Junichi Kajioka

Junichi Kajioka (pronounced "June-itchy") is an award-winning Japanese filmmaker and actor based in London. He was born in Japan and graduated from Tokyo Keizai University, with a Business Administration degree. He appeared in TV series such as the long-running soap opera Wataru seken wa oni bakari (1990) in the early 90s in Tokyo while he was learning under his then mentor _Teruyuki Kagawa_, the award-winning film actor turned Kabuki-actor. His first stage appearance was in the Fukuko Ishii production of "Kekkon suru Tetsuduki" in Japan. Junichi's first professional film appearance came in Wen Jiang's Devils on the Doorstep (2000) in China where he was studying acting at the Central Academy of Drama. He has also played various Japanese historical figures in Central Chinese Television (CCTV) drama series, such as Monk Fusho in Jianzhen Dongdu (2007) and Aritomo Yamagata in Taiwan 1895 (2008) in leading roles. He was one of the pioneer Japanese actors who went to China to study drama a