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(161)
1st. tank squadron captain
2016
Yuichi Kasagi
2025
Kenji Makabe
2016
Hyogo Shibata
2024
2010
Masaya Takanashi
2018
Nurarihyon
2016
Yuichiro Kitano
2014
Sadao Itano
2010
Shigeru Uchiyama
2021
Jiro Taki
2023
2015
2014
Shinji Kaminaga
2022
Uneme Makino
2010
(segment “Love Letter”)
2017
Shinichi Sakurai
2020
Self
2012
Manami's boyfriend
2017
Sakamoto
2025
Ryō
2008
Torakage
2015
Michiaki Kai
2014
Yudai Kiharazaka
2018
Ide Hiroshi
2021
Sonomura
2014
Akira Yamamoto
2010
Shiro Kurata
2019
Kodokuna 19-ji
2020
High School Boy / Lord
2015
静子的男友
2009
Aoi Tomokazu
2007
Toshikuni Matsunaga
2024
2009
2021
Kusaka
2024
Jyugon Mizushima
2009
Shinichi Sakurai
2019
Tomonosuke Saeki
2018
Shuichi Tsujiyama
2018
2023
Toru Uchimura
2025
Kaoru Fukazawa
2023
Shinpei Araki
2024
kidnapper A
2017
Detective Yatsuda
2006
2022
Guard Natsuki
2010
2017
Ryo Azuma
2011
Toru Sekiguchi
2019
Reiji Mitsurugi (Miles Edgeworth)
2012
Hideo Himura
2016
Reiya Miyoshi
2019
Ozawa Yuri
2016
2013
Hikaru Kageno
2009
2023
Cowboy
2019
2011
Tarou Kabakura
2020
Takeda Shinsaburo
2008
Naoto Yukizuka
2013
Daisuke Mizushima
2020
Shinichi
2016
Hemingway
2021
Dai Takizawa
2020
2014
Mikoto Saijou
2017
Yuma Tachibana
2021
Yoshihito Akizawa
2024
Yuichiro Kitano
2017
Mikoto Saijo
2011
Love (voice)
2016
Manami's boyfriend
2017
[Asato's brother]
2022
Hajime Gunji
2021
Kato Sensei
2018
2020
Noboru / Ryū Fukami
2007
Tatsuya Ukyo
2010
Kentaro Hiyama
2022
Konosuke Kunikida（国木田 孝之助）
2013
Shigeyuki Mukai
2014
Alien
2017
Koji
2014
Detective Goto
2013
大松翔太
2020
Umeda Hokuto
2011
Masato
2018
2022
Takaya Yoshino
2008
2011
John Cage
2024
2015
Ichihara Ryu
2020
Mikoto Saijo
2016
Storyteller (voice)
2017
2024
(segment "Suzuki gokko")
2015
Takahiro Aoyama
2012
2020
Mikoto Saijo
2019
Satoru Niimi
2012
2009
Masaki Kitamoto
2014
2014
Yoshio
2020
2012
Mitsuru Kurosawa
2013
Masamune Shinjo
2025
Keita Iwase
2013
Shingo Tsukimoto
2023
Michihito Matsushita
2012
Chihiro
2014
Tokugawa Ieyasu
2023
Jiro Taki
2024
斎藤工
2016
Shinzo Otabe
2016
Yoshiyuki Hashida
2018
2020
Yunosuke Seki
2016
Arisada Shuuya
2006
Rui Iikura
2013
Mitsumasa Kodai
2016
Takeru Amamiya
2016
Hametsu Oh Disaster
2005
2021
Suicide Victim
2025
Shinjo
2016
Hideyuki Mitsuzuka
2010
Kohashi Motors worker
2002
Pittoin
2018
2019
Noeru Kisaragi
2006
Jun
2001
Mizutani Mitsuo
2021
2019
Boyatetsu
2019
2015
2016
Kichi Hiyama
2010
2013
2021
Sugiyama Shikanosuke
2007
2024
2020
Otomi Toyokawa
2020
2009
2019
2018
Katsuya Okubo
2013
Masaki Kitamoto
2013
Toyomura Shuichi
2015
2008
Yuuji
2001
2020
2007
2010
2010
Pacalien
2017
