Native name 森脇 健児 Years active 1984– Height 1.71 m | Nationality Japanese Agent Shochiku Geino Home town Kyoto | |
Born February 5, 1967 (age 50) ( 1967-02-05 ) Hirakata, Osaka, Japan Education Hirakata Municipal Tonoyama First Elementary School
Hirakata Municipal First Junior High School
Rakuminami High School
Momoyama Gakuin University Department of Sociology Occupation Comedian, radio personality Other names Ken-chan (健ちゃん), Kenji (健児) Similar Masato Yamada, Hiroshi Moriwaki, Hiroko Moriguchi, Eisaku Yoshida, Hideyuki Nakayama | ||
Kenji Moriwaki (森脇 健児, Moriwaki Kenji, born 5 February 1967, in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese comedian and radio personality.
Moriwaki is represented with Shochiku Geino. He graduated from Hirakata Municipal Tonoyama First Elementary School, Hirakata Municipal First Junior High School, Rakuminami High School, and Momoyama Gakuin University. Moriwaki is a resident of Kyoto. In 2010 he became the Special Advisor to Kyoto Miyama High School. Moriwaki is now married and has one son and daughter.
Biography
During high school Moriwaki held a number of voluntary planning events in the local live house Blow Down in Hirakata.
He passed the 1st Shochiuku Geino Tarento Audition during his second year in senior high school. In the 17 March 1984 Moriwaki joins Shochiku Geino and later in June he debuted in a vaudeville show. Later he became an apprentice to Hayato Wakai. In 1988 Moriwaki and Wakai turn into a duo in Zamaa Kankan! and the Kansai Local programme Kenji Moriwaki no Seishun Vegetable in the Kinki area.
Later in the 1990's he appeared in dramas and presenting variety programmes and he stepped down from Waratte Iitomo! and later became a presenter in Yume ga Mori Mori, but the programme didn't air nationwide and in 1999 the series returned in the Kinki area.