Munetaka Aoki

Munetaka Aoki (青木 崇高, Aoki Munetaka; born 14 March 1980) is a Japanese actor. He played Sanosuke Sagara in the live action adaptation of the manga and anime series Rurouni Kenshin,^[1][2] and engineer Sōsaku Tachibana in Godzilla Minus One.^[3] He is married to Japanese actress and model Yūka.

Munetaka Aoki
青木 崇高
Munetaka Aoki at the Red Carpet Premiere of Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno / The Legend Ends, on June 5, 2014
Born	(1980-03-14) 14 March 1980 (age 45) Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present
Agent	Stardust Promotion
Spouse	Yūka ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	1

Filmography

Film

• Battle Royale II (2003)
• Fly, Daddy, Fly (2005)
• Limit of Love: Umizaru (2006)
• Hatsukoi (2006)
• Heavenly Forest Tada,2006)
• Tsubakiyama Kacho no Nanoka-kan (2006)
• Tokyo Rhapsody (2007)
• Season of Snow (2008)
• Oppai Volleyball (2009)^[4]
• Counterfeit (2009)
• Rise Up (2009)
• Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time(2010)
• Cannonball Wedlock(2011)
• My Back Page (2011)
• Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
• Rurouni Kenshin (2012), Sanosuke Sagara
• Fly With The Gold (2012)
• Princess Sakura: Forbidden Pleasures (2013)
• Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014), Sanosuke Sagara
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014), Sanosuke Sagara
• S The Last Policeman - Recovery of Our Future (2015)
• Twisted Justice (2016)
• Snow Woman (2016)
• Silence (2016)
• My Friend "A" (2018)
• Mori, The Artist's Habitat (2018)
• Our Departures (2018)
• It Comes (2018)
• Samurai Marathon (2019)
• True Mothers (2020)
• Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone (2020)
• Independence of Japan (2020)
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), Sanosuke Sagara
• Hokusai (2021), Takai Kōzan
• Kawa no Nagare ni (2021)^[5]
• 99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie (2021), Takahisa Marukawa^[6]
• Yamabuki (2022)^[7]
• The Roundup: No Way Out (2023),^[8] Ricky
• Godzilla Minus One (2023), Sōsaku Tachibana^[9]
• Missing (2024), Yutaka^[10]
• Serpent's Path (2024), Sōichirō^[11]
• Ghost Cat Anzu (2024), Tetsuya (voice)^[12]
• Scarlet (2025), Rosencrantz (voice)^[13]

TV drama series

• Ryōmaden (2010), Gotō Shōjirō^[14]
• Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Benkei^[14]
• Pretty Proofreader (2016), Hachirō Kaizuka^[15]
• Segodon (2018), Shimazu Hisamitsu^[14]
• North Light (2020)^[16]
• The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022), Kiso Yoshinaka^[14]
• Futari no Ultraman (2022), Hajime Tsuburaya^[17]
• The Decagon House Murders (2024), Shimada Kiyoshi^[18]
• Like a Dragon: Yakuza (2024), Goro Majima^[19]
• 1972: Nagisa no Keika (2025), Seitoku Yonaha^[20]

Video games

• Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (2025), Teruhiko Shigaki