
June 6, 2005 · 21 years old
Soma Santoki (Japanese: 山時聡真, Hepburn: Santoki Sōma, born June 6, 2005) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his role in Studio Ghibli’s 2023 film The Boy and the Heron. When he was 5 years old, he and his two older sisters were scouted and started working in the entertainment industry.

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.

A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark secret, and set in motion a dangerous and desperate escape plan.

Hatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and children in Japan and fought to keep hope alive for his fellow POWs.

A teacher who is pushed by a student on graduation day and then travels back in time to his classroom on the day of the opening ceremony a year ago, faces his student seriously in order to find out the truth in this new age school...