Yuya Yagira
Acting
Biography
Yuya Yagira is a Japanese actor. In 2004, he became the youngest winner of the Best Actor award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed "Nobody Knows".
Born: March 26, 1990
Place of Birth: Токио, Япония
Known For
I Am Dead!
An unpopular host who leads an aimless life suddenly dies due to an unexpected accident and cannot be reincarnated for some reason. While living under one roof with other ghosts in the same position, he starts to reflect on his life and gradually regains his humanity.
Blue Blazes
Set in the early 1980's, Moyuru is a student at an art school in Osaka. He is full of passion and desire in his pursuit to become a manga writer. He also doesn't lack confidence in his abilities. Morinaga Tonko is Honoo's senior at school and the manager of the badminton team which Honoo belongs to. Right before summer vacation, Moyuru makes a decision. He decides to take his manga manuscripts to a publishing company in Tokyo.
Falling Camellia
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan.
We're Millennials. Got a Problem?
Drama series depicts the lives of three men born in 1987 and oppose irrational things of the world through work, love, and friendship. The men are from the "yutori generation", when the Japanese government reformed the education system, emphasizing a pressure-free environment referred to as yutori education.
Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the student the man ponders how to make it up to the man whom he once coached
A Making of Nobody Knows
The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter?
Akiko and her 25-year old daughter Mizuki are best friends and are closer than most mother and daughters. Akiko feels that Mizuki is growing distant from her due to her new boyfriend and decides to seduce him.
Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura
Kasumi Arimura suddenly gets a break from filming and returns to her hometown for the first time in a long while. Her mother, Yumiko, comes to the train station to pick her up and they head for the family home.
From Today, It's My Turn!!
Two transfer students, Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Itō, tired of their boring normal life and unpopularity, decide to take their arrival at a new school as an opportunity to reinvent their image, and become delinquents. The duo set out on various misadventures to become the greatest delinquents in all Japan!
Filmography
as Taiza Kujo
as Komori Hiroto
as Arata Natsume
as Michigami Maribu
as Sakurada Kazuhiko
as Daigo Agawa
as Hiyo
as Takeshi Kitano
as Kurodo Kuroki
as Ishimura Osamu
as Hokusai Katsushika (Young)
as Takeshi
as Tajima Ryosuke
as Eiji Yanagi
as Takeda
as Kojima
as Tomoyuki Saito
as Goddard (voice)
as Shinichi
as Noda Naoto
as Kohei Tanaka
as Hijikata Toshiro
as Toshiro Hijikata
as Man
as Hijikata Toshiro
as Toshiro Hijikata
as Seiya Inaniwa
as Taichi Matsushima
as Taira Ashihara
as Tadashi Makoto
as Maribu Michigami
as Suzuki Shingo
as Kiwamu Akitsu
as 仲野孝太郎
as Keito Myose
as Nobuyuki Oda
as Moyuru Honô
as Ebinuma
as Toru Goura
as Ryutaro Noguchi
as Goro Sawada
as Yuichi hirose
as Kento Touma
as Koji Otaka
as Ken
as Tatsuya 'Dino' Ideno
as Shiro Yamashita
as Tetsumu Ogawa
as Akira