Eijiro Ozaki

At the age of 20, Ozaki spent a year at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln as an exchange student. That was when he had his first acting experience in front of the cameras for an American televised educational program and gave him hint of his potential as an actor. He made his professional stage debut in 1994 playing "Jim Stark", the lead role in Rebel Without A Cause, performed entirely in English, and dived into his full-time acting career. He started learning acting under Yoko Narahashi at the United Performers' Studio, Tokyo in 1994. In 1995, he was coached by Frank Corsaro, a former Actors Studio, NY artistic director, in his drama training. His breakthrough came as "Lt. Yamamoto", a Kamikaze pilot, in the Elle Company production The Winds Of God, one of Japan's most popular war plays. In 1998, the play was performed for a month at the Judith Anderson Theater, on Off-Off-Broadway in NY. In 1999, the troop went on the National Tour in Japan and gave a 2 month run in NY again at