Shōta Sometani

I have a real soft spot for Shōta Sometani, because he's the kind of actor who quietly vanishes into a role instead of selling you a movie-star face. He started as a child actor, so the camera's basically his native habitat, and you can feel that ease in how unbothered he is on screen. Whether he's playing a shadowed loner or some twitchy oddball, I always end up thinking "yeah, people like that exist" rather than "ah, an actor performing." His Elan d'Or newcomer prize back in 2013 made total sense to me, since being skilled without ever feeling smug is a weirdly rare balance. A Tokyo kid with this slippery, hard-to-pin-down texture is honestly a little enviable. I just want him to keep sneaking into films and pleasantly fooling me for years.

Shōta Sometani is a Japanese actor born on September 3, 1992, in Koto, Tokyo. He began his career as a child actor and has built a reputation for versatile, understated performances across film and television. In 2013, he received the Elan d'Or Award for Best Newcomer, recognizing his early impact on the Japanese screen industry. He attended Meguro Nihon University High School.

Name (English)

Shōta Sometani

Name (Japanese)

染谷将太

Reading

そめたに しょうた

Born

September 3, 1992 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Origin

Koto, Tokyo, Japan

Height

172 cm

Occupation

Actor / Child Actor

High school

Meguro Nihon University High School

University

Meguro Nihon University High School

Awards & achievements

• 2013 — Elan d'Or Award, Best Newcomer

• Official sitehttps://shotasometani.jp/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%93%E8%B0%B7%E5%B0%86%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875644

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actor
• Child Actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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