Kazunari Ninomiya
Actor
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Kazunari Ninomiya (born June 17, 1983), often called Nino, is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, seiyū and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to movie audiences for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima.
Ninomiya began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 13. Prior to his debut as a singer with Arashi in 1999, Ninomiya started an acting career when he was cast as Chris for the stage play Stand by Me, which was based on the film of the same name. Since then, he has went on to appear in numerous drama, movie and stage productions, making him known as the actor of Arashi. Described as an actor who can act with his mouth and eyes, Ninomiya has won a number of awards and nominations for his roles.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Kazunari Ninomiya (born June 17, 1983), often called Nino, is a Japanese idol, singer, songwriter, actor, seiyū and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to movie audiences for his portrayal as Private Saigo in the 2006 Clint Eastwood war film Letters from Iwo Jima.
Ninomiya began his career in the entertainment industry when he joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 13. Prior to his debut as a singer with Arashi in 1999, Ninomiya started an acting career when he was cast as Chris for the stage play Stand by Me, which was based on the film of the same name. Since then, he has went on to appear in numerous drama, movie and stage productions, making him known as the actor of Arashi. Described as an actor who can act with his mouth and eyes, Ninomiya has won a number of awards and nominations for his roles.
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The Asada Family (2020)
As: Masashi Asada
Masashi (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro (Satoshi Tsumabuki). Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Directed by: Ryota Nakano
Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki | Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Fubuki | Masaki Suda | Haru Kuroki
Killing for the Prosecution (2018)
As: Keiichiro Okino
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Masato Harada
Stars: Takehiro Hira | Takuya Kimura | Kazunari Ninomiya | Yuriko Yoshitaka | Yutaka Matsushige
The Last Recipe (2017)
As: Mitsuru Sasaki
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Yojiro Takita
Stars: Aoi Miyazaki | Hidetoshi Nishijima | Go Ayano | Kazunari Ninomiya | Daigo Nishihata
Assassination Classroom: Graduation (2016)
As: Koro-sensei
Story continues with the students' own conflicts, Koro Sensei’s identity and the fate of the world. The time limit for assassination is approaching.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Eiichirō Hasumi
Stars: Masaki Suda | Seika Taketomi | Ryosuke Yamada | Maika Yamamoto | Mio Yuki
Botchan (2016)
As: Botchan
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
Directed by: Masayuki Suzuki
Stars: Arata Furuta | Kazunari Ninomiya | Nao Matsushita | Norito Yashima | Koji Yamamoto
Aka Medaka (2015)
As: Danshun Tatekawa
One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a little boy to become a rakugoka after seeing the legendary Danshi. He had found his calling. After his resistant parents relented to their son’s pleas, Danshun at age 17 became an apprentice of Danshi, the man dubbed a “wunderkind” and “genius” ...
Directed by: Hideta Takahata
Stars: Takeshi Kitano | Kazunari Ninomiya | Gaku Hamada | Tsurube Shôfukutei | Hiroko Yakushimaru
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)
As: Koji Fukuhara
Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Yôji Yamada
Stars: Isao Hashizume | Kazunari Ninomiya | Tadanobu Asano | Haru Kuroki | Sayuri Yoshinaga
Assassination Classroom (2015)
As: Koro Sensei (voice)
A mysterious creature destroys 70% of the moon. The creature then warns that if he is not destroyed by March of next year, Earth will be next. The creature also demands that he becomes the homeroom teacher for 3rd grade E class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The government is powerless to say no. The creature then becomes the homeroom teacher of 3rd grade E class which consists of failed ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Eiichirō Hasumi
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Masaki Suda | Seika Taketomi | Ryosuke Yamada | Maika Yamamoto
Murder on the Orient Express (2015)
As: Heita Makuuchi
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
Runtime: 280 min.
Directed by: Keita Kono
Stars: Hiroshi Tamaki | Kazunari Ninomiya | Ikki Sawamura | Nanako Matsushima | Mansai Nomura
Pikanchi Half Life is Hard Maybe Happy (2014)
As: Onda Takuma
Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work
Directed by: Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Hisashi Kimura
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Matsumoto | Masaki Aiba | Satoshi Ohno | Sho Sakurai
Platinum Data (2013)
As: Ryuhei Kagura
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Keishi Otomo
Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa | Katsuhisa Namase | Kazunari Ninomiya | Anne Watanabe | Honami Suzuki
Kurumaisu de Boku wa Sora wo Tobu (2012)
As: Hasebe Yasuyuki
(I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Noriyoshi Sakuma
Stars: Aya Ueto | Kazunari Ninomiya | Hiroko Yakushimaru | Sosuke Ikematsu | Fuku Suzuki
Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
As: Kei Kurono
Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz, a mysterious giant black orb, and he is close to reaching the score he needs to resurrect his friend Kato. Outside his night time missions, Kurono continues to live his normal life, spending time with his new girlfriend Tae. Meanwhile, young pop star Eriko is being ...
