# Ryunosuke Kamiki

Ryunosuke Kamiki (神木 隆之介, Kamiki Ryūnosuke, born May 19, 1993) is a Japanese actor. Starting his career as a child prodigy, he has garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards for his performances across 25 years in the industry.
Kamiki debuted in a 1995 commercial. Four years later, he had a leading role in the television drama Good News (1999). His early film roles include Spirited Away (2001), Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (2006) and Big Man Japan (2007). He had his first leading roles in Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War (2005) and Daihachi Yoshida's The Kirishima Thing (2012) and played supporting characters in Keishi Ōtomo's jidaigeki actioners Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends as well as Miike's horror film As the Gods Will (all 2014).
In 2016, Kamiki voiced the lead in Makoto Shinkai's anime film Your Name, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 11th Seiyu Awards. After this, he collaborated with Shinkai again on Weathering with You (2019) and Suzume (2022) as supporting characters. Kamiki later co-starred with Minami Hamabe in two productions released in 2023: the TV drama series Ranman and Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One. His performance in the latter earned him global critical acclaim and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor.

## Personal life

Kamiki was born on May 19, 1993. He was fragile in infancy, spending months in intensive care, and at one point was given only a 1% chance of survival. He was not discharged from the hospital until he was seven months of age. Doctors believed that even if he survived, he would live his life with disability. His mother came up with the idea of making him a child actor to leave concrete proof of his existence. His family consists of his grandparents, father, mother, an older sister (11 years older than him) and two nieces. His grandmother died in 2020.

## Career

Kamiki began acting as a child actor after entering the Central Group talent agency. His first commercial was for a Toy Box when he was only two years old. He made his television debut with the 1999 drama Good News in a lead role. In 2001, when he was five years old, he was personally scouted by Hayao Miyazaki. Kamiki went on to voice characters in many of Studio Ghibli's feature films, giving him the title of the Ghibli Child. In 2004, he led the film Backdrop del mio Papa, for which he won his first award. In the following years, he continued to work both as an actor and voice actor, winning awards every two years. Kamiki won the Rookie Award 2020 at the Elan d'or Awards, one of the most prestigious awards in Japan.
On March 16, 2021, Kamiki left Amuse and founded Co-LaVo along with Takeru Satoh.

### Other ventures

Kamiki wrote his first book Master's Cafe: The Fulfillment of Masters' Dreams in 2015. He approached fifteen professionals who are active on the front lines of various fields. In 2019, he made his stage debut with the play Beautiful: The Woman Who Met with God, written and directed by Suzuki Matsuo. The following year, he debuted in multiple fields such as a radio host for All Night Nippon 0 (ANN0), directing the music video for "I Treasure You" and opened his official YouTube channel. He was also the official photographer for Satoh's 2021 calendar. In 2020, he started to conceptualize his annual calendar.
The 2021 calendar, one part of the 25th anniversary project, was started when "Novel characters I want Kamiki to play" video was posted on his Twitter, urging fans to suggest novel characters for him to portray. It garnered reactions from many celebrities, including voice actor Yuki Kaji and film director Shunji Iwai, among others. Finally, twelve novels were selected from the retweets to represent the themes for the twelve months. The lineup expanded from classics to more recent pieces. The calendar shot by the renowned photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa was a new attempt to play different roles for twelve works in the calendar. As Yonosuke in Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man for August, props such as smoke tubes are used in a colorful set to express the sex appeal of adults that has never been seen before by him, and the novel published in May cover, No Longer Human (as Ōba Yōzō), the darkness of human beings and the beauty of men are produced. Of the twelve novels so far, Mysterious Weather at Yanaka's Retro Camera Store (as Imamiya Ryūichi) and Hamlet (as Ophelia), including the prior mentioned works have been confirmed. For this project, Kamiki sported silver hair for the first time, with shooting taking two days to complete. The calendar was sold on December 25, 2020, to signify the 25 year anniversary.
Kamiki was invited to be the photographer for Takeru Satoh's 2021 Calendar. The concept of a "photobook-like calendar" featured natural expressions when spending time with friends—with a sense of distance that can be taken by an old friend. It is a special calendar taken in places where Satoh wants to go with Kamiki and where he would like to take pictures of him, such as driving the car, in Shibuya and Harajuku, in maid cafes, etc. He took over eight thousand photos. Some are excluded in the desk calendar. He wants to have a photo exhibition and albums.
In 2022, Kamiki excavated one of the world's oldest ichthyosaur fossils in Minamisanriku in his first fossil excavation during the filming of From Miyagi. The fossil is on display at the Minasan Museum.

