Kenji Moriwaki (森脇 健児, Moriwaki Kenji, born 5 February 1967, in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan)[1] is a Japanese comedian and radio personality.

Kenji Moriwaki
森脇 健児
Born (1967-02-05) February 5, 1967 (age 57)
Other names
  • Ken-chan (健ちゃん)
  • Kenji (健児)
  • Hashiru Otoko (走る男)
  • Moriken (モリケン)
  • Post-Sanma Akashiya (ポスト明石家さんま, Posuto Akashiya Sanma)
Education
  • Hirakata Municipal Tonoyama First Elementary School
  • Hirakata Municipal First Junior High School
  • Rakuminami High School
  • Momoyama Gakuin University Department of Sociology
Occupation(s)Comedian, radio personality
Years active1984–
AgentShochiku Geino
Known for
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
AwardsUpper Comedy Topic Award (1989)

Moriwaki is represented with Shochiku Geino. He graduated from Hirakata Municipal Tonoyama First Elementary School, Hirakata Municipal First Junior High School, Rakuminami High School, and Momoyama Gakuin University. Moriwaki is a resident of Kyoto. In 2010 he became the Special Advisor to Kyoto Miyama High School. Moriwaki is now married and has one son and daughter.

Biography

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During high school Moriwaki held a number of voluntary planning events in the local live house Blow Down in Hirakata.

He passed the 1st Shochiuku Geino Tarento Audition during his second year in senior high school. In the 17 March 1984 Moriwaki joins Shochiku Geino and later in June he debuted in a vaudeville show. Later he became an apprentice to Hayato Wakai. In 1988 Moriwaki and Wakai turn into a duo in Zamaa Kankan! and the Kansai Local programme Kenji Moriwaki no Seishun Vegetable in the Kinki area.

Later in the 1990s he appeared in dramas and presenting variety programmes and he stepped down from Waratte Iitomo! and later became a presenter in Yume ga Mori Mori, but the programme didn't air nationwide and in 1999 the series returned in the Kinki area.

Current appearances

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TV series

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Year Title Network Notes
2013 News 610: Kyo Ichi Nichi NHK Kyoto Tuesday Corner
2014 Moriwaki Densetsu KBS, Sun TV
Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV TBS Irregular appearances
2015 Hitmon!! KTV

Radio

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Year Title Network Notes
2004 Kenji Moriwaki no U Work Weekly Radio Kansai
Konchi wa Kon-chan Ohirudesuyo! MBS Radio Thursday monthly "Ichiguest"
2006 Kenji Moriwaki no Saturday Stadium KBS Radio
2014 Yona Yona... ABC Radio Monday personality

Internet series

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Year Title
2006 Kenji Moriwaki no Gakuya Hanashi
2014 Moriwaki Owarai Dōbutsuen

Essays

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Year Title
2011 Daily Sports "Sō Shisō Ai"

Magazines

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Title
Netchū! Rikujō-bu "Kenji Moriwaki no Netchū! Rikujō-bu Sōdan-shitsu"
Riku Maga Jr. "Kenji Moriwaki no Shitsumon Corner"

Advertisements

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Year Title
2016 Nissin Foods Cup Noodles O Baka e no Shissō

Former appearances

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Variety series

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Year Title Network Notes
Wide You MBS
1985 You Goban Mada? ABC
1988 Zamaa Kankan! YTV
1989 Idol Kyōwakoku TV Asahi 3rd presenter
1991 Sakurakko Club TV Asahi
Waratte Iitomo! Fuji TV
Waratte Iitomo Special Issue Fuji TV
Waratte Iitomo! Tokudai-gō Fuji TV
1992 Yume ga Mori Mori Fuji TV
Tamori no Vocabula Tengoku Fuji TV
Kenji Moriwaki no Sessa Taku Maru!! ABC
1993 Professional Baseball News Fuji TV
Hatsumōde! Bakushō Hit Parade Fuji TV
Sanma no Nan Demo Derby TV Asahi
Naruhodo! The World Fuji TV
Discovery of the World's Mysteries TBS
1994 Maido! Ongaku Las Vegas TV Asahi
1995 Kasou Taishou NTV
FNS Super Special TV Yume Rettō Fuji TV
Quiz Nipponjin no Shitsumon NHK TV
The Warame De Pon Fuji TV
1996 Doyō Tokushū NHK TV
27-jikan Challenge TV TV Asahi
1997 Wai Wai Tea Time TBS
Pro Sportsman No.1 TBS
1998 Mezamashi TV Fuji TV
2001 Hiru Doki Nippon Rettō NHK TV Assistant
TV Hakubutsukan: Sorette Honto! THK Reporter
Chichinpui Pui MBS
Variety: Seikatsu Emi Hyakka NHK
Niji Goji TNC
News Signal Sun
2002 Ōi, Nippon NHK-BS2
Rakurabu. KBS
2003 Rakurabu R KBS
Pooh! TBS
Tsūkai! Everyday KTV
Money no Tora NTV Volunteer
2004 Ikinari! Kogane Densetsu. TV Asahi
2005 Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course Fuji TV
Kikaku Kōjō Nariagari TBS
Shumi yūyū NHK-E
2008 Hashiru Otoko To-Mei-Han Net 6
2009 Hashiru Otoko II To-Mei-Han Net 6
2010 Sekai Waraeru! Journal TBS
Hashiru Otoko F To-Mei-Han Net 6
G Wars Fuji TV
2011 24 Hour Television NTV
Kansai Tokushū NHK TV
2012 Hashiru Otoko Joshi-bu To-Mei-Han Net 6
2013 Hashiru Otoko: The Final To-Mei-Han Net 6

