Norito Yashima

Norito Yashima (八嶋智人; Yashima Norito) (born September 27, 1970, Nara-city, Nara) is a Japanese stage actor who has been featured in movies, television shows (Furuhata Ninzaburo), and specials. He eventually landed his first hosting job on the Fuji TV series Hey! Spring of Trivia, a show he currently co-hosts with fellow actor Katsumi Takahashi. At the end of the Hey! Spring of Trivia show, host Norito Yashima gives out "The Golden Brain" (Japanese: 金の脳; Kin-no-nō), a brain shaped trophy that has a melon bread inside that is in the shape of a brain, to the sender of the highest rated trivia. He also has loaned his voice to a few anime, such as Iwanbo in Rurouni Kenshin.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1999	Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris	Sakurai
2000	Tales of the Unusual	Man
2003	Kantoku kansen
2004	Yaku san-jû no uso	Yokoyama
2005	Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji	Hideki Haijima
2006	Rough	Coach Furuya
2007	Hero	Kenji Endo
2008	All Around Us
2008	Akifukaki	Satoru Terada

Television

Year	Title	Role
2000	Aikotoba wa Yūki	Rei Saitō
2001	Hero	Kenji Endo
2002	Hey! Spring of Trivia	Host
2003	Water Boys	Kiyomasa
2004	Shinsengumi!	Takeda Kanryuusai
2004	Wonderful Life	Masayoshi Tsumasaka
2008	Scrap Teacher	Hisakimi Takasu
2010	Wagaya no Rekishi	Shusaku Endo
2012	Yûsha Yoshihiko to Akuryô no Kagi	Instructor
2014	Massan	Toshio

Anime

• Boys Over Flowers (1996) - Principal
• Rurouni Kenshin (1996) - Iwanbo
• Hatsumei Boy Kanipan (1998) - Kanburi