Shōta Sometani

is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo. He is known for his protagonist roles in Himizu and Parasyte.

Career

Sometani was a child actor. He has worked in both film and television, gaining his first leading role in Pandora's Box, a 2009 film adaptation of an Osamu Dazai novel.

In 2011, he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his work in Himizu along with his co-star Fumi Nikaidō.

He appeared in Shinji Aoyama's 2011 film Tokyo Park, Koji Wakamatsu's 2012 film The Millennial Rapture, and starred in Gakuryu Ishii's 2012 film Isn't Anyone Alive?

Personal life Sometani married actress Rinko Kikuchi on December 31, 2014. In October 2016, Kikuchi gave birth to their first child. Their second child was born in late 2018.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes 2002 Ping Pong 2003 Hebi Ichigo Masuda 2004 The Boy from Hell Devilman Susumu 2008 Namida Tsubo Young Yūsuke Fure Fure Shojo 2009 Pandora's Box Lead role 2010 Yuriko's Aroma Lead role Tokyo Island Awaremi Mumashika 2011 Tokyo Park Hiro Takai Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan Lead role Azemichi no Dandy Antoki no Inochi Nobuo Yamaki 2012 Isn't Anyone Alive? Keisuke Lead role Himizu Yuichi Sumida Lead role Sadako 3D Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship Kosuke Chiba Lesson of the Evil Keisuke Hayami Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer Tokugawa Ietsuna The Millennial Rapture Wolf Children Tanabe (voice) 2013 Strawberry Night The Intermission Lead role Real Shingo Takagi The Eternal Zero Kenichiro Ōishi (young) The Kiyosu Conference Mori Ranmaru 2014 Wood Job! Yuki Hirano Lead role The Snow White Murder Case Hasegawa Kabukicho Love Hotel Toru Takahashi Tears of GrapesRokuLead role Parasyte: Part 1 Shinichi Izumi Lead role As the Gods Will Satake Tokyo Tribe MC Show 2015 Parasyte: Part 2 Shinichi Izumi Lead role The Virgin Psychics Yoshiro Kamogawa Lead role Teacher and Stray Cat Shōgo Strayer's Chronicle Manabu That's It Samao Daikoku Lead role Dear Deer Takashi Bakuman Eiji Nizuma The Boy and the Beast Teen Kyuta (voice) 2016 The Actor Yokota Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate Yoshio Hasebe Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow Egawa Live for Today: Genichiro Tenryu Narrator 2017 Parks Tokio March Comes In like a Lion Harunobu Nikaidō March Goes Out like a Lamb Harunobu Nikaidō Dawn Wind in My Poncho Nakata Foreboding Tatsuo Yamagiwa Lead role 2018 Legend of the Demon Cat Kūkai Lead role, Chinese film And Your Bird Can Sing Shizuo Lead role The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan Murata Punk Samurai Slash Down Magobei 2019 Parallel World Love Story Tomohiko Miwa Samurai Marathon Uesugi Hironoshin To the Ends of the Earth Yoshioka The First Supper Rintarō Lead role 2020 Stare Hideaki Watanabe First Love Kase Runway Akechi 2021 Detective Chinatown 3 Akira Murata Chinese film Belle Shinjirō "Kamishin" Chikami (voice) 2022 What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? Denki Mukogawa Suzume Minoru Okabe (voice) 2023 Fly On Kimura Lumberjack the Monster Kurō Sugitani 2024 The Yin Yang Master Zero Minamoto no Hiromasa Worlds Apart Kazunari Tōno Sana: Let Me Hear Yūma The Young Strangers Yamato Saint Young Men: The Movie Buddha Lead role Who's Gone Shimazaki Doctor-X: The Movie Hiroto Kōzu / Takato Kōzu Cells at Work! Helper T Cell 2025 BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues Saneo Lead role Suzuki=Bakudan Todoroki 100 Meters Komiya (voice) Lead role Purehearted Goro Gotoda Beethoven Fabrication Alexander Wheelock Thayer Scarlet Guildenstern (voice) New Interpretation of the End of Edo Period Miyoshi Shinzō 2026 Kyojo: Reunion Kenji Nakagome The A-Care: Disusebody Tadasu Urushihara Lead role AnyMart Lead role Sana: Play with Me 2027 Border Hiroyuki Ninomiya Lead role

Television drama

Year Title Role Notes 2009 Clouds Over the Hill Akiyama Yoshifuru (young) 2010 Ryōmaden Yamauchi Toyonori Taiga drama 2011 Gō Mori Bōmaru Taiga drama 2012 Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance Haruka Mikoshiba 2013 xxxHolic Kimihiro Watanuki Neo Ultra Q Kōichi Minna! ESPer Dayo! Yoshirō Kamogawa Lead role 2016 Hibana: Spark Ogata 2017 Foreboding Tatsuo Yamagiwa Lead role 2019 Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky Kōya Kamiji Asadora 2020–21 Awaiting Kirin Oda Nobunaga Taiga drama 2022 Teen Regime Teru Washida Miniseries 2023 Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero Kenji Nakagome 2023 Sanctuary Shimizu 2024 Tokyo Swindlers 2025 Unbound Kitagawa Utamaro Taiga drama Last Samurai Standing Kocha Kamuy 2026 Blossom Ichiro Nishio Asadora Tagusari Bros. Minoru Tagusari

Other television

Year Title Role Notes 2020 71st NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen Judge

Awards and nominations