Nijirō Murakami

Nijirō Murakami (村上 虹郎, Murakami Nijirō, born March 17, 1997 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor and voice actor, affiliated with Decade.[1] The son of actor Jun Murakami and singer Ua,[2] he is best known for his main role of Kaito in the 2014 film Still the Water, as Jinta Yadomi in the television special Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, and most recently Shuntaro Chishiya in Netflix's Alice in Borderland.[3]

Nijirō Murakami
村上 虹郎
Murakami at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Born	17 March 1997 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	2014–present
Agent	Decade
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Parent(s)	Jun Murakami Ua
Website	Official website

Biography

Murakami was born on March 17, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan.[1] He is the only son of actor actor Jun Murakami and singer Ua.[2] 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 Kasaki 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 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.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref
2015	Tenshi no Naifu	Jun Maruyama	Wowow		[1]
	Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day	Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi	Fuji TV	Lead role; TV movie	[1]
2016	Utsukushiki Mittsu no Uso	Shogo Tachiki	Fuji TV	Episode 2	[1]
	Shibuya Rei-chōme	Ogito	FOD		[1]
	Botanical Life of Verandar 3	Keni'ichi Hiiragi	NHK BS-P	Episode 4	[1]
	Brass Dreams	Hiroto Aoshima	TBS		[1]
	Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira	Ryo Doguchi	Wowow	Episode 5	[1]
2017	Dead Stock	Riku Tsuneta	TV Tokyo	Lead role	[1]
2018	The Black Company	Ryuichi Kurata	Fuji TV Two		[1]
	In This Corner of the World	Tetsu Mizuhara	TBS		[1]
2019	Les Misérables: Owari na Kitabiji	Takumi Watanabe	Fuji TV	TV movie	[1]
2020	MIU 404	Yoshitaka Kosaka	TBS	Episode 6	[1]
	Alice in Borderland	Shuntaro Chishiya	Netflix		[1]
2021	Come Come Everybody	Isamu Kijima	NHK	Asadora	[9]

Films

Year	Title	Role	Directed by	Notes	Ref
2014	Still the Water	Kaito	Naomi Kawase	Lead role	[1]
	As the Gods Will	Haruhiko Yoshikawa	Takashi Miike		[1]
2015	Forget Me Not	Takashi Hayama	Kei Horie	Lead role	[1]
	Sayonara	Yamashita	Kōji Fukada		[1]
2016	Destruction Babies	Shōta Ashihara	Tetsuya Mariko		[1]
	The Firefly Summers	Kimihide	Ryūichi Hiroki		[1]
	Kuroi Bōdō		Ken'ichi Ugana		[1]
2017	Mukoku	Tōru Haneda	Kazuyoshi Kumakiri		[1]
	Second Summer, Never See You Again	Satoshi Shinohara	Kenji Nakanishi	Lead role	[1]
	Miracles of the Namiya General Store	Shota Kobayashi	Ryūichi Hiroki		[1]
	Harunareya	Mikio Nishimura	Bunji Sotoyama	Short film	[1]
	Amy Said	Shunya Hasebe	Taishi Muramoto		[1]
2018	Isle of Dogs	Hiroshi (voice)	Wes Anderson	American film	[1]
	Hanalei Bay	Takahashi	Daishi Matsunaga		[1]
	The Gun	Tōru Nishikawa	Masaharu Take	Lead role	[1]
2019	Chiwawa	Nagai	Ken Ninomiya		[1]
	They Say Nothing Stays the Same	Genzō	Joe Odagiri		[1]
	The Promised Land	Hiro Nogami	Takahisa Zeze		[1]
	I Was a Secret Bitch	Akira Kojima	Kōichirō Miki		[1]
2020	Sasaki in My Mind	Sudo	Takuya Uchiyama		[1]
	Soirée	Shota Iwamatsu	Bunji Sotoyama	Lead role	[1]
2021	The Blood of Wolves: Level 2	Kōta "Chinta" Chikada	Kazuya Shiraishi		[10]
	Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai	Okada Izō	Masato Harada		[1]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref
2017	38th Yokohama Film Festival	Best Newcomer	Destruction Babies	Won	[11]
	90th Kinema Junpo Awards	Best New Actor		Won	[11]
2018	41st Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Mukoku	Nominated	[12]

References

1. "Official profile at Decade". Decade (in Japanese). Retrieved January 7, 2021.
2. "「この世界の片隅に」話題の村上虹郎　各界大物がこぞって絶賛". Livedoor (in Japanese). August 13, 2018. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
3. "仲里依紗・町田啓太ら、山崎賢人＆土屋太鳳W主演「今際の国のアリス」豪華キャスト解禁". Model Press (in Japanese). September 1, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
4. "UAと村上虹郎。親子で収まった1枚に「ステキすぎる」と反響。". Japan Techinsight (in Japanese). September 13, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
5. "『2つ目の窓』村上虹郎インタビュー". Movie Collection (in Japanese). August 8, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
6. "高崎映画祭最優秀作品賞に「野のなななのか」". Sankei (in Japanese). January 27, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
7. "村上淳&UAの息子・虹郎、初ドラマで非行少年役 父・淳は「目標ではなく尊敬」". Oricon (in Japanese). February 15, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
8. "『あの花』実写ドラマ化 村上虹郎、浜辺美波ら若手注目株が勢ぞろい". ORICON STYLE (in Japanese). June 17, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
9. "松村北斗＆村上虹郎＆小野花梨が朝ドラ初登場！ 上白石萌音をとりまくキャスト発表「カムカムエヴリバディ」". Cinema Cafe. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
10. "松坂桃李主演『孤狼の血 LEVEL2』8.20公開決定 鈴木亮平、西野七瀬らキャスト解禁". Crank-in!. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
11. "ディストラクション・ベイビーズ". Tokyo Theatres Company. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
12. "第41回 日本アカデミー賞（2018年）". eiga.com. Retrieved February 4, 2021.

External links

• Official website
• Official Twitter