Keita Machida

Keita Machida (町田 啓太, Machida Keita, born 4 July 1990)^[3] is a Japanese actor. He is a member of the theater group Gekidan Exile.^[1][4] Machida is represented by LDH.^[3]

Keita Machida
町田 啓太
Machida in March 2023
Born	(1990-07-04) 4 July 1990 (age 34) Higashiagatsuma, Gunma, Japan
Education	Japan Airlines High School, Ishikawa[1]
Alma mater	Nippon Sport Science University[1][2]
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present
Agent	LDH
Spouse	Hyunri [ja] ​ ​ (m. 2022)​

Biography

Machida was born on 4 July 1990, in Higashiagatsuma, Japan. He has one younger and one older sister. Starting in elementary school, he learned Kendo until entering junior high school. After graduating junior high school, Machida joined the Japan Aviation High School in Ishikawa, as he had loved vehicles since his childhood and aspired to be a pilot. He started dancing when he was in high school and took on the role of captain in his dance club.^[5] In his youth Machida also attended EXPG Tokyo, a talent school run by LDH.^[6]

Personal life

On 25 December 2022, Machida married South Korean actress, Hyunri [ja].^[7][8]

Career

Machida joined Gekidan EXILE on 25 January 2011, after successfully passing the Dai 3kai Gekidan EXILE Audition.^[9] Although in July 2011, he was announced as a candidate member of Generations from Exile Tribe and left Gekidan EXILE. In September of the same year, he injured the calf of his right leg and focused on recovering.

On 14 February 2012, it was reported that he had dropped out from being a Generations candidate and rejoined Gekidan EXILE to focus on acting.^[10]

On 20 November 2019, Machida released his first photo book titled BASIC.^[11]

On 31 March 2021, he participated in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay as a torchbearer for his prefecture Gunma.^[12] In the same year he was selected as ambassador for the special exhibition celebrating the 260th anniversary of the birth of the famous Japanese artist Hokusai.^[13]

Filmography

TV drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2011	Rokudenashi Blues	Seiji Wataka	Episode 8
2012	GTO	Meishu Gakuen former student	Episode 1
	Sugarless	Osamu Urabe
2013	Monsieur!	Masaya Baba
	Kamen Teacher	Ichiro Inukami
2014	Senryokugai Sousakan	Yasuhiro Kobayakawa (Young)	Episode 9
	Hanako and Anne	Ikuya Muraoka	Asadora	[1][14]
	Petero no Sōretsu	Yusuke Tanaka
	Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: 15th Anniversary Special
2015	Ryuusei Wagon	Koga
	Tenshi no Knife	Keiji Nagaoka		[15]
	Bijo to Danshi	Ryo Sakisaka		[16][17]
	High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D.	Noboru Harada		[18]
	Gattan Gattan: Soredemo Go	Shinichi Morita	Lead role	[19][20]
2016	Sumika Sumire: 45-sai Wakagaetta Onna	Yusei Mashiro		[21][22][23]
	High&Low Season 2	Noboru Harada
2017	Kanjou 8-go Sen / Ring Road Line 8	Kawashima	Episode 3
	It's All About the Looks	Takuma Maruo		[24][25]
	Teinen Joshi	Yosuke Mizoguchi
2018	Last Chance	Seizo Sugiyama
	Joshi-teki Seikatsu / Life As a Girl	Tadaomi Goto	Miniseries	[26]
	Segodon	Komatsu Tatewaki	Taiga drama	[27][28]
	Prince of Legend	Riichi Yuki		[29]
	Meet Me After School	Shotaro Kawai		[30]
2019	Nusumareta Kao	Ryohei Tani	Miniseries	[31]
	Princess Michiko Story of Unknown Love and Suffering	Seiji Goto	Television film	[32]
	Hotarugusa Nana no Ken	Ichinoshin Kazahaya		[33]
	Parallel Tokyo	Koichi Saito	Miniseries	[34]
	Uncontrol Frontier Icon		Episode 1	[35][36]
2020	Wasteful Days of High School Girls	Masataka Sawatari/Waseda		[37][38]
	Guilty: Kono Koi wa Tsumi desu ka?	Keiichi Akiyama		[39]
	Akiko's Piano: Hibakushita Piano ga Kanaderu Oto	Shigeru Takeuchi	Television film	[40]
	Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!	Yuichi Kurosawa		[41]
2021	Nishiogikubo Mitsuboshi Youshudou	Ryoichiro Amamiya	Lead role	[42]
	Reach Beyond the Blue Sky	Hijikata Toshizō	Taiga drama	[43]
	Uso kara hajimaru koi	Kamoshita Junnosuke	Television film	[44]
	Mangaka Ienaga no fukuzatsu shakai o chō teigi	Kazuhiro Ienaga	Education series	[45]
	Super Rich	Sora Miyamura		[46]
2022	Isn't It a Bad Guy?	Gonta Tamachi	Lead role	[47]
	Teppachi!	Kokusho Hiroshi	Lead role	[48]
2023	Ichigeki	Ichizo	Television film	[49]
	Fixer	Tatsuya Watanabe		[50]
2024	Dear Radiance	Fujiwara no Kintō	Taiga drama	[51]