## Artistry and public image

In the award-winning The Great Yokai War, he overcame his fear of swimming. For his role in Kokoro no Ito, he learned sign language and the piano. In 2022, he was voted the Most Powerful Actor in Japan.

## Filmography
### Films
#### Live-action

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2003 | Rockers | Taku (young) |
| 2003 | Bayside Shakedown 2 | |
| 2004 | Backdrop del mio Papa | Kazuo |
| 2004 | Ren'ai Shōsetsu ("Love Story") | Satoshi Kubo (young) |
| 2004 | Install | Kazuyoshi Aoki |
| 2004 | Survive Style 5+ | Keiichi Kobayashi |
| 2005 | Zoo | |
| 2005 | The Great Yokai War | Tadashi Ino |
| 2007 | Big Man Japan | Warabe-no-jū |
| 2008 | Into the Faraway Sky | Ryūnosuke Kusunoki |
| 2008 | Little DJ: Chiisana Koi no Monogatari | Tarō Takano |
| 2009 | 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption | Katsumata |
| 2012 | SPEC: Heaven | Ninomae Jūichi |
| 2012 | The Kirishima Thing | Ryōya Maeda |
| 2013 | SPEC: Close | Ninomae Jūichi |
| 2014 | Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno | Seta Sōjirō |
| 2014 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends | Seta Sōjirō |
| 2014 | As the Gods Will | Takeru Amaya |
| 2015 | Bakuman | Akito Takagi |
| 2015 | Poison Berry in My Brain | Ishibashi |
| 2016 | Sun | Tetsuhiko Okudera |
| 2016 | Too Young To Die! | Daisuke |
| 2017 | March Comes in Like a Lion | Rei Kiriyama |
| 2017 | March Goes Out Like a Lamb | Rei Kiriyama |
| 2017 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable | Koichi Hirose |
| 2017 | Tales of Chigasaki | Jun'ichi Miyaji |
| 2019 | Fortuna's Eye | Shin'ichiro Kiyama |
| 2019 | Murders at the House of Death | Yuzuru Hamura |
| 2020 | Last Letter | Kyōshirō Otosaka (young) |
| 2021 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Final | Seta Sōjirō |
| 2021 | The Great Yokai War: Guardians | Katō |
| 2022 | Noise | Shin'ichirō Moriya |
| 2022 | xxxHolic | Kimihiro Watanuki |
| 2022 | Yokaipedia | Antiquarian bookshop owner |
| 2022 | Dr. Coto's Clinic 2022 | Ryūichi Sugimoto |
| 2023 | We're Broke, My Lord! | Matsudaira Koshirō |
| 2023 | Godzilla Minus One | Kōichi Shikishima |
| 2024 | Saint Young Men: The Movie | Johannes |
| 2024 | At the Bench | |

#### Animation

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2001 | Spirited Away | Boh |
| 2003 | Kirikou and the Sorceress | Kirikou |
| 2004 | Howl's Moving Castle | Markl |
| 2006 | Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 | Piisuke |
| 2006 | Hoshi o Katta Hi | Nona |
| 2008 | Piano Forest | Shūhei Amamiya |
| 2009 | Summer Wars | Kenji Koiso |
| 2010 | Arrietty | Sho |
| 2011 | The Princess and the Pilot | Charles Karino |
| 2016 | Your Name | Taki Tachibana |
| 2017 | Mary and the Witch's Flower | Peter |
| 2019 | Weathering with You | Taki Tachibana |
| 2020 | Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur | Piisuke (Archive voice from 2006 film) |
| 2021 | The Crocodile That Lived for 100 Days | Crocodile |
| 2021 | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time | Shinji Ikari (Adulthood) |
| 2022 | Suzume | Tomoya Serizawa |

