is a Japanese actor and singer affiliated with Johnny's Entertainment.

History

As a Johnny's Junior he was member of .

He is also a member of TU→YU along with V6

V6 (band)

V6 is a six-member Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates. The group debuted on November 1, 1995 with the single "Music for the People", which was used as the image song for the World Cup of Volleyball in 1995...

's Hiroshi Nagano

Hiroshi Nagano

is a pop singer, actor and member of V6, a Japanese boy band formed in 1995, under the management of Johnny & Associates and it's half part, 20th Century. He is among the first who joined Johnny & Associates in 1986 at age of 14. He quit Johnny's Jr on 1990 to continue his studies and re-join on...

, NEWS

NeWS

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's Takahisa Masuda

Takahisa Masuda

is a Japanese idol from Johnny's Entertainment.-Biography:Masuda joined Johnny's Entertainment in November 1998. During his junior days, Masuda backdanced for many of his seniors in the agency, such as KAT-TUN, and participated in many Johnny's junior photoshoots...

, Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP is a ten-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The name Hey! Say! refers to the fact that all the members were born in the Heisei period and JUMP is an acronym for Johnny's Ultra Music Power...

's Hikaru Yaotome

Hikaru Yaotome

is a Japanese singer and songwriter as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Miyagi and lives in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area....

 and actor Tatsuya Takeda

He starred in the feature length film Maebashi Visual Kei, as a young farmer who tries to make it big in a visual kei

Visual Kei

is a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that visual kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of Japanese rock, with its...

 band.

Serial dramas

• 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Series 5 (October 14, 1999 ~ March 3, 2000, TBS)
• Sekai de ichiban atsui natsu (July 6, 2001 ~ September 14, TBS)
• Zenigetchu!! May 20, 2001 ~ June 24, Nihon terebi)
• 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Series 6 (October 11, 2001 ~ March 28, 2002, TBS)
• Gekidan Engimono. "Nemureru mori no shitai" February 15, 2005 ~ March 15, Fuji TV)
• Yo naoshi juunan nijouken (October 17, 2005 ~ December 2, TV Asahi)
• Akihabara@Deep
  Akihabara@DEEP
  is a 2004 novel by Ira Ishida which spawned a manga, television drama, and movie adaptation.The drama and manga versions have considerable differences from the original novel....
  
   (June 19, 2006 ~ August 8, TBS)

Drama guest/SP roles

• Nemureru mori (October 8, 1998 ~ December 24, Fuji TV)
• big Daisakusen (June 29, 2000, Fuji TV)
• Kowai nichiyoubi ~2000~ Episode 16 "Father" (October 29, 2000, Nihon Terebi)
• Kowai nichiyoubi ~2000~ Final Episode (November 11, 2000, Nihon Terebi)
• Shijou saiaku no date Episode 6 (January 14, 2001, Nihon Terebi)
• Shōnen wa tori ni natta (April 1, 2001, TBS)
• 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi-sensei Special "If you guys died I'd cry" (April 5, 2001, TBS)
• Shijou saiaku no date episode 18 (April 8, 2001, Nihon Terebi)
• Taikouki Saru to yobareta Otoko (December 27, 2003, Fuji TV)
• 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi-sensei Series 7 episode 1 (October 15, 2004, TBS)
• 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi-sensei 25nenme no okuru kotoba (March 25, 2005, TBS)
• Yankee Bokou ni kaeru ~tabidachi no toki furyoushōnen no yume~ (March 27, 2005, TBS)
• Nekketsu kaasan jikenbo (September 28, 2006, Nihon Terebi)
• Sugata Sanshiro (December 6, 2007, TV Tokyo)

Voice acting

• The voice of Yugi Mutou
  Yugi Mutou
  is the protagonist of the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. He is a young boy whose body becomes inhabited by the spirit of an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh named when he completes the Millennium Puzzle.-Character design:...
  
   and his alter-ego, Dark Yugi, in the original Japanese language
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
   version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
  Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)
  Yu-Gi-Oh!, known in Japan and the rest of East Asia as is an anime based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. It is produced by Studio Gallop and Nihon Ad Systems, and the English-language adaptation was distributed by 4Kids Entertainment until March 29, 2011 when TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems sued 4Kids...
  
  , Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, known in Japan as , is an anime spin-off and sequel of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime. It aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between October 6, 2004 and March 26, 2008, and was succeeded by Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's...
  
  (known in North America as simply Yu-Gi-Oh!/Yu-Gi-Oh! GX), and Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time.

Variety shows

• KYO TO KYO Tokubetsu bangumi "Oishi Kyoto Yume Tour" (1997 TV asahi)
• Ai LOVE Junior (1997 ~ September 28, 1998, TV Tokyo)
• Music Jump (1997 ~ March 26, 2000, NHK)
• SHOW-NEN J (April 2, 1998 ~ October 1, TV asahi)
• Gyu! tto dakishimetai (April 25, 1998 ~ September 27, Nihon Terebi)
• 8 jida J (April 15, 1998 ~ September 22, TV asahi)
• Ai love B.I.G. (1998, TV Tokyo)
• BOYS BE ・・・Jr (October 9, 1998 ~ December 18, Nihon terebi)
• Nekketsu renaido (January 10, 1999 ~ May 2, Nihon Terebi)
• The Shōnen Club (April 7, 2000 ~ March 2004, NHK)
• music-enta (TV Tokyo)
• Pikaichi (2000 Nihon Terebi)
• Hadaka no Shōnen (2001, TV asahi)
• Sedai hitsurin (April 26, 2002 ~ September 22, Nihon Terebi)
• Jenejan! (2002~2003, Nihon Terebi)
• USO!?Japan (June 21, 2003 ~ September 13, TBS)
• Ya-Ya-yah (2003)
• Ichiokunin no daimondai!? Waratte koraete!(Nihon Terebi)
• Comedy Michi naka de gozaru (2004~2006 NHK)
• Takeda Testuya no Girisha hatsumono! Unchi ryokou (April 25, 2004, Nihon Terebi)
• Matthew's Best Hit TV (April 28, 2004, TV asahi)
• Raion no gokigenyou (2004, Fuji TV)
• Jenejan! Kazama Shunsuke no kagai jugyou (2004, Nihon Terebi)
• Asa made Jenejan!! End of the year special (January 1, 2005, Nihon Terebi)
• Tokyo Friend Park II (September 24, 2007, TBS)

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