Dori Sakurada
Dori Sakurada Wiki/Bio
Dori Sakurada was born in December 7, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan. At
age 11, while walking home with his Mother, he was scouted and soon joined his
current company, Amuse. He took singing, dancing and acting lessons
while attending middle and high school. In 2005, he was chosen to play the lead
protagonist Ryoma Echizen in a musical adapted from the
popular anime The Prince of Tennis, Tenimyu. The
desicion generated a buzz, as at the age of 14, he was the youngest member to
be cast. In the same year, he made his acting debut when he appeared in one
episode of the TV drama, Ruri's Island. After his two year run
as Ryoma Echizen, he got his big break in 2008 when he starred as Kotaro Nogami
in Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown, the third film
adaptation of the popular Kamen Rider Series. The film was a
success, ranking second on its opening week and earning a total of ¥720 million
in the Japanese box office.
Career
In 2013, went on hiatus to study in London, England. In a 2019 interview, he revealed that the decision came from the want to explore other career options, as he was slowly losing the passion and motivation,
the path of acting not being his choice in the first place. However, he returned to Japan in just 6 months. He admitted his time away immediately changed his attitude towards work, renewed his hunger to succeed
in the entertainment
industry and that this time, it was his choice to be an actor]
Since then, he has appeared in films such as Orange (2015)
and Let Me Eat Your Panceas (2017), and in TV shows such
as Scum's Wish (2017), Coffee & Vanilla (2019)
and Alice in Borderland (2020).
Dori Sakurada in Perfect Crime
Apart from acting, he writes and produces his own music,
releasing his first EP, Sakura da Festa BEST, in 2019. He
performs live in his yearly fan event, Sakura da Festa, the first
one held in 2016.
In 2020, he established his official fanclub, the Sakura
da Space Society.
In 2022, he completed his first Zepp tour. Named Dori
Sakurada ZEPP TOUR 2022: Anniversary to the next level, he
performed in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama.
Dori Sakurada Parent's & Siblings
Named after Sakurada-dori Avenue in Tokyo, Dori
has an older brother, older sister, and a younger sister. He attended Meguro
Nihon University High School, where he often played tennis and basketball. In
2002, the same year he was scouted, he got a Dachshund which he
named Fanta. After his pet's death in 2019, he centered his fanclub
website theme and design around Fanta, along with his interest in
outer space.
His favorite musician is the Japanese rock band, UVERworld.
After meeting the band's lead vocalist TAKUYA∞ in one of his singing
lessons, he became a fan, immediately buying all of their CDs on his way home. Since
then, they've become close friends, with Dori often seen wearing a gold ring
that was gifted to him by TAKUYA∞ for his 18th birthday, and
UVERworld providing the theme song for Dori's 2014 movie, Marching:
Ashita e.
He is close friends with Kento Yamazaki. The duo met on the
set of Baseball Brainiacs (2014), and have worked in multiple
movies and shows since. In the variety program The World's Ashtonishing
News!, Kento revealed that him, Dori and both their mothers celebrated New
year's day 2020 by going on a trip to Hakone, Japan. He is also close
friends with former Amuse artists Takeru Satoh and Ryunosuke
Kamiki.
Films
|
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
Ref |
|
2007 |
Ashita no Watashi
no Tsukurikata (How to Become Myself) |
Jun Kanai |
||
|
2008 |
Aquarian Age:
Juvenile Orion |
Kaname Kusakabe |
Lead role |
[70] |
|
FROGS on screen |
Kakeru |
Lead role |
||
|
Farewell, Kamen
Rider Den-O: Final Countdown |
Kotaro
Nogami/Kamen Rider NEW Den-O |
Lead role |
[5] |
|
|
2009 |
Cho Kamen Rider
Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship |
Kotaro
Nogami/Kamen Rider NEW Den-O |
Lead role |
[71] |
|
Cafe Daikanyama
III: Sorezore no Ashita |
Kotohisa Miura |
[72] |
||
|
Umi no Ue no Kimi
wa, Itsumo Egao |
Riku Kobayakawa |
Lead role |
[73] |
|
|
2010 |
Shokudo
Katatsumuri (Rinco's Restaurant) |
Satoru |
[74] |
|
|
Beck |
Masaru Hyodo |
[75] |
||
|
Kamen Rider ×
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy – Episode Blue |
Kotaro
Nogami/Kamen Rider NEW Den-O |
Lead role |
[76] |
|
|
2011 |
Ōsama Game (King's
Game) |
Nobuaki Kanazawa |
Lead role |
[77] |
|
OOO, Den-O, All
Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders |
Kotaro
Nogami/Kamen Rider NEW Den-O |
Lead role |
[78] |
|
|
2014 |
Marching: Ashita e |
Tadanobu Son |
Lead role |
[79] |
|
The Werewolf Game:
The Beast Side |
Yukihiko Todo |
[80] |
||
|
Gajimaru Shokudo
no Koi (Gajimaru Restaurant's Love) |
Shota Shimabukuro |
Lead role |
[81] |
|
|
As the Gods Will |
Class President |
Cameo |
||
|
2015 |
Orange |
Saku Hagita |
[82] |
|
|
2016 |
Shûkatsu |
Lead role |
[83] |
|
|
Zenin, Kataomoi:
Boku no Sabotin (My cactus) |
Toru Kinoshita |
Lead role in
segment |
[84] |
|
|
2017 |
Let Me Eat Your
Pancreas |
Chairman Takahiro |
[85] |
|
|
2018 |
Baachan Rodo
(Walking with My Grandma) |
Tetsuya Shoji |
[86] |
|
|
Even: Kimi ni
Okuru Uta |
Takehito |
Lead role |
[87] |
|
|
2019 |
Science Fell in
Love, So I Tried to Prove It |
Yu Kannagi |
[88] |
|
|
Back Street Girls:
Gokudols |
Seiji Koizumi |
[89] |
||
|
La |
Shinpei Okahama |
Lead role |
[90] |
|
|
2022 |
Grown-ups |
Masato |
[91] |
|
|
2023 |
Daimyō Tōsan |
Matsudaira
Kisaburō |
[92] |
Music Video Appearances
·
Winter Love Story – JYONGRI (2008)
·
Ame ni Utaeba – monobright (2010)
·
Gingham Check – AKB48 (2012)
·
I Still Love You – Lisa
Halim (2012)
·
Tsubasa wa Iranai – AKB48 (2016)
·
Aoi Signal - MAGIC
OF LiFE (2016)
·
Kumu wo Nuketa Aozora - Da-iCE (2019)
Animation
·
Scum's Wish (Fuji
TV, 2017) as Ori Kurada