Kengo Kora (Actor)

Kengo Kora is a Japanese actor from Kumamoto.

Native name: 高良健吾 (KŌRA Kengo)
Occupation: Actor
Birthplace: Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture
Born: November 12, 1987 (age 28)
Height: 5' 9" (176 cm)
Blood type: O
Debuted: 2005
Genres: Films, TV dramas
Office: Ten Carat

Filmography as actor

Year	Movie	Role
2015	Kimi wa Iiko	Okano
2015	The Mourner	Shizuto Sakatsuki
2014	Tada's Do-It-All House: Disconcerto	Hoshi
2014	My Man	Yoshiro Ozaki
2013	The Tale of The Princess Kaguya	Sutemaru, Princess's childhood friend
2013	The Extreme Sukiyaki	Cool guy
2013	Roommate	Kensuke Kudo
2013	Beyond the Memories	Kazue Haruta
2013	A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story	Yasunobu
2013	Hospitality Department	Kyosuke Yoshikado
2013	The Story of Yonosuke	Yonosuke Yokomichi
2013	Yellow Elephant
2012	The Millennial Rapture
2012	The Drudgery Train	Shoji Kusakabe
2012	Signal: Monday’s Ruka	Reiji
2011	The Woodsman and the Rain
2011	The Egoists	Kazu
2011	Tada’s Do-It-All House
2011	Into the White Night	Ryoji Kiriwara
2010	Norwegian Wood	Kizuki
2010	Fireworks from the Heart
2010	Box!	Yuki
2010	Solanin	Nario Taneda
2010	Bandage
2009	A Crowd of Three
2009	Bokura wa Aruku, Tada Soredake
2009	The Chef of South Polar	Ani-yan, snow and ice support
2009	Kanikosen	Nemoto
2009	The Vulture
2009	Fish Story	Goro, Gekirin lead vocalist (1975)
2009	Zen	Shunryo
2008	Snakes and Earrings
2007	Sad Vacation
2006	M - A Married Woman	Minoru
2006	Riding the Metro

Latest news

Kengo Kora to star in Yukihiko Tsutsumi's "Itamuhito" film adaptation

Kengo Kora (26) is set to star in Yukihiko Tsutsumi's Itamuhito (lit. The Mourner), a film adaptation of Arata Tendo's Naoki Prize-winning 2008 novel.Tsutsumi previously adapted the same work to a...

3 years ago
Eita and Ryuhei Matsuda return for "Tada’s Do-It-All House" movie sequel

The latest installment of Shion Miura’s “Mahoro Eikmae” novel series, Mahoro Eikmae Kyoso-kyoku is set to get a live-action adaptation.In 2011, Tatsushi Omori directed a movie adaptation of the...

3 years ago
Kengo Kora to co-star in psychological horror film “Roommate”

Today it was announced that Kengo Kora has joined the cast of Takeshi Furusawa’s psychological horror movie Roommate starring Keiko Kitagawa and Kyoko Fukada.As previously announced earlier this...

3 years ago
Kengo Kora joins the cast of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s "My Man"

Today it was revealed that actor Kengo Kora will appear in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s My Man, an upcoming film adaptation of Kazuki Sakuraba’s Naoki Prize-winning novel Watashi no Otoko.Kora first met...

4 years ago
Aya Ueto and Kengo Kora’s supporting cast revealed for “Bushi no Kondate”

On Tuesday, additional cast members were announced for Yuzo Asahara’s upcoming jidaigeki film Bushi no Kondate.Back in January, it was announced that Aya Ueto would star in the movie as a...

4 years ago
Kengo Kora and Aoi Nakamura join the cast of “Kiyoku Yawaku”

On Saturday it was revealed that actor Kengo Kora will appear in Kiyoku Yawaku, the upcoming live-action adaptation of a popular manga by Ryo Ikuemi.Kora will play Kazue Haruta, a childhood friend of...

4 years ago
Aya Ueto to star in “Bushi no Kondate”, Kengo Kora co-stars

Aya Ueto is set to star in a film called Bushi no Kondate (lit. Samurai’s Menu), marking her first role since marrying HIRO of EXILE last year and her first starring film role since Azumi 2 in...

4 years ago
Kengo Kora and Anne Suzuki to star in “The Egoists” (Keibetsu)

Earlier this week, it was announced that the last full-length work of Akutagawa Prize-winning author Kenji Nakagami, Keibetsu, (literally “scorn”), is being turned into a film starring Kengo Kora...

6 years ago
Kengo Kora cast opposite Maki Horikita in the upcoming film adaptation of “Byakuyako”

Two weeks ago, it was announced that Maki Horikita would star as the villainous Yukiho Karasawa in the upcoming film adaptation of Keigo Higashino’s serialized crime story Byakuyako (Into the White...

7 years ago
Mitsuki Tanimura and Kengo Kora star in “Oniichan no Hanabi”

Here’s one that seems to have slipped through the cracks. Around mid-September, Kengo Kora and Mitsuki Tanimura were spotted in Niigata shooting a new movie called Oniichan no Hanabi (literally...

7 years ago
Review: Snakes and Earrings

Snakes and Earrings is based on a novella which netted Hitomi Kanehara the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors in 2003, when she was 21 years old. The subsequent hype had a lot of people...

8 years ago
Preview screening and press conference held for Sabu’s ‘The Crab Cannery Ship’

On Friday, April 10th, a press conference and preview screening was held for Sabu’s recently-completed film, The Crab Cannery Ship (Kanikosen). Sabu was on stage for interviews along with stars...

8 years ago
Asmik Ace announces live-action adaptation of “Solanin” starring Aoi Miyazaki and Kengo Kora

While announcing their 2009-2010 lineup of films, Asmik Ace spilled the beans on a live-action adaptation of Inio Asano's Solanin. Solanin is considered a "seinen" manga because it's targeted for the...

8 years ago