David Sakurai (Copenhagen, 19 July 1979) is a Danish Japanese actor, director, scriptwriter and martial artist.

David Sakurai was born in Copenhagen to a Japanese father and a Danish mother and raised in Frederiksværk, Denmark.

[2][3] Sakurai returned to Denmark in 2008,[4] mainly because he wanted to work with Jack Hansen and other talented new directors and in his native tongue.

[4] He worked with Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Van Zandt and Hans Petter Moland, among others.

[6] In 2012, Sakurai starred in Hungarian dark romantic comedy Liza, the Fox-Fairy, which won the Grand Prize at Portuguese film festival Fantasporto in 2015.