Yukiya Kitamura

Yukiya Kitamura (北村 有起哉, Kitamura Yukiya; born April 29, 1974, in Tokyo, Japan)^[1] is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano.

Yukiya Kitamura
北村 有起哉
Born	(1974-04-29) April 29, 1974 (age 51) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuji High School Japan Institute of the Moving Image
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Agent	Tom company
Spouse	Shiho Takano ​ (m. 2013)​
Children	2
Relatives	Kazuo Kitamura (father)
Website	Official profile

Biography

While in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuji High School, Kitamura was interested in theater and wants to be an aspiring actor. He later studied acting at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and in 1998 he debuted in the stage play Spring Awakening and the film Dr. Akagi.^[2] Kitamura perform at stage shows but he does not belong to a specific theater company and in recent years he appeared in a number of television dramas. On 2016 his first starring film role was Taiyō no Futa.^[3]

On June 4, 2013, Kitamura married actress Shiho Takano after dating for four years.^[4] He later announced in his blog that she later gave birth to male child in November 2014.^[5]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1998	Dr. Akagi			[2]
1999	Jigoku: Japanese Hell	Suda
2000	Hasen no Maris
	Tales of the Unusual	Man of the couple	Segment: "The Marriage Simulator"	[6]
	Nippon no Kuroi Natsu Enzai	Koji Asakwa
2001	Siberia Chō Tokkyū 2	Maruyama
	Warm Water Under a Red Bridge	Sintaro Uomi
2002	The Sea Is Watching	Gonta
2004	Kusa no Ran	Morikura Iizuka
2006	Stone Age
	Trick Gekijō-ban 2	Ginzo Sano
	Backdancers!	DJ Ken
2007	Chōshū Five	Inoue Kaoru
2008	Kurosagi	Takao Reiji
	Sekai de Ichiban Utsukushī Yoru
	Peeping Tom	Joji Sasaki
2009	Play Cards When You Die	Ichiro Sasaki	Lead role	[7]
2010	Hanjirō	Ōkubo Toshimichi
	Sakurada Gate Incident	Ryusuke Ando		[8]
2012	I'm Flash!	Kaoru Yoshino		[9]
2015	Kakekomi	Torii Yōzō		[10]
2016	Taiyō no Futa	Nabeshima	Lead role	[3][11]
	Over the Fence	Koichiro Hara		[12]
2017	Sekigahara	Ii Naomasa		[13]
2018	Hibiki	Hitoshi Kijima		[14]
2019	Fortuna's Eye	Takeo Kurokawa		[15]
	Almost a Miracle	Ayuta Machida		[16]
	A Long Goodbye	Imamura		[17]
	The Journalist	Jin'no		[18]
2020	The Asadas	Kenzo Shibukawa		[19]
	All the Things We Never Said	Killer		[20]
2021	Under the Open Sky	Iguchi		[21]
	A Family	Nakamura		[22]
2022	Prior Convictions	Naoharu Takamatsu		[23]
	A Hundred Flowers			[24]
	Old School	Shinjirō Renjō	Lead role	[25]
2023	Life of Mariko in Kabukicho			[26]
	Eternal New Mornings	Takeaki Satomi		[27]
	Goldfish	Haru		[28]
	The Water Flows to the Sea			[29]
	Masked Hearts			[30]
	Kyrie	Negishi		[31]
2024	Samurai Detective Onihei: Blood for Blood	Jingorō		[32]
	The Parades			[33]
2025	Hold Me Tighter Than Anyone	Dr. Sakura		[34]
	Gyakka	Nojima	Lead role	[35]

