Ryohei Suzuki

Ryohei Suzuki is without a doubt one of Japan’s leading actors today. His Netflix movie “City Hunter” became one of the biggest hits in Asia in 2024, and the latest film of his popular series “TOKYO MER” became one of the highest grossing live-action films in Japan in 2023. In an online survey conducted in 2024, he was voted “the best actor in Japan in their 40s.” Ryohei is also known for his fluency in English. He went to a high school in Oklahoma and majored in English at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

He began acting at 18 in a small student theatre while he majored in English at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He started his career as a fashion model but debuted as a professional actor right after graduating. Ryohei played leading roles in the feature film “Swing Me Again (2009) “, and” HK: Hentai Kamen (2013)” but became more famous as a supporting actor in his 20s.

His breakthrough came in 2013. NHK offered him a leading role in the TV series “Hanako to An,” which eventually gained a rating of 24%. Ryohei’s performance as a caring husband of the heroine was loved by the nation. In 2018, he was cast as the lead in NHK’s series “Segodon (2018)”, making him one of the most acclaimed and most known actors of his age in Japan.

He won five Best Supporting Actor awards in 2022, including Academy Awards Japan, for his terrifying performance as a sadistic murderer yakuza in the film “Koro no Chi: Level 2 (2022)”. He also won the Best Actor in the Asian Contents Awards 2022 in Korea for his performance as a paramedic in TBS’s popular TV series “Tokyo MER (2022)”. Its sequel feature film was released in April 2023 and became the number-one live-action film at the domestic box office in the first half of the year, beating out all international films.

In 2023, Ryohei starred in “Egoist (2023)”, a feature indie film about a gay couple, which has become a long-run hit in Japan and brought him the Rising Star Award at New York Asian Film Festival and the nomination for Best Actor at Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.

In 2024, He starred in the Netflix film “City Hunter (2024)”, a live-action of a legendary manga from the 1980s, which became a huge international hit. It stayed number one on Netflix Global Top 10 (film, non-English) for two weeks, bringing him worldwide fame. Ryohei also received the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award at the 17th Asian Cinema Awards for his dedication to the Asian film industry.

In 2024, He was selected as “the best Japanese actor in their 40s” in a web survey held among the Japanese audience.

Ryohei is also famous as a voice actor for playing Buzz Lightyear in the Japanese dubbed version of Disney’s “Lightyear (2022)”.

Ryohei is fluent in English. He went to a high school in the United States from 1998 to 1999.