Yuya Yagira

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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".

Known For

Nobody Knows

Akira

Gintama

Toshiro Hijikata

Crows Explode

Toru Goura

The Fable

Kojima

Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken

Toshiro Hijikata

Gannibal

Daigo Agawa

Unforgiven

Goro Sawada

HK: Hentai Kamen 2 - Abnormal Crisis

Tadashi Makoto

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	RYUJI ⻯⼆ MOVIE	花城⻯⼆
2026	Sgt. Frog MOVIE	Hijikata Toshiro (voice)
2026	Sins of Kujo TV	Taiza Kujo
2024	Light of My Lion TV	Komori Hiroto
2024	A Conviction of Marriage MOVIE	Arata Natsume
2023	We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie MOVIE	Michigami Maribu
2023	I Am Dead! TV	Sakurada Kazuhiko
2022	Gannibal TV	Daigo Agawa
2022	The Fish Tale MOVIE	Hiyo
2021	Asakusa Kid MOVIE	Takeshi Kitano
2021	Pay to Ace TV	Kurodo Kuroki
2021	Gift of Fire MOVIE	Ishimura Osamu
2021	HOKUSAI MOVIE	Hokusai Katsushika (Young)
2021	Under the Turquoise Sky MOVIE	Takeshi
2020	4 Mysterious Stories MOVIE	Tajima Ryosuke
2020	From Today, It's My Turn!!: The Movie MOVIE	Eiji Yanagi
2020	A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura TV	Takeda
2019	The Fable MOVIE	Kojima
2019	Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre MOVIE	Tomoyuki Saito
2019	Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration MOVIE	Goddard (voice)
2019	His Lost Name MOVIE	Shinichi
2019	The Mother Returns? AI's Will MOVIE	Noda Naoto
2018	From Today, It's My Turn!! TV	Self
2018	Falling Camellia MOVIE	Self
2018	Hibiki MOVIE	Kohei Tanaka
2018	Gintama 2: The Exceedingly Strange Gintama-chan TV	Hijikata Toshiro
2018	Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken MOVIE	Toshiro Hijikata
2018	Duality MOVIE	Man
2017	Gintama: Mitsuba Arc TV	Hijikata Toshiro
2017	Gintama MOVIE	Toshiro Hijikata
2017	I'm Yamagishi. Got a Problem? TV	Self
2017	Frankenstein's Love TV	Seiya Inaniwa
2017	Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter? TV	Taichi Matsushima
2016	Ninkyo Yaro MOVIE	Self
2016	Destruction Babies MOVIE	Taira Ashihara
2016	HK: Hentai Kamen 2 - Abnormal Crisis MOVIE	Tadashi Makoto
2016	We're Millennials. Got a Problem? TV	Maribu Michigami
2016	Pink and Gray MOVIE	Suzuki Shingo
2015	Gassoh MOVIE	Kiwamu Akitsu
2015	Masshiro TV	仲野孝太郎
2014	Saigo no Inochi MOVIE	Keito Myose
2014	Nobunaga Concerto TV	Nobuyuki Oda
2014	Blue Blazes TV	Moyuru Honô
2014	Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2 MOVIE	Ebinuma
2014	Crows Explode MOVIE	Toru Goura
2013	Again MOVIE	Ryutaro Noguchi
2013	Unforgiven MOVIE	Goro Sawada
2013	Under the Nagasaki Sky MOVIE	Yuichi Hirose
2013	Galileo XX MOVIE	Kento Touma
2011	ブリザード TV	Self
2011	Blizzard TV	Masato Sakitani
2010	TOKYO23 ~ Survival City TV	Self
2010	All to the Sea MOVIE	Koji Otaka
2009	The Shock Labyrinth MOVIE	Ken
2007	The Bandage Club MOVIE	Tatsuya 'Dino' Ideno
2007	Genius Party MOVIE	Self
2006	Sugar & Spice MOVIE	Shiro Yamashita
2005	Shining Boy and Little Randy MOVIE	Tetsumu Ogawa
2004	A Making of Nobody Knows MOVIE	Self
2004	Nobody Knows MOVIE	Akira
2004	Till the Battery Runs Out TV	Self
2004	Young Thugs: Going My Way MOVIE	Self

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