Koji Matoba

I'll be honest, my first mental image of Kōji Matoba is the young, sharp-edged tough guy, the kind of guy you'd cast when you needed a scene to suddenly feel dangerous. That deep-set, chiseled face and that low, gravelly voice can drop the temperature of a room in two seconds flat. But the thing I've come to love is how much better he wears with age, this Saitama-born, 177cm presence that softened into something richer. And then you catch him on a variety show and he's this unexpectedly humble, easygoing dude, which makes the menacing roles land even harder by contrast. He plays scary and he plays tender, and somewhere in that range is why he's stuck around so long. Honestly, the gap is the whole appeal.

Koji Matoba (的場浩司) is a Japanese actor and talent born on March 28, 1969, in Ageo City, Saitama Prefecture. Standing 177 cm tall, he has built a career spanning film and television, recognized for his commanding on-screen presence. He is active across dramatic and variety formats, and maintains an official presence through Badass Promotion and his personal account on X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Koji Matoba

Name (Japanese)

的場浩司

Reading

まとば こうじ

Born

March 28, 1969 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

Origin

Ageo City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

Actor / Talent / Film Actor

• Official sitehttps://www.badasspromotion.co.jp/
• Xhttps://x.com/Koji_Matoba
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%84%E5%A0%B4%E6%B5%A9%E5%8F%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9318928

Tags

• from Saitama
• actor
• talent
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.