Ryūnosuke Kamiki

is a Japanese actor. Starting his career as a child prodigy, he has garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards for his performances across 25 years in the industry.

Kamiki debuted in a 1995 commercial. Four years later, he had a leading role in the television drama Good News (1999). His early film roles include Spirited Away (2001), Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 (2006) and Big Man Japan (2007). He had his first leading roles in Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War (2005) and Daihachi Yoshida's The Kirishima Thing (2012) and played supporting characters in Keishi Ōtomo's jidaigeki actioners Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends as well as Miike's horror film As the Gods Will (all 2014).

In 2016, Kamiki voiced the lead in Makoto Shinkai's anime film Your Name, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 11th Seiyu Awards. After this, he collaborated with Shinkai again on Weathering with You (2019) and Suzume (2022) as supporting characters. Kamiki later co-starred with Minami Hamabe in two productions released in 2023: the TV drama series Ranman and Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One. His performance in the latter earned him global critical acclaim and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor.

Biography Kamiki was born on 19 May 1993, in Saitama Prefecture. He was fragile in infancy, spending months in intensive care, and at one point was given only a 1% chance of survival. He was not discharged from the hospital until he was seven months of age. Doctors believed that even if he survived, he would live his life with disability. His mother came up with the idea of making him a child actor to leave concrete proof of his existence. His family consists of his grandparents, father, mother, an older sister (11 years older than him) and two nieces. His grandmother died in 2020. Career Kamiki began acting as a child actor after entering the Central Group talent agency. His first commercial was for a Toy Box when he was only two years old. He made his television debut with the 1999 drama Good News in a lead role. In 2001, when he was eight years old, he was personally scouted by Hayao Miyazaki. Kamiki went on to voice characters in many of Studio Ghibli's feature films, giving him the title of the Ghibli Child. In 2004, he led the film Backdrop del mio Papa, for which he won his first award. In the following years, he continued to work both as an actor and voice actor, winning awards every two years. Kamiki won the Rookie Award 2020 at the Elan d'or Awards, one of the most prestigious awards in Japan.

On 16 March 2021, Kamiki left Amuse and founded Co-LaVo along with Takeru Satoh.

Other ventures Kamiki wrote his first book Master's Cafe: The Fulfillment of Masters' Dreams in 2015. He approached fifteen professionals who are active on the front lines of various fields. In 2019, he made his stage debut with the play Beautiful: The Woman Who Met with God, written and directed by Suzuki Matsuo. The following year, he debuted in multiple fields such as a radio host for All Night Nippon 0 (ANN0), directing the music video for "I Treasure You" and opened his official YouTube channel. He was also the official photographer for Satoh's 2021 calendar. In 2020, he started to conceptualize his annual calendar.

The 2021 calendar, one part of the 25th anniversary project, was started when "Novel characters I want Kamiki to play" video was posted on his Twitter, urging fans to suggest novel characters for him to portray. It garnered reactions from many celebrities, including voice actor Yuki Kaji and film director Shunji Iwai, among others. Finally, twelve novels were selected from the retweets to represent the themes for the twelve months. The lineup expanded from classics to more recent pieces. The calendar shot by the renowned photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa was a new attempt to play different roles for twelve works in the calendar. As Yonosuke in Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man for August, props such as smoke tubes are used in a colorful set to express the sex appeal of adults that has never been seen before by him, and the novel published in May cover, No Longer Human (as Ōba Yōzō), the darkness of human beings and the beauty of men are produced. Of the twelve novels so far, Mysterious Weather at Yanaka's Retro Camera Store (as Imamiya Ryūichi) and Hamlet (as Ophelia), including the prior mentioned works have been confirmed. For this project, Kamiki sported silver hair for the first time, with shooting taking two days to complete. The calendar was sold on 25 December 2020, to signify the 25 year anniversary.

Kamiki was invited to be the photographer for Takeru Satoh's 2021 Calendar. The concept of a "photobook-like calendar" featured natural expressions when spending time with friends—with a sense of distance that can be taken by an old friend. It is a special calendar taken in places where Satoh wants to go with Kamiki and where he would like to take pictures of him, such as driving the car, in Shibuya and Harajuku, in maid cafes, etc. He took over eight thousand photos. Some are excluded in the desk calendar. He wants to have a photo exhibition and albums.

In 2022, Kamiki excavated one of the world's oldest ichthyosaur fossils in Minamisanriku in his first fossil excavation during the filming of From Miyagi. The fossil is on display at the Minasan Museum.

Artistry and public image In the award-winning The Great Yokai War, he overcame his fear of swimming. For his role in Kokoro no Ito, he learned sign language and the piano. In 2022, he was voted the Most Powerful Actor in Japan. Personal life On February 10, 2026, Kamiki announced his marriage to his non-celebrity girlfriend. Filmography

