Born in 1971, KIM In-woo is a third-generation Japanese citizen of Korean descent. Having decided at the age of 15 that he would be an actor, he eventually quit high school when he was 17 and moved to Tokyo to get acting lessons. He had already participated in around 20 films and 40 stage productions under the name Hiroto TAMURA by the time he moved to Korea in 2008. Although he had long considered pursuing an acting career in the country of his grandparents, his poor command...
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Born in 1971, KIM In-woo is a third-generation Japanese citizen of Korean descent. Having decided at the age of 15 that he would be an actor, he eventually quit high school when he was 17 and moved to Tokyo to get acting lessons. He had already participated in around 20 films and 40 stage productions under the name Hiroto TAMURA by the time he moved to Korea in 2008. Although he had long considered pursuing an acting career in the country of his grandparents, his poor command of the Korean language would make him hesitant, on top of the idea of leaving all his life in Japan. When he finally took the leap, he first spent a year studying Korean in Seoul before getting his first role in a Korean film, <Good Morning President> (2009), as a Japanese ambassador. As it turns out, it was KIM’s idea to carve out a place for himself by becoming the go-to actor for Japanese roles. He was Japan’s Prime Minister in <Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle> (2009) and a Japanese sports commentator in <As One> (2011), and even participated as a Japanese language coach in the biggest Korean success of all time, the historical war epic <Roaring Currents> (2013). Owing to his bilingualism, KIM became more visible with the recent surge of films set during the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, most notably <Assassination> (2015), <DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet> (2015), <The Handmaiden> (2016), <The Last Princess> (2017) and <Anarchist from the colony> (2017).
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