is a Japanese actor. He is the son of actor Kōichi Satō and also

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Biography

His father is actor Kōichi Satō, and his father often took him to filming locations since he was a child. On the set of TV series ''

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'' in 2004, He said that he remembers

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, the lead actor, playing with him when he was a child. Feeling that those around him expected him to be an actor in the future as a matter of course, he began to deny becoming one during his adolescent years. However, by the time he turned 18, he said he had made up his mind to live as an actor himself. When he was selected to appear in the television series ''

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'' in 2019, he responded to being told that he was riding on his father's coattails, "I became an actor after I was prepared to be told such things." He said he chose Kanichiro by removing his family name Satō from his stage name because of his father's image and he wanted to challenge himself as an actor, independent of his father. In 2017, he made his acting debut in ''

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'', a film directed by

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's novel of the same name. He won the Best New Actor Award at the 27th

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. In this film, he co-starred with

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, who is closely related to his grandfather

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earned him the 92nd Kinema Junpo Best Ten New Actor Award and the Best Up-and-Coming Actor Award at the 33rd Takasaki Film Festival. His major film credits include

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'' and '' Kubi'', a film directed by

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. His first TV series appearance was in 2018 in ''Midnight Journal: Hunt for the Missing Kidnapper! The Truth of the Seventh Year'' and his first starring role in a film was ''Running Again'' in 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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* *{{IMDb name, id=11894352, name=Kanichiro 1996 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors People from Setagaya 21st-century Japanese male actors