Shota Sometani (染谷 将太, Sometani Shōta) is a Japanese actor from Koto, Tokyo.^[1] He is known for his protagonist roles in Himizu and Parasyte.

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Shota Sometani
Sometani at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2017
Born	染谷 将太 (1992-09-03) September 3, 1992 (age 31) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Known for	Himizu
Spouse	Rinko Kikuchi ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	2

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Sometani was a child actor. He has worked in both film and television, gaining his first leading role in Pandora's Box, a 2009 film adaptation of an Osamu Dazai novel.^[2]

In 2011, he received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his work in Himizu along with his co-star Fumi Nikaidō.^[3]

He appeared in Shinji Aoyama's 2011 film Tokyo Park,^[4] Koji Wakamatsu's 2012 film The Millennial Rapture,^[5] and starred in Gakuryu Ishii's 2012 film Isn't Anyone Alive?^[6]

Sometani married actress Rinko Kikuchi on December 31, 2014. In October 2016, Kikuchi gave birth to their first child.^[7] Their second child was born in late 2018.^[8]