The 29-year-old Japanese model-turned-actor is taking on his next acting gig in KBS’s new daily drama The Road Home, which follows the recently ended You’re My Destiny.
Although there have been a number of Japanese commercial models active in Korea, Otani Ryohei marks the first to act in a daily drama.. It’s not his first Korean acting job, though; he followed a supporting role in the short drama Tokyo Showers with a brief cameo in the first episode of Love & Marriage, but it was virtually a blink-or-you’ll-miss-it role. To me, he’s still best-remembered as the Japanese-model-with-a-romantic-heart in 2006’s Soulmate. He first debuted in Korea as a CF model in 2003 and continued his career there, aided by a fluency in the language.
In The Road Home, he plays yet another Japanese model (typecast much?) who gets romantically paired with Park Hye-won (Time of Dog and Wolf). The drama begins on January 12.
source: dramabeans
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