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Naoto Takenaka

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Naoto Takenaka (March 20, 1956 ) is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Naoto Takenaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Naoto Takenaka (March 20, 1956 ) is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Naoto Takenaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Info

Known For Acting

Gender Male

Known Credits 181

Birthday 1956-03-20

Place of Birth Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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Also Known As

  • Takenaka Naoto
  • 타케나카 나오토
  • 竹中直人

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Acting TV ShowsMovies

— Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu (1 episode) as Himself
— Kazoku Kashimasu ~ Family Complex as Tosaki Ryunosuke
2019 Talking the Pictures
2019 On-Gaku: Our Sound as Ōba (voice)
2019 Enter The Fat Dragon
2019 Toshimaen
2019 Your Turn To Kill (20 episodes) as Hiroshi Tokojima
2019 Yaji x Kita Ganzo Tokaidochu Hizakurige (1 episode) as Jippensha Ikku
2019 A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 as Kusomaru
2019 Fly Me to the Saitama
2019 Samurai Marathon as Mataemon Kurita
2019 Cheers to Miki Clinic (1 episode)
2018 Run! T High School Basketball Club as 管理人
2018 The Hungry Lion as Principal
2018 Penguin Highway as Hamamoto's Father
2018 Kuinige Killer as Jason
2018 Reon as Reo Asahina
2018 Colors of Wind as Master
2017 Orphan Black: 7 Genes (8 episodes) as Wakita
2017 Manhunt
2017 Cinema Capriccio as Narrator
2017 Temple as Ryo
2017 Samurai Gourmet (12 episodes) as Takeshi Kasumi
2016 Gold Medal Man as principal
2016 Cain and Abel (10 episodes) as Kurosawa Kosuke
2016 夏目漱石の妻 (4 episodes) as 盐原昌之助
2016 One Piece Film: GOLD as Double Down / Whitejack (voice)
2015 125 Years Memory as Dr. Kudo
2015 Bittare!!!
2015 Gonin Saga as Myojin
2015 Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015 as Ehara
2015 Age Harassment (9 episodes) as Tetsutarou Takayama
2014 Hibi Rock as Takeshi Matsumoto
2014 25
2014 黑服物语 (1 episode)
2014 Onna wa Sore o Yurusanai (10 episodes) as Yoshikatsu Kodama
2014 Lady Maiko as Tomi-san
2014 Heartbroken Chocolatier (11 episodes)
2014 Judge!
2013 Pecoross' Mother and Her Days as Honda
2013 Tenshin as Okakura Tenshin
2013 TAP: Perfect Education
2013 The After-Dinner Mysteries as Kenta Koenji
2013 Sweet Whip
2013 Ken and Mary: The Asian Truck Express as Ken Katakura
2013 009-1: The End of the Beginning as 020, Boss of Agent 009-1
2013 Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend
2013 Angel Home as Kousuke Awano
2013 xxxHOLiC (8 episodes) as Doctor
2013 Oyari Haishaku as Akame Kotoji
2012 Fuse, Memoirs of the Hunter Girl as Juushoku (voice)
2012 Eight Rangers
2012 I Love Tokyo Legend - Kawaii Detective - (16 episodes) as Ichio Tannai
2012 I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore as Sliderman
2011 Karate-Robo Zaborgar as Dr. Daimon
2011 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai as Tajiri
2011 Ninja Kids!!!
2011 Surely Someday as Takeo Kishi
2011 Bartender (8 episodes) as Kase Goro
2010 Freeter, Ie wo Kau (11 episodes)
2010 A Night in Nude: Salvation as Jiro / Kurenai
2010 The Fugitive: Plan B (20 episodes)
2010 BECK
2010 Mutant Girls Squad
2010 Moon Lovers (9 episodes) as Tetsuji Maruyama
2010 One Piece: Strong World Episode 0 as Shiki
2010 Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II as Franz Strezemann
2010 Perfect Education: A Maid for You
2009 Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I as Franz Stresseman
2009 One Piece Film: Strong World as Shiki
2009 RoboGeisha as Rojin Kanai
2009 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption as Pierre Ichimonji
2009 Yamagata Scream as Yamazaki / Leader of Red Barons
2009 Shinjuku Incident as Inspector Kitano
2009 Kami no Shizuku (9 episodes) as Robert Doi
2008 Where The Legend Lives
2008 The Sky Crawlers as Master
2008 Cyborg She as Math Professor
2008 Tokyo! as The boss of the pizzeria
2008 Shaking Tokyo
2008 The Black Swindler: Movie as Toru Ishigaki
