Naoki Kobayashi

Naoki Kobayashi was born on November 10, 1984, in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He is a Japanese dancer, actor and model. He is a performer of J-Pop dance and vocal group Exile and is a leader and performer of J-Pop dance and vocal group Sandaime J Soul Brothers. He choreographed the famous "Pocky Dance" (Pocky Sharehappi Dance) for Pocky's advertisement in 2015. He has also worked as a model for the fashion brand "Yohji Yamamoto". Besides, he has also taken up acting, acting in films like Tatara Samurai(2016) in his home country Japan. He made his international debut in Netflix's original movie Earthquake Bird (2019) in 2019.