Hideki Takahashi

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Biography

Hideki Takahashi (born February 10, 1944 - ) is a Japanese actor, television host, and company executive. At age 17, Takahashi applied to Nikkatsu and became one of their popular stars in the 1960s. Before moving to television, he was well known as the lead actor of the Otoko no Monsho series, also known as "Symbol of a Man," Seijun Suzuki's Fighting Elegy (1966), and Men and War trilogy.

Known For

Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom

Zekrom (voice)

Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram

Zekrom (voice)

Napping Princess

Isshin Shijima / Hâtorando-ô (King) (voice)

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku Nanbu

Tattooed Life

Murakami Tetsutaro

The Last Samurai

Sugi Toranosuke

Clouds Over the Hill

児玉源太郎

Miyamoto Musashi

Musashi Miyamoto

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	はぐれ鴉 MOVIE	Self
2025	News Anchor TV	Yoshio Kunisada
2023	Geinou Kiwamidou TV	Self
2023	Saikoyo Keisatsukan 5 MOVIE	Ajigawa Nobushige
2023	ホリデイ～江戸の休日～ MOVIE	Self
2022	Inspector Totsugawa's Requiem MOVIE	Self
2022	再雇用警察官4 MOVIE	Self
2022	Hunting on a Lonely Hill TV	Self
2021	Saikoyou Keisatsukan 2 MOVIE	Self
2020	FNS Drama Taikō: Otakara Eizō Award TV	Self
2020	Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 72 MOVIE	Self
2020	再雇用警察官 TV	Self
2018	Legal V TV	Masahiko Kyogoku
2018	捜査会議はリビングで！ TV	Self
2017	Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata MOVIE	Inspector Totsugawa
2017	Ancien and the Magic Tablet: Another Story MOVIE	Isshin Shijima (voice)
2017	Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery 67: Murder in Hakone - Leaves & Mountains MOVIE	Inspector Totsugawa
2017	Napping Princess MOVIE	Isshin Shijima / Hâtorando-ô (King) (voice)
2016	Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route MOVIE	Inspector Totsugawa
2015	諏訪のスゴ腕警察医 TV	Self
2015	Burning Flower TV	Self
2014	KinKi Kids no Bunbuboon TV	Guest
2014	Hell Teacher Nube TV	Self
2014	必殺仕事人2014 MOVIE	Self
2013	Oyari Haishaku MOVIE	Murase Jidayu
2012	ライバルたちの光芒 TV	Self
2012	女検視官・江夏冬子 TV	Self
2012	Hissatsu Shigotonin 2012 MOVIE	Mirokubo Ensai
2011	Pokémon the Movie: Black - Victini and Reshiram MOVIE	Zekrom (voice)
2011	Pokémon the Movie: White - Victini and Zekrom MOVIE	Zekrom (voice)
2011	CSI: Crime Scene Talks TV	Self
2009	Clouds Over the Hill TV	児玉源太郎
2009	法廷サスペンスSP3 量刑 TV	Self
2008	Atsuhime TV	Self
2005	Yoshitsune TV	Fujiwara no Hidehira (Master of Mutsu Land)
2004	Keijirō Engawa Nikki TV	Moriguchi Keijirou
2002	捜査検事近松茂道 TV	Self
2001	Moshichi TV	Self
2001	Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident MOVIE	Inspector Totsugawa
2001	Salaryman Kintaro TV	Self
2000	Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen MOVIE	Self
1999	Salaryman Kintaro TV	Momotaro Shimazu
1998	Murderous Intent in the Pacific MOVIE	Sugisaki Keizo
1998	Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu TV	徳川家康
1995	Hanayome wa 16-sai! TV	Self
1995	Magistrate Mayuzumi MOVIE	Mayazumi Kuranosuke
1994	Haru yo koi TV	高倉大造
1994	Momotarō Zamurai III MOVIE	Self
1994	Oda Nobunaga TV	Self
1993	Araki Mataemon: Duel at Kagiya Corners MOVIE	Araki Mataemon
1993	Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon MOVIE	Date Masamune
1992	Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan MOVIE	Self
1990	Minamoto Yoshitsune MOVIE	Fujiwara no Hidehira
1990	Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke MOVIE	Self
1990	As If In Flight TV	Shimazu Hisamitsu
1989	Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell MOVIE	Ogami Ittō
1989	Iemitsu, Hikoza and Isshin Tasuke - A National Crisis: Edo Castle in Danger MOVIE	Banzuiin Chobei
1987	Lethal Three TV	Self
1984	Assassination Orders MOVIE	Sakoi Kanbei
1982	Tōyama no Kin-san TV	Self
1982	Purple Hood: The Secret of The Gold MOVIE	Self
1981	西村京太郎トラベルミステリー TV	Shōzō Totsugawa
