Kotaro Daigo
Acting
Biography
Kotaro Daigo (醍醐 虎汰朗, Daigo Kotarō, September 1, 2000) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He is affiliated with A-Light. In the audition for the feature-length animated movie Weathering with You, directed by Makoto Shinkai and released in 2019, he was selected as the main character, Hodaka Morishima, from among 2000 people. In 2020, he won the New Actor Award at the 14th Voice Actor Awards.
Born: September 1, 2000
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
SHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3
The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series.
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
Love Begins in the World of If
After wishing to change his life, a quiet worker awakens in a parallel world where he’s confident—and loved by the colleague he admires.
Alice in Borderland
With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.
Weathering with You
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Spirited Away: Live on Stage
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family. The film version of the stage production was shot during the play’s 2022 run at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo.
The Brightest Roof in the Universe
14 year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She sees him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with that development. The one reliable part of her life is the calligraphy class she attends, but then she runs into a woman.
#HandballStrive
The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
The Battle: Roar to Victory
Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.
Filmography
as 波川 省吾
as Akito Kano
as Kano Akihito
as Akira Nezuhara
as Shōyō Hinata
as Atsushi Tanzawa
as Sota Asakura
as Hironaka Daika
as Yusuke Ogino
as Shota Uranishi
as Yoshida Taisei
as Shōyō Hinata
as Shōyō Hinata
as David Kim
as Jim
as Nobuaki Hida
as Makoto Sasagawa
as Okamoto
as Komazuki Nao [Young]
as Shōyō Hinata
as Ryota
as Ōhime
as Yukio
as Hodaka Morishima (voice)