Kudo's father is
professional baseball player and
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks coach
Kimiyasu Kudo, and his sister is
professional golfer Haruka Kudo. He is the first and eldest child of five siblings. Kudo had played
tennis himself, but had no experience on professional baseball. His acting debut was the
Nippon TV drama
Perfect Son in 2012. In 2013, he appeared in the NHK
Taiga drama ''
Yae's Sakura'' as
Yamamoto Yaeko's younger brother Yamamoto Saburō, and later from July to September he appeared in the
Fuji Television drama
Shomuni 2013. He later played
pitcher Kazuya Okihara in the
Tokyo Broadcasting System Nichiyō Gekijō series
Roosevelt Game in 2014. Kudo was chosen from the audition from about a hundred applicants, and played as the same position as his father. Later in the 24 May between the
Saitama Seibu Lions and the
Tokyo Yakult Swallows in
Seibu Prince Dome he wore the Seibu Lions uniform number 47, the same as his father's, and went to the
ceremonial first pitch. Kudoh played a
gay lover in the Nippon TV drama
Fake Marriage. ==Awards==