is a Japanese actor and dancer.

Life and career

Moriyama started training in dance when he was 5 years old. He trained in jazz dance, tap dance, ballet and hip-hop, and he appeared in several stage roles. He officially made his stage debut with 1999 ''Boys Time''. In 2008, he played the lead character in a Japanese version of the musical ''

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''. In the 2004 film ''

Socrates in Love is a 2001 Japanese melodrama novel, written by Kyoichi Katayama and published by Shogakukan, which revolves around narrator Sakutaro Matsumoto's recollections of a school classmate whom he once loved. It is also known as , which author Kat ...

'', he played a high school age hero trying to deal with his terminally-ill girlfriend. He also portrayed the character Kakuta in the film ''

20th Century Boys is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Spirits'' from 1999 to 2006, with the 249 chapters published into 22 ''tankōbon'' ...

''. He starred in ''

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''. He also appeared in

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...

's television drama ''

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's film ''A Chorus of Angels''. In July 2021 he performed in the opening ceremony of the

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Filmography

Film

* ''

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World is a 2004 Japanese drama film directed by Isao Yukisada and based on the novel ''Socrates in Love'' by Kyoichi Katayama. The story follows a man (Takao Osawa) who returns to his hometown and listens to audio diaries recorded by his school sweeth ...

'' (2004) * ''Smile'' (2007) * '' One Million Yen Girl'' (2008) * '' 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End'' (2008) * '' 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope'' (2009) * '' 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption'' (2009) * '' Fish Story'' (2009) * ''

Moteki is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsurō Kubo. It was serialized in ''Evening'' magazine from 2008 to 2010, with its chapters collected into four ''tankōbon'' volumes by Kodansha. It was adapted into a Japanese televis ...

'' (2010) * '' Seiji: Riku no Sakana'' (2012) * '' The Drudgery Train'' (2012) * ''A Chorus of Angels'' (2012) * ''Saint Young Men'' (2013) * ''

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'' (2013) * '' Rage'' (2016) * ''

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'' (2018), Gaku * ''

Samurai Marathon is a 2019 Japanese-British historical action adventure film directed by Bernard Rose and starring Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu and Mirai Moriyama. It is based on the 2014 novel ''The Marathon Samurai: Five Tales of Japan’s First Marathon'' by ...

'' (2019) * ''I Was a Secret Bitch'' (2019), Misawa * ''The Horse Thieves: Roads of Time'' (2019) * ''Underdog'' (2020), Suenaga * ''

We Couldn't Become Adults is a 2021 Japanese film written by Ryō Takada and directed by Yoshihiro Mori and starring Mirai Moriyama and Sairi Ito. It was released by Netflix on November 5, 2021. Plot The story moves back and forward in time, between 2020 and 1998, sho ...

'' (2021), Makoto Satō * ''

Inu-Oh is a 2021 Japanese animated musical film directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Science SARU. Based upon the novel ''Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh'' by Hideo Furukawa, the film is set in 14th century Japan and centers on the friendship betwee ...

'' (2021), Tomona (voice) * ''Miss Osaka'' (2022) * ''Mountain Woman'' (2023), Mountain man

Television

* ''Waterboys 2'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) * ''Kiken na Aneki'' (2005) * ''

'' (2010) * ''

'' (2012) * ''Inagakike no Moshu'' (2017) * ''Miotsukushi Ryōrichō'' (2017) * '' Idaten'' (2019), Kōzō Minobe * ''

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan ''Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe'', known in Japan as , is a series of manga one-shot (comics), one-shots created by Hirohiko Araki. It is a spin-off from ''Diamond Is Unbreakable'', the fourth part of Araki's ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' series, a ...

'' (2020), Shishi Jūgo * ''Prism'' (2022), Yūma

Video games

*''

Dragon Quest Heroes II ''Dragon Quest Heroes II'' is a hack-and-slash game developed by Omega Force and published by Square Enix for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, and Windows. It was released in Japan in May 2016, and worldwide in ...

'' (2016)

References

External links

* * Japanese male film actors Japanese male musical theatre actors Japanese male television actors 1984 births Living people Actors from Kobe 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors {{japan-stage-actor-stub