Takeru Satoh

Takeru Satoh (佐藤 健 Satō Takeru^?, born 21 March 1989) is a Japanese actor. His debut role was as the lead in Kamen Rider Den-O, and is known for his subsequent roles in the dramatizations of Q10 and Ryōmaden.

Career

Satoh's first drama was in Princess Princess D (TV Asahi) where he appeared as Toru Kouno. In 2007 he appeared in Shinigami no Ballad as a guest (Kentarō Ishihara) and gained popularity in theseventeenth installment of the Kamen Rider series as Ryotaro Nogami. Satoh claims that Den-O became popular because of its comedic timing.^[1]

Following the success and popularity of Kamen Rider Den-O and a further two films, in spring 2008 Satoh starred in award-winning drama Rookies (TBS) with the role of supporting character Yuya Okada. Okada belongs to a group of delinquents who belong to a baseball club but are no longer able to play due to suspension from a previously violent match. The arrival of new teacher, Koichi Kawato, finds that the club members left (the delinquents) are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament. Satoh considers his role in Rookies to be his "break out role" even though it was only a minor part.^[2] However, as Rookies was shown at 8pm on a Saturday, during primetime, it reached a much larger audience than any of his previous works. Satoh also featured in the special episode of Rookies and starred in the film version in the summer of 2009. He reprised his role in the third film of Kamen Rider Den-O in October 2008. This movie would be Satoh's last time playing Ryotaro. During the same month, he starred in the drama Bloody Monday, based on themanga with the same name. For this drama, Satoh co-starred with fellow Amuse member, Haruma Miura^[3] and their characters, Otoya Kujo and Fujimaru Takagi respectively, are best friends like Miura and Satoh are in real life.

In early 2009, Satoh starred in Mei-chan no Shitsuji as Kento Shibata who decides to enroll in a butler school so that he can stay close to childhood friend Mei Shinonome who attends St. Lucia Girls' Academy, where all the students have butlers! His role in this drama is a firm favourite with fans. He starred in Goemon and the film for Rookies in summer 2009. Later on he guest starred on TV shows, Mr. Brain and True Horror Stories and starred in MW Dai-0-sho. For 2010, he is set to star in TV show Ryōmaden and has a major supporting role in the film Beck co-starring Hiro Mizushimaand Osamu Mukai,^[4] both of them being his co-stars from Mei-chan no Shitsuji.

[edit]Personal life

Takeru graduated from North High School in Koshigaya, Saitama prefecture on March 2007, weeks before his 18th birthday. On his blog, he has talked about the stress and loneliness sometimes felt in being the star of a television show. His hobbies include playing with his pet cats, break dancing and Rubik's Cube.^[5]

He celebrated his 20th birthday with a festival in Odaiba, called "Takeru Festival 2009". Fans gathered and watched montages of Satoh's previous and current works and even the commercial for Lotte's Fits mint. It also included a live chat between Satoh and an MC and ended with Satoh singing.^[6]

[edit]Filmography

• Bold denotes major roles

[edit]Dramas

Year	Broadcast Network	English Title	Japanese Title	English Translation	Role
2006	TV Asahi	Princess Princess D	プリンセス・プリンセス D	Princess Princess D	Tooru Kouno
2007	TV Tokyo	Shinigami no Ballad	しにがみのバラッド	Ballad of a Shinigami	Kantarō Ichihara (Guest Starring in Episodes 7 & 8)
	TV Asahi	Kamen Rider Den-O	仮面ライダー電王	Masked Rider Den-O	Ryotaro Nogami
2008	TBS	Rookies	ルーキーズ	-	Yuuya Okada
	TBS	Bloody Monday	ブラッディ・マンデイ	Bloody Monday	Otoya Kujo
2009	Fuji TV	Mei-chan no Shitsuji	メイちゃんの執事	Mei-chan's Butler	Kento Shibata
	TBS	MR. BRAIN	ミスターブレイン	MR. BRAIN	Masaru Nakagawa (Guest Starring in Episodes 4 & 5)
	NTV	MW Dai-0-sho: Akuma no Game	MW―ムウ―　第0章　～悪魔のゲーム～	MW Chapter 0: The Devil's Game	Takashi Morioka
	Fuji TV	Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Kao no Michi	ほんとにあった怖い話 ~顔の道~	True Horror Stories: The Road of Face	Shoutaro (Guest Starring in Episode 5 "Kao no Michi" Story)
2010	NHK	Ryōmaden	龍馬伝	-	Okada Izō
	TBS	Bloody Monday 2	ブラッディ・マンデイ 2	Bloody Monday 2	Otoya Kujo
	NTV	Q10	Q10 (キュート)		Heita Fukai
2011	TBS	Fuyu no Sakura	冬のサクラ	-	Hajime Inaba

[edit]Movies

Year	English Title	Japanese Title	Romanization	Role
2007	Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!	劇場版 仮面ライダー電王 俺、誕生	Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Den'ō Ore, Tanjō!	Ryotaro Nogami
2008	Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka	劇場版　仮面ライダー電王＆キバ　クライマックス刑事（デカ	Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Den'ō ando Kiba Kuraimakkusu Deka	Ryotaro Nogami
	Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown	劇場版 さらば仮面ライダー電王 ファイナル・カウントダウン	Gekijōban Saraba Kamen Raidā Den'ō Fainaru Kauntodaun	Ryotaro Nogami
2009	Goemon	GOEMON	Goemon	Young Saizou Kirigakure
	Rookies -Graduation-	ルーキーズ -卒業-	Rookies -Sotsugyō-	Yuya Okada
2010	TRICK 3	劇場版TRICK 霊能力者バトルロイヤル	Gekijyōban TRICK Reinōryokusha Batoruroiyaru	Shohei Nakamori
	BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad	BECK	BECK	Yukio "Koyuki" Tanaka

[edit]PV

• Bahashishi, Oasis(オアシス)(2007)
• Bahashishi, Yakusoku (約束)(2007)
• Bahashishi, Kiseki (キセキ)(2008)

[edit]Discography

[edit]Singles

• "Pre-go ~ZERO~" (2007)
• "Double-Action" (2007)
• "Perfect-Action ~Double-Action Complete Collection~" (2007)
• "Real-Action" (2007)
• "Double-Action Wing form" (2008)