Shōta Sometani

Shota Sometani (染谷 将太, Sometani Shōta) is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo.

Sometani married actress Rinko Kikuchi on December 31, 2014. In October 2016, Kikuchi gave birth to their first child.

Sometani appeared in Shinji Aoyama's 2011 film Tokyo Park.

In 2011, he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his work in Himizu along with his co-star Fumi Nikaidō.

He appeared in Koji Wakamatsu's 2012 film The Millennial Rapture, and starred in Gakuryu Ishii's 2012 film Isn't Anyone Alive?

Films

• Ping Pong (2002)
• Hebi Ichigo (2003)
• The Boy From Hell (2004)
• Devilman (2004)
• Namida Tsubo (2008)
• Fure Fure Shojo (2008)
• Pandora's Box (2009)
• Yuriko's Aroma (2010)
• Tokyo Island (2010)
• Awaremi Mumashika (2010)
• Tokyo Park (2011), as Hiro Takai
• Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan (2011)
• Azemichi no Dandy (2011)
• Antoki no Inochi (2011)
• Isn't Anyone Alive? (2012), as Keisuke
• Himizu (2012), as Yuichi Sumida
• Sadako 3D (2012)
• Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship (2012), as Kosuke Chiba
• Lesson of the Evil (2012), as Keisuke Hayami
• Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012)
• The Millennial Rapture (2012)
• Strawberry Night (2013)
• The Intermission (2013)
• Real (2013), as Shingo Takagi
• The Eternal Zero (2013), as young Kenichiro Ōishi
• The Kiyosu Conference (2013), as Mori Ranmaru
• Wood Job (2014), as Yuki Hirano
• The Snow White Murder Case (2014), as Hasegawa
• Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014), as Toru Takahashi
• Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2014), as Tokugawa Ietsuna
• Parasyte: Part 1 (2014), as Shinichi Izumi
• As the Gods Will (2014), as Satake
• Parasyte: Part 2 (2015), as Shinichi Izumi
• Teacher And Stray Cat (2015)
• Strayer's Chronicle (2015), as Manabu
• That's It (2015), as Samao Daikoku
• Dear Deer (2015), as Takashi
• Bakuman (2015), as Niizuma Eiji
• The Actor (2016), as Yokota
• A Man Called Pirate (2016), as Yoshio Hasebe
• Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow (2016), as Egawa
• Live for Today: Genichiro Tenryu (2016), as the narrator
• Parks (2017), as Tokio
• March Comes in like a Lion (2017), as Harunobu Nikaidō
• The Legend of the Cat Demon (2018), as Kūkai

Animated films

• Wolf Children Ame and Yuki (2012), as Tanabe
• The Boy and the Beast (2015), as Kyuta (Teen)

Television

• Saka no Ue no Kumo (2009), as young Akiyama Yoshifuru
• Ryōmaden (2010), as Yamauchi Toyonori
• Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (2012), as Haruka Mikoshiba
• XxxHolic (2013), Kimihiro Watanuki
• All Esper Dayo! (2013), as Yoshirō Kamogawa
• Hibana (2016), as Ogata

Music videos

• Juju - "Hello, Again ～Mukashi Kara Aru Basho～" (2010)
• Bump of Chicken - "Good Luck" (2012)