Wednesday, May 21, 2008

It's all about our Yamapi



Profile

  • Name: Yamashita Tomohisa (山下智久)
  • Real Name: Aoki Tomohisa (changed when father left family)
  • Nicknames: YamaPi, YamaP, Pi, Tomo-chan
  • Birthday: April 9, 1985
  • Birthplace: Chiba Prefecture, Japan
  • Height: 176cm (5'9")
  • Weight: 54–60kg (119–132lbs)
  • Blood Type: A
  • Family: Mother and younger sister
  • Favorite Phrase: Maji de? (Really?)
  • Favorite Artist: Southern All Stars
  • Hobbies: listening to music, baseball, skiing, going to the beach
  • Favorite Colors: black, white, red
  • Groups participated in: NEWS, Shuuji to Akira, Kitty GYM, Four Tops

Biography

Yamashita Tomohisa entered Johnny's Entertainment at age 11 in September of 1996. From there he became a very popular and well recognised Junior, eventually coming to be the leader of the Juniors. He was a member of the group B.I.G. as well as Four Tops, the former hosts of the The Shounen Club television program. He was pulled from Four Tops into NEWS when the group was formed in 2003.

In NEWS, Yamashita is often in the front and center as he is the most popular member in NEWS. Despite this attention he maintains a silly personality which occasionally prompts his band mates to question whether he is actually human or not. However he only has this personality among his close friends, otherwise he has been known to be quiet but civil around people he doesn't know. He has been described by his fellow band mates and JE friends as manly and mysterious. He is very caring and even pays for his sisters school tuition in replacment of his mother. He has said that he wants to buy his mother her own house. He is a very unique idol as he almost never smiles in pictures because he 'doesn't know how to' although recently he has been smiling quite alot. He comes across very manly and scary, but he is the exact opposite.

Yamashita is good friends with Akanishi Jin of KAT-TUN and Jin's family as well as Nishikido Ryo, Shirota Yuu of D-Boys, and Ikuta Toma, formerly of Four Tops.

In 2005 he appeared in the dorama Nobuta wo Produce with KAT-TUN's Kamenashi Kazuya. The two released a single as the duet Shuuji to Akira acting as their characters from the drama.

During NEWS's hiatus Yamashita released a solo single called Daite Senorita for the dorama Kurosagi which sold remarkably well for a solo release. He is also currently enrolled in Meiji University pursuing a degree in Business and he will be graduating in September 2008. He also became a regular columnist of Seventeen Magazine.

In summer of 2006 he was put into the promotional group Kitty GYM where he and the Thai duo Golf & Mike were the principal members. They had a hit single (No.1 in the Oricon Charts) called Fever to Future.

On the 7th of June 2007 there were news about that Kurosagi will be made into a movie and that Yamashita Tomohisa will star again as Kurosaki. Other former cast members will be Horikita Maki and Ichikawa Yui. The movie premiered in March 2008.

Works

Singles

Collaborations / Other

Dramas

Movies

Awards

  • 11th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (Apr-June 07): Best Actor for Proposal Daisakusen
  • 9th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (2005-06): Best Actor for Nobuta wo Produce
  • 4th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (2000-01): Best Newcomer for Ikebukuro West Gate Park
  • Annual Junior Awards: 'Best Boyfriend', 'Most Beautiful', etc. (2000)
Source:http://wiki.theppn.org/Yamashita_Tomohisa

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