### Television
#### Live-action

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Good News | Naoya | |
| 2000 | Aoi Tokugawa Sandai | Gorōtamaru | Taiga drama |
| 2000 | Namida o Fuite | Ryota Fuchigami | |
| 2000 | Quiz | | |
| 2000 | The Woman of S.R.I. Season 2 | Yusuke | Episode 2 |
| 2000 | Tekkoki Mikazuki | Fuo Iwado (young) | Episode 6 |
| 2001 | Kamen Rider Agito | Overlord of Darkness (young) Overload of Light (young) | Dual role |
| 2001 | Doctor/Kranke | Kenta Oikawa | |
| 2001 | Hamidashi Keiji Jonetsu Kei Season 6 | Sakanuma Ryo | Episodes 6 and 20 |
| 2001 | Maria | Kondo Masashi | Episode 7 |
| 2001 | Mukodono! | Arai Tsutomu | |
| 2001 | Shingo Mama Drama Special Ooh Will Save the World | Ken | |
| 2002 | Psycho Doctor | Kitamura Kenta | Episode 6 |
| 2002 | Tantei Kazoku | Tanaka Taro | |
| 2002 | Wedding Planner | Terashima Taku | |
| 2002 | Omiya | Seiichiro | |
| 2002 | Kanojotachi no Christmas | | |
| 2002 | Emergency Room 24 Hours Special | Toinomoto Ryo | |
| 2003 | Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger | Kerato | Episode 36 |
| 2003 | Boku no Mahōtsukai | Michio (young) | |
| 2003 | Dr. Coto's Clinic | Ryuichi Sugimoto | Episodes 5, 7, and 11 |
| 2003 | Shizumanai Hone | Shota | TV movie |
| 2004 | Ōoku | Iemochi Tokugawa | |
| 2004 | Ōoku 3 SP: Bakumatsu no Onnatachi | Tokugawa Iemochi | |
| 2004 | Re'nai Shōsetsu | Kubo Satoshi (young) | |
| 2004 | Dr. Coto's Clinic 2004 Special | Ryuichi Sugimoto | |
| 2005 | The Life Heritage | Ryota Nakajima | |
| 2005 | Charming | Horo Mashiba | |
| 2005 | Yoshitsune | Ushiwakamaru | Taiga drama |
| 2006 | Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Special | Nakagawa Masaya (young) | |
| 2006 | Detective School Q Special | Renjō Kyu | |
| 2007 | Dondo Hare | Tomoya Asakura | Asadora |
| 2007 | Ruri no Shima Special 2007: Hatsukoi | Miyahara Shion | TV movie |
| 2007 | Tantei Gakuen Q | Renjo Kyu | |
| 2007 | Amazing World | Yuji | |
| 2008 | Kaze no Gāden | | |
| 2009 | Akahana no Sensei | | |
| 2010 | Bloody Monday | | Episodes 6, 7 |
| 2010 | Keizoku 2 "Spec" | Ninomae Juichi | |
| 2010 | Kokoro no Ito | | TV movie |
| 2011 | Koukousei Restaurant | Yōsuke Sakamoto | |
| 2011 | Odd Family Eleven | Kazuo Sanada | |
| 2012 | Kiyomori | Minamoto no Yoshitsune | Taiga drama |
| 2012 | Blackboard: Teachers Against the Tide of Time | Omiya Masaki | Episode 3 |
| 2012 | SPEC: Life | Ninomae Juichi | |
| 2013 | The Family Game | Shin'ichi Numata | |
| 2013 | SPEC: Zero | Ninomae Juichi | |
| 2013 | Kogure Shashinkan | Hanabishi Eiichi | |
| 2013 | SPEC: Close – Incarnation | Ninomae Juichi | |
| 2013 | SPEC: Close – Reincarnation | Ninomae Juichi | |
| 2014 | Henshin | Jun'ichi Naruse | |
| 2014 | Fathers | Tatsuya | Episode 9 |
| 2014 | The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo | Kurasuma Hikaru | Episode 1 |
| 2014 | Tales of the Unusual: Fall 2014 | Shirai Naoki | |
| 2014 | Time Slip! | Aoyama Hikaru | Web drama |
| 2014 | Toki wa Tachidomaranai | Hamaguchi Mitsuhiko | |
| 2015 | The Girl's Speech | Kei Shizukui | |
| 2015 | Samurai Teacher | Sakamoto Ryōma | |
| 2017 | Detective Yugami | Hanyu Toaro | Lead role |
| 2017 | Yasuragi no Sato | Hamura Shunichiro | Week 26 |
| 2018 | School Lawyer Shotaro Taguchi | Shotaro Taguchi | Lead role |
| 2018 | True Horror Stories: Summer 2018 | Sasaki Yusuke | |
| 2019 | Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo | Gorin | Taiga drama |
| 2019 | Everyone's Demoted!! | Kōji Takigawa | |
| 2020 | Bones of Steel | Heita Tomishima | Lead role |
| 2020 | Sanjūjinkaku to Mahōtsukai | Himself | |
| 2020 | True Horror Stories: Summer 2020 | Ozawa Naoya | |
| 2021 | Ojisama to Neko | Fukumaru (voice) | |
| 2021 | Life's Punchline | Shunta Asabuki | |
| 2021 | Life's Punchline's Spinoff Makubes no 23-ji | Shunta Asabuki | |
| 2022 | A Day-Off of Ryunosuke Kamiki | Himself | Lead role; miniseries |
| 2022 | If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student. | Yūri Koga | |
| 2023 | Ranman | Mantarō Makino | Lead role; Asadora |
| 2024 | Umi ni Nemuru Diamond | Teppei | Lead role |

