--- name: "Shota Sometani" canonical: "https://film.one/person/shota-sometani" fi1m_id: "shota-sometani" imdb_id: "nm2202409" tmdb_id: 1018944 wikidata_id: "Q875644" roles: ["Actor"] born: "3 September 1992" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 68 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T15:52:20.642014+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." --- # Shota Sometani ## Identity Shota Sometani - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shota-sometani - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** shota-sometani - **IMDb ID:** nm2202409 - **TMDB ID:** 1018944 - **Wikidata ID:** Q875644 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shota_Sometani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875644, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2202409/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1018944 Actor. Born 3 September 1992 in Koto, Tokyo, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 3 September 1992, Koto, Tokyo, Japan - **Active:** 2012–present - **Also known as:** Shôta Sometani, そめたに・しょうた, 染谷 将太 - **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 62 (2) - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Animation 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,057m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shota_Sometani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875644, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2202409/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1018944 ## Streaming the US now - **Crunchyroll:** [*Suzume*](https://film.one/film/suzume.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Shota Sometani is a Japanese actor. Born on 3 September 1992 in Koto, Tokyo, he began his career as a child actor in 2001 and gained his first leading role in the 2009 film *Pandora's Box*. He received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the 2011 Venice Film Festival for his performance in *Himizu*. Sometani is also known for his roles as Izumi Shinichi in the *Parasyte* films (2014–2015) and for voice work in animated features including *Wolf Children* (2012), *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), *Belle* (2021) and *Suzume* (2022). He has been married to actress Rinko Kikuchi since 2014. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Suzume* (2022), Fi1m 74, as Minoru Okabe (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/suzume.md) - *Detective Chinatown 3* (2021), Fi1m 49, as Murata Akira — [page](https://film.one/film/detective-chinatown-3.md) - *Wolf Children* (2012), Fi1m 81, as Mr. Tanabe (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md) ## Complete filmography (154) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Sana: Play with Me* (2026), Actor - *AnyMart* (2026), as Sakai - *THE A-CARE -Disusebody-* (2026), Actor - *TAGUSARI bros.* (2026), series, as Minoru Tagusari - *Kyojo: Reunion* (2026), Actor - *New Interpretation of the End of Edo Period* (2025), Actor - *Scarlet* (2025), as Guildenstern (voice) - *Last Samurai Standing* (2025), series, as Kocha Kamuy - *Suzuki=Bakudan* (2025), as Todoroki - *Synanthrope* (2025), series, as Orita - *100 METERS* (2025), as Komiya (voice) - *Faking Beethoven* (2025), as Thayer - *Purehearted* (2025), Actor - *BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues* (2025), Actor - *Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~* (2024), as Buddha - *Cells at Work!