Takumi Saitoh

Birthday:

08/22/1981

Place of birth:

Tokyo, Japan:

Biography:

Takumi Saitoh (斎 藤 工 Saitō Takumi, Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 1981) is a Japanese actor, singer, and model. Saitoh was born on August 22, 1981, in the city of Tokyo, Japan. He made his acting debut in 1992, playing a small role in the Japanese drama Ippai no kakesoba. In the following years, he worked as a model for companies like Calvin Klein and Issey Miyake. In 2001, he starred in the movie Toki no kaori: Remember me (a remake of the Korean film Ditto), while in 2006, he participated as Yūshi Oshitari in the musical adaptation of the manga The Prince of Tennis, a role that made him gain popularity as an actor. Also, in 2006, he played Shūya Arisada in the drama Princess princess D, an adaptation of the homonymous manga by Mikiyo Tsuda. However, his most important role was undoubtedly that of Noeru Kisaragi in the direct-to-video movie BOYS LOVE. The film tells the story of a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model (later he also discovers that he is a gigolo) and the immediate attraction that arises between them. After the success of the film, the following year a theatrical successor to it was released (titled Schoolboy Crush in the West), but with a different plot and without Saitoh's involvement. Another of his most important works is Sukitomo, another homosexual-themed film, released in 2007, and Itsuka no kimi e, also released that same year. The expressiveness of Saitoh as an actor and his natural way of embarking homosexual characters has contributed to give a "normalized" image of homosexual love in Japan, to the point of making it accessible and understandable to the general public. However, he ran the risk of being caught in a series of characters of that nature, so he joined the cast of the lightweight 2007 drama Delicious Gakuin. He participated in the 2009 graduation special of the Gokusen drama series and in HANA-KIMI 2011, the second Japanese TV adaptation of the comics of the same title.



Credits

Gobangiri (2024)
Hyogo Shibata
Brush of the God (2024)
ノンレムの窓 2023 冬 (2023)
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Jiro Taki
Downfall (2023)
Kaoru Fukazawa
THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY (2023)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ichikei's Crow The Movie (2023)
Shingo Tsukimoto
Goodbye Cruel World (2022)
Shin Ultraman (2022)
Shinji Kaminaga
Love Mooning (2021)
Shigeru Uchiyama
Cube (2021)
Ide Hiroshi
Last of the Wolves (2021)
Yuma Tachibana
Inside Zokki (2021)
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2021)
Hajime Gunji
Surrogacy (2021)
Beautiful Dreamer (2020)
State of Emergency (2020)
Kodokuna 19-ji
The Lonely 19:00 (2020)
Otomi Toyokawa
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love (2020)
Daisuke Mizushima
The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020)
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ (2020)
Shinichi Sakurai
Fukushima 50 (2020)
Dai Takizawa
女優iの憂鬱/ COMPLY+-ANCE (2020)
COMPLY+-ANCE (2020)
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (2020)
Tarou Kabakura
Wild Virgins (2019)
Manriki (2019)
最上の命医 2019 (2019)
Mikoto Saijo
Diner (2019)
Cowboy
Tokyo Single Man (2019)
A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 (2019)
Boyatetsu
The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)
Shiro Kurata
Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN (2018)
Nomitori Samurai (2018)
Tomonosuke Saeki
Detective Story (2018)
Shuichi Tsujiyama
Ramen Shop (2018)
Masato
Last Winter, We Parted (2018)
Yudai Kiharazaka
blank 13 (2018)
Yoshiyuki Hashida
Manhunt (2017)
kidnapper A
Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
Manami's boyfriend
The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017 (2017)
Mikoto Saijou
Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)
Hirugao (2017)
Yuichiro Kitano
Pacalien (2017)
Pacalien
The Blue Hearts (2017)
(segment “Love Letter”)
Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! (2016)
Nurarihyon
A.I. Love You (2016)
Love (voice)
The Sowing Traveller 3 (2016)
High & Low The Red Rain (2016)
Takeru Amamiya
Scoop! (2016)
Shinzo Otabe
RE:BORN (2016)
Kenji Makabe
Shin Godzilla (2016)
1st. tank squadron captain
Unrequited Love (2016)
Shinichi
The Projects (2016)
Shinjo
The Kodai Family (2016)
Mitsumasa Kodai
A Cappella (2016)
Yunosuke Seki
The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016 (2016)
Mikoto Saijo
7s (2015)
Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015 (2015)
Toyomura Shuichi
Kazoku gokko (2015)
(segment "Suzuki gokko")
The Ninja War of Torakage (2015)
Torakage
Tag (2015)
High School Boy / Lord
Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory (2015)
Taksu (2014)
Chihiro
Out Burn (2014)
Michiaki Kai
Specialist 2 (2014)
Masaki Kitamoto
Kamen Teacher: The Movie (2014)
I Just Wanna Hug You (2014)
Sonomura
Nuigulumar Z (2014)
Koji
Koi (2013)
Katsuya Okubo
God Tongue: Kiss Pressure Game The Movie (2013)
Detective Goto
Specialist (2013)
Masaki Kitamoto
Jellyfish Eyes (2013)
Naoto Yukizuka
Helter Skelter (2012)
Self
Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama) (2012)
Ace Attorney (2012)
Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
GACHI-BAN: ULTIMATUM (2011)
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Akira Yamamoto
13 Assassins (2010)
Uneme Makino
GACHI-BAN MAX2 (2010)
Shibuya (2010)
Elevator Trap (2009)
RoboGeisha (2009)
Hikaru Kageno
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Jyugon Mizushima
Café Seoul (2009)
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Tamami: The Baby's Curse (2008)
Takaya Yoshino
CLEARNESS (2008)
Ryō
Loving You (2007)
Noboru / Ryū Fukami
Ton demo horror series Oh! My neck is on the plate! (2007)
Sukitomo (2007)
Aoi Tomokazu
Boys Love (2006)
Noeru Kisaragi
The Rug Cop (2006)
Detective Yatsuda
Kabuto-O Beetle (2005)
Hametsu Oh Disaster
Toki no kaori: Remember me (2001)
Yuuji
Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven (2001)
Sweet My Home (2023)
Director
That Day, Until the Curry Rice Is Made (2021)
Producer
That Day, Until the Curry Rice Is Made (2021)
Creator
ZOKKI (2021)
Director
女優iの憂鬱/ COMPLY+-ANCE (2020)
Director
COMPLY+-ANCE (2020)
Director
blank 13 (2018)
Director
Half & Half (2015)
Director