--- name: "Arata Iura" canonical: "https://film.one/person/arata-iura" fi1m_id: "arata-iura" imdb_id: "nm0033152" tmdb_id: 82540 wikidata_id: "Q869768" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 September 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T04:35:10.110432+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Arata Iura ## Identity Arata Iura - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arata-iura - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** arata-iura - **IMDb ID:** nm0033152 - **TMDB ID:** 82540 - **Wikidata ID:** Q869768 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arata_Iura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q869768, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82540 Actor. Born 15 September 1974 in Hino, Tokyo, Giappone. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 September 1974, Hino, Tokyo, Giappone - **Also known as:** ARATA, いうらあらた, آراتا ایورا - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arata_Iura, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q869768, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0033152/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82540 ## Fi1m on Arata Iura > Arata Iura does less with his face than almost any actor we can think of, and directors who want a man listening rather than performing keep coming back for it. Hirokazu Kore-eda found the use for that stillness first, in *After Life*. In *After Life* (1999) Arata Iura plays Takashi Mochizuki, a caseworker in a peeling building where the newly dead must choose one memory to keep. The others on the staff are eager, or bored, or patiently weary; Mochizuki is reserved and careful, and that is the whole performance. He had come from fashion modelling and this was his first film, in a lead, and he behaves as if he has been told that acting is mostly waiting for the other person to finish. It suits the film exactly. The dead do the talking. He sits there and the camera has to come to him. Kore-eda kept him. There is *Distance* (2001), *Air Doll* (2009) and a supporting part in *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), all of them films about people who are lonely in rooms with other people, which is Iura's natural weather. In between came the role that most Japanese audiences would name first: Makoto Tsukimoto, called Smile, the gifted and shut-off table-tennis player in Fumihiko Sori's *Ping Pong* (2002), where whatever is going on inside him arrives almost entirely through his expression. Then a turn towards harder material with Kōji Wakamatsu, most strikingly as Yukio Mishima in *11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate* (2012), and work with Junji Sakamoto. He has carried on into the 2020s, in *Golden Kamuy* (2024) and in period television, while running a fashion label on the side. The limits are the ones you would expect. An actor this quiet is easy to crowd, and in *Ping Pong* the louder players around him take more of the film than he does. His reputation sits in independent and arthouse work; the big mainstream lead has come rarely. We also noted, in *After Life*, that the staff's own story is the one thread the film leaves underwritten, so Mochizuki is asked to hold a great deal with very little to hold it with. He manages, just. The film moved us badly, and some of that was watching a man who has been in that building a long time decide, without a word of speech, that one of the cases matters to him. If you have not seen him, start where he started. *After Life* is the best argument for what he does, and it is also the clearest case of a director knowing what to do with it. Everything after is a question of whether the film around him is prepared to wait. ## Biography Arata Iura (井浦 新), also credited as Arata, is a Japanese actor, model and fashion designer. Born on 15 September 1974 in Hino, Tokyo, he began his film career in 1998. He is known for roles in Hirokazu Kore-eda films including *After Life* (1998) as Takashi Mochizuki, *Distance* (2001) and *Air Doll* (2009). Other notable credits include *Ping Pong* (2002), *20th Century Boys* (2008), *Like Father, Like Son* (2013) and *John Rabe* (2009). He has also appeared in television series such as *Unnatural* (2018). Iura serves as director of the fashion brand Elnest Creative Activity and holds a directorship at the Artisan Culture Organisation Institute. He is represented by Tencarat Entertainment Office. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, asianwiki.