Masaru Hamaguchi

Masaru Hamaguchi, born in 1972, is the tsukkomi of the comedy duo Yoiko, alongside Shinya Arino. In Japan, though, he is best known for something a comedian is not supposed to be good at: he genuinely learned to free-dive and spearfish, on camera, over years of location shoots. That is the part I find interesting. Variety television runs on people pretending to be competent for laughs. Hamaguchi went the other way and became actually competent, which is a strange thing to do to your own act — once the audience trusts your skill, they stop laughing at the attempt and start watching the result. He seems untroubled by that. He can hold a segment on pure ability and then step back into the studio as the straight man of a manzai pair without visible seams. He came from Shima in Mie Prefecture, a coastal town, and went to high school in Osaka. Whether the sea was always in him, I could not say. It reads well either way.

Name (English)

Masaru Hamaguchi

Name (Japanese)

濱口優

Reading

はまぐち まさる

Born

January 29, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Shima, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Height

168 cm

Occupation

actor / comedian / owarai tarento

High school

Hanaai High School

• Official sitehttps://aboutme.style/masaru
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hamaguchi_masaru/
• Xhttps://x.com/masaruhamagu
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru%20Hamaguchi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BF%B1%E5%8F%A3%E5%84%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6782643

Tags

• Mie Prefecture
• actor
• comedian
• owarai tarento

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.