Takumi Saitoh
Acting
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.
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Yuichi Kasagi
... 2025
Toru Uchimura
... 2025
John Cage
... 2024
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Hyogo Shibata
... 2024
... 2023
Jiro Taki
... 2023
Kaoru Fukazawa
... 2023
Tokugawa Ieyasu
... 2023
Shingo Tsukimoto
... 2023
... 2022
Shinji Kaminaga
... 2022
Shigeru Uchiyama
... 2021
Ide Hiroshi
... 2021
Yuma Tachibana
... 2021
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Hajime Gunji
... 2021
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... 2020
Otomi Toyokawa
... 2020
Kodokuna 19-ji
... 2020
Daisuke Mizushima
... 2020
Shinichi Sakurai
... 2020
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Dai Takizawa
... 2020
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Tarou Kabakura
... 2020
... 2019
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Mikoto Saijo
... 2019
Cowboy
... 2019
Boyatetsu
... 2019
Shiro Kurata
... 2019
... 2018
Tomonosuke Saeki
... 2018
Shuichi Tsujiyama
... 2018
Masato
... 2018
Yudai Kiharazaka
... 2018
Yoshiyuki Hashida
... 2018
kidnapper A
... 2017
Manami's boyfriend
... 2017
Mikoto Saijou
... 2017
Alien
... 2017
Yuichiro Kitano
... 2017
Pacalien
... 2017
(segment “Love Letter”)
... 2017
... 2016
Love (voice)
... 2016
... 2016
Takeru Amamiya
... 2016
Shinzo Otabe
... 2016
Kenji Makabe
... 2016
1st. tank squadron captain
... 2016
Shinichi
... 2016
Mitsumasa Kodai
... 2016
Shinjo
... 2016
Yunosuke Seki
... 2016
Mikoto Saijo
... 2016
... 2015
Toyomura Shuichi
... 2015
(segment "Suzuki gokko")
... 2015
Torakage
... 2015
High School Boy / Lord
... 2015
... 2015
Chihiro
... 2014
Michiaki Kai
... 2014
... 2014
Masaki Kitamoto
... 2014
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Sonomura
... 2014
Koji
... 2014
Katsuya Okubo
... 2013
Detective Goto
... 2013
Masaki Kitamoto
... 2013
Naoto Yukizuka
... 2013
Self
... 2012
Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
... 2012
... 2011
Akira Yamamoto
... 2010
Guard Natsuki
... 2010
Uneme Makino
... 2010
... 2010
... 2010
... 2009
Hikaru Kageno
... 2009
Jyugon Mizushima
... 2009
... 2009
静子的男友
... 2009
... 2009
... 2008
Takaya Yoshino
... 2008
Ryō
... 2008
Noboru / Ryū Fukami
... 2007
Aoi Tomokazu
... 2007
Noeru Kisaragi
... 2006
Detective Yatsuda
... 2006
Hametsu Oh Disaster
... 2005
... 2001
... 2001