Sumiji Kuroyama

Sumiji Kuroyama
Profile
Japanese	黒 (くろ) 山 (やま) 墨 (すみ) 字 (じ)
Rōmaji	Kuroyama Sumiji
Age	35 (Vol.1, p. 86)
Birthday	August 14th
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	175 cm
Blood Type	B
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Violet
Professional Status
Occupation	Director
Affiliation	Studio Daikokuten
Personal Status
Status	Alive
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Scene 1

Sumiji Kuroyama (黒 (くろ) 山 (やま) 墨 (すみ) 字 (じ) , Kuroyama Sumiji^?) is the main deutragonist of the Act-Age manga series. He works as a director and is the founder of Studio Daikokuten.

Although he had won various film festival awards overseas, Sumiji was not famous in Japan as a director. He founded Studio Daikokuten for the purpose of making a single film in the future. After discovering Kei Yonagi's talent from an audition, he invites her to his studio and guides her to become an actress who will leave an imprint on the history of acting.

Appearance

Sumiji is a tall, semi-muscular man with tan skin and short, spiky neck-length brown hair with his bangs tied back on top of his head. He also sports a stubbly beard and violet eyes.

In the beginning, Sumiji's attire was rather simple; he wore a plain gray long-sleeved shirt with a v-neck collar and navy blue pants.

Personality

Sumiji is a director that takes his job really seriously. It's shown that when he saw Kei's audition, she had great potential to become a movie star.

Plot

In the 5th round of acting tryouts, Sumiji is unimpressed by the women that were selected, until he eyes a girl named Kei Yonagi. Sometime after the audition, he gets into a debate with Stars Agency Ceo Arisa Hoshi about why Kei was rejected.

The following day Arisa's son Akira picks up Kei as a last-minute replacement to an auditioner who dropped out. This was at the request of Sumiji who took the opportunity to allow Kei a 2nd chance. He's seen to be impressed by Kei's method acting performance against a "feral dog", but in the end, she isn't picked.

Later that night, Sumiji arrives at Kei's home, tells her of his movie ambition, introduces himself, and asks her who she is.

Trivia

• Sumiji's favorite foods are rice crackers, oden, yakitori, chinmi and sake (alcohol in general).
• He doesn't like high smoking rates in movie industries.
• His hobby is saving cute animal pictures on his smartphone while hiding and watching them.
• Unlike many of the other characters in the series, he doesn't like talking about his favorite movies. He's the type who thinks it is disrespectful to talk about other works.