Kanta Satō

Kanta Sato is one of those actors whose career makes more sense when you know the context around him. Born in Fukuoka in 1996 and standing 181 cm, he belongs to Gekidan EXILE, the acting wing of the LDH entertainment group — a place where most of your peers are singers and dancers, and where choosing to build a name purely through acting is the quieter, harder route. His breakthrough came in 2016 as Naoki Irie in Itazura na Kiss The Movie: High School. That role carries baggage: the story has been adapted so many times across Asia that every new Naoki gets measured against the last one before he says a single line. Taking that part is essentially agreeing to be compared. The fact that it's still the role people name first suggests he made it stick. Beyond that, the public record on him is thin — no loud scandals, no constant social media noise, just an Instagram account and steady work. I find that unremarkable in the best sense. Actors who avoid becoming a story tend to be the ones still on set a decade later.

Name (English)

Kanta Satō

Name (Japanese)

佐藤寛太

Reading

さとう かんた

Born

June 16, 1996 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

181 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kanta_sato_/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanta%20Sato
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E8%97%A4%E5%AF%9B%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20040337

Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.