Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa (荒川 良々, Arakawa Yoshiyoshi; born 18 January 1974,^[1] in Ogi, Saga) is a Japanese actor. His real name is Yoshitomo Arakawa (荒川 良友, Arakawa Yoshitomo). He is represented with Otona Keikaku. He graduated from Ryukoku High School.

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa
荒川 良々
Born	Yoshitomo Arakawa (1974-01-18) 18 January 1974 (age 51) Ogi (Ogi City, Ogi District), Saga Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Jozu Arakawa (former stage name)
Citizenship	Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present
Agent	Otona Keikaku
Notable work	Fine, Totally Fine
Television	Amachan
Website	Official profile

Biography

Arakawa's parents are drapers. He is an individualist actor who plays an active part in the appearance of chubby body form and round cut, and he was named Jozu Arakawa (荒川 上手, Arakawa Jōzu), but due to depending on circumstances such as many misreading of names, he took a kanji letter from his real name, and renamed it to his current name (both of his names are presided by Otona Keikaku and named by Suzuki Matsuo).^{[citation needed]}

Arakawa had made many appearances in films, dramas and advertisements. He played his first leading role in the film Fine, Totally Fine released in 2008.^[2]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2004	Kamikaze Girls	Greengrocer		[3]
2006	Memories of Matsuko	Kenji Shimazu		[4]
2008	Fine, Totally Fine	Teruo Toyama	Lead role	[2]
2012	Key of Life	Junichi Kudo		[5]
2019	The 47 Ronin in Debt	Horibe Yasubei		[6]
2023	One Second Ahead, One Second Behind	Bus driver		[7]
	Kubi	Shimizu Muneharu		[8]
2024	Cloud	Takimoto		[9]
	At the Bench		Lead role; anthology film	[10]

TV dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2013	Amachan	Masayoshi Yoshida	Asadora	[11]
2016	Kazoku no Katachi	Shuichi Sasaki		[12]
	Jūhan Shuttai!	Heita Mibu		[13]
2017	The Supporting Actors	Himself		[14]
2019	Idaten	Imamatsu	Taiga drama	[15]
2021	Ann's Lyrics: Ann Sakuragi's Haiku Lessons	Ann's father	Miniseries	[16]
2022	Uzukawamura Jiken	Tadahiko Yoshimi		[17]
2025	Dr. Ashura	Tarou Bonten		[18]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Vinyl no Shiro	Tar		[19]

Documentaries

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2014	ETV Tokushū		[20]

See also

• Suzuki Matsuo