Tomohiro Sekiguchi

Tomohiro Sekiguchi, born in Tokyo in 1972 and educated at Rikkyo University, began as an actor, and at 183 cm he has the physical presence for it. But the work that made him familiar to Japanese households was travel television, above all NHK's long-form railway journeys across Japan and abroad. I think that was a genuine discovery rather than a consolation prize. Acting rewards control; the travel format rewards its opposite. You walk into a town you have never seen, speak to someone who did not ask to be on camera, and your only real skill is knowing how long to stay quiet before they decide to trust you. Most performers cannot do it, because the instinct to fill silence is trained into them. Sekiguchi could. Coming from a well-known broadcasting family, he could easily have spent a career being introduced as somebody's son. Instead he found a genre where the whole job is being unremarkable enough that other people relax.

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Name (English)

Tomohiro Sekiguchi

Name (Japanese)

関口知宏

Reading

せきぐち ともひろ

Born

July 1, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

183 cm

Occupation

actor / tarento / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Blood type

A

Agency

Sankei

Active years

1996 -

University

Rikkyo University

Works summary

Appearances

63 (1996–2019)

By year (titles with a known year)

1996: 4, 1997: 3, 1998: 6, 1999: 2, 2000: 5, 2001: 3, 2002: 4, 2003: 1, 2004: 3, 2005: 3, 2006: 8, 2007: 2, 2008: 3, 2009: 1, 2010: 1, 2011: 1, 2012: 2, 2013: 3, 2015: 1, 2019: 1, year unknown: 6

Debut work

MMR未確認飛行物体

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%A2%E5%8F%A3%E7%9F%A5%E5%AE%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9438186

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• tarento
• film actor

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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