to have such a role since he had been a fan of the series since his childhood. Since 15 April 2016, TV drama Night Hero Naoto started to be broadcast, in which Naoto starred as himself. The drama go back and forth between reality and fiction by showcasing Naoto with a full-time job as a performer in Exile/Sandaime J Soul Brothers, while he had a part-time job as an underground hero. Other Exile Tribe members also made guest appearances as themselves. The ending of the drama were 12 dances movies(one for each episode) that featured Naoto dancing with several world-famous dancers and choreographers such as s**t kingz, Akanen, Riehata and many Exile Tribe members. Taking the opportunity of the drama, Naoto formed the hip-hop unit Honest Boyz together with Nigo and became one of their rappers and the leader. This was the first time that Naoto showed his vocal abilities in a group. The unit debuted with the song "PART TIME HERO"，which was used as the opening theme of Night Hero Naoto. He has also become a regular guest on TBS's popular Variety show Ningen Kansatsu Variety Monitoring since April 2016. On 19 August 2017, the third movie of the High&Low franchise, High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky, was released. Naoto played Jessie, King of the Prison, who was just released from prison and led his Prison Gang to the war in the world of High&Low franchise. He reprised his role in High&Low The Movie 3 / Final Mission, the fourth movie of the High&Low franchise. In 2019, Naoto and Honest Boyz made their international debut with their new song "Electricity featuring Lil Uzi Vert", which was selected as the ending song of Hollywood's live-action movie "Pokémon Detective Pikachu". In September, the Internet-drama Busunohitominikoishiteru 2019 ～The Voice～ began airing, in which Naoto starred as the popular voice actor Suzuno Osamu. He also played his first starring role in a movie in Dancing Mary directed by SABU. The fantasy-romance depicts the story of an impoverished civil servant called Kenji (played by Naoto), who gets asked by Mary, a ghost of a dancer trapped in a dance hall which would soon be demolished, to look for her lover Johnny. The film had its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain on 10 October 2019. On 14 February 2020, Naoto opened his own Youtube channel EXILE NAOTO HONEST TV,