
Birthday:
05-11-1963
(61 years)
Birthplace:
Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Masatoshi Hamada is a Japanese comedian best known as the tsukkomi half of the popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Hitoshi Matsumoto. His nickname is Hama-chan. Hamada is married to Natsumi Ogawa, with whom he has two children.
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Space Travelers
Act like Kiyoshi Nonomura
event2000 star_border 5.9
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Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
There's Always Tomorrow - The Movie
Act like Section Chief Hamada
event2002 star_border 3.3
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Office drama wherein a mediocre salaryman struggling hard to face a dream.
Showa Tetsufuden - Sea of Japan
event1991
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A young Yakuza member is doomed as he swings between two organizations in the Tohoku region, during the late Showa period.
Pokémon the Movie 2000
Act like Yadoking (voice)
event1999 star_border 6.7
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When Lawrence III's scheme to capture the Legendary Pokémon Lugia upsets the balance of nature, it is up to Ash Ketchum and his friends to save the world.
Slowking's Day
Act like Yadoking (voice)
event2000 star_border 7.7
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The short describes a day in the life of Slowking, from wake up to sleep.
Downtown no Gottsu Ee Kanji
(245 ep.)
event1991
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Downtown no Gottsu Ee Kanji (ダウンタウンのごっつええ感じ, roughly "Downtown's Feeling Real Good"), was a Japanese variety show. It premiered on December 8, 1991 and ended its run on November 2, 1997. It aired on Fuji TV every Sunday night. Hosted by the comedy duo Downtown (consisting of Masatoshi Hamada and Hitoshi Matsumoto), it had several other actors and comedians in its regular cast, including You, Koji Imada, Koji Higashino, Itsuji Itao, Ryoko Shinohara and Honkon (Takahiro Kurano). Like most other Japanese variety shows, it featured guest interviews and games, but it is best known and remembered for its sketch comedy. Downtown and other cast members would dress in costumes and perform absurd skits with bizarre characters.
There's Always Tomorrow, We Have Tomorrow
(11 ep.)
event2001 star_border 4
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Ashita Ga Arusa is a Japanese television drama series first aired on NTV in 2001.
Wednesday Downtown
Act like Self - Host (416 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.5
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Everybody has theories that they personally cling blindly to regardless of proof or scientific validity. In this entertaining information program, a host of celebrities present their cases for pet theories to studio guests by any means be it academic argument or laughably “out there” logic. Can their theories gain acceptance? Or will they be discarded as pop science that only adds confusion to the world? Find out through exhaustive examination including on-location experiments!
Juunen Ai
(12 ep.)
event1992
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A touching romantic drama about the love and friendship between a man and a woman who have been in a "more than friends, but less than lovers" relationship for 10 years. A touching love story about love and friendship over a period of ten years.
Aozora (Misako Tanaka), an office worker at a foreign-affiliated company, loves her friend's boyfriend, Masakazu (Chisato Oe), and wants to confess her love to him, but she can't betray her friend, so she tries to make up for it with a mistress who looks exactly like him. When Aozora meets Arashi (Hamada Masatoshi) by chance, she sympathizes with his honest way of life and begins to reevaluate her own way of life.
Entertainer Rating Check
(1 ep.)
event1999
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Entertainer Rating Check tests celebrities with questions that any A-list celebrity can answer correctly to prove their status as a top-class celebrity. All celebrities start as top-class celebrities. If they get it wrong, they go down in rank. Get wrong too many times, and they are erased from the screen since they aren’t “worth showing”. Will the celebrities be able to stick around to the very end?
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!
(1695 ep.)
event1989 star_border 9.3
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A Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting.
Legendary Teacher
Act like Satofumi Kitayama(北山 恵文) (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 2.5
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A man who appears to have no particular passion for anything ironically proves effective with troubled high school students. Known as a legendary savior of problem schools, he shows up one day to salvage what's left of a class that had fallen apart completely. His highly unpredictable reactions and controversial advice to students shock the teachers and staffs much as they do the problem students themselves.
Papa to Nat-chan
(10 ep.)
event1991
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Papa to Nat-chan is a drama about a young girl who matures from a high school student into a wife.
Touzai Neta Gassen
(2 ep.)
event2014
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A battle of wits and humor between two teams of comedians from the East and West of Japan.
もしも願いが叶うなら
(1 ep.)
event1994
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A romcom drama starring Miho Nakayama
Sentosha: Battle Wheels
(10 ep.)
event2017 star_border 4.6
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Renowned entertainers and car lovers grasp the wheel and compete with their battle cars in a variety of never before seen challenges! They face off in life-threatening duels designed to test their speed, courage, and above all, their grit! Put the pedal to the metal! Burn! Destroy! Crash into! This is a new show of the "Dangertainment variety (danger + entertainment)".
Lincoln
(1 ep.)
event2005
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LINCOLN is a Japanese variety show. It premiered on October 18, 2005 and ended on September 10, 2013, and aired on TBS every Tuesday night. Hosted by Downtown, it features seven other owarai geinin in its regular cast, and has several recurring younger, up-and-coming comedians as guests.
The show uses Abraham Lincoln as its mascot, and its slogan is: "The program of the geinin, by the geinin, for the geinin," parodying a line from his famous Gettysburg Address. The object of the show is to have the younger comedians watch and learn from the more experienced comedians through fun and games.
The opening uses the song "The Revolution" by BT and features the regular cast as superheroic anime characters in a futuristic setting. The animation was done by Studio 4°C, a studio well known for The Animatrix. The opening has since changed to a LINCOLN version of the opening to Kinpachi-sensei and was directed by Ogiyahagi.
Tomomitsu Yamaguchi, a regular when the show started, later became a semi-regular due to conflicts with his work schedule.
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
(18 ep.)
event2003 star_border 9
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After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).
Downtown DX
(1 ep.)
event1993
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Downtown DX is a variety talk show hosted by Hamada Masatoshi and Matsumoto Hitoshi. Include several celebrities as weekly guests, introducing their photos and episodes to find out what they are really like. The guests include a wide variety of actors, celebrities, idols, and comedians.
Wolf Boy Lie or Truth
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2004
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Ookami Shounen Lie or Truth is a quiz and variety program hosted by Downtown’s Hamada Masatoshi. A series of stories are presented in the video for guest viewers to choose the one is telling the truth or lies. Popular entertainers and actors are also participated in the quiz questions with bloopers and outtakes from drama series.
HamachanGa!
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 10
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Weekly late-night show hosted by Hamada Masatoshi of Downtown along with a rotating guest MC. Each week is a different subject usually. Usually the episode is having a guest talent on to teach Hamada (Hamachan) about a certain subject, or going shopping with Hamada.
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