Kanata Hongō (本郷 奏多, Hongō Kanata?) (born November 15, 1990) is a Japanese actor and model who appeared several times on music video's,movies,Tv series and magazines, he is known for his role as Ryoma Echizen on Prince Of Tennis.
Hongō has appeared in several movies, including Moon Child, which also starred Gackt, Hyde and Wang Lee Hom. Hongō played the role of "Sho" as a child, while the adult role was played by Gackt. He appeared in a movie called Hinokio which was released in July 2005 in Japan.Hongō is also the young boy in the singer Yui's music video for his song "Tomorrow's Way", and was cast as the popular anime character Ryoma Echizen in the live-action adaptation The Prince of Tennis film.
Hongō also portrayed Shinichi Okazaki in the movie Nana 2, which was released in Japan on December 9, 2006. His next feature film is along side Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley in Silk which will be screened at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. This marks Hongō's first appearance in an English language film, although it is still not known what type of role Hongō has in the film. He also recently starred in another music video, B'zs Eien no Tsubasa along with Tsubasa Honda.
