His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano.
While in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuji High School, Kitamura was interested in theater and wants to be an aspiring actor.
He later studied acting at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and in 1998 he debuted in the stage play Spring Awakening and the film Dr.
[2] Kitamura perform at stage shows but he does not belong to a specific theater company and in recent years he appeared in a number of television dramas.
[3] On June 4, 2013, Kitamura married actress Shiho Takano after dating for four years.