, previously known as Arata, is a Japanese actor, model and fashion designer. He is the Director of fashion brand Elnest Creative Activity. He holds the position of Director at the Artisan Culture Organisation Institute.

Biography

Iura co-starred in

Yukio Ninagawa was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of ''Hamlet.'' Ninagawa was also emeritus of the ...

's ''

Snakes and Earrings is a Japanese novel by Hitomi Kanehara. The story follows Lui, a young woman in Tokyo whose fascination with body modification and sadomasochistic sexual activity drives her to make increasingly dangerous personal choices. First published in 200 ...

'' with

Yuriko Yoshitaka is a Japanese actress. She has played numerous roles in film and television, including lead roles in ''Snakes and Earrings'', '' Yurigokoro'', and the NHK asadora ''Hanako to Anne''. Career At age 16, her first year of high school, Yoshitaka joi ...

and

Kengo Kora is a Japanese actor. Career Kora has gained recognition for his roles in films such as Shinji Aoyama's '' Sad Vacation'', Yukio Ninagawa's ''Snakes and Earrings'', Tran Anh Hung's '' Norwegian Wood'', Ryuichi Hiroki's ''The Egoists'', Yoshihir ...

. He appeared in

Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director. Career After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with '' Dotsuitarunen'' (earning the Directors Guild of Ja ...

's '' Strangers in the City''. He portrayed

Yukio Mishima , born , was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered fo ...

Koji Wakamatsu Koji, Kōji, Kohji or Kouji may refer to: *Kōji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name *Kōji (Heian period) (康治), Japanese era, 1142–1144 *Kōji (Muromachi period) (弘治), Japanese era, 1555–1558 *Koji orange, a Japanese citrus ...

's '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate''. He also appeared in several of

Hirokazu Koreeda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...

's films, including '' After Life'', ''

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'' and ''

Air Doll is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. It is based on the manga series ''Kuuki Ningyo'' by Yoshiie Gōda, which was serialized in the seinen manga magazine ''Big Comic Original''. It stars Bae Doona as an inflatable sex dol ...

''.

Filmography

Film

* '' After Life'' (1998) * ''Shady Grove'' (1999) * ''

'' (2001) * ''

Ping Pong Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

'' (2002) * ''Aoi Kuruma'' (2004) * ''Gina K'' (2005) * '' Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' (2005) * ''The Prisoner'' (2007) * ''Purukogi'' (2007) * ''

United Red Army The was a militant organization, that operated in Japan between July 1971 and March 1972. The URA was formed as the result of a merger that began on 13 July 1971 between two extremist groups, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist , led in 1971 by Tsuneo ...

'' (2007) * ''

'' (2008) * ''

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' ...

'' (2008) * ''

'' (2009) * ''Ultra Miracle Love Story'' (2009) * ''

John Rabe John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre (also known as Nanking) and his work to prot ...

'' (2009) * ''

Caterpillar Caterpillars ( ) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths). As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Sy ...

'' (2010) * '' Zatoichi: The Last'' (2010) * '' Strangers in the City'' (2010) * ''

Kimi ni Todoke is a Japanese '' shōjo'' romance manga by Karuho Shiina. It was published by Shueisha in ''Bessatsu Margaret'' from 2005 to 2017 and collected in 30 ''tankōbon'' volumes. In 2008, it won the Best Shōjo Manga award in the 32nd Annual ...

'' (2010) * '' 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate'' (2012),

* '' Our Homeland'' (2012) * ''

Bakugyaku Familia is a Japanese manga series by Hiroshi Tanaka. It was adapted into a live action film in 2012. Cast * Yoshimi Tokui as Tetsu *Kento Hayashi as Shuhei *Sadao Abe *Tetsuji Tamayama *Nao Ōmori * Kazuki Kitamura *Arata Iura *Mitsuko Baisho * Ken ...

'' (2012) * '' Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship'' (2012) * ''The Millennial Rapture'' (2013) * ''

The Ravine of Goodbye is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Tatsushi Ōmori. The film is based on the Japanese 2008 novel ''Sayonara keikoku'' by Shuichi Yoshida, which intrigued Ōmori with its central mystery of a rape victim and her perpetrator choosing to l ...

