Nijirō Murakami

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Nijiro Murakami
File:Murakami Nijiro "Sayonara" at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (22241650158) (cropped).jpg
Murakami at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2015
Native name 村上 虹郎
Born (1997-03-17) March 17, 1997 (age 27)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation
Years active 2014–present
Agent Decade
Parents
Website Official website

Nijiro Murakami (村上 虹郎 Murakami Nijirō?, born March 17, 1997) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Kaito in the 2014 romance film Still the Water, which was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Murakami's role in Last of the Wolves (2021) received critical acclaim, and earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize. He also gained international recognition for his role as Shuntaro Chishiya in Netflix's survival drama Alice in Borderland (2020–2022).[1]

Early life and career

Murakami was born on March 17, 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.[2] He is the only son of actor Jun Murakami and singer Ua.[3] His parents divorced when he was nine years old and he grew up with his mother, stepfather, and three younger half-siblings.[4] While still attending preparatory school, he moved to Okinawa with his family. Murakami also studied for some years in Montreal, Canada.[5]

He debuted in 2014 portraying the main role of Kaito in the award-winning film Still the Water, for which he received the Best Newcomer Award at the 29th Takasaki Film Festival.[6] In 2015, he debuted in the television series Tenshi no Naifu.[7] Later that same year, he starred in the live-action adaptation of the anime series Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day,[8] as well as the film Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita.

As a voice actor, he is best known for voicing Hiro Shishigami in the anime adaptation of the manga series Inuyashiki.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Director Notes Ref.
2014 Still the Water Kaito Naomi Kawase Lead role [2]
As the Gods Will Haruhiko Yoshikawa Takashi Miike [2]
2015 Forget Me Not Takashi Hayama Kei Horie Lead role [2]
Sayonara Yamashita Kōji Fukada [2]
2016 Destruction Babies Shōta Ashihara Tetsuya Mariko Lead role [2]
The Firefly Summers Kimihide Ryūichi Hiroki [2]
Kuroi Bōdō Ken'ichi Ugana [2]
2017 Mukoku Tōru Haneda Kazuyoshi Kumakiri [9]
Second Summer, Never See You Again Satoshi Shinohara Kenji Nakanishi Lead role [2]
Miracles of the Namiya General Store Shota Kobayashi Ryūichi Hiroki [2]
Harunareya Mikio Nishimura Bunji Sotoyama Short film [2]
Amy Said Shunya Hasebe Taishi Muramoto [2]
2018 Isle of Dogs Hiroshi (voice) Wes Anderson American film [2]
Hanalei Bay Takahashi Daishi Matsunaga [2]
The Gun Tōru Nishikawa Masaharu Take Lead role [2]
2019 Chiwawa Nagai Ken Ninomiya [2]
They Say Nothing Stays the Same Genzō Joe Odagiri [2]
The Promised Land Hiro Nogami Takahisa Zeze [2]
I Was a Secret Bitch Akira Kojima Kōichirō Miki [2]
2020 Sasaki in My Mind Sudo Takuya Uchiyama [10]
Soirée Shota Iwamatsu Bunji Sotoyama Lead role [2]
2021 Last of the Wolves Kōta "Chinta" Chikada Kazuya Shiraishi [11]
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai Okada Izō Masato Harada [12]
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning Okita Sōji Keishi Ōtomo [13]
Pretenders Sekai Izuru Kumasaka [14]
2022 The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie Senri Hasukabe Hiroshi Nishitani [15]
2023 Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Part 1 Kazutora Hanemiya Tsutomu Hanabusa [16]
Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Part 2 Kazutora Hanemiya Tsutomu Hanabusa [16]
Heartless Aragaki Daichi Sugimoto [17]
Kyrie Fūkin Shunji Iwai [18]
2024 The Yin Yang Master Zero Tachibana no Yasuie Shimako Satō [19]

Television

Year Title Role Network Notes Ref.
2015 Tenshi no Naifu Jun Maruyama Wowow [2]
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi Fuji TV Lead role; TV movie [2]
2016 Utsukushiki Mittsu no Uso Shogo Tachiki Fuji TV Episode 2 [2]
Shibuya Rei-chōme Ogito Fuji TV, FOD [2]
Botanical Life of Verandar 3 Keni'ichi Hiiragi NHK BS-P Episode 4 [2]
Brass Dreams Hiroto Aoshima TBS [2]
Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira Ryo Doguchi Wowow Episode 5 [2]
2017 Dead Stock Riku Tsuneta TV Tokyo Lead role [2]
Inuyashiki Hiro Shishigami Fuji TV Animation [2]
2018 The Black Company Ryuichi Kurata Fuji TV Two [2]
In This Corner of the World Tetsu Mizuhara TBS [2]
2019 Les Misérables: Owari na Kitabiji Takumi Watanabe Fuji TV TV movie [2]
2020 MIU 404 Yoshitaka Kosaka TBS Episode 6 [2]
2020–2022 Alice in Borderland Shuntaro Chishiya Netflix 2 seasons [2]
2021 Iki wo Hisomete Shinpei Miyashita Hulu Episode 3 [20]
2021–22 Come Come Everybody Isamu Kijima NHK Asadora [21]
2022 10 Count to the Future Momosuke Saijō TV Asahi [22]
The Forbidden Magic Shingo Koshiba Fuji TV TV movie [23]

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee(s) of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award Year Category Nominated Work(s) Result Ref.
Japan Academy Film Prize 2018 Best Supporting Actor Mukoku Nominated [24]
2022 Last of the Wolves Nominated [25]
Kinema Junpo Awards 2017 Best New Actor Destruction Babies Won [26]
Mainichi Film Awards 2022 Best Supporting Actor Last of the Wolves Nominated [27]
TAMA Film Awards 2016 Best New Actor Destruction Babies, Sayonara, The Firefly Summers Won [28]
Special Award (as an ensemble) Destruction Babies Won
Takasaki Film Festival 2015 Best New Actor Still the Water Won [29]
Tokyo International Film Festival 2018 Gemstone Award The Gun Won [30]
Yokohama Film Festival 2017 Best Newcomer Destruction Babies Won [26]

References

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