Hori (entertainer)

Hori (ホリ, born 11 February 1977, in Shiroi (formerly Inba District, Shiroi), Chiba Prefecture)[2] is a Japanese impressionist (monomane tarento). His real name is Hirohito Hori (堀 裕人, Hori Hirohito).[2]

Hori
ホリ
Born	Hirohito Hori 11 February 1977 Shiroi (formerly Inba District, Shiroi), Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Nihon University Faculty of Law[1]
Occupation	Impressionist
Years active	1999–
Agent	Horipro Com
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Television	Monomane Grand Prix Hori Presents: Kyūjin Ninzaburō ga iku! Monomane Ōzakettei-sen Monomane Battle TV oja Manbō Kuchikomi Johnny 2-ji-ciao! Himitsu no chika rando Shiodome Event-bu Tokudane!
Awards	Nippon TV Manekin Manekin Box Champion Taikai Shodai Champion
Website	Official profile

Hori is represented with Horipro Com of Horipro.

Biography

Hori was part of the handball club when he was at high school. He was also part of an advertising group during his college years and served as chairman during his third year. After graduating from university and worked as a salary worker at a sales promotion company Hori entered the entertainment industry. His first television appearance Waratte Iitomo!'s Shirōto monomane Corner. Hori also has experience as an anime voice actor and appeared in some works. His voice acting debut was Kinyō Road Show's Angel Tactics in 2005. Hori later voiced Junpei Takiguchi's "evil boss" roles in the Time Bokan Series after he died in 2011.

On 16 April 2005 during his final appearance in TV Oja Manbō he announced that he was married. From 20 February to 20 April 2006 Hori performed MSN's Hori no Bakushō monomane 100 Renpatsu[3]

As Shiroi City furusato ambassador, he took the office at the Imprint of the Imperial Housekeeper as a police chief for a day at 4 October 2015, and called the crime prevention and people gathered for the Inzai Chiku Bōhan Festa 2015 held at a commercial facility in Inzai.[4]

Filmography

Current appearances

Regular programmes

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2015	Matsuko Kaigi	NTV	Narration
	Gogotama	TV Saitama	Thursday personality

Occasional programmes

Year	Title	Network
	Monomane Grand Prix	NTV
2014	Hori Presents: Kyūjin Ninzaburō ga iku!	CTC
	Monomane Ōzakettei-sen	Fuji TV

Former appearances

Year	Title	Network	Notes
	Warai no Kin Medal	TV Asahi
	TV oja Manbō	NTV
	Back Drop	NBN
	Doubt o sagase!	TBS	Parody drama Doubt Luck!!
	Kuchikomi Johnny	NTV
	Bakushō On-Air Battle	NHK-G	Knocked out with no wins and two losses; Record is 317 kb
	Ongaku nochi kara, Art nochi kara, karada nochi kara	NHK-E
2008	Tamori no Vocabula Tengoku: Dai Fukkatsu-sai Spcecial	Fuji TV	Slogan is "Ningen Copy seizō-ki"
	The Iromonea	TBS	Appeared in Pinmonea, eliminated in the Final Stage
2009	Shinshun Golden Pink Carpet SP	Fuji TV	Slogan is "No Monomane No Life"
	2-ji-ciao!	TBS	Tuesday regular
	Monomane Battle	NTV
	Tonneruzu no Minasan no Okage deshita	Fuji TV	Appeared in "Hakase to Joshu: Komaka sugite Tsutawaranai Monomane Senshuken"
	Nanikore Chinhyakkei	TV Asahi	As a representative of Gunma Prefecture
	Style Plus	THK	As part of Asarido
2010	Tōsō-chū	Fuji TV	As Mori Ōgai
2011	Ga Omou, Yueni ga Ramen	HTB
	Yūsha Yoshihiko to Maō no Shiro	TV Tokyo	As Kisara; Episode 7
	Kushiro Area Kaikyoku Kinen Tokuban Ukaji-Hori-Gal Sone ga Iku Kushiro no Miryoku Hakken! Fureai Tabi	TVH
2014	Shinobu Sakagami no Seichō Man!	TV Asahi
	Kirameki-ippai Saitama-shi	TVS
	Shiodome Event-bu	NTV
	Himitsu no chika rando	NHK-E	Regular
	Tokudane!	Fuji TV
	Bakushō Red Carpet		Slogan is "No Monomane No Life"
	Nobinobi City Saitama-shi	TVS
2015	Business Flash: Chiba Lotte Marines Special	CTC

