Takumi Saitoh
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
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- 2024 · The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea as Shinpei Araki
- 2024 · The Queen of Villains as Toshikuni Matsunaga
- 2024 · The Gesuidouz as
- 2024 · Brush of the God as
- 2024 · Bushido as Hyogo Shibata
- 2024 · Believe: A Bridge to You as Akizawa Yoshihito
- 2024 · Kodomo Director as
- 2024 · The Gift of Your Heart as Kusaka
- 2023 · The Window of non-REM Winter 2023 as
- 2023 · Shin Kamen Rider as Jiro Taki
- 2023 · Downfall as Kaoru Fukazawa
- 2023 · Super Human Fortress Record of Hiroshi War as
- 2023 · THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY as Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 2023 · Ichikei's Crow The Movie as Shingo Tsukimoto
- 2022 · More Than Words as [Asato's brother]
- 2022 · Goodbye Cruel World as
- 2022 · Shin Ultraman as Shinji Kaminaga
- 2022 · He's Expecting as Kentaro Hiyama
- 2022 · The Window of non-REM as
- 2021 · Love Mooning as Shigeru Uchiyama
- 2021 · Cube as Ide Hiroshi
- 2021 · Last of the Wolves as Yuma Tachibana
- 2021 · The drifter as Hemingway
- 2021 · Inside Zokki as
- 2021 · Hold on, look ahead. as Mizutani Mitsuo
- 2021 · My Dear Exes as
- 2021 · Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction as Hajime Gunji
- 2021 · Surrogacy as
- 2020 · Beautiful Dreamer as
- 2020 · Kyouen NG as Ichihara Ryu
- 2020 · State of Emergency as Kodokuna 19-ji
- 2020 · The Lonely 19:00 as Otomi Toyokawa
- 2020 · Threads - Our Tapestry of Love as Daisuke Mizushima
- 2020 · The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 as
- 2020 · Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ as Shinichi Sakurai
- 2020 · HERO 2020 as
- 2020 · The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 as
- 2020 · Fukushima 50 as Dai Takizawa
- 2020 · 女優iの憂鬱/ COMPLY+-ANCE as
- 2020 · COMPLY+-ANCE as
- 2020 · Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku as Tarou Kabakura
- 2020 · ワケあって火星に住みました〜エラバレシ4ニン〜 as 大松翔太
- 2020 · Pension: Love Is Pink as Yoshio
- 2019 · Wild Virgins as
- 2019 · Manriki as
- 2019 · 最上の命医 2019 as Mikoto Saijo
- 2019 · Saijō no propose as
- 2019 · Diner as Cowboy
- 2019 · The Great White Tower as Toru Sekiguchi
- 2019 · Tokyo Bachelors as Reiya Miyoshi
- 2019 · Secret × Warrior Phantomirage! as Shinichi Sakurai
- 2019 · A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 as Boyatetsu
- 2019 · The Prisoner of Sakura as Shiro Kurata
- 2018 · Is this Love Checkmate!? as Kato Sensei
- 2018 · Alpaca Alien: PACALIEN as
- 2018 · Nomitori Samurai as Tomonosuke Saeki
- 2018 · Detective Story as Shuichi Tsujiyama
- 2018 · Ramen Shop as Masato
- 2018 · Last Winter, We Parted as Yudai Kiharazaka
- 2018 · blank 13 as Yoshiyuki Hashida
- 2018 · BG: Personal Bodyguard as Masaya Takanashi
- 2018 · Maskmen (2018) as Pittoin
- 2017 · Manhunt as kidnapper A
- 2017 · Tokyo Vampire Hotel as Manami's boyfriend
- 2017 · The Best Skilled Surgeon 2017 as Mikoto Saijou
- 2017 · Meatball Machine Kodoku as
- 2017 · Akira and Akira as
- 2017 · Tokyo Vampire Hotel as Manami's boyfriend
- 2017 · Hirugao as Yuichiro Kitano
- 2017 · Pacalien as Pacalien
- 2017 · The Blue Hearts as (segment “Love Letter”)
- 2017 · The World Yamizukan as Storyteller (voice)
- 2016 · Yo-kai Watch: The Movie - The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Meow! as Nurarihyon
- 2016 · A.I. Love You as Love (voice)
