Hokuto Matsumura

Matsumura Hokuto was born on June 18, 1995, in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.^[3] He began practicing karate in elementary school and later competed at the prefectural and national levels, placing second in the Shizuoka Prefecture tournament during his first year of junior high school.^[4] After completing junior high, he moved to Tokyo with his family to pursue his education and enrolled in the advanced course at Suginami Gakuin High School. Due to the increasing demands of his entertainment activities, he later transferred to Horikoshi High School’s Trainee Course, known for accommodating young performers. In April 2015, Matsumura entered the Faculty of Business Administration at Asia University in Tokyo and graduated in March 2019.^[5]

He developed an interest in the entertainment industry during elementary school after watching television dramas, particularly Tomohisa Yamashita’s performance in the drama Kurosagi. Inspired by this, he auditioned for and joined Johnny & Associates as a trainee on February 15, 2009.^[6]

Matsumura joined the talent agency Johnny & Associates in 2009, prior to his CD debut as a member of the temporary units Yuma Nakayama w/B.I.Shadow^[7] and NYC boys.^[8] He made his acting debut in the 2012 drama series Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou, which was later followed by a film continuation. Following the film’s success, he was cast in his first leading television role in the TBS primetime drama Miss Double Faced Teacher (2012).^[9]

In 2013, Matsumura ranked first in Myojo magazine’s annual poll “Jr.’s Most Wanted as a Lover”.^[10] The following year, he appeared as one of the main members in the TV Asahi variety show Gamushara, which aired until March 2016.^[11] During the Johnny’s Ginza concert held at Tokyo’s Theatre Crea in May 2015, Matsumura was announced as a member of the newly formed Johnny’s Jr. group SixTONES, alongside his Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou co-stars. The same year, he co-starred with bandmates Jesse and Juri Tanaka in the film Vanilla Boy: Tomorrow Is Another Day, which premiered nationwide in September 2016^[12]

As a member of SixTONES, Matsumura was appeared annually in the musical Shounentachi since 2015, performing alongside the group Snow Man.^[13] He made his voice acting debut as Souta Munakata in Makoto Shinkai’s animated feature Suzume (2022).^[14]

Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou	Tetsuya Asada		[15]
	Miss Double Faced Teacher	Toshio Toda		[16]
	Piece	Takashi Yanai		[17]
2013	Take Five: Should we Steal for Love?	Kazuma Doujou		[18]
	Pin to Kona	Shohei Sawayama		[19]
2014	Shark	Ayumu Ryuzaki		[20]
2018	Yo nimo Kimyo na Monogatari: 2018 Fall Special	Daichi	Episode: Mathematic na Yuugure	[21]
2019	Perfect World	Haruto Watanabe		[22]
2020	The Secrets	Tsubasa Date		[23]
	Ichiokuen no Sayonara	Teppei Kano		[24]
2021	Red Eyes	Kaname Komaki		[25]
2021–22	Come Come Everybody	Minoru Kijima	Asadora	[26]
2022	Who Needs True Love?	Shuma Nagamine		[27]
2023	Knockin' on Locked Door	Tori Gotenba	Lead role	[28]
2024	Ms. Saionji Doesn't Do Housework	Toshinao Kusumi		[29]
	Rojo no Ruka	Natsuhiko Shiomi		[30]
2025	Ensemble	Yuu Matohara		[31]
2026	Sins of Kujo	Shinji Karasuma		[32]
	25 Years of You	Sōta Yukimura	Lead role	[33]

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Bakaleya High School	Tetsuya Asada		[15]
2016	Vanilla Boy: Tomorrow Is Another Day	Shūta Hayashi	Lead role	[34]
2018	Kids on the Slope	Seiji Matsuoka		[35]
2019	Ninja Drones?	Daiken (N° 391)		[36]
2021	Liar × Liar	Tōru Takatsuki	Lead role	[37]
	What Did You Eat Yesterday?	Gō Tabuchi		[38]
2022	xxxHolic	Shizuka Dōmeki		[39]
	Suzume	Sōta Munakata (voice)		[40]
2023	Kyrie	Natsuhiko Shiomi		[41]
2024	All the Long Nights	Takatoshi Yamazoe	Lead role	[42]
	Dear Family	Susumu Tomioka		[43]
2025	1st Kiss	Kakeru Suzuri		[44]
	5 Centimeters per Second	Takaki Tōno	Lead role	[45]
2026	The Swan and the Bat †	Kazuma Kuraki	Lead role	[46]
	You, Like a Star †	Naoto Kuzumi		[47]
2027	Sins of Kujo: The Movie †	Shinji Karasuma		[48]

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