Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

What draws me to Hiroyuki Ikeuchi is the quiet intensity underneath the matinee-idol looks. Winning a newcomer award in 2000 marked him early, but I find his off-screen life more telling: a judo black belt, a devoted angler, and Salvadoran-Japanese heritage that lends his features a striking, hard-to-place depth. Actors who also direct usually have something pressing to say, and I suspect he is one of those. I admire performers who let stillness do the heavy lifting rather than chasing volume, and Ikeuchi strikes me as exactly that sort of grounded, slow-burning presence worth following closely.

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Name (English)

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Name (Japanese)

池内博之

Reading

いけうち ひろゆき

Born

November 24, 1976 (age 49)

Origin

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

actor / model / film director / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

Blood type

B

Agency

LesPros Entertainment

Awards & achievements

• 2000 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year

Works summary

Appearances

150 (1997–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1997: 4, 1998: 5, 1999: 4, 2000: 3, 2001: 2, 2002: 4, 2003: 5, 2004: 6, 2005: 7, 2006: 8, 2007: 7, 2008: 8, 2009: 10, 2010: 5, 2011: 3, 2012: 2, 2013: 8, 2014: 5, 2015: 4, 2016: 6, 2017: 4, 2018: 6, 2019: 6, 2020: 2, 2021: 4, 2022: 4, 2023: 3, 2024: 5, 2025: 4, 2026: 5, year unknown: 1

Debut work

告白

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.lespros.co.jp/artists/hiroyuki_ikeuchi/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiroyuki.ikeuchi/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki%20Ikeuchi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E5%86%85%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2699910

Tags

• Ibaraki Prefecture
• actor
• model
• film director

Last updated

September 24, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.