Ryo Fukawa

Ryo Fukawa is a Japanese comedian, musician, actor and disc jockey, born 19 August 1974 in Yokohama and a graduate of Keio University's economics department. He broke through with a deadpan stand-up style built on short, oddly gentle one-liners delivered in a striped shirt, and he has stayed on television ever since, usually in smaller roles, trading on a boyish look and a childlike temperament that has aged strangely well. What interests me is the second track. Under the name ROCKETMAN he works as a musician and composer, and he has kept that going for long enough that it stopped being a comedian's side hobby somewhere along the way. Plenty of TV personalities dabble in music; very few sustain it. He has also been part of the comedy group No Plan. He is not the loudest voice in any room he enters, and I suspect that is deliberate. Holding a modest, reliable position in Japanese television for three decades is far harder than burning bright for two years.

Name (English)

Ryo Fukawa

Name (Japanese)

ふかわりょう

Reading

ふかわ りょう

Born

August 19, 1974 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

Origin

Kōhoku-ku, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

actor / composer / owarai tarento / tarento / disc jockey

University

Keio University

• Official sitehttp://www.happynote.jp
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/funiochitaro/
• Xhttps://x.com/fukawa__rocket
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo%20Fukawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B5%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8F%E3%82%8A%E3%82%87%E3%81%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7385249

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• actor
• composer
• owarai tarento

Last updated

2026-08-07

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