- 2016 · The Sowing Traveller 3 as
- 2016 · High & Low The Red Rain as Takeru Amamiya
- 2016 · Scoop! as Shinzo Otabe
- 2016 · RE:BORN as Kenji Makabe
- 2016 · Destiny-Like Love as Ozawa Yuri
- 2016 · Shin Godzilla as 1st. tank squadron captain
- 2016 · Unrequited Love as Shinichi
- 2016 · The Kodai Family as Mitsumasa Kodai
- 2016 · The Projects as Shinjo
- 2016 · Sono “Okodawari”, Watashi ni mo Kure yo!! as 斎藤工
- 2016 · A Cappella as Yunosuke Seki
- 2016 · The Best Skilled Surgeon 2016 as Mikoto Saijo
- 2016 · Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa as Hideo Himura
- 2015 · 7s as
- 2015 · Honto Ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu Hen 2015 as Toyomura Shuichi
- 2015 · Kazoku gokko as (segment "Suzuki gokko")
- 2015 · The Ninja War of Torakage as Torakage
- 2015 · Tag as High School Boy / Lord
- 2015 · Doctors' Affairs as
- 2015 · Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory as
- 2014 · Dark Suit as
- 2014 · Taksu as Chihiro
- 2014 · Out Burn as Michiaki Kai
- 2014 · Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon as Yuichiro Kitano
- 2014 · Specialist 2 as Masaki Kitamoto
- 2014 · Kamen Teacher: The Movie as
- 2014 · I Just Wanna Hug You as Sonomura
- 2014 · Nuigulumar Z as Koji
- 2014 · The Hours of My Life as Shigeyuki Mukai
- 2013 · Koi as Katsuya Okubo
- 2013 · オリンピックの身代金 as
- 2013 · Miss Pilot as Konosuke Kunikida(国木田 孝之助)
- 2013 · The House of Glass as
- 2013 · Kamen Teacher as Rui Iikura
- 2013 · God Tongue: Kiss Pressure Game The Movie as Detective Goto
- 2013 · Specialist as Masaki Kitamoto
- 2013 · Jellyfish Eyes as Naoto Yukizuka
- 2013 · The Brothers Karamazov as Mitsuru Kurosawa
- 2013 · Someday at a Place in the Sun as Keita Iwase
- 2012 · Helter Skelter as Self
- 2012 · Boys on the Run as Takahiro Aoyama
- 2012 · Renai Kentei as Michihito Matsushita
- 2012 · Becoming a Doctor at Age 37 as Satoru Niimi
- 2012 · Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama) as
- 2012 · Ace Attorney as Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
- 2011 · Humanoid Monster Bem as
- 2011 · QP as Ryo Azuma
- 2011 · GACHI-BAN: ULTIMATUM as
- 2011 · HANA-KIMI 2011 as Umeda Hokuto
- 2011 · The Best Skilled Surgeon as Mikoto Saijo
- 2010 · Goodbye Alma as Hideyuki Mitsuzuka
- 2010 · Space Battleship Yamato as Akira Yamamoto
- 2010 · SPEC ~ First Blood as
- 2010 · SPEC ~ First Blood as Sadao Itano
- 2010 · Kurohyō: Ryū ga Gotoku Shinshō as Tatsuya Ukyo
- 2010 · 13 Assassins as Uneme Makino
- 2010 · GACHI-BAN MAX2 as
- 2010 · Chase: National Taxation Inspector as Kichi Hiyama
- 2010 · My Husband is a Cartoonist as
- 2010 · Shibuya as
- 2009 · Elevator Trap as
- 2009 · RoboGeisha as Hikaru Kageno
- 2009 · Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl as Jyugon Mizushima
- 2009 · Café Seoul as
- 2009 · Shinjuku Incident as 静子的男友
- 2008 · Tamami: The Baby's Curse as Takaya Yoshino
- 2008 · Otokomae! as Takeda Shinsaburo
- 2008 · CLEARNESS as Ryō
- 2007 · The End of the Wind as Sugiyama Shikanosuke
- 2007 · Loving You as Noboru / Ryū Fukami
- 2007 · Ton demo horror series Oh! My neck is on the plate! as
- 2007 · Sukitomo as Aoi Tomokazu
- 2006 · Boys Love as Noeru Kisaragi
- 2006 · The Rug Cop as Detective Yatsuda
- 2006 · Princess Princess D as Arisada Shuuya
- 2005 · Kabuto-O Beetle as Hametsu Oh Disaster
- 2002 · You're Under Arrest: The Drama as Kohashi Motors worker
- 2001 · Toki no kaori: Remember me as Yuuji
- 2001 · Hyperspace Boy Wonder Seven as Jun