Shinnosuke Abe

185 cm, born in Osaka in 1982. For a Japanese actor that height is genuinely tall, and I have always thought tall actors get a strange deal. You are visible the moment you enter frame, which sounds like an advantage until you realize it narrows what you can be cast as. Blocking a scene around someone who towers over the rest of the cast takes work, and directors who do not want that work simply cast someone else. So when I see a performer who is still working into his forties with that build, I read it as evidence of range rather than presence. Presence gets you the first job; something else gets you the twentieth. I do not have a credits list in front of me, and I am not going to fabricate one, which frustrates me more than it probably should. What I have is an outline: an Osaka native who went into acting and stayed in it. That is a harder sentence to earn than it looks.

Name (English)

Shinnosuke Abe

Name (Japanese)

阿部進之介

Reading

あべ しんのすけ

Born

February 19, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

actor

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E9%83%A8%E9%80%B2%E4%B9%8B%E4%BB%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11657954

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• actor

Last updated

2026-08-07

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