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Kyōto Meikyū Annai 2		Episode 2
	Geijutsu Gekijō
2001	Happyi Wedding	Kosuke Shiina
	Shōnen-tachi
2005	Yoshitsune	Goashi	Taiga drama	[36]
2007	SP	Terrorist Kaneda	Episodes 2 to 4
	Shin Kyōto Meikyū Annai 4		Episodes 1 and 2
	Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths	Akasaki
	Judge: Shima no Saibankan Funtō-ki	Takashi Tsukamoto
2008	Tsuiseki: Shissō Hito Sōsa-kan Shinjiro Ishimori	Yuki Iida
	Keiji no Genba	Hikari Takeuchi
	Mirai Yuenchi II: Ba Dorobō to Merry Go Round
	Top Sales
2009	Konkatsu!	Masaru Ito
	My Girl	Hirokazu Hayashi
2010	Saigo no Yakusoku	Genji Morozumi
	Kimitachi ni Ashita Wanai	Takashi Yamashita
	Pandora II: Kiga Rettō	Hitoshi Okura
	Keishichō Shissō Hito Sōsa-ka	Rui Daigo
	Natsu no Koi wa Niji-iro ni Kagayaku	Shunpei Akagi
	Ojīchan wa 25-sai	George
2011	Gō	Toyotomi Hidetsugu	Taiga drama	[37]
	Ninkyō Helper Special	Jun Tarukawa
	Control: Hanzai Shinri Sōsa	Mikiya Iwasaki
	Kokuhatsu: Kokusen Bengo Hito	Nobuo Yamagata	Episodes 1 and 2
	Jiu: Keishichō Tokushu-han	Hiroki Azuma
	The Book of Human Insects	Heihachi Arikawa
	Kaidan no Uta	Yabuchu
2012	Man of Destiny	Ryo Kiyohara		[38]
	Kuniko Mukoda Innocent	Hiroe Asada	Episode 1
	Tokkan: Tokubetsu Kokuzei	Miyabiai Kagami
	Saikai	Ryoryo Minami
2013	Yae's Sakura	Akizuki Teijirō	Taiga drama	[39]
	Last Hope	Masaomi Soejima
	Samurai Rebellion	Geki Takahashi
	Sennyū Tantei Tokage	Shinjiro Hamasaki	Episode 4
	Otenki Onēsan	Satoshi Tenkawa	Episodes 8 and 9
	Keiji no Manazashi	Wataru Nagamine
	Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari: Autumn 2013	Namiki
2014	Ashio Kara Kita Onna	Ishikawa Sanshirō
	Fukuya Keibuho no Aisatsu	Nobuhiro Arai	Episode 3
	Silent Poor	Yuichi Yamakura
	Kinyō Prestige	Yosuke Kaminaga
	Roosevelt Game	Kengo Takehara	Episodes 7 and 8
	Water Polo Yankees	Kuwahara
	Kuro-fuku Monogatari	Mamoru Kanzaki
2015	Ouroboros	Takaaki Kujo	Episode 3
	Dr. Rintarō	Tsukasa Kobayashi	Episode 3
	Iryū Sōsa	Makoto Ichinose
	Kodoku no Gourmet Season 5	Doctor	Episode 10
	Aka Medaka	Dandan Tachikawa		[40]
2016	Chikaemon	Takemoto Gidayū		[41]
	Kaitō Yamaneko	Kenichiro Todo		[42]
	The Woman who Took the Local Paper	Hayao Shiota	TV movie	[43]
2017	Laugh It Up!		Asadora	[44]
2018	Segodon	Ōyama Tsunayoshi	Taiga drama	[45]
2019	Hotaru-gusa			[44]
2020	Pareto's Miscalculation	Detective Wakabayashi		[46]
	Yell	Jirō Ikeda	Asadora	[47]
2021	Prisonization	Sōsuke Jinnai	Lead role	[48]
	Zenkamono	Naoharu Takamatsu		[49]
2022	A Day-Off of Ryunosuke Kamiki		Episode 7	[50]
	Lost Man Found	Hirayama		[51]
2023	The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House	Takeshi Ishida		[52]
2024–25	Omusubi	Masato Yoneda	Asadora	[53]
2025	Simulation: Defeat in the Summer of 1941	Fumimaro Konoe	Miniseries	[54]