* (2024), as Helper T Cell - *Doctor X: The Movie Final* (2024), Actor - *The Young Strangers* (2024), Actor - *That Person Has Disappeared* (2024), as Shimazaki - *Tokyo Swindlers* (2024), series, as Nagai - *Sana: Let Me Hear* (2024), as Yuya Nagao - *Worlds Apart* (2024), as Kazunari Tōno - *The Yin Yang Master Zero* (2024), as Minamoto no Hiromasa - *Seven Orifices* (2024), series, as Sugaya - *Yips* (2024), series, as Kuroba Kei - *Lumberjack the Monster* (2023), as Kuro Sugitani - *Ozu* (2023), series, Actor - *Fly On* (2023), as Kimura - *CODE Japan: The Price of Wishes* (2023), series, as Kazuki Shiina - *Sanctuary* (2023), series, as Shimizu - *Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero* (2023), series, as Kenji Nagagome - *CRANK* (2023), Actor - *Actors Short Films Season 3* (2023), Actor - *Rebooting* (2023), series, as Shunsuke - *Ichigeki* (2023), as Ushigoro - *Suzume* (2022), as Minoru Okabe (voice) — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/suzume.md) - *Momo and the Seven Papagenos* (2022), as Yuta - *Teen Regime* (2022), series, as Washida Teru - *Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama* (2022), series, Actor - *What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?* (2022), as Denki Mukogawa - *Belle* (2021), as Shinjiro 'Kamishin' Chikami (voice) - *Detective Chinatown 3* (2021), as Murata Akira — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/detective-chinatown-3.md) - *Runway* (2020), as Akechi - *Dangerous Venus* (2020), series, Actor - *Today's Nekomura* (2020), series, as Tsuyo - *Saint Young Men 3* (2020), as ブッダ - *Awaiting Kirin* (2020), series, as Oda Nobunaga - *Stare* (2020), as Watanabe Hideaki - *The First Supper* (2019), as Rintaro Higashi - *To the Ends of the Earth* (2019), as Yoshioka - *Saint Young Men 2nd Century* (2019), as Buddha - *First Love* (2019), as Kase - *Parallel World Love Story* (2019), as Tomohiko Miwa - *I'm still here* (2019), Director - *Samurai Marathon* (2019), as Hironoshin Uesugi - *Saint Young Men* (2018), as Gautama Buddha - *The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan* (2018), as Kohei Murata - *And Your Bird Can Sing* (2018), as Shizuo - *Punk Samurai Slash Down* (2018), as Makobee Makubo - *Legend of the Demon Cat* (2017), as Kukai - *Foreboding* (2017), as Tetsuo - *Dawn Wind in My Poncho* (2017), as Nakata - *Foreboding: Serial Version* (2017), series, as Tatsuo Yamagiwa - *Before We Vanish* (2017), Actor - *March Goes out Like a Lamb* (2017), as Harunobu Nikaido - *Parks* (2017), as Tokio - *March Comes In Like a Lion* (2017), as Harunobu Nikaido - *Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"* (2016), as Yoshio Hasebe - *Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow* (2016), as Mitsugu Egawa - *Hibana: Spark* (2016), series, as Kenji Ogata - *The Actor* (2016), as Yokota - *Bakuman* (2015), as Eiji Niizuma - *The Virgin Psychics* (2015), as Yoshio Kamogawa - *Dear Deer* (2015), as Takashi - *All Esper Dayo! ~The Lust-filled Love Wars~* (2015), as Yoshirō "Yocchan" Kamogawa - *The Boy and the Beast* (2015), as Teenage Kyuta (voice) - *Strayer's Chronicle* (2015), as Manabu - *That's It* (2015), as Samao Daikoku - *Parasyte: Part 2* (2015), as Izumi Shinichi - *All Esper Dayo! Special Edition - Esper, Go to City* (2015), as Yoshiri Kamogawa - *Teacher and Stray Cat* (2015), as Shogo Kojika - *Shokuzai no Sonata* (2015), series, Actor - *5windows eb(is)* (2015), Actor - *Parasyte: Part 1* (2014), as Izumi Shinichi - *As the Gods Will* (2014), as Satake - *A Drop of the Grapevine* (2014), as Roku - *Kabukicho Love Hotel* (2014), as Toru Takahashi - *Tokyo Tribe* (2014), as MC Show - *Drive-In Gamo* (2014), as Toshi - *Tadashiku Wasureru* (2014), as 竹下幸雄 - *Wood Job!* (2014), as Yuki Hirano - *The Snow White Murder Case* (2014), as Hasegawa - *The Eternal Zero* (2013), as Oishi - *Touching the Skin of Eeriness* (2013), as Chihiro - *The Kiyosu Conference* (2013), as Ranmaru Mori - *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), as (segment Sion Sono) - *Real* (2013), as Shingo Takagi - *Jellyfish Eyes* (2013), as Byakko / White Tiger - *Minna! ESPer Dayo!* (2013), series, as Yoshiro Kamogawa - *Tadaima, Jacqueline* (2013), Actor - *Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship* (2013), as Kosuke Chiba - *×××HOLiC* (2013), series, as Kimihiro Watanuki - *The Intermission* (2013), Actor - *Similar But Different* (2013), Director, Writer - *The Brain Man* (2013), as Shimura - *Strawberry Night* (2013), as Kento Yanai - *Neo Ultra Q* (2013), series, as Koichi - *Lesson of the Evil* (2012), as Keisuke Hayami - *5windows* (2012), Actor - *Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer* (2012), as Tenchi Meisatsu - *The Millennial Rapture* (2012), as Tatsuo - *Wolf Children* (2012), as Mr. Tanabe (voice) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/wolf-children.md) - *Sadako 3D* (2012), as Enoki - *Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance* (2012), series, as Mikoshiba Haruka - *Blackboard* (2012), series, Actor - *O-PARTS〜オーパーツ〜* (2012), series, Actor - *Isn't Anyone Alive?