Hiro Supaaa Short Bio!!!

(Source: Mywikibiz.com, December 2008)

Hiro Super is a popular Japanese stage and screen actor known for his bursting energy and zany character.

A relative newcomer to the mainstream Japanese entertainment industry, Super has a solid fan base in North America and Europe, due largely to the string of hit short movies that he starred in and produced under the direction of Cris Ubermann.

Super is also widely known as American rock star Kate Crash's "loyal partner in art crime." Their collaboration, which has spawned many "CrashSupermaniaz" around the world, remains strong and activie to this day and has covered such areas as filmmaking, art shows, rock n roll live shows, Japan street shows, among many others.

Super was born and spent much of his younger years in Fukuoka.

Soon after graduating from high school, he moved to the United States. During college years, his main interest was to become a magazine writer. After 1.5 years studying at Texas A&M University, he transferred to University of Southern California and graduated from the school with B.A. degree in Print Journalism in 2003.

While pursuing journalist career at USC, he wrote a children's song "I Love My Friends" and became a surprise winner of Rentaro Taki Award in the composition category in 2001.

In 2004, he relocated to Tokyo.

In 2006, Super showed off his song-and-dance-man side with the hit revival of "Anne of Green Gables" musical on stage. Joining in the mostly-children cast as a last-minute replacement, he played the hateful teacher Mr. Philips to glowing reviews from critics and audience.

After this theatrical success, Super went to US television in 2008. In March, he was offered a major role in a new reality comedy series "Getting Abroad", a highly-anticipated US TV show to be aired in fall. He played the local wingman to the American host Erik Van Wyck in the show's Tokyo episode.

This TV gig marked the first time Super played his signature character of playful and lovable Japanese boy who relentlessly spurts out sarcastic comments about life. It's been rumored that Hollywood TV producers are considering developing new comedy series with Super as main talent.

Super quickly followed this with street performance project with Kate Crash in May 2008. As MC, crazy dancer and promoter, he went all out to help his best friend / art crime partner Kate Crash who came from Hollywood to Japan to start a worldwide Rock'n Roll revolution on street. The well-documented legendary street show was a personal, artistic, and commercial success for the two.

While street performing everyday, they produced and starred in the groundbreaking short film "SUB: Way of Samurai", which critics are calling one of the funniest movies of the year. Crash and Super received great notices not only for their performances on subway, but also for their bravery and determination in pursuing art.

The year 2008 continued to be a banner year for Super. In June, he teamed up with French filmmaker Cris Ubermann and produced, wrote, and starred in the classic psychological drama "Hard Crick". The movie became a runaway hit.

Ubermann and Super wasted no time repeating the success with "Blue Moon", which was released in July. In this stylish cinematic experiment, Super was much praised for carrying the entire movie without speaking a word against the gang of colorful and disturbing characters in the Tokyo's underground scene.

With the samurai movie and these two Ubermann movies, Super established himself as a cult figure in the global short movie community.

Right after the release of "Blue Moon", Super and Ubermann teamed up once again to make a children's fantasy movie. In this much-anticipated return to the children's material, a territory that had always proved success for his career, Super surprised his fans by playing a villainous character opposite dolls and imaginary creatures. This highly poetic fantasy feature, which was then titled "Finger Trap of Evil", was greeted with cheer by critics and wide range of audience. It became the season's long-running sleeper hit.

To this day, many critics call it one of the highest achievement from the Super / Ubermann collaboration. Later, the movie's title was changed to "The Spirits of Tuckavania: Finger Trap of Evil". According to Ubermann's production company Telemakfilms, "Finger Trap of Evil" will become the first chapter of Tuckavania trilogy.

In the fall of 2008, Super moved to Hollywood to pursue his career as artist / entertainer. There, he quickly won a coveted lead role in American director Ariel Nishli's "The Peacemaker". For this project, which originated as a TV commercial spec for Doritos, Super did a thorough research on Japanese history in preparation for playing Japan's first prime minister Hirobumi Ito. It was his second time to play a historical figure in movies (the first being Kojiro Sasaki in "SUB: Way of Samurai").

Critics again responded very favorably to his performance, as well as the movie itself. Many consider it as one of the best characterizations of Ito, who is one of the most beloved national heroes in the country's history. Some critics, however, gave scathing reviews to the movie for its historical inaccuracies. Those critics also set their target on Super, maintaining that the actor's performance was merely a stretch from his widely popular seriocomic turn in "SUB: Way of Samurai".

To this criticism, Cris Ubermann released a statement. According to him, the two worked together again on a strictly confidential project in Japan right before the actor left for Hollywood. In his passionate "Director's Note to the Media", Ubermann said that this still-unveiled project was a tremendous challenge for the star and that Super was "splendid in it in every aspect".

Ubermann added that Super's decision to take on the role in "The Peacemaker" was, in fact, a courageous career choice and he saw much growth in Super as the leading man on screen.

Besides performing and making movies, Super's also a popular writer. Currently, he writes for Hanger Magazine on regular basis.