'' (2013) * '' Like Father, like Son'' (2013) * ''A Band Rabbit and a Boy'' (2013) * ''

Cape Nostalgia is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Izuru Narushima. It was released on October 11. The film is based on the novel by Akio Morisawa. Cast *Sayuri Yoshinaga * Hiroshi Abe *Yūko Takeuchi *Shōfukutei Tsurube II , born , is a Japanese r ...

'' (2014) * ''

Asleep Sleep is a sedentary state of mind and body. It is characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and reduced interactions with surroundings. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a de ...

'' (2015), Iwanaga * '' High & Low: The Movie'' (2016) * ''And Then There Was Light'' (2017) * ''Waiting for the Moon'' (2017) * ''Smokin' on the Moon'' (2018), Sōta Amaya * ''Red Snow'' (2018) * ''Dare to Stop Us'' (2018), Kōji Wakamatsu * ''The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa'' (2018) * ''

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine ''The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine'' is a 2018 film directed by Takahisa Zeze about women's sumo wrestling and anarchism after the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake. The film won the Busan Film Festival The Busan International Film ...

'' (2018), Genjirō Muraki * ''Raiden'' (2019) * ''Amber Light'' (2019) * '' Dragon Quest: Your Story'' (2019), Grandmaster Nimzo (voice) * '' Miyamoto'' (2019) * ''Stolen Identity 2'' (2020) * ''

True Mothers is a 2020 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. It was selected to be shown at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on a 2015 novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. In June 2020, the Toronto International Film Festival announced that the fil ...

'' (2020), Kiyokazu Kurihara * ''Ninja Girl'' (2021), Kōji Noma * ''Omoide Shashin'' (2021) * ''The Master'' (2021) * ''The Road to Murder: The Movie'' (2021) * ''Skeleton Flowers'' (2021) * ''Parasite in Love'' (2021) * ''

Child of Kamiari Month is a 2021 Anime, Japanese animated Supernatural fiction, supernatural Fantasy film, fantasy Adventure film, adventure film produced by Liden Films and directed by Takana Shirai. It premiered in Japanese theaters on October 8, 2021 and in Netflix i ...

'' (2021), Norimasa Hayama (voice) * ''Niwatori Phoenix'' (2022), Sōta Amaya * ''The World with Maki'' (2022) * ''Rageaholic'' (2022) * ''This Is Amiko'' (2022), Amiko's father * ''Fukuda-mura Jiken'' (2023), Tomokazu Sawada

Television

* ''

Mori no Asagao is a Japanese manga series by Mamora Gōda. It won the 11th Grand Prize for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2007. It was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2010. Synopsis New prison guard Naoki Oikawa gets assigned to t ...

'' (2010) * '' Mitsu no Aji: A Taste of Honey'' (2011) * ''

Taira no Kiyomori was a military leader and ''kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan. Early life Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō, Japan, in 1118 as the first so ...

'' (2012),

Emperor Sutoku was the 75th emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 崇徳天皇 (75)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Sutoku's reign spanned the years from 1123 through 1142. Genealogy Before his ascension to the Chry ...

* ''Rich Man, Poor Woman'' (2012) * ''The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa'' (2017) * ''Unnatural'' (2018) * ''

Natsuzora is a Japanese television drama series and the 100th Memorial Asadora series, following ''Manpuku''. It premiered on April 1, 2019, and concluded on September 28, 2019. The story is loosely based on the life of animator Reiko Okuyama. Plot As ...

'' (2019), Tsutomu Naka * ''Nippon Noir'' (2019), Saimon Kaname * ''Ru: Taiwan Express'' (2020), Makoto Anzai * ''The Road to Murder'' (2020) * ''Dearest'' (2021) * ''First Love'' (2022) * '' The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House'' (2023), Masahiro Tanabe

Documentary

* ''The Great Asian Highway'' (2015)

Video games

* ''

Yakuza 0 ''Yakuza 0'' is an action-adventure game developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and published by Sega. It is the sixth main entry in the '' Yakuza series'' and a prequel to the original game. It was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in J ...

'' (2015), Tetsu Tachibana

References

External links

Official website
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