Hiroshi Kazuki (born 1982) was a Japanese businessman who served as manager of Club Stardust in Kabukicho, Tokyo during the 2000s.
Biography[]
Hiroshi Kazuki was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1982, and, under the tutelage of Tojo-kai yakuza boss Shintaro Kazama, he founded Club Stardust in Kabukicho, turning it into the most successful host club in the district. Kazuki hired the former bosozoku biker Yuya Miyake as a host, and Miyake became Kazuki's top host and bodyguard, protecting him from the occasional yakuza extortionists sent by Futoshi Shimano of the Shimano-gumi. On 5 December 2005, he welcomed Kazama's recently-paroled pupil Kazuma Kiryu into his club and updated him on the situation in Kabukicho, revealing that Akira Nishikiyama was betraying the Tojo Clan with the help of Omi Alliance leader Yukio Terada, and that the Tojo Clan was undergoing a period of violent infighting. That same night, Kiryu helped Kazuki and Yuya fight off a group of Shimano-gumi henchmen led by Tsuyoshi Takahashi, who had been sent to extort the club; this earned him the friendship of both Kazuki and Yuya.
In July 2006, Kazuki was kidnapped by the Korean Jingweon Mafia, and a Korean impostor stood in for him at the club. Kazuki was later rescued by Kiryu, Jiro Kawara, and Makoto Date, but the impostor shot and wounded Kazuki before the policewoman Kaoru Sayama shot the impostor dead. Kazuki convalesced at the Emoto Clinic, leaving the management of the club to Yuya in the interim, and, later, on a permanent basis, with Kazuki assuming a supervisory role. In 2009, Kazuki and Yuya saved Kiryu by restraining Goh Hamazaki after Hamazaki stabbed Kiryu in a near-fatal assassination attempt. In 2016, Stardust was purchased by Korean real estate businessmen capitalizing off the slump of Kabukicho's nightlife industry, but Kazuki sought to repurchase the business.