Nijiro Murakami
Known for Acting
Murakami Nijiro is a Japanese actor and voice actor, the only son of actor Murakami Jun and singer UA. His parents divorced when he was nine-years-old and he grew up with his mother, stepfather, and three half-siblings. While still attending preparatory school, he moved to Okinawa with his family. Murakami also studied for some years in Montreal, Canada. He debuted in 2014 portraying the main character of Kaito in the award-winning film "Still the Water", for which he received the Best Newcomer Award at the 29th Kasaki Film Festival. In 2015, he debuted in the television series "Tenshi no Naifu". Later that same year, he starred in the live-action adaptation of the anime series "AnoHana", as well the movie "Wasurenai to Chikatta Boku ga Ita". As a voice actor, he is best known for voicing Hiro Shishigami in the anime series "Inuyashiki". He is currently working under Decade, a Japanese talent agency.
Filmography
Isle of Dogs
2018
as Editor Hiroshi (voice)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021
as Soji Okita
As the Gods Will
2014
as Kikkawa Haruhiko
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
as Tachibana Yasue
Kyrie
2023
as Fukin
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2021
as Nizou Okada
The Gun
2018
as Toru Nishikawa
Still the Water
2014
as Kaito
I Was a "Secret Bitch"
2019
as Akira Kojima
The Promised Land
2019
as Hiro Nogami
Last of the Wolves
2021
as Kota Chikada
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
as Genzo
Chiwawa-chan
2019
as Nagai
Les Misérables
2019
Destruction Babies
2016
as Shota Ashihara
Yatsuhakamura
2019
as 井川辰弥
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
2017
as Shota Kobayashi
Forget Me Not
2015
as Takashi Hayama
Natsumi's Firefly
2016
as Kimihide
AnoHana: The Flower We Saw That Day
2015
as Jinta "Jintan" Yadomi