Toru Yamashita
Actor · b. 1988 · Ōsaka, Ōsaka, Japan
Toru Yamashita, known mononymously as Toru, is a Japanese musician and the guitarist and leader of the band ONE OK ROCK. With two other men, Kohei and Takuya, Toru and Ryota formed a hip-hop dance group called Heads when they were fifth and sixth-graders. They participated in dance competitions in the late 1990s, between the years 1995 to 1999. Heads debuted with a single entitled "screeeem!" in July 2000 and followed with "Gooood or Bad!" in November, produced for Amuse, Inc. Heads disbanded in 2002, and in 2003 they took a break to improve their abilities. They merged into a new group with seven other members and were called GROUND 0. In 2005, Toru took a main role in the TV series Shibuya Fifteen. He contributed a cameo as a high school student in Kamen Rider Hibiki. That year, he invited Ryota, their upperclassman Alex, and his friend Yuu Koyanagi to form a rock band. Later, Toru became the leader of this band, later named ONE OK ROCK. He met Takahiro Moriuchi when he performed with his previous band and then stalked him until he joined ONE OK ROCK, after repeated rejections. After Alex quit the band, Toru switched from rhythm guitar to lead guitar. On December 28, 2021, he announced that he had married actress and model Aya Ōmasa. He has one child, born in 2025.
Movies4
MovieMusicDocumentary"ONE OK ROCK TOUR [DETOX] IN CINEMAS" unleashes the raw pulse of a career-defining night, documenting the band's commanding takeover of Japan's iconic Nissan Stadium, where thunderous riffs, soaring vocals, and 70,000 voices collide into something electric, forging an unbreakable bond between the band and their worldwide legion of fans.
Movie7.8DocumentaryMusicUnable to tour in 2020, the members of ONE OK ROCK work for months to put on an online concert that matches the energy of their in-person shows.
Flip a Coin: ONE OK ROCK Documentary
2021 · 3 votes
MovieDocumentaryMusicThis work provides full-scale documentation of ONE OK ROCK's 2013 "Who are you?? Who are we??" TOUR, which covered Asia and their first-ever European tour. Over the course of one and a half months, it traces the band's journey across 12 performances in 11 countries: France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The members deliver awe-inspiring live performances in venues packed with local fans, while the overwhelming enthusiasm of international audiences is vividly captured through live footage. The documentary is directed by **Hiroshi Nakano**, a visionary filmmaker known for revolutionizing music videos and directing feature films. With his extensive experience in capturing artists' essence, Nakano records ONE OK ROCK's evolving "present" as they carve their path into a new era.
Movie7.0MusicLive DVD from ONE OK ROCK's "Zankyo Reference" TOUR covers their final concert that took place in Jan 2012 at Yokohama Arena. Comes with an extra disc containing over one hour of tour documentary.
ONE OK ROCK TOUR [ZANKYO REFERENCE] IN YOKOHAMA ARENA
2012 · 7 votes
Series2
TV6.4Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyTakeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
TV7.3Action & AdventureDramaSet in a virtual simulation of Shibuya, Tokyo which is regulated by an entity named Piece which does not allow inhabitants to live, the series focuses on a fifteen-year-old boy named Tsuyoshi who seeks to find both his lost memories and a way to escape Shibuya. To maintain control, Piece locks "kills" those who do not operate within the proper confines of the world, which results in their being reset and inserted back into the city with a new name and identity and without their previous memories.
Sh15uya
2005 · 3 votes