Mokomichi Hayami

Mokomichi Hayami won an Elan d'Or Newcomer of the Year award in 2006, which is the Japanese industry's way of announcing that someone is about to be a star. He was a photogenic actor and model, exactly the profile that burns bright for five years and then quietly disappears. Instead he became, to most of the country, the olive oil guy. A morning-television cooking segment turned him into a national running joke over the sheer volume of oil he poured into every pan, and the joke ran for years. Here is what I find genuinely impressive: he never flinched. He kept cooking, straight-faced, week after week, until somewhere in there the joke hardened into a real identity. Food became his brand, then his business. That was not a safe trade. A leading-man career depends on being taken seriously, and letting the public laugh at you for a decade should have ended it. It did not, because he owned the thing they were laughing at. Most of the handsome young men who debuted alongside him are footnotes now. He drifted from the drama world toward the kitchen and made the kitchen the reason anyone still says his name, which I would call one of the smarter pivots in Japanese television.

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Name (English)

Mokomichi Hayami

Name (Japanese)

速水もこみち

Reading

はやみ もこみち

Born

August 10, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Height

186 cm

Occupation

actor / tarento / model

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

Blood type

B

Agency

株式会社IMO

Active years

2002 -

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year

Spouse

平山あや

Works summary

Appearances

122 (2002–2025)

By year

2002: 2, 2003: 3, 2004: 3, 2005: 10, 2006: 10, 2007: 6, 2008: 4, 2009: 5, 2010: 5, 2011: 5, 2012: 11, 2013: 4, 2014: 7, 2015: 6, 2016: 4, 2017: 3, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2020: 2, 2021: 3, 2022: 6, 2024: 1, 2025: 3

Debut work

逮捕しちゃうぞ

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.ken-on.co.jp/hayami/index.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mocomichi_hayami/
• Xhttps://x.com/hayami_m_staff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocomichi%20Hayami
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%80%9F%E6%B0%B4%E3%82%82%E3%81%93%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1200762

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• tarento
• model

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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