Takayuki Yamada
Acting
Biography
Takayuki Yamada (山田 孝之 Yamada Takayuki, born October 20, 1983) is a Japanese actor and singer. He has two elder sisters and one son. At age 15, he was discovered by talent agency Stardust and made his debut in his acting career in the TV drama Psychometrer Eiji 2 in 1999. One of his first big roles was starring as Matsumoto Sakutaro in Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu in the 2004 TBS series. In 2005, he made his name known with the movie Densha Otoko. His recent projects include Taiyou no Uta and the Japanese movie The Letter (Tegami) with co-star Erika Sawajiri. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takayuki Yamada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 20, 1983
Place of Birth: Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Known For
Churasan
The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.
What's So Wrong with "Azatoi"?
Ryota Yamasato, Minami Tanaka, and Ayaka Hironaka The three too-dangerous men and women talk in-depth about the words and actions of "bruising men and women"!
Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue
Prominent Japanese wildlife photographer and filmmaker Mitsuaki Iwago loves cats of all shapes and sizes. So he's set out on a journey to film cats all over the world as they live their lives. Join him in a cat's-eye view of many diverse cities spanning the globe in a unique program that perhaps even your own cat will enjoy as well!
Ushijima the Loan Shark
Kaoru Ushijima's Kaukau Finance is the lender of last resort for many of the poorest people in the area: He collects without mercy and without fail.
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.
BAZOOKA!!!
GAME GENOME
Brave Yoshihiko and the Seven Driven People
Several hundred years after Yoshihiko defeated the dark spirit Deathtark in a fierce battle and saved the world, the world is once again plunged in darkness because of the devil king. Resurrected by the power of Buddha, Yoshihiko, Murasaki, Merebu and Danjo are told to defeat the devil king. The devil king has seven weak points which they must attack if they are to be able to succeed. Only destined people can go on offensive. The party of four set off on a new, dangerous journey around the world in search of these seven warriors with the pearls of destiny to bring down the devil king and return peace to the world. Guided by Buddha, they reach a village, but there are no signs of people. When Merebu calls out after finally spotting a human figure, the person’s face sends them fleeing hastily and they spend a night hiding in a small hut. Will they be able to save the world again?
Japan's Got Talent
Last Samurai Standing
In the early Meiji era, Shujiro, once known as an undefeated samurai, decides to participate in a deadly survival game to save his family and villagers.
Filmography
as Ando Jinbe
as Shinichi Ishida
as Takashi Otomo (voice)
as Detective Matanuki
as Masa
as Narrator (voice)
as Yosuke Tsujioka
as Jinzan (voice)
as Uwajima Ryo
as Ippei Miyata
as Heizō Endō (voice)
as Hattori Hanzo
as Hayate (voice)
as Yellow Turban
as Akechi Mitsuhide
as Guest
as Kenichi Takeda
as Mashiba Tokuta
as Toru Muranishi
as Pankraz (voice)
as Hayate (voice)
as Ukon Gondo
as Keiji Sakagami
as Daisuke Yuge
as Oashisu / Oasis
as Junior Scientist 1 (voice)
as Toru
as Toru
as Batman (voice)
as Takashi
as Anjuro Katagiri
as Elizabeth (voice)
as Himself
as Kaoru Ushijima
as Sawa
as Kaoru Ushijima
as 語り
as Ichiro Hiruma
as Denjiro Tahara
as 語り
as Akira Hattori
as Hideyoshi Minami
as Kaname Yokoyama
as himself
as Denjiro Tahara
as Shuichi Tanaka
as Kaoru ushijima
as Shun Tsukihara
as Shuichi Fujii
as Shuichi Ichinosawa
as Hiroshi Kijima
as Tetsuro Shibahara
as Yoshitsugu Otani
as ヨシヒコ/勇者
as Kaoru Ushijima
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Hoshi
as Teruhiko Katayama
as Katsuaki Murakami
as Hoshi
as Yoshihiko
as Masamitsu Shigeta
as Besson Kumagai / Tamon / Ovreneli Vreneligare
as Toshio Kitami
as Masamitsu Shigeta
as Kaoru Ushijima
as Banjo Takai
as Shinrokuro Shimada
as Yosuke Asakura
as Tatsuya Nakadai
as Sugimoto
as Yutaro Garai
as Akira Abe
as Tajima Shingo
as Tamao Serizawa
as Makoto Shigemura
as Satoshi Iizuka
as Tamao Serizawa
as Student on field trip (cameo)
as Satoshi Toyama
as Naotaka Takeshima
as Fujishiro Koji
as Ryoji Kirihara
as Densha otoko
as Kunimi Hiro
as Matsumoto Sakutaro
as Asahina Daigo (18)
as Nobuo Takahashi
as Kankuro Shindo
as Lune (voice)
as Ushijima Minoru
as Takamatsu Sho
as Aoshima Wataru
as Kohagura Keitatsu
as Shū Sekine