Mirai Moriyama

Life and career

Moriyama started training in dance when he was 5 years old. He trained in jazz dance, tap dance, ballet and hip-hop, and he appeared in several stage roles. He officially made his stage debut with 1999 Boys Time. In 2008, he played the lead character in a Japanese version of the musical RENT.

In the 2004 film Socrates in Love, he played a high school age hero trying to deal with his terminally-ill girlfriend. He also portrayed the character Kakuta in the film 20th Century Boys.

He starred in Kueki Ressha. He also appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's television drama Penance and Junji Sakamoto's film A Chorus of Angels. In July 2021, he performed in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Filmography

Film

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)

Smile (2007)

One Million Yen Girl (2008)

20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)

20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)

Fish Story (2009)

Moteki (2010)

Seiji: Riku no Sakana (2012)

The Drudgery Train (2012)

A Chorus of Angels (2012)

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (2012)

Saint Young Men (2013)

Human Trust (2013)

Rage (2016)

Vision (2018), Gaku

Samurai Marathon (2019)

I Was a Secret Bitch (2019), Misawa

The Horse Thieves: Roads of Time (2019)

Underdog (2020), Suenaga

We Couldn't Become Adults (2021), Makoto Satō

Inu-Oh (2021), Tomona (voice)

Miss Osaka (2022)

Mountain Woman (2023), Mountain man

Television

Waterboys 2 (2003)

Itoshi Kimi e (2004)

Dangerous Beauty (2005)

Moteki (2010)

Penance (2012)

Inagakike no Moshu (2017)

Miotsukushi Ryōrichō (2017)

Idaten (2019), Kōzō Minobe

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020), Shishi Jūgo

Prism (2022), Yūma

Ya Boy Kongming! (2023), Owner Kobayashi

The Child of God Murmurs (2023)

Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero (2023), Haru Tozaki

Grass for My Pillow (2026), Shokichi Hamada

Video games

Dragon Quest Heroes II (2016)

Theatre

Metamorphosis (2009)