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Mirai Moriyama (森山 未來, Moriyama Mirai, born August 20, 1984) is a Japanese actor and dancer.[1]

Mirai Moriyama
Moriyama in 2022
Born	(1984-08-20) August 20, 1984 (age 38) Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Life and career

Moriyama started training in dance when he was 5 years old. He trained in jazz dance, tap dance, ballet and hip-hop, and he appeared in several stage roles. He officially made his stage debut with 1999 Boys Time. In 2008, he played the lead character in a Japanese version of the musical RENT.[2]

In the 2004 film Socrates in Love, he played a high school age hero trying to deal with his terminally-ill girlfriend. He also portrayed the character Kakuta in the film 20th Century Boys.

He starred in Kueki Ressha.[3] He also appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's television drama Penance[4] and Junji Sakamoto's film A Chorus of Angels.[5] In July 2021 he performed in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.[6]

Filmography

Film

• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
• Smile (2007)
• 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)
• 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
• 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)
• Fish Story (2009)
• Moteki (2010)
• Seiji: Riku no Sakana (2012)
• The Drudgery Train (2012)
• A Chorus of Angels (2012)
• Saint Young Men (2013)
• Human Trust (2013)
• Rage (2016)
• Vision (2018), Gaku
• Samurai Marathon (2019)
• I Was a Secret Bitch (2019), Misawa
• The Horse Thieves: Roads of Time (2019)
• Underdog (2020), Suenaga
• We Couldn't Become Adults (2021), Makoto Satō[7]
• Inu-Oh (2021), Tomona (voice)[8]
• Miss Osaka (2022)
• Mountain Woman (2023), Mountain man[9]

Television

• Waterboys 2 (2003)
• Itoshi Kimi e (2004)
• Kiken na Aneki (2005)
• Moteki (2010)
• Penance (2012)
• Inagakike no Moshu (2017)
• Miotsukushi Ryōrichō (2017)
• Idaten (2019), Kōzō Minobe
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020), Shishi Jūgo[10]
• Prism (2022), Yūma[11]

Video games

• Dragon Quest Heroes II (2016)

References

External links

• Mirai Moriyama at IMDb
• Mirai Moriyama at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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