#### Television Animation

| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2021 | Ani × Para | Yukihiro | NHK-BS1 | Episode 12 | |
| 2021 | Ao and Kii | Ao | NHK-E | Lead role | |

### Theater

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2019 | Kirei: Kamisama no machiawase shita onna | Harikona |
| 2020 | Don't Turn Out the Lights! Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon | |
| 2021 | Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum | Editor |

### Dubbing
#### Live-action

| Year | Title | Role | Voice dub for | Notes |
| 2004 | I, Cesar | Cesar | Jules Sitruk | |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | The chicks | Jules Sitruk | |
| 2021 | Parasite | Kim Ki-woo | Choi Woo-shik | NTV edition |

#### Animation

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2003 | Kirikou and the Sorceress | Kirikou |
| 2006 | Arthur and the Invisibles | Arthur |
| 2009 | Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard | Arthur |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2004 | Backdrop del mio Papa | The Japanese Movie Critics Awards 2004: Rookie of the Year | Won |
| 2006 | The Great Yokai War | The 29th Japan Academy Film Prize: Newcomers of the Year | Won |
| 2007 | Tantei Gakuen Q (2007) | 54th Japanese Drama Academy Awards: Lead Actor | Won |
| 2011 | Kokoro no Ito | Seoul International Drama Awards: Popular Actor | Won |
| 2011 | Kokoro no Ito | Mipcom Buyers' Award for Japanese Drama | Won |
| 2011 | Kokoro no Ito | 47th Hugo TV Awards Feature Film Category Gold Award | Won |
| 2011 | Kokoro no Ito | 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival: Best Actor | Nominated |
| 2011 | Kokoro no Ito | 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival: The AMADE Prize | Won |
| 2012 | The Kirishima Thing and SPEC: Heaven | Tama Cinema Forum: Best Emerging Actor | Won |
| 2012 | The Kirishima Thing | 37th Hochi Film Award: Best Actor | Nominated |
| 2014 | Fathers | Galaxy Monthly Awards: TV | Won |
| 2013 | The Family Game | The 17th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix Spring: Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2013 | The Family Game | The 77th The Television Drama Academy: Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2013 | The Family Game | The 23rd TVLife Drama Award 2013: Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2015 | Poison Berry in My Brain and Bakuman | 40th Hochi Film Awards | |
| 2015 | Popularity | Seoul International Drama Awards: Asian Stars | Won |
| 2015 | The Girl's Speech/Samurai Teacher | TV Navi's Drama Awards 2015 | Won |
| 2016 | Too Young to Die! | Fantasia Film Festival: Best Asian Feature Silver | Won |
| 2016 | Too Young To Die! | Rotterdam International Film Festival: Netpac Award | Nominated |
| 2016 | Too Young To Die! | New York Asian Film Festival: Audience Award | Won |
| 2017 | March Comes in Like a Lion | 42nd Hochi Film Award: Best Actor | Nominated |
| 2017 | Your Name | The 11th Seiyu Awards: Best Lead Actor | Won |
| 2018 | Detective Yugami | The 10th CONFiDENCE AWARD DRAMA PRIZE: Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2018 | Detective Yugami | The 95th Drama Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor | Won |
| 2020 | Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo | The 44th Elan d'or Awards: Best Producer | Won |
| 2020 | Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo and Fortuna's Eye | The 44th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year | Won |
| 2021 | Life's Punchline | The 108th The Television Drama Academy Awards: Jury Votes | Won |
| 2024 | Godzilla Minus One | The 66th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Actor | Won |
| 2024 | Godzilla Minus One | The 47th Japan Academy Film Prize: Best Actor | Nominated |

