<figure id="attachment_264372" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1862px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-264372"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="60edcf1a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/09/DSC09306.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-264372" class="wp-caption-text">Kiritani is filming in the JR station area at 6:00 a.m. when the area is sparsely populated. Getting out of the passenger seat of a car driven by another actor and looking where he is going.</figcaption></figure>
One day in mid-August, filming was underway early in the morning in a downtown area of Tokyo. Standing in front of a sauna store in a building district was the wildly bearded actor Kenta Kiritani (42).
Kiritani and his companion headed toward the entrance, but the sign on the door read &#8220;Closed Today.&#8221; Seeing this, Kiritani forced the automatic door open with both hands, and strode into the store.
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 We think this is the filming of a drama whose cast and title have not yet been announced. The production company is Kansai Television. It is directed by Michito Fujii, who also directed the films &#8220;Newspaper Reporter&#8221; and &#8220;Yakuza and Family,&#8221; so it will probably be a serious drama.
Kiritani has a strong image as a comical and hot-blooded young man in the &#8220;au Santaro&#8221; series of commercials in which he has appeared for many years, and he has appeared in a variety of films.
However, in the drama &#8220;Invisible&#8221; (TBS) broadcast in April of this year, he played the role of a psycho villain who is a police bureaucrat and a ruthless boss.
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&#8220;I think he is getting to an age where hard-boiled characters suit him. As he gets older, he is not only tougher, but he has also developed a depth as an adult man with a sense of tenderness and melancholy. He is now at an age where management positions suit him. In the future, he may even play the role of the &#8220;big bad&#8221; at the top of a company,&#8221; says media culture critic Hiroyoshi Usui.
Kiritani is also preparing for the release of the movie &#8220;From Rageli with Love&#8221; in December. It is likely that we will be able to see an even more powerful performance than before.
<figure id="attachment_264374" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1846px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-264374"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="dea8dd58"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/09/DSC09712_r.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-264374" class="wp-caption-text">Kiritani Kenta, the famous motorcycle player who has switched to a serious career path, is aiming for a place where he will be able to play the role of a man who has been in the business for a long time.</figcaption></figure>
From the September 23, 2022 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221;

 Yusuke Kondo

 In mid-August, actor Kenta Kiritani was seen in downtown Tokyo. It appears that he was filming for a new drama series directed by Michito Fujii. Kiritani, who used to have a wild mustache, seems to be changing to a more serious, hard-boiled style.

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