My Take
I have such a soft spot for Yūya Yagira. Picture it: a kid barely into his teens, walking off with Best Actor at Cannes for Kore-eda's Nobody Knows, the youngest ever and the first Japanese performer to take it home, doing it all with these huge, quietly devastating eyes that barely needed dialogue. What gets me, though, isn't the trophy, it's the long game. He didn't coast on that golden child label or let it crush him; he disappeared, struggled, and clawed his way back as a real working actor. The grown-up Yagira keeps that translucent boyish hurt but layers on this low, menacing weight that can anchor a proper villain. He just makes a frame feel tense. Honestly, I think he only gets richer and grittier from here, and I'm here for every bit of it.
Overview
Yūya Yagira is a Japanese actor born on March 26, 1990, in Tokyo. In 2004, while still a teenager, he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Japanese actor to receive that honor. He attended Horikoshi High School, a school known for its many entertainment-industry students. He has continued to work as an actor across film and television throughout his career.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yūya Yagira
- Name (Japanese)
- 柳楽優弥
- Reading
- やぎら ゆうや
- Born
- March 26, 1990 (age 36)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Horse (午)
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Actor / Child Actor / Film Actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Horikoshi High School
- University
- Private
- Debut
- Unknown
Awards & achievements
- 2004 — Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.