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Charismatic Jin has been called the new wave of the musical world since his three-part spiritual musical Reincarnation in 1982 (Reincarnation, Prince of Egypt, and Spring Snow). In 1991 and 1992, Jin adapted the film version E. M. Forster's Maurice, which started Japan's obsession with the beautiful young man, for the world's first musical production of the story. In 1996, he also wrote and directed the musical adaptation of the Japanese comic Dororo written by manga artist Osamu Tezuka, best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Jin also performed the leading role of Hyakumaru in this first live action version. In 1997, Hiroshi Jin's Company East gave the first performance of Medea by an Asia troupe at the ancient amphitheater of Kourion, among the ancient ruins in Cyprus, and received the highest award for popularity at the Larnaca Festival. This was Company East's second production of Medea outside Japan. In a completely different genre, Jin has formed the all-male, ultra-extreme show team, the J-Boys. The Scotsman newspaper gave it highest compliments as a show to follow Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake'. In June 2003, the Montreal Mirror featured the J-Boys at the Montreal Fringe Festival on its front page, and in August Company EAST performed Shakespeare's Macbeth in English at the Edinburgh Festival. Now, Hiroshi Jin and Company East will be performing "Hamlet（"Phtos of"Hamlet" ）at New York's La Ma Ma E.T.C. The Annex theater. Hiroshi Jin also lectures at corporate seminars and other venues, as a spiritual, pheremonal dancer wielding the power of appearance and adept in performance from Greek tragedy to male strip show. Jin's new book Twice as Attractive: The Spi-Fero Power of Appearance Secret of Success is currently in negotiation with publishers. Hiroshi Jin's J 28 Studio（ jazz dance studio ）is located
in Tokyo's Shinjuku district.
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