Radio

Year	Title	Network
2004	Hori no Super Hot News	NBS
	Tokyo Remix Zoku	J-Wave

Advertisements

Title	Notes
Shiseido uno	There was a limited version with Hori wearing Ojama Deka clothing from TV oja Manbō during NTV breaks
Tomy DX Kuwagattan and Bokan Brace	As Odayama

Anime television

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2005	Angel Tactics	Tourist
2015	Yatterman Night	Dokurobei	[5]
2016	Time Bokan 24	Oyadama

Anime films

Year	Title	Role
2006	Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea	Chatot

Films

Title
Barairo no Bū-ko

Impressions

• Takaaki Ishibashi[6]
• Ijiri Okada
• Miyuki Imori[6]
• Udo Suzuki[7]
• Yo Oizumi[8]
• Cha Katō (The Drifters)[6]
• Eiko Kano[6]
• Takuya Kimura (SMAP)[7]
• Yoshio Kojima[6]
• Ayumu Goromaru[6]
• Fumiyo Kohinata
• Masato Sakai[6][8]
• Michiko Shimizu[7]
• Ken Shimura (The Drifters)[9]
• Shigeru Joshima (Tokio)[7]
• Shōfukutei Tsurube II[6]
• Junpei Takiguchi[7]
• Tetsuya Takeda[7]
• Dandy Sakano[6]
• Hōsei Tsukitei[7]
• Tetsurō Degawa[7]
• Jimon Terakado[7]
• Terry Ito[7]
• Tonikaku Akarui Yasumura[6]
• Akira Nakao[7]
• Hanawa[7]
• Masaru Hamaguchi[6]
• Ai Haruna[6]
• Eiji Bandō[6]
• Bibiru Ōki[7]
• Sei Hiraizumi[6]
• Masaharu Fukuyama[6]
• Takashi Fujii[7]
• Gin Maeda[7]
• Matsuko Deluxe[6][9][8]
• Kunihiro Matsumura
• Monta Mino[7]
• Hironari Yamazaki[7]
• You[6]
• Yūsuke Santamaria[7]

Discography

Title
Horineta

Videography

Title
Hori monomane Tandoku Live: Honnin Fuzai! Cho, mateyo!!

References

1. "放送人：チャンネルＮＥＣＯ「このドラマがすごい！」ナビゲーター・ホリさん" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 16 Mar 2015. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 6 Dec 2016.
2. "ホリ" (in Japanese). Horipro Com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 6 Dec 2016.
3. "ホリの爆笑ものまね100連発". MSN (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 Dec 2016.
4. "広報しろい平成27年11.5 NO.789 Pページ" (PDF) (in Japanese). Shirai Kōhō o Etsuran. Retrieved 6 Dec 2016.
5. "STAFF&CAST". Yatterman Night (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 Dec 2016.
6. "TVでた蔵「ものまねグランプリ2015年12月15日放送分」". TV data Zoo (in Japanese). 15 Dec 2015. Retrieved 5 Dec 2016.
7. "そっくり館キサラによるプロフィール". Kojima Kikaku (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 Dec 2016.
8. "TVでた蔵「ものまねグランプリ2016年4月5日放送分」」". TV data Zoo (in Japanese). 5 Apr 2016. Retrieved 5 Dec 2016.
9. "TVでた蔵「ものまねグランプリ2015年5月19日放送分」". TV data Zoo (in Japanese). 19 May 2015. Retrieved 6 Dec 2016.

External links

• Official profile (in Japanese)
• Talent Databank interview (in Japanese)