Kanta Sato

Kanta Sato (佐藤 寛太) is a Japanese actor, he is a member of EXILE's theater company (Gekidan EXILE). He is best known for his role as Naoki Irie in the 2016 film Itazura no Kiss the Movie: High School.

Sato is represented with LDH.

Early life
Kanta Sato was born on June 16, 1996, in Tsushima (Fukuoka Prefecture), Japan, where he lived until the age of 7. He has two brothers and used to play baseball from his first year in elementary school to the 3rd year of Junior high school. The Rampage from Exile Tribe's Shogo Iwaya and Hokuto Yoshino were his classmates in high school.

Career
Sato aimed for the entertainment industry after watching the movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close when he was in Junior high school.

In 2013, he participated in the EXPG National Academy Audition in the model department of the Fukuoka branch and passed, which led him to learn dancing. In the same year, he participated in the Exile vocal audition Vocal Battle Audition 4 but failed during the first screening.

In 2014, he participated in Exile Performer Battle Audition and made it to the second screening but ultimately did not pass. In the same year, he became a trainee of Exile's theater company after passing the "Gekidan Exile audition".

In January 2015, Sato officially joined Gekidan Exile and started his activities as an actor. He made his acting debut in the drama High & Low The Story Of S.W.O.R.D.

In 2016, he played his first lead role in the film Itazura no Kiss the Movie: High School.

On 16 June 2021, he released his first personal book titled "Next Break", with one of the four photographers involved being his actor friend Takumi Kitamura.