Kanji Ishimaru

is a Japanese musical actor and singer. He studied the cello at a music course at Chiba Prefectural Makuhari-Nishin High School (now Chiba Prefectural Makuhari General High School),

Filmography Stage Part of Shiki Title Role Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Aspects of Love Alex Dillingham Beauty and the Beast Beast Black Comedy Brinzley Miller Cats Skimbleshanks Dreaming Dog Chillow Elkos no Inori George Hamlet Hamlet Hibari Charles Illya Darling—Nichiyō wa Dame yo! Homer John Manjirō no Yume Manjiro Kono Seimei Dare no mono? Ken Hayata La Sauvage Florent Musical Ikoku no Oka Hidetaka Kokonoe Omoide o Uru Otoko Man selling memories The passer-through-walls Dutillur The Phantom of the Opera Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, the male ensemble Song & Dance Male singer Undine Hans West Side Story Jet Orchestra Tony Yuriddis Orphe Rokumeikan Einosuke Kiyohara

After leaving Shiki Title Role Ref. Enoch Arden A New Brain Gordon Shuin Sunday in the Park with George George The Coast of Utopia Nikolai Ogalov L'Histoire du soldat The 39 Steps-Himitsu no Angō o Oe! Richard Haney Elisabeth Tote Twelfth Night Marquess of Ocino / Bard / Traveler Glengarry Glen Ross Camille Claudel Auguste Rodin Jekyll & Hyde Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Danthes, Earl of Monte Cristo Lady Bess Roger Ascam Limelight Calvero The Scarlet Pimpernel Percy Blakney Cabaret MC The Secret Garden Archibald Craven Love Never Dies The Phantom

Films Year Title Role Ref. 2010 Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Kazuo Fukamachi 2015 Ōhi no Yakata Louis XIV Galaxy Turnpike Doctor Muta 2021 Musicophilia Ryū Kishino 2022 Sun and Bolero Yoshifumi Tsuruma Akira and Akira 2024 Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony Wakner (voice) 2025 Yukikaze Toshiyuki Kosho Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final Movie The prime minister Yojiro Osanai 2026 How to Generate a Perfect Crime Moriarty Never Guilty Masaki Owada

Television Year Title Role Notes Ref. 2009 Shirasujirō Ushiba Tomohiko 2011 Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana Takashi Kusakabe 2012 Usuzakura-ki Raihaha Togashi 2013 Oyarihaishaku: Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki Gorobei Nomi Yoidore Ko Tō-ji Tomegaki Hanzawa Naoki Masa Asano 2014 Roosevelt Game Fumiko Mikami Dark Suits Kiyoomi Matsuki 2015 Burning Flower Sufu Masanosuke Taiga drama Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken Taisa Goriki Scapegoat Shun Yanagisawa Flowers for Algernon Daigo Hachisuka 3ttsu no Machi no Monogatari Akihiro Togo Omotesandō Kōkō Gasshō-bu! Yuki Uchida 2016 Nobunaga Moyu Akechi Mitsuhide Television film Doctor Chōsa Ha: Iryō Jiko no Yami o Abake Masahiko Kawagoe Suizokukan Girl Hisayuki Kurano Shizumanu Taiyō Ishiguro Eigyō Buchō: Natsuko Kira Ryoichi Saito Daddy Sister Koichi Kunizane Asadora Chūshingura no Koi: Shitoya Hito-me no Chūshin Ōishi Yoshio 2017 Akira and Akira Kazuma Kaidō 2019 Shōnen Torajirō Gozen-sama 2020 Bones of Steel Hajime Naitō 2021 Reach Beyond the Blue Sky Ōkubo Toshimichi Taiga drama

Animation Title Role The Hunchback of Notre Dame Quasimodo (dubbed)

Dubbing Year Title Role 2015 The Sound of Music Colonel Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) 2023 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem)

Advertisements Year Title Ref. Oronamin C Nescafé Gold Blend 2014 Canon Inc. Pixus House Ukon no Chikara Zurich Insurance Group Anata Senyō Jidōsha Hoken 2016 The National Art Center, Tokyo "Dalí Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition" Meiji Chocolate Kōka

Radio Year Title Network 2010 Kanji Ishimaru no Theater e yōkoso NHK FM Broadcast

MC-Navigator Year Title Network 2014 Kanji Ishimaru no Mainichi ga Premiere Eisei Gekijō

CD Title Label "Kanji Ishimaru" Sony Music Japan International "Distance" "Love Songs" "Kanji Ishimaru no Musical e yōkoso" "Stravinsky: Heishi no Monogatari" "Kaijin Hyakumensō" "My Musical Life"

Music guides Year Title 2013 The National Art Center "Andreas Guldsky Exhibition" 2014 Mori Arts Center Gallery "The Tutti of the Tate Art Museum Exhibition Prior to Rafael British Victorian Painting Dream" 2015 The National Art Center, "Magrid Exhibition Tokyo Exhibition"Kyoto City Museum of Art "Magrid Exhibition Kyoto Exhibition"

Others Year Title Network Ref. 2015 Minna no Uta "Kaijin Hyakumensō" NHK 2016 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 2017 Daimei no nai Ongakukai TV Asahi