Kengo Kora

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title: "Kengo Kora" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["21st-century-japanese-male-actors", "actors-from-kumamoto-prefecture", "japanese-male-film-actors", "japanese-male-television-actors", "living-people", "people-from-kumamoto", "year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)"] description: "Japanese actor" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kengo_Kora" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese actor ::

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Field	Value
name	Kengo Kora
image	Godzilla Resurgence World Premiere Red Carpet- Kora Kengo (27989041363).jpg
caption	Kora in 2016
birth_place	Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
death_date
spouse
occupation	Actor
yearsactive	2005 - present
agent	Ten Carat
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| name = Kengo Kora | image = Godzilla Resurgence World Premiere Red Carpet- Kora Kengo (27989041363).jpg | alt = | caption = Kora in 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | height = | spouse = | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 2005 - present | agent = Ten Carat | known_for = Kengo Kora is a Japanese actor.

Career

Kora has gained recognition for his roles in films such as Shinji Aoyama's Sad Vacation, Yukio Ninagawa's Snakes and Earrings, Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood, Ryuichi Hiroki's The Egoists, Yoshihiro Fukagawa's Into the White Night, and Koji Wakamatsu's The Millennial Rapture.

Personal life

On October 4, 2024, Kora announced his marriage to actress Kanako Tahara.

Filmography

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2006	The Inugamis	Young Sahei Inugami	Uncredited
Metro ni Notte
The Summer of Stickleback	Sho Sugimoto
2007	M	Minoru
Sad Vacation	Yusuke Mamiya
Fuckin' Runaway	Takeshi
2008	Snakes and Earrings	Ama
108	Junpei Sasaki
2009	Antarctic Chef
The Crab Cannery Ship
The Vulture
Fish Story	Goro
Zen	Shunryo
2010	Norwegian Wood	Kizuki
The Lightning Tree	Tomozo
Fireworks from the Heart	Taro Suto	Lead role
Box!	Yūki
A Crowd of Three		Lead role
Solanin	Naruo Taneda	Lead role
Bandage	Yukiya
2011	The Egoists	Kazuhiko Ninomiya	Lead role
Tada's Do-It-All House	Hoshi
Into the White Night	Ryoji Kirihara	Lead role
The Woodsman and the Rain	Kōichi
2012	Signal	Reiji Urushida
Kueki Ressha	Shoji Kusakabe
Kitsutsuki to Ame	Koichi Kishi
The Millennial Rapture	Hanzō	Lead role
2013	The Story of Yonosuke	Yonosuke Yokomichi	Lead role
A Tale of Samurai Cooking	Yasunobu Funaki
Roommate	Kensuke Kudo
Beyond the Memories	Kazue Haruta
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Sutemaru (voice)
2014	My Man	Ozaki
2015	The Mourner	Shizuto Sakatsuki	Lead role
Miss Hokusai	Kuninao Utagawa (voice)
Being Good	Tadashi Okano	Lead role
2016	Utsukushii Hito	Tamaya
Kako: My Sullen Past	Yasunori
Bitter Honey	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Shin Godzilla	Yusuke Shimura
2017	Moon and Lightning	Satoshi	Lead role
Side Job	Miura
2018	Shoplifters	Takumi Maezono
Natsume's Book of Friends Movie	Mukuo Tsumura (voice)
Dare to Stop Us	Ken Yoshizawa
2019	Love's Twisting Path	Tajūrō	Lead role
Talking the Pictures	Takayuki Mogi
No Longer Human	Yukio Mishima
The Master of Funerals	Daisuke Toyokawa
Under Your Bed	Mitsui	Lead role
Noroshi ga Yobu		Short film
2020	Town Without Sea	Kobayashi
Under the Stars
2021	Aristocrats	Kōichirō Aoki
Photograph of Memories	Ichirō Hoshino
Remain in Twilight	Kin'ichi
2022	The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn	Kazuma
2 Women
2023	In Her Room
The Water Flows to the Sea	Shigemichi "Nigemichi" Utagawa
G-Men	Kaoru Date
Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween Part 1	Shin'ichirō
Masked Hearts
2024	Sin and Evil	Haru	Lead role
Rainy Blue
The Voices at War	Morio Tateno
Route 29
2025	Seaside Serendipity
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2011	Sunshine	Kazunari Maruyama	Asadora
2012	Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance	Miroku Tachi	Lead role
2015	Burning Flower	Takasugi Shinsaku	Taiga drama
2016	Love That Makes You Cry	Ren Soda	Lead role
Beppin san	Kiyoshi Nogami	Asadora
2017	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit	Raul
2018	Bye Bye, Black Bird		Lead role
2019	Two Homelands	Tadashi Amō	TV movie
Yume-Shokudō no Ryōrinin		Lead role, TV movie
Motokare Mania	Makoto "Makochi" Saitō	Lead role
2021	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	Shibusawa Kisaku	Taiga drama
Anata no Soba de Ashita ga Warau		TV movie
Isoroku Yamamoto in London	Sadatoshi Tomioka	TV movie
2022	Modern Love Tokyo		Episode 2
2024	1122: For a Happy Marriage	Shiro Kashiwagi
House of Ninjas	Gaku Tawara
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Awards and nominations

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Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
2010	23rd Nikkan Sports Film Awards	Yūjirō Ishihara Newcomer Award	Fireworks from the Heart and Solanin		url= https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/award/ns-cinema/history/
2011	20th Japan Film Professional Awards	Best New Encouragement	A Crowd of Three
2012	35th Japan Academy Film Prize	Newcomer of the Year	The Egoists
36th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Himself
2013	36th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Kueki Ressha
2014	23rd Japan Film Professional Awards	Best Actor	A Story of Yonosuke
56th Blue Ribbon Awards	Best Actor
2015	28th Nikkan Sports Film Awards	Best Actor	The Mourner and Being Good
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