Kunihiro Matsumura

Kunihiro Matsumura's impressions have never really been about accuracy. Born in 1967 in the small town of Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, he built a career on impersonating figures like Beat Takeshi and the sumo champion Takanohana — but the joke was rarely the resemblance itself. It was what he made those people say. He borrows a voice and then puts his own absurdity inside it, which is a harder trick than mimicry and ages far better. He was also the original host of Susume! Denpa Shonen, the reality-comedy show whose stunts defined a certain era of Japanese television — a format that would almost certainly not survive a modern network's approval process. Watching him throw himself bodily into those segments, you get the sense of a performer with no self-protective instinct whatsoever. Decades on, he's still working, still recognizable, still doing essentially the same thing. That's not stagnation. That's a bit that was built right the first time.

Name (English)

Kunihiro Matsumura

Name (Japanese)

松村邦洋

Reading

まつむら くにひろ

Born

August 11, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

Origin

Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Height

165 cm

Occupation

owarai tarento / tarento / impressionist

University

Kyushu Sangyo University

• Official sitehttps://www.ohtapro.co.jp/talent/matsumurakunihiro.html
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunihiro%20Matsumura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%9D%91%E9%82%A6%E6%B4%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2657350

Tags

• Yamaguchi Prefecture
• owarai tarento
• tarento
• impressionist

Last updated

2026-08-07

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