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Double Sky!
	Tatoeba Lemon	Host, Hiro
2013	Diamond	Taketo
2014	Senpai, Kiss Shiteī desu ka	Shota	Lead role; Short film
2015	Sukimasuki	Heisaku	Lead role	[52]
	Ghost Theater	Hiroshi Izumi		[53]
2016	Road to High & Low	Noboru Harada
	High&Low The Movie
	High&Low The Red Rain
2017	High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky
	High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission
	Koinowa: Konkatsu Cruising			[54]
2018	Cinema Fighters - "Terminal place" -	Shunsuke Kitagawa	Lead role; Short film
	Over Drive	Junpei Masuda
	jam	Takeru Nishino		[55][56]
2019	The Nikaidos' Fall	Yōsuke		[57]
	L-DK: Two Loves, Under One Roof	Soju Kugayama
	Prince of Legend	Riichi Yuki		[58]
2020	Project Dream: How to Build Mazinger Z's Hangar	Yamada		[59]
	Your Eyes Tell	Kyosuke Sakuma		[60]
2022	Cherry Magic! the Movie	Yuichi Kurosawa		[61]
	Sun and Bolero	Keisuke Tanoura		[62]
2023	Don't Call it Mystery: The Movie	Kirinosuke Kariatsumari		[63]
2025	10Dance	Shin'ya Sugiki	Lead role	[64]

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2010	Rokudenashi Blues	Beishime Sawamura		[65]
2012	Peach Boy's
	Rōdoku Geki: Hōsō Kinshi
	Akasaka Dance Dance Dance
	Attaku No. 1	Furuse-chūi
2013	Sadako: Tanjō Hiwa	Hiroshi Toyama	Lead role	[66][67]
	Monsieur!	Masaya Baba
2014	Mayuge Ichizoku no Inbō
2016	Aitakute...
2020	GEKIDAN EXILE "Yusha no Tame ni Kane wa Naru / The Bell Rings for the Brave"			[68][69]
	Reading drama Book Act "Geinin Koukan Nikki"			[70]

Internet Drama

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
2012	Kimitoboku to no Yakusoku		BeeTV	Episode 3
2014	Renai wa Hitsuzendearu: Drama de Wakaru! Shin Kankaku Renai Hōsoku	Itsuki Yukimura	d Video, BeeTV	Episode 6
2017	Love or Not	Wataru Sano	dTV, FOD		[71][72]
2018	Love or Not 2		dTV
2020–22	Alice in Borderland	Daikichi Karube	Netflix		2 seasons
2021	Uso Kara Hajimaru Koi - Hulu Special	Kamoshita Junnosuke	Hulu		[73]
	JAM -the drama-	Takeru Nishino	Abema TV		[74]
2023	YuYu Hakusho	Koenma	Netflix		[75]
2025	Glass Heart	Sho Takaoka	Netflix		[76]

Radio Drama

Year	Title	Role	Network	Ref.
2019	Shinjuku no neko	Haruta Yamazaki	NHK-FM	[77]

TV Series

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2015	Otakara! Backyard Hunter!!	NHK TV	Backyard Hunter (MC)
2016	Hakkutsu! Otakara Galleria	NHK TV	Curator

Music videos

Year	Title	Ref.
2011	Sandaime J Soul Brothers "Fighters"	[78]
2016	Doberman Infinity "Do or Die"	[79]
2022	Generations from EXILE Tribe "Chikara no Kagiri"	[80]

Live

Year	Title
2016	High & Low The Live

Voice acting

Year	Title	Role
2017	High & Low g-sword Animation DVD Special Edition	Noboru

Game

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	Prince Of Legend Love Royale	Riichi Yuki	Released on March 25 Available on iOS / Android

Photobook

	Year	Title	Ref.
	2017	"HiGH&LOW THE PHOTOGRAPHY" NOBORU(ノボル)/町田啓太	[81]
1st	2019	BASIC	[82]
	2020	BASIC Another Edition	[83]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2020	The 106th The Television Drama Academy Awards	Best supporting actor	Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!	Won	[84]
2020	The 30th TV LIFE Dorama of the year	Best supporting actor	Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!	Won	[85]
2021	The 31st TV LIFE Dorama of the year	Best supporting actor	SUPER RICH	Won	[86]
2022	GQ JAPAN Men of The Year 2022	Best breakthrough actor		Won	[87]