Takayuki Yamada
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.
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Acting History
2025
Last Samurai Standing as Ando Jinbe
2025Good News as Shinichi Ishida
2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback as Takashi Otomo (voice)
2025Blazing Fists
2024Faceless as Detective Matanuki
202411 Rebels as Masa
2024Tokyo Swindlers as Narrator (voice)
2024Land of Tanabata
2024Weird Ryu
2024MIMI
2024House of Ninjas as Yosuke Tsujioka
2023The Imaginary as Jinzan (voice)
2023Six Singing Women as Uwajima Ryo
2023The Day I Realized I'm in Love as Ippei Miyata
2023Yomawari Neko as Heizō Endō (voice)
2023Japan's Got Talent
2023What Will You Do, Ieyasu? as Hattori Hanzo
2022GAME GENOME
2022Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure as Hayate (voice)
2022The Little Star
2021Inside Zokki
2021Sakura,
2020The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms as Yellow Turban
2020Marumaru no Smartphone
2020Mitsuhide no Sumaho as Akechi Mitsuhide
2020What's So Wrong with "Azatoi"? as Guest
2020夢の本屋をめぐる冒険
2020Step as Kenichi Takeda
2019TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」 as Himself
2019Brothers in Brothel as Mashiba Tokuta
2019The Naked Director as Toru Muranishi
2019Dragon Quest: Your Story as Pankraz (voice)
2019Rilakkuma and Kaoru as Hayate (voice)
2018Hard-Core as Ukon Gondo
2018From Today, It's My Turn!!
2018dele as Keiji Sakagami
201850 First Kisses as Daisuke Yuge
2018The Could've-Gone-All-the-Way Committee as Oashisu / Oasis
2018Isle of Dogs as Junior Scientist 1 (voice)
2018Cinema Fighters as Toru
2018Parallel World as Toru
2017DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon as Batman (voice)
2017Ten as Takashi
2017Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan
2017JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1 as Anjuro Katagiri
2017Gintama as Elizabeth (voice)
2017Takayuki Yamada in 3D as Himself
2017Prison Break
2017Shinjuku Swan II
2017Takayuki Yamada at Cannes Film Festival
2016Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final as Kaoru Ushijima
2016Someone as Sawa
2016Brave Yoshihiko and the Seven Driven People as ヨシヒコ
2016Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 as Kaoru Ushijima
2016映像の世紀プレミアム as 語り
2016Terra Formars as Ichiro Hiruma
2016Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie as Denjiro Tahara
2015A Century on Film as 語り
2015Bakuman as Akira Hattori
2015Shinjuku Swan as Hideyoshi Minami
2015REPLAY＆DESTROY as Kaname Yokoyama
2015Yamada Takayuki in Akabane, Kita, Tokyo as himself
2014Nobunaga Concerto as Denjiro Tahara
2014Monsterz as Shuichi Tanaka
2014Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2 as Kaoru ushijima
2014Ushijima the Loan Shark: Super Taxi-kun as 丑嶋馨
2013The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji as Shun Tsukihara
2013The Devil's Path as Shuichi Fujii
2013I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow as Shuichi Ichinosawa
2013The Rakugo Movie
2012The Samurai That Night as Hiroshi Kijima
2012Lesson of the Evil as Tetsuro Shibahara
2012The Floating Castle as Yoshitsugu Otani
2012Brave Yoshihiko and the Demon's Key as ヨシヒコ/勇者
2012Bungo: Stories of Desire
2012Ushijima the Loan Shark as Kaoru Ushijima
2012Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue as Self - Narrator (voice)
2012Arakawa Under the Bridge as Hoshi
2011Looking for a True Fiancée as Teruhiko Katayama
2011BAZOOKA!!!
2011UNFAIR: the answer as Katsuaki Murakami
2011Arakawa Under the Bridge as Hoshi
2011The Brave 'Yoshihiko' as Yoshihiko
2011Gantz: Perfect Answer as Masamitsu Shigeta
2011Milocrorze: A Love Story as Besson Kumagai / Tamon / Ovreneli Vreneligare
2011Oba: The Last Samurai as Toshio Kitami
2010Gantz as Masamitsu Shigeta
2010Ushijima the Loan Shark as Kaoru Ushijima
2010Vengeance Can Wait as Banjo Takai
201013 Assassins as Shinrokuro Shimada
2010The Seaside Motel as Yosuke Asakura
2010The History of Our Family as Tatsuya Nakadai
2009Chasing My Girl as Sugimoto
2009MW as Yutaro Garai
2009Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto as Akira Abe
2009BOSS as Tajima Shingo
2009Crows Zero II as Tamao Serizawa
2008252: Signal of Life as Makoto Shigemura
2008Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as Satoshi Iizuka
2007Crows Zero as Tamao Serizawa
2007Maiko Haaaan!!! as Student on field trip (cameo)
2007Say Hello for Me as Satoshi Toyama
2006The Letters as Naotaka Takeshima
2006A Song to the Sun as Fujishiro Koji
2006Into the White Night as Ryoji Kirihara
2005Train Man as Densha otoko
2005H2: The Days with You as Kunimi Hiro
2004Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World as Matsumoto Sakutaro
2004Jenifa
2004Fire Boys as Asahina Daigo (18)
2003Dragon Head as Nobuo Takahashi
2003Water Boys as Kankuro Shindo
2002The Cat Returns as Lune (voice)
2002Onmyoji Abe no Seimei
2002Onmyoji Abe no Seimei
2002Lunch Queen as Ushijima Minoru
2002Long Love Letter as Takamatsu Sho
2001I Wanna Fall in Love as Aoshima Wataru
2001Churasan as Kohagura Keitatsu
2000Sayoko is Back as Shū Sekine
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