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The 2018 Bleach live-action movie might have received mixed reviews, but the one thing that fans unanimously agreed on was the fact that Sota Fukushi nailed the role of Ichigo. And according to the voice actor, all thanks go to Kamen Rider Fourze.

Fukushi made his acting debut in 2011 in an Ntv drama, Misaki Number One!! And just three months after his debut, he was cast in Kamen Rider Fourze as its lead role, Gentaro Kisaragi. He was selected from around 3000 applicants for the role. And it was this role that changed not only Fukushi’s career but also his entire experience.

Without Kamen Rider Fourze, Sota Fukushi might have never been Bleach‘s stunning Ichigo Sota Fukushi in Kamen Rider Fourze | Credits: TV Asahi, Asatsu-dk, Toei

In a 2019 interview with Fashion Press, actor Sota Fukushi talked about his roles after his debut and how his lead role in Kamen Rider Fourze shaped his journey ahead.

The official website for the upcoming live-action TV drama adaptation Wingman , based on Masakazu Katsura's superhero manga from 1983, today announced the two main cast members and theme song artist. 20-year-old Maito Fujioka is cast as the protagonist, Kenta Hirono. He recently played Shun Futani, one of the main characters in the live-action TV drama adaptation of Kokone Nata's Play It Cool, Guys in 2023. Kenta Hirono is his first solo lead role in a serial live-action drama series. Maito Fujioka released the following comment: I am Maito Fujioka, and I play the role of Kenta Hirono. I was very happy to be offered the role because it has been one of my biggest dreams in my acting career to play the lead role in a terrestrial TV series. I felt a lot of responsibility and pressure to play the role of Kenta Hirono in “Wingman,” which sparked a revolution...

Sota Fukushi is a Japanese actor. He rose to prominence portraying Gentaro Kisaragi in “Kamen Rider Fourze”, and has since starred in television series Koinaka (2016) and My Lover's Secret (2017), as well as films Strobe Edge (2015), My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016), “Bleach” (2018), “As the Gods Will”, “Blade of the Immortal”, “Laplace's Witch” and others. “Yours” is his directorial debut.

Yours is screening at Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia

The film begins inside an art gallery, where a man and a woman are watching an abstract painting, initially through intense close ups and later on, from further away. An employee dropping some boxes he has been carrying brings them out of their trance, although the woman is nowhere to be found after the break. The next scene takes place inside an apartment where the same young man is looking at a pamphlet of an Employment Support Festival for the Disabled, before the...

Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai

Written by Shoji Yonemura

Directed by Takayuki Shibasaki

Japan, 2014

Since the premier of its first series in 1971, Japan’s Kamen Rider superhero franchise has spanned more weekly television series, films, comics, videogames and other assorted media than one would think possible for a franchise the core concept of which is “Man in vaguely insectoid outfit rides motorcycle, fights monsters”. And yet, the franchise’ cast of characters has grown so massive that it’s become en vogue in recent years for massive teamup movies featuring every main character in Kamen Rider history to be produced every year or so. Most recently, these have taken the form of the Taisen series of summer event movies, beginning with 2012′s Kamen Rider X Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, which saw the Riders battle and then team up with one of their primary rivals...