Tetsuya Takeda
Acting
Biography
Tetsuya Takeda is a Japanese folk singer and actor, perhaps most known in Japan for his starring role in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's (TBS) long-running, highly rated television drama Kinpachi-sensei (San-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei). The program, targeted at junior high and high school-aged adolescents, ran on TBS with Takeda at various times from 1979 until 2011.
Born: November 4, 1949
Place of Birth: Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
Known For
Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Jin
After awakening in the Edo era, a neurosurgeon uses his medical knowledge to help those around him while searching for a way back to the present day.
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
Don't Lose Heart
Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.
Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work and gain the respect of the policeman.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.
Shi no Zōki
The 101st Proposal
After 99 failed dates, an earnest bachelor meets a guarded classical musician. He's all in — she's not so sure. Can his persistence lead to love?
The Good Wife
Kyoko Hasumi (Takako Tokiwa) is a former lawyer who quit her job to become a housewife and a mother. Her husband is an elite prosecutor. He works as the leader of a special investigation department at the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office, but he is charged with corruption and gets arrested. A scandal with another woman is also revealed. Kyoko Hasumi's life as a "good wife" begins to change. To protect her children, she decides to work again as a lawyer. She is hired temporarily at a law office and begins to work as a lawyer for the first time in 16 years.
Filmography
as Ninomiya Tatsunosuke
as Masahiko Bamba
as Ryoma Sakamoto
as Akira Noda
as Naoya Kusakabe
as Morio Namatame
as Dr. Ichijo
as Toshio Ogasawara
as Osamu Igarashi
as Tatsuo Ooka
as Yakuza boss Medaka
as Seiichiro Hino
as Shogo Kirizuka
as Umekichi Hashimoto
as Kenichi Shibata
as Inukai Tsuyoshi
as Hoshino Tetsuro
as Kensaku Katsumata
as Kano Zenko
as Kensaku Katsumata
as Tetsuko
as 相浦克平
as Takeuchi
as Junjo Sasagaki
as Ittouda Komiyama
as Sekine Ginzo
as Asazuma
as Sakurai Hikari
as Manager Kajiwara
as Hiroshi Asami
as Kinjiro Oribe
as Old Farmer (voice)
as Hoshino Tatsurou
as Oishi's husband
as Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
as Ryoma Sakamoto
as Tramp
as Homeless man
as Nurse
as 水越修五郎
as Hajime Katayama
as Train Passenger
as 南原幸四郎
as Kenji
as Katsuo
as Kinpachi Sakamoto
as Tokujiro Nitta
as Adachi Morinaga
as Tomekichi
as Kinya Hanada