Ryūta Mine

Ryuta Mine has the best piece of trivia of anyone in this batch: he was born on 29 February 1952, so his actual birthday arrives once every four years. On Japanese television, by contrast, he has been arriving almost daily for decades. He came out of rural Shimoina in Nagano Prefecture, started as an actor, and gradually settled into being one of those permanently familiar faces, the reliable presence on a panel rather than the headline. Honestly, the record on him is thin: no long list of prizes, no single defining role. I would argue that is the interesting part. Careers built on one explosive hit tend to burn out fast. The people who last forty years are often the ones who are simply, dependably there, week after week. That is a harder trick than it looks from the outside.

Name (English)

Ryūta Mine

Name (Japanese)

峰竜太

Born

February 29, 1952 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Shimoina district, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

actor / tarento

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mineryuta/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B3%B0%E7%AB%9C%E5%A4%AA

Tags

• Nagano Prefecture
• actor
• tarento

Last updated

2026-07-27

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.