Yasukaze Motomiya

Yasukaze Motomiya is a Japanese actor known especially for crime, action and yakuza-genre productions, including the long-running Nihon Tōitsu series. Born in Adachi, Tokyo, on February 7, 1972, he works under the stage name Yasukaze Motomiya; his birth name is reported as Yasuyuki Hirai. He is represented by Triple A and has been active on screen since the mid-1990s.

Motomiya's career has often centered on tough, threatening or morally ambiguous characters. Japanese profile sources and film databases consistently connect him with roles in V-cinema, crime dramas, television series and direct-to-video action projects. That niche has made him a familiar figure to audiences who follow Japanese gangster and underworld stories, even if his international profile is smaller than that of mainstream film stars.

His most prominent recurring association is Nihon Tōitsu, also known in English as Unification of Japan. The franchise has become a major contemporary yakuza-video series, and Motomiya's involvement places him within one of the most sustained Japanese crime-drama properties of the 2010s and 2020s. Related database listings also credit him in newer projects connected to the franchise, including Tokyo Edition and Yakuza Powered by Nihon Touitsu.

Motomiya has also appeared in work outside that franchise. His credits include Kamen Rider Blade, where he played Isaka and the Peacock Undead, and film and television projects such as S: The Last Policeman, Awaiting Kirin, The Supporting Actors, Baby Assassins, Jigen Daisuke and The Quiet Don: Chapter 1. These roles reflect a career built less around a single breakout international title than around steady participation in Japanese genre production.