japanese actor, singer, and producer ( have a bun in the oven 1983 )

Takayuki Yamada ( 山田 孝之, Yamada Takayuki, bear October 20, 1983 ) is a japanese actor, singer, and producer. He is good known for his role as Sakutaro Matsumoto in television receiver drama Socrates in Love and as Densha Otoko in the 2005 movie of the same name. [ 1 ] Yamada gained external popularity through his portrait as Tamao Serizawa in Crows Zero film series. japanese media much dubs him as chameleon actor for his wide act spectrum throughout his career. He began venturing as producer with live-action web series Saint Young Men. Since 2018 he releases music as the lead singer of set The XXXXXX .

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Yamada was born in Naha, Okinawa but raised in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima until the age of 15. He is the youngest of three siblings with two older sisters, Kaori and Sayuki who worked as models for adolescent magazines in late 1990s. Yamada got scouted after shopping with his sisters in front of Laforet Harajuku. After being scouted, in his third base year of center school he moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo. Yamada graduated from a middle school in Tokyo but did not go to high school to focus on his acting career.

He made his debut in 1999 by starring in television receiver drama Psychometrer Eiji 2. His break was 2003 television drama about men synchronized swimming Water Boys, taking the precede character as Kankuro Shindo. He was chosen to portray Shindo through audition among hundreds of young actors. Yamada continued his success in leading function with Socrates in Love as Sakutaro Matsumoto the year after. In the same year, he got Newcomer Award at 2004 Elan d’or Awards and was appointed as first trope character of newly reformed Tokyo Metro. As of 2017, Yamada was the only male trope character Tokyo Metro has always had. After his exultant break on television receiver, he got his foremost movie lead function in Densha Otoko which later became Japan ‘s 14th best selling movie of 2005. In 2002 he released 真夏の天使~All I want for this Summer is you~ a four hundred with a pair of songs ( with the backup versions ), arsenic well as a DVD with the musical video recording for the theme song. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
He collaborated with Jin Akanishi in August 2016 to form the unit called “ Jintaka ”, [ 4 ] which disbanded 2 months late. [ 5 ] And in 2018, together with Gō Ayano ( guitar ), and Asahi Uchida ( synthesist ), forms the unit of measurement “ The xxxxxx ” ( read as : “The Six” ) ( Yamada is vocals ). [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

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Year Title Role Notes
2015 Takayuki Yamada in Tokyo-to Kita-ku Akabane himself mockumentary, TV Tokyo
2017 Takayuki Yamada’s Cannes Movie Festival himself mockumentary, TV Tokyo
2019 Takayuki Yamada Documentary: No Pain No Gain himself film

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Year Title Release Label Peak chart position Notes
2002

真夏の天使~All I want for this Summer is you~

 August 10, 2002 Universal Music Group Sold in CD, and DVD of the Music video
2016 Choo Choo SHITAIN September 21, 2016 Go Good Records 4th (October 3, 2016)[8] CD, CD + DVD / As “Jintaka”
2018 Seeds (single) November 30, 2018 THE XXXXXX Digital release / As “The xxxxxx”
Zealot (single) December 21, 2018 THE XXXXXX Digital release / As “The xxxxxx”
2019 “THE XXXXXX” (album)[9] April 5, 2019 THE XXXXXX Digital release / As “The xxxxxx”
“deep breath” (single)[10] May 31, 2019 THE XXXXXX Digital release / As “The xxxxxx”

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