Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 17, 1997 (age 29)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Nijirô Murakami
- 村上 虹郎
- むらかみ にじろう
- Nijirō Murakami
- Murakami Nijirō
Nijiro Murakami
Biography
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.
Known For - Movies
Isle of Dogs
as Editor Hiroshi (voice)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Soji Okita
As the Gods Will
as Kikkawa Haruhiko
Last of the Wolves
as Kota Chikada
I Was a "Secret Bitch"
as Akira Kojima
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Shota Kobayashi
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as Nizou Okada
Destruction Babies
as Shota Ashihara
Galileo: Forbidden Sorcery
as Shingo Koshiba
The Promised Land
as Hiro Nogami
Known For - TV Shows
Alice in Borderland
as Shuntaro Chishiya
Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama
Ten Count to the Future
as Momosuke Saijyo
MIU404
as Yoshitaka Kosaka
Brass Dreams
as Aoshima Hiroto
Luca on the Road
as Fukin
Dead Stock
as Riku Tsuneta
In This Corner of the World
as Tetsu Mizuhara
Hold on, look ahead.
as Miyashita Shinpei
INUYASHIKI LAST HERO
as Hiro Shishigami (voice)