* (2012), as Keisuke - *Always: Sunset on Third Street '64* (2012), as Kenji - *Himizu* (2012), as Yuichi Sumida - *Life Back Then* (2011), as Nobuo Yamaki - *The End of Puberty* (2011), as Maru - *The Tempest* (2011), series, as Takako Uehara - *A Man with Style* (2011), as Kota - *Tokyo Park* (2011), as Hiro Takai - *Princess Go* (2011), series, as Mori Bomaru - *Threads of Our Hearts* (2010), Actor - *A Liar and a Broken Girl* (2010), as Mii-Kun - *A School Behind Bars* (2010), Actor - *I'll Still Love You in 10 Years* (2010), series, as Yuta Onozawa - *Tokyo Island* (2010), as Manta - *Awaremi Mumashika* (2010), Actor - *Atami's Police Investigators* (2010), series, as Ajisawa Sorao - *Yuriko's Aroma* (2010), as Tetsuya - *Azamijô no lullaby* (2010), series, Actor - *Bukatsudo* (2010), series, as 貧乏剛 - *Graduation Song* (2010), series, as Masanobu Kato - *Ryōmaden* (2010), series, Actor - *Nora* (2010), Actor - *Clouds Over the Hill* (2009), series, Actor - *Pandora's Box* (2009), as Risuke/Hibari - *魔法のiらんど SixDays* (2009), Actor - *Cheer Cheer Cheer!* (2008), as Tamura Akira - *Tear Jar* (2008), Actor - *Fourteen* (2007), as Daiki Amamiya - *Aogeba Tôtoshi* (2006), Actor - *Time Limit Investigator* (2006), series, as Sorau Ajizawa - *Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee* (2006), as Fumihiko Daidoji - *Devilman* (2004), as Susumu - *The Boy from Hell* (2004), Actor - *稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ* (2004), series, as Fumihiko Daidōji - *AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo* (2002), series, Actor - *Ping Pong* (2002), as Boy - *Kamen Rider* (1971), series, as Boy - *国境*, as Hiroyuki Ninomiya ## Gallery - ![第27回 東京国際映画祭 染谷将太 (寄生獣) (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-4972cf956c1a.jpg) 第27回 東京国際映画祭 染谷将太 (寄生獣) (2014) — Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Sometani_Shota_from_Parasyte_%2815452428467%29.jpg/1280px-27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival-_Sometani_Shota_from_Parasyte_%2815452428467%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shota Sometani](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-5e27e7ce16f5.jpg) Shota Sometani — Dick Thomas Johnson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Shota_Sometani_from_Parasyte.jpg/1280px-27th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_Shota_Sometani_from_Parasyte.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-8f4b12d4003a.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839305866335%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839305866335%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-2c92cf7037d4.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839492571914%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839492571914%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Shota Sometani](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-0dcdf8ff549a.jpg) Shota Sometani — Image via TMDB - ![Shota Sometani](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-478c93ac54db.jpg) Shota Sometani — Image via TMDB - ![Shota Sometani](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-5ea9135c5205.jpg) Shota Sometani — Image via TMDB - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/21287/gallery-c9a206778cdf.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2825332257047%29.jpg/1280px-Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2825332257047%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year 2013: Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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