Yagira was 12 years old and not a professional actor, when filming began for ''Nobody Knows'' in 2002. He then immediately went on to television projects and other films. He co-starred with Eriko Sato in Akane Yamada's ''All to the Sea'' which was released in 2010 and co-starred with Kie Kitano in Taro Hyugaji's ''Under the Nagasaki Sky'', released in 2013.
In 2021, Yagira played young
Takeshi Kitano
, also known as in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
During hi ...
drug overdose
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, with early reports calling it a
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. Yagira later denied that he had been trying to kill himself, noting that he was the one who called an ambulance after he began feeling ill from taking the pills. According to his blog:
Marriage
In December 2, 2009, Yagira announced on his blog that he was engaged to television personality . On January 15, 2010, Yagira and Toyota held their wedding ceremony at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. They had registered their marriage on January 14. They have one daughter together, born October 13, 2010.
The two met when Toyota was a senior at
Horikoshi High School
is a private high school in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. The school was founded by Chiyo Horikoshi in 1923.
Due to its trait course (formerly the entertainment activities course) and the physical education course for entertainers and athletes who have ...
, and Yagira, who was instantly smitten after meeting her, asked a classmate for her contact information, which is how the two began dating. Yagira also revealed that he had proposed to her when he was seventeen, as he was unaware that people could not legally marry until they were eighteen, so he was told, "You can't marry until you're 18". Yagira later proposed again two years later when he was nineteen, to which this time Toyota accepted.
Brand endorsements
In 2018, Yagira became the brand ambassador for Japanese men's grooming brand GATSBY. He starred in the TV Commercial "GATSBY Cop", together with popular Japanese actor Mackenyu Arata.
Filmography
Television
* ''Kunimitsu no Matsuri'' ( KTV, 2003), Shinsaku Sakagami
* ''Denchi ga Kireru Made'' (
TV Asahi
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Fuji TV
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Nobunaga Concerto'', episode 1 (Fuji TV, 2014), Oda Nobuyuki
* '' Nurses of the Palace'' (TBS, 2015), Kōtarō Nakano
* ''
Mare
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'' (
NHK
, also known by its Romanization of Japanese, romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcasting, public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television licence, television license fee.
NHK ope ...
, '' Asadora'', 2015), Daisuke Ikehata
* ''We're Millennials. Got a Problem?'' (NTV, 2016), Maribu Michigami
* '' Naotora: The Lady Warlord'' (NHK,
Taiga Drama
is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white ''Hana no Shōgai'', starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regul ...
, 2017), Ryūun-maru
* ''Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter?'' (NHK, 2017), Taichi Matsushima
* ''Frankenstein's Love'' ( NTV, 2017), Seiya Inaniwa
* ''Gintama: Mitsuba hen'' (dTV, 2017), Toshiro Hijikata
* ''Gintama of the Unusual'' (dTV, 2018), Toshiro Hijikata
* '' From Today, It's My Turn'', episode 3 (NTV, 2018), Moyuru Honoo
* ''A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura'', episode 4 (Wowow, 2020), Kevin Takeda
* ''Gift of Fire'' (NHK, 2020), Osamu Ishimura
* ''Pay to Ace'' ( NTV, 2021), Kurodo Kuroki
* '' Gannibal'' (
Disney+
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, 2022–present), Daigo Agawa
* '' Light of My Lion'' ( TBS, 2024), Hiroto Komori
Film
* '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), Akira Fukushima
* ''Shining Boy and Little Randy'' (2005)
* '' Sugar and Spice'' (2006), Shiro Yamashita
* '' The Bandage Club'' (2007)
* '' The Shock Labyrinth 3D'' (2009)
* ''All to the Sea'' (2010)
* ''Under the Nagasaki Sky'' (2013), Goro Sawada
* ''
Unforgiven
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'' (2013), Yuichi Hirose
* ''Again'' (2013), Ryutaro
* '' Crows Explode'' (2014), Toru Gora
* ''Ushijima the Loan Shark 2'' (2014), Ebinuma
* ''Saiga no Inochi'' (2014), Keito Myose
* ''Gassoh'' (2015), Kiwamu Akitsu
* ''Destruction Babies'' (2016), Taira Ashihara
* '' Hentai Kamen: Abnormal Crisis'' (2016), Tadashi Makoto
* '' Pink and Gray'' (2016), Shingo Suzuki
* ''Ninkyo Yaro'' (2016)
* ''Grab the Sun'' (2016)
* '' Gintama'' (2017), Toshiro Hijikata
* ''Samurai's Promise'' (2018), Chiri Tsubaki
* '' Hibiki'' (2018), Kohei Tanaka
* ''Gintama 2'' (2018), Toshiro Hijikata
* ''His Lost Name'' (2019), Shichi
* '' The Fable'' (2019), Kojima
* ''Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre'' (2019), Tomoyuki Saito
* '' Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration'' (2019)
* '' From Today, It's My Turn the Movie'' (2020), Eiji Yanagi
* ''Hokusai'' (2021), Hokusai Katsushika (young)
* ''Gift of Fire'' (2021), Osamu Ishimura
* ''Under the Turquoise Sky'' (2021), Takeshi
* '' Asakusa Kid'' (2021),
Takeshi Kitano
, also known as in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
During hi ...
* ''The Fish Tale'' (2022), Hiyo
* ''We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie'' (2023), Maribu Michigami
* '' A Conviction of Marriage'' (2024), Arata Natsume
Elan d'or Awards
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