Takumi Saitoh
Takumi Saitoh
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
Actor
as Hyogo Shibata
as Shinpei Araki
as Toshikuni Matsunaga
as Akizawa Yoshihito
as Kusaka
as Jiro Taki
as Kaoru Fukazawa
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Shingo Tsukimoto
as Shinji Kaminaga
as [Asato's brother]
as Kentaro Hiyama
as Shigeru Uchiyama
as Ide Hiroshi
as Yuma Tachibana
as Hajime Gunji
as Hemingway
as Mizutani Mitsuo
as Otomi Toyokawa
as Kodokuna 19-ji
as Daisuke Mizushima
as Shinichi Sakurai
as Dai Takizawa
as Tarou Kabakura
as Ichihara Ryu
as 大松翔太
as Yoshio
as Mikoto Saijo
as Cowboy
as Boyatetsu
as Shiro Kurata
as Toru Sekiguchi
as Reiya Miyoshi
as Shinichi Sakurai
as Tomonosuke Saeki
as Shuichi Tsujiyama
as Masato
as Yudai Kiharazaka
as Yoshiyuki Hashida
as Kato Sensei
as Masaya Takanashi
as Pittoin
as kidnapper A
as Manami's boyfriend
as Mikoto Saijou
as Yuichiro Kitano
as Pacalien
as (segment “Love Letter”)
as Manami's boyfriend
as Storyteller (voice)
as Love (voice)
as Takeru Amamiya
as Shinzo Otabe
as Kenji Makabe
as 1st. tank squadron captain
as Shinichi
as Mitsumasa Kodai
as Shinjo
as Yunosuke Seki
as Mikoto Saijo
as Ozawa Yuri
as Hideo Himura
as Toyomura Shuichi
as (segment "Suzuki gokko")
as Torakage
as High School Boy / Lord
as Chihiro
as Michiaki Kai
as Masaki Kitamoto
as Sonomura
as Koji
as Yuichiro Kitano
as Shigeyuki Mukai
as Katsuya Okubo
as Detective Goto
as Masaki Kitamoto
as Naoto Yukizuka
as Konosuke Kunikida（国木田 孝之助）
as Rui Iikura
as Mitsuru Kurosawa
as Keita Iwase
as Self
as Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
as Takahiro Aoyama
as Michihito Matsushita
as Satoru Niimi
as Ryo Azuma
as Umeda Hokuto
as Mikoto Saijo
as Akira Yamamoto
as Uneme Makino
as Hideyuki Mitsuzuka
as Sadao Itano
as Tatsuya Ukyo
as Kichi Hiyama
as Hikaru Kageno
as Jyugon Mizushima
as Takaya Yoshino
as Ryō
as Takeda Shinsaburo
as Noboru / Ryū Fukami
as Aoi Tomokazu
as Sugiyama Shikanosuke
as Noeru Kisaragi
as Detective Yatsuda
as Arisada Shuuya
as Hametsu Oh Disaster
as Kohashi Motors worker
as Yuuji
as Jun
Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Producer
Crew
as Creator