Nijiro Murakami is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Kaito in the 2014 romance film Still the Water, which was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Murakami's role in Last of the Wolves (2021) received critical acclaim, and earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 45th Japan Academy Film Prize. He also gained international recognition for his role as Shuntaro Chishiya in Netflix's survival drama Alice in Borderland (2020–2022).
Murakami at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2015
Last of the Wolves is a 2021 Japanese crime yakuza thriller film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, starring Tori Matsuzaka and Ryohei Suzuki. It is a sequel to the 2018 film The Blood of Wolves.
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