Takumi Saitoh
Acting
🎂 1981-08-22
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.
Cast credits(160)
Shinichi Sakurai
2019
Sadao Itano
2010
Toshikuni Matsunaga
2024
2010
Masaya Takanashi
2018
2011
2021
Yuichi Kasagi
2025
2022
Ozawa Yuri
2016
Yoshihito Akizawa
2024
Shinpei Araki
2024
Keita Iwase
2013
Umeda Hokuto
2011
Shigeyuki Mukai
2014
Yuichiro Kitano
2014
2017
Satoru Niimi
2012
Hideo Himura
2016
Kenji Makabe
2016
Kusaka
2024
2023
Kentaro Hiyama
2022
2014
Rui Iikura
2013
Yoshio
2020
2015
Konosuke Kunikida（国木田 孝之助）
2013
Kato Sensei
2018
[Asato's brother]
2022
Arisada Shuuya
2006
Kohashi Motors worker
2002
Pittoin
2018
Mitsuru Kurosawa
2013
Takeda Shinsaburo
2008
Takahiro Aoyama
2012
2013
Storyteller (voice)
2017
2020
Reiya Miyoshi
2019
Michihito Matsushita
2012
Toru Sekiguchi
2019
Mikoto Saijo
2011
Shinji Kaminaga
2022
1st. tank squadron captain
2016
Tatsuya Ukyo
2010
Kichi Hiyama
2010
Manami's boyfriend
2017
Hemingway
2021
Uneme Makino
2010
2024
Jiro Taki
2023
Ryo Azuma
2011
2013
静子的男友
2009
Mizutani Mitsuo
2021
Self
2012
2019
High School Boy / Lord
2015
斎藤工
2016
Tarou Kabakura
2020
Ichihara Ryu
2020
Jiro Taki
2024
Yuichiro Kitano
2017
Daisuke Mizushima
2020
Ide Hiroshi
2021
Masato
2018
Akira Yamamoto
2010
kidnapper A
2017
Jyugon Mizushima
2009
大松翔太
2020
Hideyuki Mitsuzuka
2010
Nurarihyon
2016
2024
Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
2012
Guard Natsuki
2010
Masamune Shinjo
2025
Dai Takizawa
2020
Manami's boyfriend
2017
Hikaru Kageno
2009
Yuma Tachibana
2021
Yudai Kiharazaka
2018
Katsuya Okubo
2013
Torakage
2015
Takeru Amamiya
2016
Sonomura
2014
Hyogo Shibata
2024
Naoto Yukizuka
2013
Alien
2017
Detective Yatsuda
2006
Tomonosuke Saeki
2018
2009
Chihiro
2014
2009
Mitsumasa Kodai
2016
Hajime Gunji
2021
Yunosuke Seki
2016
Shinjo
2016
2019
2020
2022
Ryō
2008
2020
Suicide Victim
2025
Kaoru Fukazawa
2023
Shinzo Otabe
2016
Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
2015
2021
(segment “Love Letter”)
2017
2016
Sugiyama Shikanosuke
2007
Shigeru Uchiyama
2021
Kodokuna 19-ji
2020
Aoi Tomokazu
2007
Cowboy
2019
Shingo Tsukimoto
2023
Detective Goto
2013
Shinichi
2016
Shiro Kurata
2019
Shuichi Tsujiyama
2018
2021
Michiaki Kai
2014
Noboru / Ryū Fukami
2007
Koji
2014
Yuuji
2001
John Cage
2024
Noeru Kisaragi
2006
Shinichi Sakurai
2020
Toru Uchimura
2025
Masaki Kitamoto
2013
Love (voice)
2016
2007
(segment "Suzuki gokko")
2015
2008
Toyomura Shuichi
2015
Jun
2001
Yoshiyuki Hashida
2018
2019
2014
2015
2010
Mikoto Saijou
2017
2014
2010
Otomi Toyokawa
2020
Masaki Kitamoto
2014
Hametsu Oh Disaster
2005
2012
2011
Boyatetsu
2019
Takaya Yoshino
2008
2020
Mikoto Saijo
2019
2009
2023
Mikoto Saijo
2016
Pacalien
2017
2020
2018
