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is a Japanese-American actor, film producer, philanthropist, entrepreneur and martial artist. Koyamada is well known for co-starring as “Nobutada” opposite Tom Cruise in the Warner Bros. action epic war film ''The Last Samurai'', with a worldwide box office of $456 million as well as starring in the action-adventure movie Disney Channel Original Movie ''Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior'', which had over 5.7 million viewers at its premiere, making it the fifth highest viewed DCOM. Koyamada has starred in the many movies and television, including ''The Yokai King (2015)'', ''Heart of the Dragon (2014)'', ''Ai No Shizuku'' (2010), ''Good Soil'' (2007), ''Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior'' (2006), ''Wine Road of the Samurai'' (2006) and ''The Last Samurai'' (2003). In 2005, Koyamada founded Shinca Entertainment, an American production company that has produced numerous entertainment related projects in the US. In addition to his acting career, Koyamada is noted for his philanthropic causes, including Japan–United States relations, international education, tourism and cross-cultural. In 2008, Koyamada founded ''Koyamada International Foundation'' (KIF), a US non-profit organization with its mission to help youth to achieve their dreams and goals, and promote earth friendly lifestyle. Koyamada currently serves as the ''Tourism Ambassadors'' for the Japanese government of Kyoto and Okayama Prefecture as well as the ''Special Ambassador'' for Japan-America Society of Southern California. In 2014, Koyamada was appointed as the judge for Miss International. Koyamada immigrated from Japan to the United States in June 2000. Koyamada holds higher ranked Black belts in martial arts. He is bilingual in Japanese and English. He resides in California. ==Early life== Shin was born in Okayama, Japan to a father who had settled in Okayama as an employee of the local government. The family had moved from Kagoshima where the Koyamada family is a direct descendant of Kagenori Koyamada, the lord of the ''Koyamada clan'' which was a Samurai clan in the Satsuma domain. In his elementary school years, Shin began track and field and was later accepted into the Okayama City Junior Track and Field Club. As a small boy, Koyamada's love of American and Hong Kong action movies was influenced by his father. While Shin was young, he'd come home from school and have to watch what his father was on television. That happened to be Hollywood movies. When he was in 8th grade, his parents made him enroll in a Parent-Teacher Association program against his will to study abroad in Brisbane, Australia for three weeks, which became his first trip abroad. His English did not improve on the trip, but the experience impacted him in the way of raising his awareness and curiosity to know more about what was across the sea. By the end of 9th grade, he chose Hollywood to make his dream come true because his father told him that Hollywood is the capital of the film industry. He was refused by his parents and his teachers to pursue his dream as an actor in Hollywood while in junior high school. In high school, he became the team captain and competed in the Prefectural tournament for three years. In addition to his gymnastics training during high school, he enrolled in a Karate school against his parents wishes. This became his first martial arts experience. He trained every weekend to hone his skills with the desire to become a great action star. Upon his high school graduation in June 2000, Koyamada enrolled in the ESL program at the University of California, Riverside for the summer and moved to Hollywood alone, not knowing anyone, having no place to stay, and not knowing how to speak English. In 2001, he enrolled at Los Angeles City College as a full-time international student where he first began taking intensive acting lessons in the theater academy as well as training in a Northern Shaolin martial arts school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shin Koyamada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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