1. Takanori Iwata earned his first leading role as an actor in the film Shokubutsu Zukan in 2016, which won him the "Newcomer of the Year Award" at the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize.
28 Facts About Takanori Iwata
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Takanori Iwata was born into an upper-class family in Nagoya on 6 March 1989.
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Takanori Iwata was admitted to Keio Senior High School subsequently, and began to play Lacrosse as an extra-curricular activity.
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Takanori Iwata chose Lacrosse because it is only available as an extra-curricular activity for high school or higher education, so he thought he could have what it took to play on the same level as everyone else.
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Takanori Iwata even made it to the short list of the Japan national Lacrosse team for the AFC U-19 Championship.
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Takanori Iwata used "GUN" as his stage name, which is another pronunciation for the first character of his first name Iwata.
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Takanori Iwata performed publicly for the first time at the cultural festival in his senior 3, and he was so overwhelmed by the elation of dancing that he decided to quit Lacrosse and focused on dancing in university.
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Takanori Iwata joined the group after the event and used the alias Boi Twiggz as a member of Twiggz Fam.
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On 18 September, at the rehearsal for Exile's Exile Live Tour 2010 'Fantasy' in Noevir Stadium Kobe, Hiro, producer of Sandaime J Soul Brothers, announced that Takanori Iwata had passed the audition and was selected as one of the performers of the group.
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On 27 September 2010, Takanori Iwata made his first public appearance as a performer of Sandaime J Soul Brothers during the Fantasy Goya-sai: Exile Tamashi live performance from Exile at Toyota Stadium.
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In September 2013, Takanori Iwata started his acting career with the play "Attack No 1".
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Meanwhile, on 27 April 2014, Takanori Iwata was chosen to join Exile as a new performer along with four othernew members after he won the "EXILE PERFORMER BATTLE AUDITION" final held in Nippon Budokan.
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Takanori Iwata joined Exile while remaining a member of Sandaime J Soul Brothers.
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In 2016, Takanori Iwata appeared opposite Mitsuki Takahata in the romance film Shokubutsu Zukan.
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Takanori Iwata appeared in the TBS's TV drama Suna no Tou as Kohei Ubukata, the childhood friend of heroin Aki.
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In 2017, Takanori Iwata got a lead role in Fate Detector, one of the four mystery stories of Yo Nimo kimyo na Monogatari: Autumn 2017 Special.
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Takanori Iwata appeared in more TV dramas and films in 2018.
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Takanori Iwata starred in the film Kyonen no Fuyu, Kimi to Wakare as Kyosuke Yakumo, the freelance writer looking for the truth behind a burned to death murder case involving a beautiful blind woman.
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Takanori Iwata appeared in Naomi Kawase's Vision, a film starred by Juliette Binoche and released on 8 June 2019.
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Takanori Iwata starred in one of the six stories of the anthology, Funky, which was directed and written by Yuya Ishii.
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Takanori Iwata spent lots of time practicing how to use a wheelchair properly and learned about the life of disabled people, while he learned to play wheelchair basketball.
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Takanori Iwata won the Yujiro Ishihara Newcomer Award at The 31st Nikkan Sports Film Award for his performance in Last Winter We Parted, Vision and Perfect World.
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In 2019, Takanori Iwata appeared in Yuya Ishii's Machida-kun no Sekai.
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The story was about a Sherlock Holmes based in modern Tokyo, and Takanori Iwata portrayed Junichi Wakamiya, a psychiatrist and the Japanese version of Dr Watson.
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In 2020, Takanori Iwata appeared in Yu Irie's new original film AI Collapse as Elite Police officer Makoto Sakuraba, who focused on cybercrime.
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Takanori Iwata appeared in Shinji Aoyama's Living in the Sky, in which he played actor Morinori Tokito, who started a relationship with the heroin.
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Takanori Iwata made a guest appearance in crime drama Cold Case: Shinjitsu no Tobira's third season alongside Kasumi Arimura as Kouharu Shiromoto, the head of publicity who supports the famous actress Misa Takifune behind the scenes.
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Takanori Iwata got fairly good grades as a student and was ranked top in the national mock examinations for elementary school students.