on a woman.^[3] The president of Cube, Hiryoyuki Kitamaki made a statement regarding the news, declining all accusations made by the entertainment tabloid magazine as non factual.^[4]

Notable talents

Male

Under Cube Inc.

• Kenji Ebisawa
• Ken'ya Ōsumi
• Ryō Katō^[5]
• Ryuji Kamiyama
• Yūji Kishi
• Nobuo Kyo
• Ryosei Konishi
• Kong Kuwata
• Satoshi Hashimoto
• Naohito Fujiki
• Kunio Murai
• Kentarō Ōtani

Under Ricomotion inc.

• Katsuhisa Namase
• Arata Furuta
• Atsushi Yamanishi

Female

Under Cube Inc.

• Noriko Nakagoshi
• First Summer Uika

Under Ricomotion inc.

• Akoya Sogi

Musicians

• Junna
• Tokyo Performance Doll
• The Mass Missile
• ManaKana

Former talents

• Ikimono-gakari^[6]