Takumi Saitoh
- Acting
- August 22, 1981 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Diary of a Mad Old Man · Jokichi
- Kingdom 5: The Clash of Souls
- The Criminal · Nanao Yarimizu
- Magical Secret Tour
- This Is I · Koji Wada
- Mag Mag · Kosei Eno
- Road to Vendetta · Sakamoto
- A Light in the Harbor
- The Kidnapping Day · Masamune Shinjo
- Bullet Train Explosion · Yuichi Kasagi
- The Boy and the Dog · Toru Uchimura
- The Gesuidouz · John Cage
- Spirit World · Suicide Victim
- A Big Home · Producer
- Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format Version · Jiro Taki
- The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea · Shinpei Araki
- Gekkan Matsuzaka Tori · Director
- The Queen of Villains · Toshikuni Matsunaga
- Brush of the God
- Bushido · Hyogo Shibata
- Believe: A Bridge to You · Yoshihito Akizawa
- Kodomo Director
- The Gift of Your Heart · Kusaka
- The Window of non-REM Winter 2023
- Home Sweet Home · Director
- Shin Kamen Rider · Jiro Taki
- Downfall · Kaoru Fukazawa
- Super Human Fortress Record of Hiroshi War
- THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY · Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Ichikei's Crow The Movie · Shingo Tsukimoto
- More Than Words · [Asato's brother]
- Goodbye Cruel World
- Actress I's Melancholy/comply+-Ance · Director
- Mirrorliar Films Season 4 · Director
- Shin Ultraman · Shinji Kaminaga
- He's Expecting · Kentaro Hiyama
- The Window of non-REM
- Love Mooning · Shigeru Uchiyama
- Cube · Ide Hiroshi
- That Day, Until the Curry Rice Is Made · Producer, Creator
- Last of the Wolves · Yuma Tachibana
- Man Drifting Ashore · Hemingway
- Inside Zokki
- Hold on, look ahead. · Mizutani Mitsuo
- My Dear Exes
- ZOKKI · Director
- Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction · Hajime Gunji
- Surrogacy
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Kyouen NG · Ichihara Ryu
- The Lonely 19:00 · Otomi Toyokawa
- State of Emergency · Kodokuna 19-ji
- Threads - Our Tapestry of Love · Daisuke Mizushima
- The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
- Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ · Shinichi Sakurai
- HERO 2020
- The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8
- Fukushima 50 · Dai Takizawa
- COMPLY+-ANCE · Director
- Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku · Tarou Kabakura
- ワケあって火星に住みました〜エラバレシ4ニン〜 · 大松翔太
- Pension: Love Is Pink · Yoshio
- Wild Virgins
- Manriki · Development Manager
- 最上の命医 2019 · Mikoto Saijo
- “シュガー&シュガー”サカナクションの音楽実験番組
- Saijō no propose
- Diner · Cowboy
- The Great White Tower · Toru Sekiguchi
- Tokyo Bachelors · Reiya Miyoshi
- Secret × Warrior Phantomirage! · Shinichi Sakurai
- A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 · Boyatetsu
- The Prisoner of Sakura · Shiro Kurata
- Is this Love Checkmate!? · Kato Sensei
- Folklore · Director
- Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN
- Nomitori Samurai · Tomonosuke Saeki
- Detective Story · Shuichi Tsujiyama
- Ramen Shop · Masato
- Last Winter, We Parted · Yudai Kiharazaka