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *After Life* (1999), Fi1m 85, as Takashi Mochizuki — [page](https://film.one/film/after-life.md) ## Complete filmography (132) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Blossom* (2026), series, Actor - *Trophy* (2026), as Sang-ju - *Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-* (2026), as Aca / Wilk - *Last Samurai Standing* (2025), series, as Okubo Toshimichi - *There Was Such a Thing Before* (2025), as Atsuto - *DOPE Narcotics Control Department Special Investigation Unit* (2025), series, as Jiu - *Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional* (2025), as Tamiya - *Giving Up World Domination* (2025), Actor - *Slow Train* (2025), as Meguro Tokio - *Stolen Identity: The Last Hacker* (2024), as Akira Hyodo - *Adabana* (2024), as Shinji - *Talentless TAKANO* (2024), series, as Itsuki Hatoyama - *Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-* (2024), series, as Aca / Wilk - *Last Mile* (2024), as Kai Nakado - *Tokyo Cowboy* (2024), as Hideki - *Cafune* (2024), Actor - *Unmet: Diary of a Neurosurgeon* (2024), series, as Osako Koichi - *Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2* (2024), as Koji Wakamatsu - *Golden Kamuy* (2024), as Aca - *Dear Radiance* (2024), series, as Fujiwara no Michitaka - *Ossan's Love Returns* (2024), series, as Izumi Kou - *The Ex-idol, Stuck in Life, Decided to Live with a Complete Stranger* (2023), as Sasapon - *Moon and Cake* (2023), series, Actor - *Undercurrent* (2023), as Takayuki Hori - *September 1923* (2023), as Tomokazu Sawada - *CRANK* (2023), Actor - *The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House* (2023), series, as Masahiro Tanabe - *First Love* (2022), series, as Tsushima Akihiko - *Double-edged Axe* (2022), series, as Shigekatsu Kawasumi - *Amiko* (2022), as Tetsuro - *シネマスコーレを解剖する。　コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ* (2022), Actor - *Education and Nationalism* (2022), as Narrator - *Chicken Phoenix* (2022), as Sota Amaya - *The World of You* (2022), Actor - *Taro Okamoto's Okinawa* (2022), as Narrator - *Parasite in Love* (2021), as Izumi - *Dearest* (2021), series, as Kenichiro Kase - *Skeleton Flowers* (2021), as Nao - *Child of Kamiari Month* (2021), as Norimasa Hayama (voice) - *TATSUJIN THE MASTER* (2021), Actor - *Ninja Girl* (2021), as Mano - *If I'd kissed her* (2021), series, as Masao Tanaka / Tomoe Yuizuki - *Murderous Intent's Journey the Movie* (2021), as Kazuma Kubota - *Photograph of Memories* (2021), Actor - *Rainbow Chart* (2021), series, as Saku Asagi - *The Road to Murder* (2020), series, as Kazuma Kubota - *True Mothers* (2020), as Kiyokazu Kurihara - *Ru: Taiwan Express* (2020), series, as Makoto Anzai - *The Walking Man* (2020), series, Actor - *Stolen Identity 2* (2020), as Akira Hyodo - *Nippon Noir* (2019), series, Actor - *From Miyamoto to You* (2019), as Yuji Kazama - *Dragon Quest: Your Story* (2019), as Mildrath (voice) - *Amber Light* (2019), as Ryota Hironaga - *Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram* (2019), as Eisei Hiraoka - *Red Snow* (2019), as Kidachi Shōgo - *BRIDGE　はじまりは1995.1.17 神戸* (2019), series, Actor - *Les Misérables* (2019), as Saito Ryousuke - *Dare to Stop Us* (2018), as Koji Wakamatsu - *Caseworker's Diary: Constitutional Rights, The Minimum Standard of Wholesome and Cultured Living* (2018), series, as Akinobu Handa - *The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine* (2018), as Genjiro Muraki - *Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu* (2018), Actor - *Smokin' on the Moon* (2018), as Sota Amaya - *Unnatural* (2018), series, as Nakada Kei - *Waiting for the Moon* (2017), Actor - *And Then There Was Light* (2017), as Nobuyuki - *HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky* (2017), as Tatsuya - *High & Low The Movie* (2016), as Tatsuya - *コントレール～罪と恋～* (2016), series, as 長部 瞭司（おさべ りょうじ） - *Half & Half* (2015), Actor - *Detective versus Detectives* (2015), series, as Yasuomi Suma - *Brahman* (2015), as Narration - *Asleep* (2015), as Iwanaga - *眠れぬ真珠* (2015), series, as 三宅卓治 - *アジアハイウェイを行く* (2015), series, Actor - *The Mourner* (2015), as Sakuya Kosui - *Dososei* (2014), series, as Yanagi Kenta - *Cape Nostalgia* (2014), as Hirohiko Osawa - *お葬式で会いましょう* (2014), series, Actor - *Koi* (2013), as Shintaro Katase - *A Band Rabbit and a Boy* (2013), Actor - *The Child in the Distance* (2013), series, as Nozawa Ryoichi - *The Extreme Sukiyaki* (2013), as Horaguchi - *Miroku* (2013), Actor - *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), as Shinichi Yamabe - *The Ravine of Goodbye* (2013), as Arata - *The Island Teacher* (2013), series, as Akiyoshi Tajima - *Rich Man, Poor Woman in New York* (2013), Actor - *Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship* (2013), Actor - *A Story of Yonosuke* (2013), as Keisuke Murota - *Blazing Famiglia* (2012), as Tetsushin Hino - *The Millennial Rapture* (2012), as Hikonosuke - *Rich Man, Poor Woman* (2012), series, as Kosuke Asahina - *Our Homeland* (2012), as Sonho - *11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate* (2012), as Yukio Mishima - *Petrel Hotel Blue* (2012), Actor - *Taira no Kiyomori* (2012), series, as Emperor Sutoku - *ノンフィクションW 映画監督 若松孝二「17歳」の光と影* (2011), as Narrator - *A Taste of Honey* (2011), series, as Masato Ikezawa - *The Sun Will Rise Again* (2011), series, as 安西雄哉 - *The Last Supper Detective Tono Kazuyuki and the Seven Suspects* (2011), as 安西雄哉 - *Strangers in the City* (2010), as Fumihiko Kamiyama - *Mori no Asagao* (2010), series, as Mitsuru Watase - *From Me to You* (2010), as Kazuichi Arai - *Dogwood Tree* (2010), as Keimichi Hirasawa - *Caterpillar* (2010), as Military Officer 2 - *Zatoichi: The Last* (2010), as Juzo - *Chase: National Taxation Inspector* (2010), series, as Shuji Murakumo - *Solanin* (2010), as Rikutaro Saeki - *Shibuya* (2010), Actor - *News Sokuho wa Nagareta* (2009), series, Actor - *Torso* (2009), as Arata - *Air Doll* (2009), as Junichi - *20th Century Boys 3: Redemption* (2009), as No. 13 - *Bare Essence of Life* (2009), as Kaname Shimada - *John Rabe* (2009), as Major Ose - *20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope* (2009), Actor - *最後の戦犯* (2008), Actor - *Snakes and Earrings* (2008), as Shiba - *20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End* (2008), Actor - *Shadow of Sand* (2008), Actor - *United Red Army* (2007), as Hiroshi Sakaguchi - *The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi* (2007), as Torao - *Prisoner/Terrorist* (2007), as Subleader - *Gina K* (2005), Actor - *Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims* (2005), as Bartender - *A Blue Automobile* (2004), as Richio - *Ping Pong* (2002), as Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto - *Distance* (2001), as Atsushi Mizuhara - *Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai* (2000), Actor - *Shady Grove* (1999), as Shingo Kono - *After Life* (1999), as Takashi Mochizuki — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/after-life.md) ## Gallery - ![Arata Iura](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-c294d1a252a2.jpg) Arata Iura — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Iura_Arata_from_%22Waiting_for_the_Moon%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839305078495%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Waiting_for_the_Moon%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839305078495%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-d60f75d490ae.jpg) 第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578146983%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578146983%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-5eb4f02c4f18.jpg) 第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854577056127%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854577056127%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-5e8821fc5b32.jpg) 第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578102144%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578102144%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Arata Iura](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-dd896243fd9c.jpg) Arata Iura — Image via TMDB - ![Arata Iura](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-8c59c2f9a874.jpg) Arata Iura — Image via TMDB - ![第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-757d18aa3ceb.jpg) 第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854577056002%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854577056002%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/5531773/gallery-d544eab6425b.jpg) 第37回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット 井浦新 (徒花-ADABANA-) (2024) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578250110%29.jpg/1280px-Iura_Arata_from_%22Adabana%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2024_%2854578250110%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor 2013: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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