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Shinsuke Sato
Stars: Kenichi Matsuyama | Kazunari Ninomiya | Yuriko Yoshitaka | Kanata Hongo | Ayumi Ito
ANOTHER GANTZ (2011)
As: Kei Kurono
Before finding out the Perfect Answer, discover Another Gantz. Aired on Nippon Television network before the theatrical release of Gantz: The Perfect Answer, this film is an alternate perspective version of the first Gantz film from the same writing-directing team of the two-part theatrical film. In addition to condensed scenes from the Gantz film, Another Gantz features a new subplot that follows an ...
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Shinsuke Sato
Stars: Kenichi Matsuyama | Kazunari Ninomiya | Haruhiko Katô | Kanata Hongo | Natsuna Watanabe
Gantz (2011)
As: Kei Kurono
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Shinsuke Sato
Stars: Kenichi Matsuyama | Kazunari Ninomiya | Kanata Hongo | Natsuna Watanabe | Ainosuke Shibata
The Lady Shogun and Her Men (2010)
As: Unoshin Mizuno
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Fuminori Kaneko
Stars: Maki Horikita | Aoi Nakamura | Kazunari Ninomiya | Kou Shibasaki | Tadayoshi Okura
The Last Promise (2010)
As: Shuji
"Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Yûichi Satô
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Matsumoto | Masaki Aiba | Satoshi Ohno | Sho Sakurai
Life: Tears in Heaven (2009)
As: Nonoue Junichi
Nonoue Junichi is a psychiatrist working in the counseling room of a cancer treatment center by the beach. While tending to the patients, part of his job involves taking dictation from them when they want to send a letter to a loved one.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Nobuhiro Doi
Stars: Mao Inoue | Kazunari Ninomiya | Gori | Shin Yazawa | Tomita Yasuko
Door To Door (2009)
As: Hideo Kurasawa
Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a door-to-door salesman. Despite the pain attributed to his cerebral palsy, he walked eight to ten miles a day to meet his customers and achieved the highest sales for his company.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Ken Yoshida
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Kazuyuki Asano | Ikkei Watanabe | Akio Kaneda | Rosa Katô
Marathon (2007)
As: Shôtarô Miyata
Remake of the 2005 South Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Sachiko Sakurai | Takashi Naito | Masahiro Matsuoka | Misako Tanaka
Yellow Tears (2007)
As: Eisuke Muraoka
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Isshin Inudô
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Matsumoto | Masaki Aiba | Satoshi Ohno | Sho Sakurai
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
As: Private Saigo
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ken Watanabe | Kazunari Ninomiya | Tsuyoshi Ihara | Ryo Kase | Shidou Nakamura
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
As: Kuro / Itachi (voice)
When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the city and up to the gentle White to save Black from his own dark nature. On the street of an unnamed city, literally high-flying urchins Black and White look ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Michael Arias
Stars: Yusuke Iseya | Kazunari Ninomiya | Yu Aoi | Min Tanaka | Kankuro Kudo
Sukoshi wa, Ongaeshi ga Dekitakana (2006)
As: Kazunori Kitahara
Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to his first choice, [the prestigious] Tokyo University, he only managed to visit it for a day before passing away. After that, last January [i.e. 2005], ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Ken Yoshida
Stars: Chizuru Ikewaki | Ryo Katsuji | Kazunari Ninomiya | Masanobu Katsumura | Shinobu Ōtake
Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy (2004)
As: Onda Takuma
Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Matsumoto | Masaki Aiba | Satoshi Ohno | Sho Sakurai
The Blue Light (2003)
As: Shuuichi Kushimori
Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and daughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi’s stepsister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Yukio Ninagawa
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Baijaku Nakamura | Anne Suzuki | Aya Matsuura | Kansai Yamamoto
Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy (2002)
As: Onda Takuma
"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students, the five friends live the wild life in Harajuku before encountering unforeseen surprises.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Jun Matsumoto | Masaki Aiba | Satoshi Ohno | Sho Sakurai
Amagi Pass (1998)
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Susumu Ooka
Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya | Hideo Murota | Morio Kazama | Misako Tanaka | Keizo Kanie