Tsuyoshi Ihara

• Name — Tsuyoshi Ihara • Native Name — 伊原 剛志 • Birth Name — Yun Yu-gu • Born — 6 November 1963 Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan • Citizenship — Japan (since 1995) • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1982–present

Ihara, a third-generation Zainichi Korean by birth, was born on November 6, 1963, in Kitakyūshū as Yun Yu-gu and grew up in Ikuno-ku "Korea Town" section of Osaka. He is a graduate of Imamiya Senior High School, Naniwa-ku, Osaka. He received his Japanese citizenship in 1995.

Ihara joined Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club after leaving high school. Soon after, he began to work in numerous feature films and television dramas, including the 1996 NHK series Futarikko. In 2006, Ihara appeared as the Baron Takeichi Nishi in Clint Eastwood's critically acclaimed Academy Award-winning film Letters from Iwo Jima, introducing him to a wider international audience. Ihara authored a book, Kokorozashite Sōrō, published in Japan by Amoeba Books. In 2016, he became an apprentice to Katsura. He made his debut as a rakugo artist.

• Takeda Shingen (1988), Oda Nobuyuki • Only You (1996) • Futarikko (1996), Masao kuroiwa • When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2002), Hijikata Toshizō • Shinsengumi! (2004), Sasaki Tadasaburō • Hanako and Anne (2014), Kippei Ando • Burning Flower (2015), Sakamoto Ryōma • The Naked Director Season 2 (2021)