United States and on January 29, 2011 in Japan. Ninomiya starred as Kei Kurono, a young man who is hit by a subway train and becomes part of a semi-posthumous "game" with other deceased people. Part two of Gantz, titled Gantz: Perfect Answer, hit theaters in Japan on April 23, 2011. In 2013, Ninomiya played the lead role in the film adaptation of Keigo Higashino's novel Platina Data, []. Ninomiya's 2008 drama series Ryūsei no Kizuna [] was also based on a novel by Higashino. In the 17th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine, it was revealed that Ninomiya would be the voice of Koro-sensei in the 2015 live-action film adaptation of Assassination Classroom. On 5 March 2016, Ninomiya won the 39th Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor, for his performance in Living with My Mother (Haha to Kuraseba), succeeding fellow Johnny & Associates colleague Okada Junichi. The movie Tang, based on the novel "A robot in the garden" by Deborah Install, in which he plays a failed man abandoned by his wife, who finds an amnesiac stray robot in their garden, was released in theaters around Japan on August 11, 2022. A few days later, it was revealed that Ninomiya played also the role of Tang the robot, after he suggested to the producer, who had been testing with both children and adults for creating its movements without results, that he should also play him as a mirror of his own acting. Tang was made by CG animators using motion capture. Other ventures Radio Ninomiya has his own radio show, Bay Storm, since October 4, 2002. The show is currently airing every Sunday on Japan's BayFM, in which he often plays his own renditions of Arashi's songs as well as songs by other artists. Magazine He used to write in MORE magazine a column with the title IT, until it ended in January 2019. Television variety show host Nino san (NTV, April 25, 2013 – present) Ninomiyanchi (Special New Year's program substituting Aratsubo, hosted by Arashi, held every January 3, from 2017) (Fuji TV, January 3, 2021) Telethon Ninomiya appears as main personality in NTV's 24-Hr TV for 6th time, 5 with Arashi (2004, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2019) (24時間テレビ) and 1 as member of YouTube channel Jyaninochaneru (2022) YouTuber A new Johnny's YouTube channel called ジャにのちゃんねる (Jyaninochaneru), lead by Ninomiya himself, was opened in 2021. The channel is also