Oda YuJi (Oda YuJi) was born on December 13, 1967 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, a Japanese film and television actor, singer, and sports anchor, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh Japan.
Oda Yuji was born into a middle-class family in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. He attended the Ritsumi Gakuen school from elementary school to high school. From the first year of junior high school to the first year of high school, he was a member of the school's tennis department, served as the deputy director of the tennis department, and aspired to become a professional athlete, but later gave up volunteering due to a knee injury.
In my sophomore year of high school, I left the tennis department to buy a guitar and formed a band with six friends.
On April 25, 1987, the youth comedy "Shonan Gangster", which co-starred with Yosuke Eguchi, was released, playing the grumpy teenager Akira Ishikawa, thus officially entering the show business circle
On January 7, 1991, the romantic drama "Tokyo Love Story" starring Nanami Suzuki premiered, in which he played the indecisive but very cute male protagonist Nagao Kenji, and became the first work of the 20th century in Japan to receive more than 30% of the ratings of a single episode.
In 1993, he played the male protagonist Etaro in the medical drama "Looking Back and Seeing Him Again".
In 1994, he starred in the premiere of the comedy "The Road to Development". In 1996, he played the male protagonist Naoki Fuken in the love drama "Daylight Moon".
In 1997, he starred in the criminal drama "Jumping the Great Search Line" premiered, playing Toshisaku Aoshima.
In 1999, he won the Most Talked About Actor Award at the 22nd Japan Academy Film Awards for his comedy crime film Jumping the Great Search Line: The Worst Three Days in the History of the Bayshore Agency.
In 2000, he won the Best Actor Award at the 43rd Japan Film Blue Ribbon Awards and the Best Actor Award at the 25th Japan Newspaper Film Awards for his thriller action film "Snow Crisis".
In 2003, he won the Best Actor Award at the 48th Asia Pacific Film Festival for his comedy action film "Arms".
In 2007, the family ethics comedy "Don't Kid" starring with Shuri Ueno premiered.
In 2011, the suspenseful crime drama "Diplomat Yasaku Kuroda" starring Yuki Shibasaki premiered.
In 2016, he starred in the suspenseful mystery drama "IQ246 ~ Gorgeous Event Book ~".
Oda Yu has a handsome appearance and powerful acting skills. Whether it is Eiio Kenji in "Tokyo Love Story", or Toshisaku Aoshima in "Jumping the Great Search Line", or Naoki Toki in "The Moon of Daylight", and then Sima Etaro in "Looking Back and Seeing Him Again", this distinct character role has been given a vivid and full personality by him.
Representative works: Tokyo Love Story, Road to Development, Daylight Moon, Snow Crisis, Jumping Search Line, Arms