Takayuki Yamada
Acting · Production · Writing · Directing
Born October 20, 1983, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
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.
Filmography
- Quiztopia
- 2026Sgt. Frog — Yoshihiko (voice)
- 2025Blazing Fists — Man in bear suit
- 2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback — Takashi Otomo (voice)
- Glass Heart
- 2025Good News — Shinichi Ishida
- Last Samurai Standing — Ando Jinbe
- 2025New Interpretation of the End of Edo Period
- 202411 Rebels — Masa
- 2024Faceless — Detective Matanuki
- House of Ninjas — Yosuke Tsujioka
- Land of Tanabata
- 2024MIMI
- Tokyo Swindlers — Narrator (voice)
- 2024Weird Ryu
- Japan's Got Talent
- 2023Six Singing Women — Uwajima Ryo, Co-Producer
- 2023The Day I Realized I'm in Love — Ippei Miyata
- 2023The Imaginary — Jinzan (voice)
- What Will You Do, Ieyasu? — Hattori Hanzo
- Yomawari Neko — Heizō Endō (voice)
- GAME GENOME
- Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure — Hayate (voice)
- 2022The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
- 2022The Little Star
- 2022The Man For — Director, Writer
- 2021Inside Zokki
- 2021Sakura
- 2021ZOKKI — Director
- Marumaru no Smartphone
- Mitsuhide no Sumaho — Akechi Mitsuhide
- 2020Saint Young Men 3 — Producer
- 2020Step — Kenichi Takeda
- 2020The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms — Yellow Turban
- What's So Wrong with "Azatoi"? — Guest
- 夢の本屋をめぐる冒険
- 2019Brothers in Brothel — Mashiba Tokuta
- 2019Day and Night — Screenplay, Producer
- 2019Dragon Quest: Your Story — Pankraz (voice)
- Rilakkuma and Kaoru — Hayate (voice)
- 2019Saint Young Men 2nd Century — Producer
- The Naked Director — Toru Muranishi
- 201850 First Kisses — Daisuke Yuge
- 2018Cinema Fighters — Toru
- From Today, It's My Turn!!
- 2018Hard-Core — Ukon Gondo
- 2018Isle of Dogs — Junior Scientist 1 (voice)
- 2018Parallel World — Toru
- 2018Saint Young Men — Producer
- The Could've-Gone-All-the-Way Committee — Oashisu / Oasis
- dele — Keiji Sakagami
- 2017DC Super Heroes vs. Eagle Talon — Batman (voice)
- 2017Gintama — Elizabeth (voice)
- 2017JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1 — Anjuro Katagiri
- 2017Prison Break
- 2017Shinjuku Swan II
- Takayuki Yamada at Cannes Film Festival
- 2017Ten — Takashi
- 2017Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan
- Brave Yoshihiko and the Seven Driven People — ヨシヒコ
- 2016Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie — Denjiro Tahara
- 2016Someone — Sawa
- 2016Terra Formars — Ichiro Hiruma
- 2016Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 — Kaoru Ushijima
- 2016Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final — Kaoru Ushijima
- 映像の世紀プレミアム — 語り
- A Century on Film — 語り
- 2015Bakuman — Akira Hattori
- REPLAY＆DESTROY — Kaname Yokoyama
- 2015Shinjuku Swan — Hideyoshi Minami
- 2014Monsterz — Shuichi Tanaka
- Nobunaga Concerto — Denjiro Tahara
- 2014Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 2 — Kaoru ushijima
- Ushijima the Loan Shark: Super Taxi-kun — 丑嶋馨
- 2013I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow — Shuichi Ichinosawa
- 2013The Devil's Path — Shuichi Fujii
- 2013The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji — Shun Tsukihara
- 2013The Rakugo Movie
- 2012Arakawa Under the Bridge — Hoshi
- Brave Yoshihiko and the Demon's Key — ヨシヒコ/勇者
- 2012Bungo: Stories of Desire
- 2012Lesson of the Evil — Tetsuro Shibahara
- 2012The Floating Castle — Yoshitsugu Otani
- 2012The Samurai That Night — Hiroshi Kijima
- 2012Ushijima the Loan Shark — Kaoru Ushijima
- Arakawa Under the Bridge — Hoshi
- BAZOOKA!!!
- 2011Gantz: Perfect Answer — Masamitsu Shigeta
- 2011Looking for a True Fiancée — Teruhiko Katayama
- 2011Milocrorze: A Love Story — Besson Kumagai / Tamon / Ovreneli Vreneligare
- 2011Oba: The Last Samurai — Toshio Kitami
- The Brave 'Yoshihiko' — Yoshihiko
- 2011UNFAIR: the answer — Katsuaki Murakami
- 201013 Assassins — Shinrokuro Shimada
- 2010Gantz — Masamitsu Shigeta
- The History of Our Family — Tatsuya Nakadai
- 2010The Seaside Motel — Yosuke Asakura
- Ushijima the Loan Shark — Kaoru Ushijima
- 2010Vengeance Can Wait — Banjo Takai
- BOSS — Tajima Shingo
- 2009Chasing My Girl — Sugimoto
- 2009Crows Zero II — Tamao Serizawa
- 2009Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto — Akira Abe
- 2009MW -ムウ- — Yutaro Garai
- 2008252: Signal of Life — Makoto Shigemura
- 2008Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit — Satoshi Iizuka
- 2007Crows Zero — Tamao Serizawa
- 2007Maiko Haaaan!!! — Student on field trip (cameo)
- 2007Say Hello for Me — Satoshi Toyama
- A Song to the Sun — Fujishiro Koji
- Into the White Night — Ryoji Kirihara
- 2006The Letters — Naotaka Takeshima
- H2: The Days with You — Kunimi Hiro
- 2005Train Man — Densha otoko
- Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World — Matsumoto Sakutaro
- 2004Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw — Screenplay
- Fire Boys — Asahina Daigo (18)
- 2004Jenifa
- 2003Dragon Head — Nobuo Takahashi
- 2003Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea — Screenplay
- Water Boys — Kankuro Shindo
- Long Love Letter — Takamatsu Sho
- Onmyoji Abe no Seimei
- Onmyoji Abe no Seimei
- 2002The Cat Returns — Lune (voice)
- The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine — Ushijima Minoru
- Churasan — Kohagura Keitatsu
- I Wanna Fall in Love — Aoshima Wataru
- Sayoko is Back — Shū Sekine
- Tanabata: The Evening of the Seventh — Takayuki
Appearances as themselves (4)
- 2019TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」 — Himself
- 2017Takayuki Yamada in 3D — Himself
- Yamada Takayuki in Akabane, Kita, Tokyo — himself
- Mitsuaki Iwago's World “Cats” Travelogue — Self - Narrator (voice)