Nijiro Murakami MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Nijiro Murakami? Nijiro Murakami is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 594 in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.
I’m commenting because I noticed that very few people actually agree on his MBTI, and that most arguments (including for ISTP) are based on vague impressions like “I feel it”, “ISTP vibe”, or common stereotypes. I also noticed that there are almost no developed arguments on the INTP side. Obviously, I don’t know him personally. That said, I think it’s possible to go a bit further than pure intuition by looking at how he talks in interviews, and propose a reasoned hypothesis (while acknowledging that there will always be bias). I’m basing this only on a few YouTube interviews with English subtitles (there aren’t many), and not on his acting roles, which aren’t representative. Why INTP rather than ISTP : He frequently speaks in abstract concepts. For example, he describes independence as being “in a cage” (young people living with their parents), and explains that he doesn’t necessarily recommend leaving, because when he did leave, he wanted to come back and realized he loved home. This isn’t a concrete, pragmatic explanation — it’s a metaphor + meta reflection → Ne/Ti more than Se. He mentions liking Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park not for the musical style, but because he discovered it in the context of a band member’s death. That suggests a focus on meaning, context, and significance, rather than sensory experience. When talking about other people’s fashion style, he says: “I think about it, but I try not to think about it.” This reads like cognitive acknowledgment without identification, a reflective detachment from image → very Ti-dominant. He explicitly says that curiosity is his main driver: “If I don’t fulfill what I truly want, it doesn’t sit right with me.” This doesn’t sound like ambition, performance, or recognition-seeking — more like Ne/Ti than Se. He often talks about gaps between people, and about layers/facets humans have: “I wonder how many layers people have inside.” That’s meta, abstract, and introspective — very INTP-coded. He talks about freedom as an almost unreachable concept, not emotionally, but analytically: “As long as I exist in society, freedom doesn’t really exist. I still pursue it.” This is existential analysis, not pragmatic Se talk. Interview behavior: Frequent pauses, looking away before answering. Sometimes asks permission to elaborate. Analyzes his own mistakes (e.g., playing music too fast due to stress) with distance and humor. → internal processing before speaking, not immediate reaction. Visible nervous gestures (hands, face, posture), but not emotionally expressive — more cognitive tension than emotional display. Objects, value, compliments : When asked about his “treasure,” he chooses his guitar, emphasizes that it’s not expensive, and that he paid for half of it with his father. He anticipates social value (money) only to dismiss it, and focuses on personal meaning → Ti > Se. When complimented (appearance, mystique), he downplays it and credits the photographer. Distance from social image, no validation-seeking. He explains becoming an actor as a chain of events, not a goal or dream. He talks about why, not how, and avoids emotional self-narrative. Sensory questions (important point): When asked about his favorite smell, he’s surprised, asks if it’s a fetish question, then answers “the dusty smell of air conditioners in elevators.” No one understands except one host, who explains it for him. He just nods and shakes the host’s hand. → difficulty verbalizing sensory experience + silent intellectual validation = weak Se, not Se auxiliary. Other recurring themes : He describes Tokyo using ideas like membranes or barriers being pierced by shinkansen → symbolic, conceptual spatial thinking. He says he feels overwhelmed by information, especially in the digital world. He mentions that people constantly play roles, that everyone does it, and that it’s easy for him → meta-social awareness. Family / school: He talks about his mother and a rebellious phase with distance and nuance, not emotional blame. He says he hated school because of rules, but is still glad he went. He reconnects with his mother through music and admires her when seeing her perform — emotion processed internally, not expressively. My conclusion : ISTP isn’t impossible in theory, but it would require very strong counter-arguments to explain all of this coherently. INTP, on the other hand, accounts much more cleanly for the recurring patterns: meta thinking curiosity as a core drive detachment from image information overload difficulty with sensory articulation cognitive pauses I could be wrong, obviously. But based on the interviews available, INTP seems like the most parsimonious explanation. (Links to interviews below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0M2ejNl3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAOjWHC3bE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFlBCJHm-JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtMIGwxKrtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrhXeu5w7qE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSbG2i
Biography
Nijiro Murakami (村上 虹郎, Murakami Nijirō, born March 17, 1997) is a Japanese actor and voice actor. The son of actor Jun Murakami and singer Ua, he is best known for his main role of Kaito in the 2014 film Still the Water, as Jinta Yadomi in the television special Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, and most recently Shuntaro Chishiya in Netflix's Alice in Borderland.
