Keiichi Yamamoto

Keiichi Yamamoto's career has a decade-shaped hole in the middle of it, and the remarkable part is that he climbed back out. Japanese entertainment does not hold your seat: comic rhythms move on, audiences forget, and a ten-year absence is normally the end of the story. He returned anyway, still one half of the duo Gokuraku Tombo, sitting beside the same partner as though the gap had been a commercial break. People hold their own views on whether he earned that, and I understand both sides. What I can say is that the gap was closed by his own stubbornness and by a partner who kept the chair warm. He is not a subtle comedian. Physical, blunt, unchanged. That may be why he survived.

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Name (English)

Keiichi Yamamoto

Name (Japanese)

山本圭壱

Reading

やまもと けいいち

Born

February 23, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

169 cm

Occupation

actor / owarai tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

Blood type

O

Agency

注

High school

Setouchi High School

Spouse

西野未姫

Works summary

Appearances

88 (2000–2026)

By year

2000: 2, 2001: 2, 2002: 1, 2003: 4, 2004: 1, 2005: 2, 2006: 1, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 9, 2018: 5, 2019: 14, 2020: 5, 2021: 11, 2022: 8, 2023: 5, 2024: 3, 2026: 1

Debut work

仮面ライダークウガ

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://profile.yoshimoto.co.jp/talent/detail?id=6195
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yamamogt/
• Xhttps://x.com/yama_gokuraku
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiichi%20Yamamoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%AD%E5%A3%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11468962

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• owarai tarento

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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