KAZUYA TANABE

A Japanese actor. He was born in 1985. He started to study acting and modeling when he was 19 years old. However when he was 20 years old, he?got a big motorcycle accident and a cerebral hemorrhage, a skull fracture and also lost his sense of smell and had been in a coma for a week but miraculously he survived. After that he's changed his mind, "What can I really do in the rest of my life", and he?started to be interested in what's going on all over the world. When he was 21 years old, he went to Vancouver in Canada?by himself?to study English and acting.??As a result, he has been in 3 Canadian short films,「The Rain and The Willow Tree」,?「The Tragic Vampire」?,”「These Words」, Vancouver Asian film festival”?and got a role in a Canadian feature film?「Tokyo DJ」. He had been living in Vancouver for?3 years and?came back to Japan in 2010.Now he is working on the short film 「Who?I was??」?as a lead actor and a writer as well??with Coalhouse Campbell who is?a Canadian movie director, and trying to promote the latest Coalhouse's film 「Ja Ja] in Japan.?He also?has been in?the Korean film「Beastie Boys」.?He?focuses on acting?in Japan now but at the same time he is always interested in working with the real film?makers all over the world.