Kotaro Koizumi

Kotaro Koizumi (小泉 孝太郎, Koizumi Kōtarō; born July 10, 1978 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the 56th Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto.

Kotaro Koizumi
小泉孝太郎
Koizumi in 2014
Born	(1978-07-10) July 10, 1978 (age 47) Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Parent(s)	Junichiro Koizumi Kayoko Miyamoto
Relatives	Shinjirō Koizumi (brother) Jun'ya Koizumi (grandfather) Yoshie Koizumi (grandmother) Koizumi Matajirō (great-grandfather)

He studied economics at night classes of Nihon University, but dropped out.

Filmography

Television

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – won the maximum ten million yen on a celebrity special
• Ninomiya Kotaro (Fuji, July 2024) (co-starring with Kazunari Ninomiya)^[1]

TV dramas

• Nurseman (2002)
• Hatsu Taiken (2002)
• Shiawase No Shippo (2002)
• Kurutta Kajitsu 2002 (2002)
• Home & Away (2002)
• Boku dake no Madonna (2003)
• Korogashi Ogin (2003)
• Igi Ari, Onna Bengoshi Oka Norie (2004)
• Division 1 \"Pink Hip Girl\" (Fuji TV, 2004)
• Yoshitsune (2005) – Taira no Sukemori
• Slow Dance (2005)
• Tokyo Wonder Tours (2005)
• Gachi Baka (2006)
• Attention Please (2006)
• Fushin no Toki (2006)
• Haken no Hinkaku (2007)
• Attention Please SP (2007)
• Hanayome to Papa (2007)
• Otoko no Kosodate (2007)
• Gokusen 3 (2008)
• Yae's Sakura (2013) – Tokugawa Yoshinobu
• Age Harassment (2015)
• Akira and Akira (2017)
• Black Pean (2018) – Takashina Gonta^[2]
• The Good Wife (2019)^[3]
• The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022) – Taira no Munemori^[4]
• Fixer (2023) – Kōji Itakura^[5]
• Black Pean Season 2 (2024) – Takashina Gonta^[6]

Films

• Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003) – Shigeru Koike
• Koshonin Mashita Masayoshi (2005) – Shigeru Koike
• Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Fighting Demons (2005) – Takeshi
• Udon (2006) – Udon shop customers
• Bayside Shakedown 3 (2010) – Shigeru Koike^[7]
• Whistleblower (2019) – Shōhei Nagura
• You're Not Normal, Either (2021) – Miyamoto^[8]
• The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie (2022) – Haruto Sutei^[9]
• Oshorin (2023)^[10]
• Rude to Love (2024) – Mamoru^[11]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Kotaro Koizumi
8. Samejima Yazaemon 4. Jun'ya Koizumi 2. Junichirō Koizumi 10. Koizumi Matajirō 5. Yoshie Koizumi 11. Ishikawa Katsu 1. Kotaro Koizumi 3. Kayoko Miyamoto