2008 4 Shimai Tantei Dan (9 episodes)
2007 Sword of the Stranger as Shoan
2007 The Longest Night In Shanghai as Taro Yamaoka
2007 Hotelier (8 episodes) as Masakazu Morimoto
2007 The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
2007 26 Years Diary as Ichima Hirata
2007 I Just Didn't Do It
2006 Nodame Cantabile (12 episodes) as Franz Strezemann
2006 Cat-Eyed Boy
2006 A Song to the Sun (10 episodes) as Miura Osamu
2006 Catch a Wave as Duke Kawahara
2006 Red Miracle (2 episodes) as Yuuya Oohara
2006 Princess in an Iron Helmet as Tamako's father
2005 GARO (1 episode) as Eiichi Anami
2005 The Great Yokai War as Lamp-Oil
2005 Aikurushii (11 episodes) as Tetsuo Mashiba
2005 Sayonara Color
2004 Swing Girls as Tadahiko Ozawa
2004 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence as Kim (voice)
2004 Bewitched In Tokyo (11 episodes) as Ichio Suzuki
2003 Princess Hiro (10 episodes) as Masahiko Amakasu
2003 The Lion Teacher (10 episodes) as Yuzuke Takamura
2003 Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement as Masamura
2003 Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story as Ikuo
2003 Water Boys (11 episodes) as Mr. Isomura
2003 Tokyo Love Cinema (12 episodes) as Kaoru Edogawa
2003 The Blue Light as Shishobako no Otoko
2003 Good Luck!! (10 episodes) as Naito Jane
2002 Trick: The Movie as God No. 001
2002 Muscle Heat as Tajima, the Street Better
2002 Ping Pong as Butterfly Joe
2002 Perfect Education 3
2001 Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji
2001 The Happiness of the Katakuris as TV Reporter / Singer
2001 Agitator
2001 Waterboys as Isomura
2001 Red Shadow as Shirokage
2001 Perfect Education 2: 40 Days of Love
2001 Stereo Future as Ryuutarou Takayama
2001 Quartet for Two as Sasaki Shoutarou
2000 By Player as Taiji Tonoyama
2000 The Guys from Paradise
2000 Straight News (11 episodes)
2000 Sakuya: Slayer of Demons as Narrator
2000 Pokémon 3: The Movie - Spell of the Unown as Entei (voice) / Sully Snowdon (voice)
2000 Freeze Me as Baba
2000 Densetsu no Kyoshi (11 episodes)
2000 School Ghost Story: Curse Special as Teacher Sasaki
1999 Yamada Ikka no Shinbou (11 episodes)
1999 Konya wa Eigyouchu (10 episodes)
1999 Gemini as Rich Man
1999 Ley Lines as Wong
1999 The Perfect Education as Iwazono
1999 Amateur Singing Contest
1998 Young Thugs: Nostalgia
1998 Andromedia
1998 MIND GAME
1997 Koi no Tamerai (11 episodes)
1997 Tokyo Biyori as Mikio Shimazu
1997 Moonlight Serenade
1996 Five Women
1996 Shall We Dance? as Tomio Aoki
1995 Gonin as Shohei Ogiwara
1995 East Meets West as Tommy, Tamejiro
1995 Sharaku
1995 The Mystery of Rampo as Edogawa Rampo
1995 Story of Four Sisters
1995 Tokyo Fist as Ohizumi
1994 119 as Tatsuya Tsuda
1994 Alone in the Night
1994 Like a Rolling Stone
1993 A Night in Nude as Kojiro / Tetsuro Muraki
1993 Chibusa
1993 Patlabor 2: The Movie as Arakawa (voice)
1992 Original Sin
1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't as Aoki Tomio
1991 Nowhere Man as Sukezo Sukegawa
1991 Until the End of the World as Custodian
1991 Taro! Momotaro in Trouble as Captain Rokai
1991 Hiruko The Goblin as Takashi Yabe
1991 Chizuko's Younger Sister as Psychiatrist
1991 Heat Wave as Yasugoro
1990 BEST GUY as flight operations officer
1990 Peesuke: Gatapishi monogatari
1989 Fancy Dance
1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood as Asakazu Isobe
1988 So What
1988 Love Bites Back as Uemura
1988 The Yen Family
1988 Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988 Ultimate Teacher as Ganpachi Chabane
1988 Psychic Vision: Jaganrei
1987 Bedtime Eyes
1986 Death Shadows
1986 Gonza the Spearman as Fumiemon
1985 Tracked as Masasuke Ujiie
1984 Location
1984 The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl
1971 Kamen Rider (50 episodes) as Sennin

Directing

2013 Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope … Director
2009 Yamagata Scream … Director
2005 Sayonara Color … Director
2001 Quartet for Two … Director
1997 Tokyo Biyori … Director
1994 119 … Director
1991 Nowhere Man … Director

Writing

2009 Yamagata Scream … Writer
2005 Sayonara Color … Screenplay
1994 119 … Writer

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