Yasunari Takeshima is a Kyoto native Japanese television and film actor. He was a writer and director for a theatrical troupe in Tokyo. Takeshima was a lead singer in a rock band to pursue his music career although he quit and went to pursue his acting role. He is skilled in traditional Japanese martial arts, singing, exploring traditional Japanese boats and is very good at playing shamisen. Takeshima is a translator and script doctor for Japanese language translating scripts written in English or to English.
Yasunari Takeshima Details on Life Around Family
Takeshima was born on October 24 1968 in Kyoto, Japan and he was raised by a family that supported his interest in the performing arts a skill that turned out to a full-time career and source of income for himself and family. He has managed to successfully avoid the intense media scrutiny that often affects other public figures, preferring instead to focus on his career and professional growth while protecting his family and private life.
Yasunari Takeshima Career Life in Film Industry
Takeshima is fluent in English and Japanese and moved to Tokyo to grow his career as a director and actor and he managed to establish himself as an international actor and has a reputable name for his work on The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe’s Tongue and Silence in 2016. He began his acting career with movie roles in 2001 on Tokyo Marigold which was a success and made way for other roles on Azumi, Zatoicgi, Drugstore Girl, Godzilla: Final Wars and Tobi ga kururi to in 2005. His career was growing with more audiences, recognition and more opportunities to showcase his passion and discipline to acting.
From 2006 he landed a role on The Sinking of Japan, See Without Exit, Gegege no Kitaro, The Suicide Song, Flying Rabbits, Lush Life, Police Dog Dream and Hito no Sabaku in 2010. Due to his commitment, skills and discipline had roles lined up for him year in year out and was on an episode of the tv series Lady: Saigo no hanzai purofairu, Tenchi the Samurai Astronomer, Chasuke’s Journey, Everest the Summit of the Gods, Mr. Long as an office worker, The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe’s Tongue, he played as Tateo on two episodes of Mozart in the Jungle and was on the Lost Girls and Love Hotels.
Takeshima has been on drama series since 2006 on Night King followed by an episode on the series Lat Friends. He landed other roles on Bloody Monday, Hissatsu Shigotonin and on The Lat Criminal Profile in 2011 and hasn’t been seen on another drama series. He wrote the script and continuity story for the film Paper Flower in 2011.
Takeshima initially garnered attention for his performances in supporting roles and luckily over the years, his talent and versatility allowed him to gradually take on more prominent parts in both TV series and movies and this has gaining him a loyal following in Japan and bigger audience globally. His recent role on television is as the main cast on the series Shogun in 2023 as Muraji on 6 episodes of the television series.