Joe Odagiri

Jō Odagiri (born February 16, 1976), better known by his stage name Joe Odagiri is a Japanese actor and musician. South China Morning Post described him as "a rebel, something made evident by his grungy, gothic style". --- Odagiri co-starred with Zhang Ziyi in Seijun Suzuki's Princess Raccoon, with Tadanobu Asano and Tatsuya Fuji in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Bright Future, with Ryo Kase in Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven, and with Jang Dong-gun in Kang Je-gyu's My Way. He has starred in films such as Atsushi Funahashi's Big River, Masanori Tominaga's The Pavillion Salamandre, and Kim Ki-duk's Dream. He has also appeared in films such as Junji Sakamoto's Out of This World, Shinji Aoyama's Sad Vacation, and Hirokazu Koreeda's I Wish. --- He applied to California State University, Fresno, to study film directing, but enrolled at the Theater and Arts Department by mistake. He often says that Fresno is his second homeland. On December 27, 2007, at a news conference in Tokyo, Odagiri announced his engagement to actress Yuu Kashii, who is exactly 11 years his junior.