21st-century Japanese male actors

Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)

, known professionally as or simply , is a Japanese actor. He rose to fame after portraying Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru live-action trilogy in 2016, which earned him the 40th Japan Academy Newcomers of the Year Award in 2017. He has since portrayed characters in many other adaptations of popular manga series, including Okuyasu Nijimura in ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Sōta in Tokyo Ghoul S (2019), Yukishiro Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), Pegasus Seiya in Knights of the Zodiac, and Roronoa Zoro in the Netflix series One Piece'' (both 2023

Japanese actor

Japanese composer (1952–2023)

Japanese actor

Japanese animator, film director, businessman

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a Japanese actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11. He appeared as Lt. A.J. Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges.

Japanese actor and singer

Japanese actor, director, singer, narrator, and voice actor (1932–2025)

Japanese actor and martial artist (1939–2021)

Japanese actor, singer (1990-2020)

, better known as Gackt (stylized in all caps), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor.

, better known by his stage name MIYAVI (雅, Miyabi, stylized in all caps), is a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor known for his finger-slapping style of playing a guitar.

Japanese actor

Japanese singer, actor, radio host

Japanese actor and singer

Japanese idol

Japanese singer-songwriter and actor

American actor

Japanese actor and model

Japanese actor, voice actor, singer and narrator

Japanese actor and voice actor

Japanese actor

Japanese actor

Japanese rock musician

Japanese voice actor

Japanese actor

Japanese actor, voice actor and singer

Japanese actor and model

Japanese voice actor, actor and singer

Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor, radio host

Japanese actor

Japanese idol, singer, actor (born 1980)

Japanese voice actor

Japanese voice actor and singer

Japanese actor, voice actor and singer

Japanese actor (1934-2022)

Japanese actor, voice actor, and film director

Japanese voice actor, narrator and actor

Japanese voice actor, singer and radio personality

Japanese voice actor and singer

Japanese voice actor

Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator

Japanese actor and singer

Japanese actor

Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator

Japanese singer, songwriter and rapper

Japanese voice actor

Japanese actor

Japanese actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese actor and singer (born 1993)

Japanese singer, rapper and actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese voice actor

Japanese singer, actor

Japanese actor, voice actor and singer