, known by the stage name Akira, is a Japanese actor and dancer. He is also a member of the all-male J-Pop groups

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and Exile The Second.

Participating Groups

Life and career

Akira was born in

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, Japan. He moved to

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, at the age of three. Akira started dancing at the age of 16, at dance club events around the Shizuoka area. He then moved to

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and went on to find the talent agency Makidai & USA. In December 2004, he debuted as a performer in ''Rather Unique''. In June 2006, he joined the group

as a performer. He began working as an actor in March 2006, appearing in the "No.1 Attack" stage troupe Gumi Honan. Since then, he has acted in a number of TV dramas in Japan, including the 2012 remake of the ''

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'' series, which has been broadcast on Fuji TV since July 2012. In 2015, Akira provided the voice of

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in the Japanese dub of the film '' Mad Max: Fury Road''. In September 2016, was announced that he was joining the group Exile The Second as a performer. In June 2019, he announced that he will marry

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, a Taiwanese supermodel and actress. Lin gave birth to a son on 31 January 2022.

Works

TV Drama

* ''Around 40 - Chuumon no Ooi Onnatachi'' (TBS, April 2008-), role of Tatsuya Ogata * ''Toomawari no Ame'' (NTV, 2010-Mar-27 start), role of Yasushi Kikuchi * ''Tumbling'' (TBS, 2010-Apr-17 start), role of Yutaka Kashiwagi * ''Gou - Himetachi no sengoku'' (NHK, 2011-Jan-09 to 2011-Nov-27), role of Hidekatsu Toyotomi * ''GTO'' (Fuji TV, July 2012 - September 2012), role of Eikichi Onizuka * ''

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'' (Fuji TV, January 2013 - March 2013), role of Daisuke Goura * ''Honey Trap'' (Fuji TV, October 2013 - December 2013), role of Yuuichi Miyama * ''GTO'' (2nd season) (Fuji TV, July 2014 - September 2014), role of Eikichi Onizuka * ''HEAT'' (Fuji TV, July 2015 - September 2015), role of Tatsuya Ikegami * ''High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D.'' (NTV, October 2015 - December 2015), role of Kohaku * ''High & Low - The Story of S.W.O.R.D.'' (2nd season) (NTV, April 2016 - June 2016), role of Kohaku

Film

* ''Hana Yori Dango Final'' (2008), Sunny * ''Yamagata Scream'' (2009), Santaro * ''Properly convey'' (2009), North Shiro * ''Legend of the Fist：The Return of Chen Zhen'' (2010), Sasaki * ''Hanjiro'' (2010), Yaichiro Nagayama * ''Working Holiday'' (2012), Yamato Okita * ''Kusahara no Isu'' (2013), Kagiyama * ''Unfair: the end'' (2015), * '' High & Low: The Movie'' (2016), Kohaku * '' High&Low The Red Rain'' (2016), Kohaku * '' High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky'' (2017), Kohaku * '' High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission'' (2017), Kohaku * ''Tatara Samurai'' (2017) * ''This Old Road: Konomichi'' (2019), Kosaku Yamada * ''The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai'' (2022), Yamamoto Tatewaki

Short film

* Cinema Fighters "Kimochirabo no Kaihō"(2018) * Cinema Fighters Project "Beautiful" (2019)

TV Show

* ''Exile Generation'' (NTV, January 2009 - March 2010) * ''EXH: Exile House'' (TBS, April 2009 - March 2010) * ''Hiruxile'' (NTV, April 2010 - March 2011) * ''EXE'' (TBS, April 2010 - September) * ''Exile Tamashii'' (MBS TV MBS, TBS, October 2010)

Radio

* ''Sessions Four'' ( FM North Wave) * ''Radio Mashup'' MASHUP ( Yokohama FM radio, October 2010 -)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akira 1981 births Living people Japanese male dancers Japanese dancers Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Male actors from Yokohama LDH (company) artists