Masanori Sera

I have a soft spot for the kind of artist who starts out screaming his lungs out in a rock band and somehow ends up a grizzled fixture of Japanese drama, and Masanori Sera is exactly that guy. That sandpaper howl on "Anta no Ballad" still grabs me by the collar decades later, and I love that he never sanded it smooth to fit polite TV. The pivot from sweaty rocker to stern-faced actor in cop shows and period pieces could've felt like a sellout, but instead he carried the same intensity into every glare. Hiroshima kid, art-school grit, refusing to pick a lane between singing and acting, and aging into someone with that ramrod posture and a stare that ends arguments. I'm a sucker for a stubborn lifer who keeps his spine straight, and he absolutely qualifies.

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Masanori Sera is a Japanese actor, singer-songwriter, and lyricist born on December 14, 1955, in Fukuyama, Hiroshima. He attended Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Ashiyo High School before going on to study at Osaka University of Arts. He is widely known for his signature song "Anta no Ballad" and for his role in the long-running television drama "Taiyou ni Hoero!" Sera has built a career spanning both the music and acting worlds, earning recognition as one of Japan's enduring rock voices.

Name (English)

Masanori Sera

Name (Japanese)

世良公則

Reading

せら まさのり

Born

December 14, 1955 (age 70)

Origin

Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan

Height

176cm

Occupation

Actor / Singer-songwriter / Television actor / Singer / Lyricist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Active years

1977 -

High school

Hiroshima Prefectural Fukuyama Ashiyo High School

University

Osaka University of Arts

Works summary

Appearances

405 (1977–2024)

By year (titles with a known year)

1977: 1, 1979: 1, 1981: 1, 1982: 6, 1983: 1, 1984: 4, 1985: 17, 1986: 8, 1987: 6, 1988: 5, 1989: 8, 1990: 5, 1991: 4, 1992: 7, 1993: 2, 1994: 4, 1995: 6, 1996: 9, 1997: 4, 1998: 1, 1999: 2, 2000: 1, 2001: 3, 2002: 1, 2003: 7, 2004: 11, 2006: 1, 2007: 5, 2008: 4, 2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 3, 2013: 4, 2014: 2, 2015: 19, 2016: 12, 2017: 3, 2018: 3, 2019: 2, 2020: 4, 2021: 12, 2022: 3, 2023: 2, 2024: 1, year unknown: 198

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://seraproject.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/masanorisera/
• Xhttps://x.com/MseraOfficial
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%96%E8%89%AF%E5%85%AC%E5%89%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11362525

Tags

• From Hiroshima
• Actor
• Singer-songwriter
• Television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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