Films

Live-action Year Title Role 2003 Rockers Taku (young) Bayside Shakedown 2 2004Backdrop del mio Papa Ren'ai Shōsetsu ("Love Story") Satoshi Kubo (young) Install Kazuyoshi Aoki Survive Style 5+ Keiichi Kobayashi 2005 Zoo The Great Yokai War Tadashi Ino 2008 Into the Faraway Sky Ryūnosuke Kusunoki Little DJ: Chiisana Koi no Monogatari Tarō Takano 2009 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption Katsumata 2012 SPEC: Heaven The Kirishima Thing Ryōya Maeda 2013 SPEC: Close Ninomae Jūichi Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends Seta Sōjirō As the Gods Will Takeru Amaya 2015 Bakuman Akito Takagi Poison Berry in My Brain Ishibashi 2016 The Sun Tetsuhiko Okudera Too Young To Die! Daisuke 2017 March Comes in Like a Lion Rei Kiriyama Jun'ichi Miyaji 2019 Fortuna's Eye Shin'ichiro Kiyama 2020 Last Letter Kyōshirō Otosaka (young) The Great Yokai War: Guardians Katō 2022 Noise Shin'ichirō Moriya xxxHolic Kimihiro Watanuki Yokaipedia Antiquarian bookshop owner Dr. Coto's Clinic 2022 Ryūichi Sugimoto 2023 We're Broke, My Lord! Matsudaira Koshirō Godzilla Minus One Kōichi Shikishima 2024 Saint Young Men: The Movie Johannes At the Bench 2026 Your Own Quiz Kizuna Honjo Godzilla Minus Zero Kōichi Shikishima

Animation

Year Title Role 2001 Spirited Away Boh 2003 Kirikou and the Sorceress Kirikou 2004 Howl's Moving Castle Markl 2006 Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 Piisuke Hoshi o Katta Hi Nona 2008 Piano Forest Shūhei Amamiya 2009 Summer Wars Kenji Koiso 2010 Arrietty Sho 2011 The Princess and the Pilot Charles Karino 2016 Your Name Taki Tachibana 2019 Weathering with You Taki Tachibana 2020 Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur Piisuke (Archive voice from 2006 film) 2021 The Crocodile That Lived for 100 Days Crocodile 2021 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Shinji Ikari (Adulthood) 2022 Suzume Tomoya Serizawa

Television

Live-action

A Day-Off of Ryunosuke Kamiki| Himself Lead role; miniseries If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student.| Yūri Koga 2023 Ranman| Mantarō Makino Lead role; Asadora| 2024 The Diamond Sleeping Under the Sea| Teppei Araki / Reo Kusaka Lead role 2025 Pray Speak What Has Happened| Shogo Horai

Television animation

Theater

Dubbing

Live-action

Animation

Awards and nominations 2004 Backdrop del mio Papa 2011 Kokoro no Ito| Seoul International Drama Awards: Popular Actor 2011 Kokoro no Ito| Mipcom Buyers' Award for Japanese Drama 2011 Kokoro no Ito| 47th Hugo TV Awards Feature Film Category Gold Award 2011 Kokoro no Ito| 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival: Best Actor 2011 Kokoro no Ito| 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival: The AMADE Prize 2012 The Kirishima Thing and SPEC: Heaven Tama Cinema Forum: Best Emerging Actor 2012 The Kirishima Thing| 37th Hochi Film Award: Best Actor 2014 Fathers| Galaxy Monthly Awards: TV

The 77th The Television Drama Academy: Best Supporting Actor The 23rd TVLife Drama Award 2013: Best Supporting Actor 2015 Poison Berry in My Brain and Bakuman| 40th Hochi Film Awards 2015 Popularity Seoul International Drama Awards: Asian Stars 2015 The Girl's Speech/Samurai Teacher| TV Navi's Drama Awards 2015 2016 Too Young to Die!| Fantasia Film Festival: Best Asian Feature Silver 2016 Too Young To Die!| Rotterdam International Film Festival: Netpac Award 2016 Too Young To Die!| New York Asian Film Festival: Audience Award 2017 March Comes in Like a Lion| 42nd Hochi Film Award: Best Actor 2017 Your Name| The 11th Seiyu Awards: Best Lead Actor 2018 Detective Yugami| The 10th CONFiDENCE AWARD DRAMA PRIZE: Best Supporting Actor 2018 Detective Yugami| The 95th Drama Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor 2020 Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo| The 44th Elan d'or Awards: Best Producer 2020 Idaten: The Epic Marathon to Tokyo and Fortuna's Eye| The 44th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year 2021 Life's Punchline| The 108th The Television Drama Academy Awards: Jury Votes

Other works

Books

Magazine serialization

Direction TitleYearNoteReff "I Treasure You" MV201915th Anniversary SUPER HANDSOME COLLECTION 「JUMP↑」

Photography

Documentary

Narration

Radio

Program YearTitleStationNoteReff2020 Kamiki Ryunosuke All Night Nippon 0 (ZERO) Nippon Broadcasting System 2021 Kamiki Ryunosuke no RADIO MOG STATION presented by Final Fantasy XIVTOKYO FM and other JFN 38 stations nationwideLive Radio YouTube

Drama

Web drama YearTitleRole NoteReff2014Time Slip! Yasubee HoribeMitsuru Aoyama 2018–ongoingIshiki takasugi! Takasugi-kunTakasugi-kunCM Series

Audio drama YearTitleRole DistributorNotesReff2021300-Nen Go Nihon MukashibanashiRiimantaroNumavoicing 7 characters Koi SamuraiOchiai Masayasu is being novelized

Music video appearances

Drama CD

Game

Discography YearTitleRoleReff2016"TOO YOUNG TO DIE! Hell's Song Hell"Guitarist "TOO YOUNG TO DIE!"Vocals"Heaven"Vocals