TV drama

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Year Title Role Network Notes
1991 Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai... Fuji TV
1992 Kimi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto Fuji TV
Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari: Oyaji Fuji TV
1993 Onegai Darling! Fuji TV
Onegai Demon! Fuji TV
1994 Hanjuku Tamago Satoshi Maruyama Fuji TV
Kimi ni Tsutaetai: Sotsugyō II MBS, TBS
1995 For You Fuji TV
1998 Ten Urara Akihiko Takayama NHK
2003 Love Judge Tamaki TBS
2007 Mito Kōmon Sutekichi TBS Episode 22
2008 Chiritotechin NHK Episode 83
2014 Roosevelt Game Saburo Murano TBS
2016 Osaka Kanjō-sen: Hito-eki-goto no Ai Monogatari Policeman KTV Part 1 Episode 4
Shinusa

Films

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Year Title Role Notes
1999 Minami no Teiō: Hasan Kinyū-ya Koroshi
2002 Red Harp Blues
2007 Chikyū no Heso Hitoe Kogo's director Cameo

Radio

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Year Title Network Notes
1985 MBS Young Radio MBS Radio Debut
High Young Kyoto KBS Radio
Free Campus Radio KBS Kyoto
1988 ABC Radio Funky's ABC Radio Thursday appearance
1989 Seishun Vegetable KBS Kyoto
Kenji Moriwaki to Naoki Uraguchi no Super Gang TBS Radio
Hara Yojire Agohazushi Renmei NBS Monday appearances
1990 Moriwaki-Yamada no Panic Shiyouze! Tokyo Hara Hara Gyātēzu NBS
Hikaru Ijūin no Oh! Deka Night NBS
1998 Kenji Moriwaki no Sunday Meeting KBS Radio
1999 Kenji Moriwaki no Totsugeki! Nippon Rettō KBS Radio, HBC Radio, TBC Radio, Radio Nippon, SF, Radio Kansai, RCC, KBC Radio, MBC
Kyoto Gogoichi KBS Radio
2009 Kenji Moriwaki to Takeyuki Hara no Moshimo Saiban-in! CBC Radio
Gogoichi CBC Radio Monday appearances
2014 Nobuhiko Otani: Kikimasu! NBS "Kiki Master" in Wednesdays

Advertisements

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Year Title Notes
1993 Mandom Gatsby Co-starring with Eisaku Yoshida
Join Juice Co-starring with Masato Yamada
Abeno Apollo
Nissan New Atlas
Mikakuto Ochichi Candy, Osatsu Doki, Kirei, Fiber Gummy, Gummycan GL
Sapporo Brewery
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Five Mini
2009 Ito-Yokado
Title
Yume ga Mori Mori super live
Yume ga Mori Mori supecial live
Shijō Saidai no Live
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Hashiru Otoko: Hokkaido-Tohoku
Hashiru Otoko: Kanto-Koshinetsu
Hashiru Otoko: Kanto-Tokai
Hashiru Otoko: Kansai-Chūgoku Shikoku
Hashiru Otoko: Kyushu-Okinawa
Hashiru Otoko II: Hajimehashi
Hashiru Otoko II: Kaisō
Hashiru Otoko II: Kansō
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"Ma-natsu no Fantasy", "Ma-aki no Fantasy"
Landing Beam, Ma-natsu no Fantasy Participated with Maki Ohguro

Books

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Title
I Love You ni Kaete
Kenji Moriwaki Sweater Book
Hashiru Otoko

Magazines

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Title
Nikkan Running Magazine "Kenji Moriwaki Rikujō Kyōgi-bu"

References

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  1. ^ "森脇 健児". Shochiku Geino (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 Oct 2016.
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