Masaru Hamaguchi

is a Japanese comedian and actor from Konohana-ku, Osaka. He is the tsukkomi of the manzai duo, Yoiko, with his partner Shinya Arino.

Career Hamaguchi and Arino were classmates that graduated high school and formed a manzai duo in 1990. The duo would make their first major televised appearance on Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! in 1996.

Appearances

Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! (1996–2018) Ikinaru! Ougon Densetsu.

Personal life Hamaguchi was born into a family that owns a coffee shop called "Hamayū" (はまゆう) in Konohana-ku, Osaka, named after the poisonous spider lily from his grandfather's love of lily flowers on the beach.

In 2013, Hamaguchi began dating the gravure model Akina Minami, with whom he has a seventeen-year age difference. They got married on May 25, 2018, initially giving birth to a stillborn before his wife gave birth to a healthy baby, their son in 2022.