Yuya Yagira facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Yūya Yagira
柳楽 優弥
Yagira at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2022
Born	(1990-03-26) March 26, 1990 (age 35) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2003–present
Agent	Stardust Promotion
Spouse(s)	Ellie Toyota [ja] ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	1

Yuya Yagira (柳楽 優弥, Yagira Yūya, born March 26, 1990) is a famous Japanese actor. He made history in 2004 by becoming the youngest person ever to win the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He won this award for his amazing role as 12-year-old Akira in the movie Nobody Knows.

Acting Career

Yagira was only 12 years old when he started filming Nobody Knows in 2002. He was not a professional actor at that time. After this successful movie, he quickly began working on many television shows and other films.

In 2010, he starred with Eriko Sato in the movie All to the Sea. He also appeared with Kie Kitano in Under the Nagasaki Sky, which came out in 2013. In 2021, Yagira played a younger version of the famous Japanese director and comedian Takeshi Kitano in the movie Asakusa Kid.

Personal Life

Marriage and Family

On December 2, 2009, Yagira shared on his blog that he was engaged to television personality Ellie Toyota [ja]. They held their wedding ceremony on January 15, 2010, at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. They had officially registered their marriage the day before. Yagira and Toyota have one daughter, who was born on October 13, 2010.

The couple first met when Toyota was in her final year of high school. Yagira was immediately interested in her and asked a friend for her contact information. This is how their relationship began. Yagira once proposed to Toyota when he was seventeen, but he learned that people needed to be at least eighteen to legally marry. He proposed again two years later when he was nineteen, and this time, Toyota said yes!

Brand Endorsements

In 2018, Yagira became the face of GATSBY, a Japanese brand for men's grooming products. He starred in a TV commercial called "GATSBY Cop" alongside another popular Japanese actor, Mackenyu Arata.

Filmography

Television Shows

• Kunimitsu no Matsuri (KTV, 2003), playing Shinsaku Sakagami
• Denchi ga Kireru Made (TV Asahi, 2004), playing Daichi Takano
• Tokyo23: Survival City (Wowow, 2010), playing Noboru Arai
• Lady: Saigo no Hanzai Profile, episodes 4, 5 (TBS, 2011), playing Satoshi Tatsumi
• Galileo XX (Fuji TV, 2013), playing Kento Tōma
• Aoi Honō (TV Tokyo, 2014), playing Moyuru Honoo
• Nobunaga Concerto, episode 1 (Fuji TV, 2014), playing Oda Nobuyuki
• Nurses of the Palace (TBS, 2015), playing Kōtarō Nakano
• Mare (NHK, Asadora, 2015), playing Daisuke Ikehata
• We're Millennials. Got a Problem? (NTV, 2016), playing Maribu Michigami
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (NHK, Taiga Drama, 2017), playing Ryūun-maru
• Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter? (NHK, 2017), playing Taichi Matsushima
• Frankenstein's Love (NTV, 2017), playing Seiya Inaniwa
• Gintama: Mitsuba hen (dTV, 2017), playing Toshiro Hijikata
• Gintama of the Unusual (dTV, 2018), playing Toshiro Hijikata
• From Today, It's My Turn, episode 3 (NTV, 2018), playing Moyuru Honoo
• A Day-Off of Kasumi Arimura, episode 4 (Wowow, 2020), playing Kevin Takeda
• Gift of Fire (NHK, 2020), playing Osamu Ishimura
• Pay to Ace (NTV, 2021), playing Kurodo Kuroki
• Gannibal (Disney+, 2022), playing Daigo Agawa
• Light of My Lion (TBS, 2024), playing Hiroto Komori

Movies

• Nobody Knows (2004), playing Akira Fukushima
• Shining Boy and Little Randy (2005)
• Sugar and Spice (2006), playing Shiro Yamashita
• The Bandage Club (2007)
• The Shock Labyrinth 3D (2009)
• All to the Sea (2010)
• Under the Nagasaki Sky (2013), playing Goro Sawada
• Unforgiven (2013), playing Yuichi Hirose
• Again (2013), playing Ryutaro
• Crows Explode (2014), playing Toru Gora
• Ushijima the Loan Shark 2 (2014), playing Ebinuma
• Saiga no Inochi (2014), playing Keito Myose
• Gassoh (2015), playing Kiwamu Akitsu
• Destruction Babies (2016), playing Taira Ashihara
• Pink and Gray (2016), playing Shingo Suzuki
• Ninkyo Yaro (2016)
• Grab the Sun (2016)
• Gintama (2017), playing Toshiro Hijikata
• Samurai's Promise (2018), playing Chiri Tsubaki
• Hibiki (2018), playing Kohei Tanaka
• Gintama 2 (2018), playing Toshiro Hijikata
• His Lost Name (2019), playing Shichi
• The Fable (2019), playing Kojima
• Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019), playing Tomoyuki Saito
• Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (2019)
• From Today, It's My Turn the Movie (2020), playing Eiji Yanagi
• Hokusai (2021), playing Hokusai Katsushika (young)
• Gift of Fire (2021), playing Osamu Ishimura
• Under the Turquoise Sky (2021), playing Takeshi
• Asakusa Kid (2021), playing Takeshi Kitano
• The Fish Tale (2022), playing Hiyo
• We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie (2023), playing Maribu Michigami
• A Conviction of Marriage (2024), playing Arata Natsume

Awards and Achievements

Yagira has won several important awards for his acting:

• 2004: 57th Cannes Film Festival - Best Actor for Nobody Knows
• 2004: 90th Kinema Junpo Award - Best New Actor for Nobody Knows
• 2005: 26th Yokohama Film Festival - Best New Actor for Nobody Knows
• 2016: Drama Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actor for We're Millennials. Got a problem?
• 2017: 90th Kinema Junpo Award - Best Actor for Destruction Babies
• 2017: 38th Yokohama Film Festival - Best Actor for Destruction Babies
• 2022: 46th Elan d'or Awards - Newcomer of the Year

See also

In Spanish: Yūya Yagira para niños