## Other works
### Books

| Year | Title | Publisher | Note | ISBN |
| 2005 | Photobook My Bōken by Kentaro Atsuchi | Kadokawa Shoten | | 978-4-048-53882-4 |
| 2005 | Boy Actor vol.1 Cover / Long Gravure | Pia | | 978-4-835-61593-6 |
| 2006 | BOYS: GRASSROOTS Cover / Main Gravure | INFAS Publications | | 978-4-900-78537-3 |
| 2015 | Kamiki Ryunosuke's Master's Cafe: The Fulfillment of Masters' Dreams | Magazine House | Writer | 978-4-8387-2800-8 |
| 2017 | Sincérité | Amuse | Photobook | |
| 2020 | Omote Kamiki / Ura Kamiki | Amuse | Autobiography | |

### Magazine Serialization

| Year | Title | Publisher |
| 2013–2015 | Kamiki Ryunosuke's Master's Cafe | AnAn |

### Direction

| Title | Year | Note | Reff |
| "I Treasure You" MV | 2019 | 15th Anniversary SUPER HANDSOME COLLECTION 「JUMP↑」 | |

### Photography

| Title | Year | | Reff |
| Takeru Satoh's 2021 calendar | 2020 | Calendar | |
| Take a breath with this night written by Ichi Kitahara | 2020 | Book Cover | |

### Documentary

| Year | Title | Role | Network |
| 2001 | Chosuke Ikariya Wild Africa Adventure: Travel 16,000 km with an 8-year-old best friend | Guest | TV Tokyo |
| 2012 | The Future of the Earth! Urgent Report: "Thinking with Seiji Miyane! What is a sustainable world? | Narrator | NTV |
| 2012 | Newly Discovered Art Variety "Aho! World!" | Narrator | Fuji TV |
| 2013 | Newly Discovered Art Variety "Aho!" | Studio Guest, Narrator | Fuji TV |
| 2014 | Ryunosuke Kamiki 20-year-old trip Going to the Vietnam border railway-in search of the most beautiful terraced rice fields in the world | Host | BS Japan |
| 2015 | NHK Special NEXT WORLD Our Future | Host | NHK |
| 2020 | Coronavirus, Youth, Us: Swimming club's last summer of high school | Narrator | NHK |
| 2021 | Butterfly Effect because that day exists, now exists. | Narrator | NHK General TV |

### Narration

| Year | Title | Role | Reff |
| 2010 | The Legend of Alma: The Story of a Dog You Don't Know | Alma's Voice | |
| 2013 | How Nollywood movies are made. Nigeria's "World's Best Movie City": Dreams and Fervor | | |

### Radio
#### Program

| Year | Title | Station | Note | Reff |
| 2020 | Kamiki Ryunosuke All Night Nippon 0 (ZERO) | Nippon Broadcasting System | | |
| 2021 | Kamiki Ryunosuke no RADIO MOG STATION presented by Final Fantasy XIV | TOKYO FM and other JFN 38 stations nationwide | Live Radio YouTube | |

#### Drama

| Year | Title | Role | Station | Reff |
| 2005 | Bonkura | Santaro Odeko | ABC Radio | |
| 2006 | Daily life | Santaro Odeko | ABC Radio | |

### Web drama

| Year | Title | Role | Note | Reff |
| 2014 | Time Slip! Yasubee Horibe | Mitsuru Aoyama | | |
| 2018–ongoing | Ishiki takasugi! Takasugi-kun | Takasugi-kun | CM Series | |

### Audio Drama

| Year | Title | Role | Distributor | Notes | Reff |
| 2021 | 300-Nen Go Nihon Mukashibanashi | Riimantaro | Numa | voicing 7 characters | |
| 2021 | Koi Samurai | Ochiai Masayasu | Numa | is being novelized | |

### Music Video Appearances

| Year | Song title | Artist |
| 2004 | "Aya-Aja-" | Southern All Stars |
| 2004 | "Strike" | Suneohair |
| 2007 | "Sweet Fragrance (Movie Ver.)" | Cocco |
| 2012 | "The sun rises again" | Yu Takahashi |
| 2018 | "Sasanqua" | Sekai no Owari |

### Drama CD

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2003 | Lagoon Engine | Jin Ragun |

### Game

| Year | Title | Role | Reff |
| 2010 | Zack and Ombra: The Forgotten Amusement Park | Zack | |

### Discography

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2016 | "TOO YOUNG TO DIE! Hell's Song Hell" | Guitarist |
| 2016 | "TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" | Vocals |
| 2016 | "Heaven" | Vocals |