Yuya Yagira
Yuya Yagira is a Japanese actor. In 2004, he became the youngest winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody Knows.
Career
Yagira was 12 years old and not a professional actor, when filming began for Nobody Knows in 2002. He then immediately went on to television projects and other films. He co-starred with Eriko Sato in Akane Yamada's All to the Sea which was released in 2010 and co-starred with Kie Kitano in Taro Hyugaji's Under the Nagasaki Sky, released in 2013.In 2021, Yagira played young Takeshi Kitano in the biopic Asakusa Kid.
Personal life
Yagira was hospitalized on August 29, 2008 for a drug overdose, with early reports calling it a suicide attempt. Yagira later denied that he had been trying to kill himself, noting that he was the one who called an ambulance after he began feeling ill from taking the pills. According to his blog:Marriage
In December 2, 2009, Yagira announced on his blog that he was engaged to television personality. On January 15, 2010, Yagira and Toyota held their wedding ceremony at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine. They had registered their marriage on January 14. They have one daughter together, born October 13, 2010.The two met when Toyota was a senior at Horikoshi High School, and Yagira, who was instantly smitten after meeting her, asked a classmate for her contact information, which is how the two began dating. Yagira also revealed that he had proposed to her when he was seventeen. He was not aware at that time that people could not legally marry until they were eighteen, and so Toyota rejected his proposal. Yagira later proposed again two years later when he was nineteen, to which this time Toyota accepted.