Age: 29
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Mackenyu (新田 真剣佑, born November 16, 1996) is a Japanese actor born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba. He attended Beverly Hills High School in their Advanced Placement Program and appeared in a few films and TV shows while growing up. As a young child, Mackenyu had many interests including horseback riding, Yabusame, Kyokushin Karate (he was placed third at the US Kyokushin Karate Nationals), gymnastics, water polo, and wrestling (for which he became the school representative). He was also into music, playing piano since he was 10 years old, and later participated in the brass band of his high school in Beverly Hills, playing saxophone, and flute. At the age of 15, Mackenyu watched a movie of Haruma Miura and got inspired to pursue acting professionally in Japan. He held on to the dream of co-starring with the actor once he established his career, which then came true in the movie adaptation of Gunjō Senki (2021). Mackenyu landed his first feature film lead role in Take a Chance (2015) and was featured in the acclaimed short movie Tadaima (2015) for which he won a best supporting actor award at the Asians of Films festival. He moved to Japan later in the same year. His fame grew in Japan after landing the role of Eiji Tomari in Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future (2015). In 2016, he made his stage debut in the Japanese musical Boys Over Flower (Hana Yori Dango: The Musical), which prepared him for his future major roles in the stage-musicals ZEROTOPIA (2018) and Hoshi no Daichi ni Furu Namida (2020). He had a prominent role in the two part feature film Chihayafuru Part I & II (2016) which made him a big name in Japan. Mackenyu started to expand his acting opportunities in Hollywood with a supporting role in the film Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). In 2021, he starred as the final villain, Yukishiro Enishi, in the Rurouni Kenshin series. He portrayed Scar in the live-action sequel of Fullmetal Alchemist (2022). He gained global popularity when he landed the role of Roronoa Zoro in the live-action series adaptation of One Piece (2023). Drawing on his martial arts background, Mackenyu performs his own stunts and is highly skilled in sword fighting.
Mackenyu
Jack
for Jack in GHOSTRUNNER (Live Action Film) — Cyberpunk Martial Arts Action
Suggested by nihilus
(Based on the games) After the global cataclysm known as the Burst, humanity survives in Dharma Tower, a towering arcology ruled by the tyrannical Keymaster, Mara, and guided by the disembodied AI, the Architect—who engineered the biomechanical enforcers known as Ghostrunners. One of them, GR‑74, reactivated by the rebels called the Climbers and named Jack, begins as a silent, inscrutable warrior—calm, precise, and contemplative. As he ascends the tower, he topples Mara and defies the Architect, sacrificing himself in the process, only to survive and reclaim his identity with newfound agency... But this hard‑won autonomy gives birth to an obsession: Jack becomes addicted to the thrill of battle. A year later, with Dharma Tower plunged into chaos and different factions vying for power, he hunts the Asura—ancient Ghostrunner prototypes (Ahriman, Rahu, Madhu) and their resurrected cult leader, Mitra—as they manipulate reality through the Cybervoid and unleash relentless biomechanical abominations called Scions to dismantle everything he rebuilt. Torn between saving humanity and feeding his own disordered exhilaration, Jack’s calm veneer unravels. He dives into digital nightmares and brutal cataclysms, becoming an unhinged force of violence—no longer protector, but predator—driven by an insatiable hunger for chaos even as he tries to define what it means to choose his own destiny.
