Taiga Nakano

Taiga Nakano (仲野 太賀, Nakano Taiga; born February 7, 1993)^[2] is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He is the second son of actor Hideo Nakano.^[3] He was previously credited as only Taiga.

Taiga Nakano
仲野 太賀
Taiga at 37th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2024
Born	(1993-02-07) February 7, 1993 (age 32) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present[1]
Agent	Stardust Promotion
Parent	Hideo Nakano (father)
Website	Official profile

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2007	Freesia	Hiroshi Kano (child)		[4]
	Battery	Keita Higashitani		[5]
2008	108	Tachibana		[6]
	Nasu Shōnenki	Osamu Shiroyama	Lead role	[7]
	The Blue Bird	Takeshi Inoue		[8]
	Someday's Dreamers	Koji Kuroda		[9]
2009	Pandemic	Kenichi Motohashi		[10]
	Last Operations Under the Orion	Katsumi Suzuki		[11]
	Rise Up	Yuya Kaji		[12]
2010	Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora			[13]
	The Lone Scalpel	Makoto Takei		[14]
	Sankaku	Shogo		[15]
2011	Eclair	Senkichi Wakamatsu		[16]
	When I Kill Myself	Ryota Shinjo		[17]
	Life Back Then			[18]
2012	The Kirishima Thing	Fusuke Koizumi		[19]
2013	Daily Lives of High School Boys	Karasawa		[20]
	Jinrō Game	Tomohiro Hada		[21]
2014	Hotori no Sakuko	Takashi Kameda		[22]
	Monsterz	Akira		[23]
	My Man	Akatsuki		[24]
	Sweet Poolside	Takashi Mimura		[25]
2015	Again	Norio Matsukawa		[3][26]
	Sweet Bean	Yohei		[27]
2016	Tokyo Sunrise	Ren	Lead role	[28]
	Harmonium	Takashi Yamagami		[29]
	Ushijima the Loan Shark: the Final	Naoto Komoto		[30]
	Japanese Girls Never Die			[31]
2017	Pumpkin and Mayonnaise	Seiichi		[32]
	Dawn Wind in My Poncho		Lead role	[33]
2018	The Man from the Sea			[34]
	50 First Kisses			[35]
	No Matter How Much My Mom Hates Me		Lead role	[36]
	It Comes	Takanashi		[37]
2019	Almost a Miracle			[38]
	Taro the Fool	Sugio		[39]
	Journey of the Sky Goddess			[40]
2020	Silent Rain	Yukisuke	Lead role	[41]
	From Today, It's My Turn!!	Katsutoshi Imai		[42]
	All the Things We Never Said		Lead role	[43]
	#HandballStrive	Aniue		[44]
	Any Crybabies Around?	Tasuku	Lead role	[45]
	Mother	Keiichi Akagawa		[46]
	My Favorite Girl			[47]
2021	Under the Open Sky	Ryūtarō Tsunoda		[48]
	In Those Days	Kozumin		[49]
	Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle	Norio Suzuki		[50]
2022	A Man			[51]
	It's All My Fault	Kataoka		[52]
2023	We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie	Hiromu Yamagishi		[53]
	Masked Hearts	Ochiai		[54]
2024	The Beast of Comedy	Nishidera		[55]
	After the Fever	Kenta		[56]
	April Come She Will	Tasuku		[57]
	11 Rebels	Washio Heishirō	Lead role	[58]
	The Real You	Iphy		[59]
	Saint Young Men: The Movie	Ekādaśamukha		[60]
	At the Bench		Lead role; anthology film	[61]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2007	Fūrin Kazan	Tatsuwakamaru	Taiga drama	[62]
2009	Tenchijin	Naoe Kageaki	Taiga drama	[63]
2011	Gō	Toyotomi Hideyori	Taiga drama	[64]
2015	Koinaka	Kohei Kanazawa		[65]
	Chō Gentei Nōryoku	Mubeshu Saito		[66][67]
2016	We're Millennials Got a Problem?	Hiromu Yamagishi		[68]
	Brass Dreams	Kinya Takamoku		[69]
2019	Idaten	Masaru Komatsu	Taiga drama	[70]
2020	Daddy is My Classmate	Izawa	Episode 3, cameo	[71]
	I Had a Dream of That Girl	Ryota Yamasato	Lead role	[72]
	A Warmed Up Love	Makoto Shintani		[73]
2021	Ryūkō Kanbō	Negishi	Television film	[74]
	Life's Punchline	Junpei Minowa		[75]
	#Family Wanted	Sosuke Koyamauchi		[76]
	Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses	Watari	Miniseries	[77]
2022	A Day-Off of Ryunosuke Kamiki	Kenchi Yoshida	Episode 8	[78]
	Love with a Case	Haruhi Mabuchi	Lead role	[79]
	Lost Man Found	Satoru Matsudo	Lead role	[80]
2024	The Tiger and Her Wings	Yūzō Sada	Asadora	[81]
2025	Simulation: Defeat in the Summer of 1941	Shigeo Kabashima	Miniseries	[82]
2026	Toyotomi Brothers!	Toyotomi Hidenaga	Lead role; Taiga drama	[83]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2015	Musubi no Niwa	Mirai Kondo		[84]

Accolades

• 6th Tama Film Awards Best Emerging Actor Award (Hotori no Sakuko, Daily Lives of High School Boys, Jinrō Game, Monsterz, My Man, Sweet Poolside)^[85]
• 38th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Newcomer (Destruction Babies) (2017)^[86]
• 76th Mainichi Film Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Under the Open Sky) (2022)^[87]
• 46th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year (2022)^[88]
• 64th Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Supporting Actor (2022)^[89]
• 46th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Actor (11 Rebels) (2025)^[90]