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Ryunosuke Kamiki

is a Japanese actor. Starting his career as a child prodigy, he has garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards for his performances across 25 years in the industry.

Kamiki debuted in a 1995 commercial. Four years later, he had a leading role in the television drama ''Good News'' (1999). His early film roles include ''Spirited Away'' (2001), ''Bayside Shakedown 2'' (2003), ''Howl's Moving Castle'' (2004), ''Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006'' (2006) and ''Big Man Japan'' (2007). He had his first leading roles in Takashi Miike's ''The Great Yokai War'' (2005) and Daihachi Yoshida's ''The Kirishima Thing'' (2012) and played supporting characters in Keishi Ōtomo's ''jidaigeki'' actioners ''Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno'' and ''Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends'' as well as Miike's horror film ''As the Gods Will'' (all 2014).

In 2016, Kamiki voiced the lead in Makoto Shinkai's anime film ''Your Name'', for which he won the Best Actor Award at the 11th Seiyu Awards. After this, he collaborated with Shinkai again on ''Weathering with You'' (2019) and ''Suzume'' (2022) as supporting characters. Kamiki later co-starred with Minami Hamabe in two productions released in 2023: the TV drama series ''Ranman'' and Takashi Yamazaki's ''Godzilla Minus One''. His performance in the latter earned him global critical acclaim and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor. Provided by Wikipedia