1. Kamishiraishi Mone
Kamishiraishi, who was born in Kagoshima, was named after the French painter Claude Monet. Her family spent three years in Mexico due to her father's work, because of which she is fluent in English and a little bit of Spanish. She made her acting debut in the final episode of the N.H.K. Taiga drama Gou: Himetachi no Sengoku, starred Juri Ueno. In 2012, she made her musical debut in “The King and I”. She first gained international attention in 2016 as the lead female character in Makoto Shinkai's anime film Your Name. She was honored at the 11th Seiyu Awards.
2. Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe is a well-known Japanese actor. His tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, are best known to English-speaking audiences. At the Academy Awards, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He received the Japan Academy Film Award for Best Actor twice, once for Memories of Tomorrow and once for Shizumanu Taiyo. He's also known for his roles in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and Inception and Memoirs of a Geisha and Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
In 2014, he played Dr. Ishiro Serizawa in the reboot Godzilla, which he reprised in the sequel Godzilla: King of Monsters. He voiced Decepticon turned Autobot Drift in the fourth and fifth installments of the Transformers franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight, respectively.
Watanabe received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as The King at the 69th Tony Awards in 2015. He is the first Japanese actor to be nominated for an Academy Award in this category. In June 2018, Watanabe returned to the London Palladium to reprise his role.
3. Mayuko Kawakita
Mayuko Kawakita is a Japanese-American actress and model best known for Rena on Fashion Story: Model, Hirunandesu! on Nippon Television, and Sekai no Hate made Itte Q!! International. She won the Japan Bishjo Contest, a beauty pageant hosted by Oscar Promotion, in 2003.
4. Kei Hosogai
Kei Hosogai is a Japanese actor & musician best known for playing Hiyoshi Wakashi in Prince of Tennis: Musical and Basco Ta Jolokia in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. He lived in the United States from the ages of six to nine and eleven to twenty-three in Seattle and The state of Hawaii, and as a result, he speaks English fluently. He was the bassist for the Japanese rock band Cocoa Otoko, represented by G.M.B. Production.
5. Yuki Furukawa
Yuki Furukawa is a Japanese model, actor, guitarist, and break-dancer. He rose to prominence as Naoki Irie in the T.V. series Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo and Mischievous Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa.
Furukawa is best known for his breakthrough role as Naoki Irie in the 2013 Japanese television drama Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo. Furukawa co-starred with Honoka Miki, who played his love interest in the dama. As he was popular in China, he starred in the drama Mysterious Summer, co-produced by Japan and China.
6. Junko Abe
Junko Abe, previously known as Jun Yoshinaga, is a Japanese actress and model. An agent discovered her and signed her while she was still in elementary school. Abe debuted in advertising for Hankyu Department Store. She worked for a fashion magazine, as a model, in middle school and later as an image character for the Fuji T.V. anime series Shion no O.
7. Go Jibiki
Go Jibiki is a well-known Japanese actor. He was born in Tokyo, Japan, on May 7, 1976. He spent his childhood in Singapore and New York due to his father's business, thus learned to speak English fluently. After returning to Japan, he began to study acting. He joined the theatrical company "Wakakusa" when he was 14 years old and left at age 16.
In 1998, he appeared in the film April Story, directed by Shunji Iwai. He enrolled in the "En" acting school and graduated in 2001. He met Japanese film director Koji Wakamatsu in 2007. He worked on five films with Wakamatsu, including United Red Army.
He portrayed Tsuneo Mori, the leader of the United Red Army, in this film. The film won the C.I.C.A.E. (International Confederation of Art House Cinemas) and the N.E.T.P.A.C. (Network for Asian Cinema) awards at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.
8. Nijiro Murakami
Nijiro Murakami is a voice actor and actor from Japan. He is known as Kaito in the film Still the Water, Jinta Yadomi in Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and Shuntaro Chishiya in Netflix's Alice in Borderland. He is the son of Jun Murakami, an actor, and Ua, a singer.
9. Kiko Mizuhara
Audrie Kiko's formal name is Audrie Kiko Daniel, also known as Kiko Mizuhara, is an American-Japanese model, actress, singer, and designer who has been a resident of Japan since she was a child.
Mizuhara appeared alongside Kenichi Matsuyama and Rinko Kikuchi in Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood. She had a supporting role in Mika Ninagawa's Helter Skelter, based on Kyoko Okazaki's award-winning manga of the same name. She also appeared as a supporting actress in Toshiaki Toyoda's I'm Flash! and co-starred with Kazunari Ninomiya in Keishi Otomo's Platinum Data.
10. Shiori Kutsuna
Shiori Kutsuna is a Japanese-Australian actress and idol known for her roles in Beck, Haru/Harumi in 125 Years Memory, Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge! and Deadpool 2. She won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Newcomer of the Year in 2014.
