Kentaro Maeda

Kentaro Maeda (前田拳太郎, Maeda Kentarō; born 6 September 1999) is a Japanese actor and a member of the theater group Gekidan Exile.

Kentaro Maeda
前田拳太郎
Born	(1999-09-06) September 6, 1999 (age 26) Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Alma mater	Dokkyo University - Economics
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2021–present
Agent	LDH Japan
Relatives	Kokoro Maeda (ja) (sister)

Personal life

Maeda was born in Saitama Prefecture on 6 September 1999.^[1] His sister, Kokoro Maeda, is a member of the idol girl group Hello! Project.^[2][3][4]

While in kindergarten, he aspired to appear in Kamen Rider which led to him aiming to become an actor.^[5] In addition, he graduated from Dokkyo University, Faculty of Economics.^[6]

Career

While in university, he was selected as one of the "BEST 30" at the 31st Junon Superboy Contest (ja), but was rejected in the subsequent screening and initially gave up on his dream of becoming an actor.^[7][8][9] He later joined the university's ballroom dance club, but the club activities were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was during that time that he thought about the future. He then searched for an agency to fulfill his dream becoming an actor.^[7][9][10]

He started taking acting lessons at EXPG studio in the summer of 2020.^[11]

In April 2021, Maeda appeared in the TV Tokyo drama Rules of Romantic Comedy ~ Complicated Girls and Younger Boys ~.^[1] On 1 July 2021, he became affiliated with LDH JAPAN.^[12] On 5 September 2021, he played Ikki Igarashi/Kamen Rider Revi in the special effects TV drama Kamen Rider Revice.^[1] Maeda joined Gekidan Exile on 1 November 2022.^[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2024	Fureru	Yuta Inohara (voice)		[14]
2025	One Last Throw	Fumiya Hojo		[15]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2021	Kamen Rider Saber Special Issue	Ikki Igarashi		[16]
	Kamen Rider Revice	Ikki Igarashi	Lead role	[17]
2023	Goddess's Classroom: Legal Youth White Paper	Takuma Mizusawa		[18][19]
	My Wife	Ran Hanazuma		[20]
	I Cannot Reach You	Yamato	Lead role	[21]
	Special Order! Metro Police Special Accounting Department!	Hisashi Tsukimura		[22]
2024	Matsumoto Seicho Drama Special 1st night "Face"	Wataru Morio		[23]
	Shinsengumi: With You I Bloom	Kamagiri Daisaku	Lead role	[24]
	Darwin Goes!?	Daichi Urushibara		[25]
	Smiling Lady	Hiroki Nonomiya		[26]
	D&D: Doctor and Detective's Investigation Line	Shinji Makino		[27]
2025	Betrayal Meals in a Place Like This: Seven Executives Calling for a Storm	Rintaro Shinjo		[28]
	Pararescue Jumper	Tomoki Shirakawa		[29]

Web drama

• Kamen Rider Revice series
  • Kamen Rider Revice The Mystery (January 30, 2022 – February 27, Telasa) - as Ikki Igarashi / Kamen Rider Revi^[30]
  • Revice Legacy Kamen Rider Vail Episodes 1 and 5 (March 27, 2022 – May 22, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) - as Ikki Igarashi^[31]
  • TTFC Direct from the Market Theater Kamen Rider Revice (May 29, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) -
  • Kamen Rider Revice the Movie spin-off drama Birth of Chimera (July 22, 2022, Toei Special Effects Fan Club) - as Ikki Igarashi^[32]
  • Kamen Rider Juuga VS Kamen Rider Orteca (April 30, 2023 – May 7, 2023) - as Ikki Igarashi
• My Wife Special Edition (June 21, 2023, FOD) - as Ran Hanazuma^[33]