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Nijiro Murakami

Actor

Nijiro Murakami

Born March 17, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan40 films

Murakami Nijiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor, the only son of actor Murakami Jun and singer UA. His parents divorced when he was nine-years-old and he grew up with his mother, stepfather, and three half-siblings. While still attending preparatory school, he moved to Okinawa with his family. Murakami also studied for some years in Montreal, Canada.

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He debuted in 2014 portraying the main character of Kaito in the award-winning film "Still the Water", for which he received the Best Newcomer Award at the 29th Kasaki Film Festival. In 2015, he debuted in the television series "Tenshi no Naifu". Later that same year, he starred in the live-action adaptation of the anime series "AnoHana", as well the movie "Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita".

As a voice actor, he is best known for voicing Hiro Shishigami in the anime series "Inuyashiki". He is currently working under Decade, a Japanese talent agency.

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Isle of Dogs posterFirst watchIsle of Dogs20187.8as Editor Hiroshi (voice)In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning poster7.7Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning2021As the Gods Will poster7.1As the Gods Will2014Still the Water poster6.7Still the Water2014The Miracles of the Namiya General Store poster7.0The Miracles of the Namiya General Store2017

Filmography

40 films as actor
  1. TBA愛が世界を救います
  2. 2026Vintage ViolenceHiro Hasegawa
  3. 2024The Yin Yang Master ZeroTachibana Yasue
  4. 2023KyrieFukin
  5. 2023Modern or Anarchy
  6. 2023Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 2: Bloody Halloween - Final BattleKazutora Hanemiya
  7. 2023Tokyo Revengers 2 Part 1: Bloody Halloween - DestinyKazutora Hanemiya
  8. 2022Galileo: Forbidden SorceryShingo Koshiba
  9. 2022The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the MovieSenri Hasukabe
  10. 2022Over and Over Again
  11. 2022Yoru no Agura: Ane to Ototo to Watashiotouto
  12. 2021The Pretenders
  13. 2021Baragaki: Unbroken SamuraiNizou Okada
  14. 2021Last of the WolvesKota Chikada
  15. 2021Rurouni Kenshin: The BeginningSoji Okita
  16. 2020Sasaki in My MindSudo
  17. 2020SoireeShota Iwamatsu
  18. 2020The Gun 2020Toru Nishikawa
  19. 2019I Was a "Secret Bitch"Akira Kojima
  20. 2019The Promised LandHiro Nogami
  21. 2019Yatsuhakamura井川辰弥
  22. 2019They Say Nothing Stays the SameGenzo
  23. 2019Chiwawa-chanNagai
  24. 2019Les Misérables
  25. 2018The GunToru Nishikawa
  26. 2018Lust in a Karaoke Box
  27. 2018Hanalei BayTakahashi
  28. 2018Isle of DogsEditor Hiroshi (voice)
  29. 2018密やかな結晶
  30. 2017The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreShota Kobayashi
  31. 2017Second Summer, Never See You AgainShinohara Satoshi
  32. 2017MukokuTooru Haneda
  33. 2016Ganguro Gals RiotLondon Ko-Rinbow Vocalist
  34. 2016Natsumi's FireflyKimihide
  35. 2016Destruction BabiesShota Ashihara
  36. 2015Sayonara
  37. 2015AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That DayJinta "Jintan" Yadomi
  38. 2015Forget Me NotTakashi Hayama
  39. 2014As the Gods WillKikkawa Haruhiko
  40. 2014Still the WaterKaito