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Early life and studies

Suzuki became interested in learning English after a visit to an uncle, who was living in Los Angeles when he was in Elementary school. He and his brother went to the

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when he was in elementary school. While in the third year of junior high school, he participated in a YMCA program in Nishinomiya City. Words from a teacher in the YMCA remained in him, motivating him to study hard, taking his English classes seriously. While in the second and third years of junior high school, he did short-term homestays (one to two week periods) in the United States and Australia. He then went to study abroad for one year, to rural Oklahoma, United States, while he was in high school. According to a comment on a TV program, Suzuki's reason to go abroad to study, was his first love. He graduated from

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in March 2006. He also became interested in German, after "falling in love with a German girl", as he said in a program. He won Dokkyo University's National High School German Speech Contest in 2000. When he was a student, he worked part-time in

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Career

Ryohei Suzuki played a role in the Netflix film City Hunter (2024), an action adaptation of 1980s manga. He earned both the Best Leading Actor and Best Comedy Performance awards at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore. Additionally, City Hunter won Best Feature at the same awards. Ryohei earned five Best Supporting Actor awards as well as the Japan Academy Prize for playing the role of a yakuza in The Blood of Wolves: Level 2 (2021). That same year, he earned Best Actor at the Asian Contents Awards in Korea for his role in Tokyo MER (2022). It's sequel film was released in 2023. In 2023, he starred in Egoist, an independent feature about a same-sex relationship.

Private life

Suzuki announce his marriage to a non-celebrity woman who works for a web-related company in Tokyo, via his agency on July 28, 2011. He met her while he was a model. The wedding ceremony and reception were held on July 24 at a hotel in Tokyo with only close relatives. They welcomed their first child, a girl, on November 17, 2011 at a hospital in Tokyo. He reported this the same day on his official blog.

Filmography

TV series

Film

Dubbing

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Awards and nominations

Books

* Suzuki Ryōhei First Photo Book (released on September 12, 2014) * Suzuki Ryōhei no chūgaku eigo de sekai isshū! Feat. Steve Soresi (released on April 12, 2018) * Itta ki ni naru seikaiisan (released on September 10, 2020)

References

External links

Official profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Ryohei 1983 births Living people People from Nishinomiya Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Taiga drama lead actors