is an American-born Japanese actor.

Biography

Tani was born to an American father and a Japanese mother and moved to Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture

Ibaraki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region on the main island of Honshu. The capital is Mito.-History:Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province...

 at the age of two. As a child actor

Child actor

The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

, Tani was part of the 26-member Precoci, a performing group. His stage name at that time was . In 2003, Tani won the grand prize at the 16th Annual Junon Super Boy Contest and changed his stage name to Tani Kazunori.

Films

• Hideshi Hino's
  Hideshi Hino
  Hideshi Hino is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell...
  
   Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery (2004), as Makihara Daisuke (牧原 大介)
• Schoolboy Crush (2007), as Hanazono Riku (花園 陸)
• Koisuru Ketsuekigata (恋する血液型)

Theatre

• Dear Boys
  Dear Boys
  is a sports manga by Hiroki Yagami, published by Kodansha in Monthly Shōnen Magazine. As of June 2007, the Dear Boys series has 25 volumes in total, including the Dear Boys: The Early Days and Dear Boys: Act 2...
  
  , the Musical (2007), as Moriyama Atsushi (森山 敦司)
• Swing
• Itazura na Kiss: Koi no Mikata no Gakuen Densetsu (2008, イタズラなKiss〜恋の味方の学園伝説), at the Theatre Sun-Mall in Tokyo
• Hiiro no Kakera
  Hiiro no Kakera
  , is a Japanese visual novel created by Idea Factory directed at the female market, known as an otome game. Released on July 6, 2006 for the PlayStation 2, the protagonist is a teenage girl who revisits a small village she remembers from her childhood and gets caught up in her family's history and...
  
  , the Musical (2008–2009, 緋色の欠片), as Kutani Ryō (狗谷 遼)