1975	The Perennial Weed MOVIE	Harada
1974	The Last Samurai MOVIE	Sugi Toranosuke
1973	Men and War III: The Final Chapter MOVIE	Shintaro Tsuge
1973	Miyamoto Musashi MOVIE	Musashi Miyamoto
1973	Kunitori Monogatari TV	Oda Nobunaga
1972	Hayato is Coming TV	Self
1972	Theater Of Life MOVIE	Self
1972	The Brawling Angel MOVIE	Self
1971	Blood Vendetta MOVIE	Masayoshi Kikukawa
1971	Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow MOVIE	Shintaro Tsuge
1971	Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life MOVIE	Inazuma no Tanji
1971	Haru no Sakamichi TV	Sakazaki Naomori
1970	Haunted Samurai MOVIE	Kusanagi Roppeita
1970	Crescent Scarred Hatamoto TV	Saotome Mondonosuke
1970	Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny MOVIE	Shintaro Tsuge
1970	Abare chōhan MOVIE	Self
1970	Peonies And Dragons MOVIE	Self
1969	Biographies of Killers MOVIE	Self
1969	The Wild Sea MOVIE	Katsuyuki Shinoda
1969	Gambler's Dilemma MOVIE	Kikumoto Rouhachi
1969	Chivalrous Pride MOVIE	Self
1969	The SAKURA Code MOVIE	Self
1969	Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza MOVIE	Self
1969	Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell MOVIE	Tetsugoro Nonaka
1969	100 Gamblers MOVIE	Self
1969	Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority MOVIE	Self
1969	Sakura sakazuki: gikyōdai MOVIE	Self
1969	Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin MOVIE	Self
1969	Family Crest: Die Like a Man MOVIE	Tetsugoro Nonaka
1969	Exiled to Hell MOVIE	Sokichi
1968	Three Rogues MOVIE	Self
1968	Duel in the Storm MOVIE	Naoaki Yagiri
1968	Man of a Stormy Era MOVIE	Self
1968	Dice and Swords MOVIE	Self
1967	Return to Kanto Prison MOVIE	Masakichi Murase
1967	The Endless Duel MOVIE	Self
1967	My Sweetheart MOVIE	Patrolman Hideki Takada
1967	Three Seconds to Zero Hour MOVIE	Yamawaki
1967	対決 MOVIE	Self
1967	The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding MOVIE	Masakichi Murase
1967	Burning Clouds MOVIE	Self
1967	Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows MOVIE	Gengo Saotome
1967	Birth of a Fighter MOVIE	Masakichi Murase
1967	Dreams Come True at Night MOVIE	Katsuya Misaki
1966	Shin yūkyōden MOVIE	Self
1966	Fighting Elegy MOVIE	Kiroku Nanbu
1966	Chivalry Broken from All Sides MOVIE	Seiji "The Rising Dragon"
1966	Kill or Be Killed MOVIE	Self
1966	Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man MOVIE	Self
1966	Blood Shed MOVIE	Ginjiro
1966	鉄火場仁義 MOVIE	塩田啓一
1966	The Dragon and the Tiger MOVIE	Self
1965	Invasion of Kanto Government MOVIE	Self
1965	Tattooed Life MOVIE	Murakami Tetsutaro
1965	The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill MOVIE	Self
1965	Killer Sword MOVIE	Saotome Gengo
1965	The Rule for a Vagabond MOVIE	Oshima Ryuji
1965	Thanks for the Tears MOVIE	Self
1965	Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man MOVIE	Self
1965	Chivalrous Life MOVIE	Self
1964	A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge MOVIE	Self
1964	The Flower and the Sword MOVIE	Ryuji
1964	The Call of Blood MOVIE	Shinji Asari
1964	Homecoming MOVIE	岡部雄吉
1964	The Scarred Crest MOVIE	Self
1964	Nukî uchi ryuji - kênju no otâ MOVIE	Self
1964	Jinsei Gekijo MOVIE	Self
1963	Fight of the Gamblers MOVIE	Self
1963	The Dragon Crest MOVIE	Self
1963	Prince of Wolves MOVIE	Takeji Kusaka
1963	The Sea of Eden MOVIE	Nanjo
1963	The Symbol of a Man MOVIE	Ryuji Oshima
1963	Love Comes with Youth MOVIE	Self
1963	Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki MOVIE	Self
1963	Gone in the Rain MOVIE	Eikichi Murata
1963	Umi no taka MOVIE	Self
1963	Beyond the Green Hills MOVIE	Yasukichi Tominaga
1962	Hitoribotchi no futari daga MOVIE	Self
1962	Hageshī kawa MOVIE	Self
1962	The Young and Bad MOVIE	Hiroshi Naya
1962	The Man With Starry Eyes MOVIE	Self
1962	The Man From the Sea MOVIE	Self
1962	The President's Son MOVIE	Self
1962	A Torrent of Life MOVIE	Self
1962	Keep Your Chin Up MOVIE	Takeshi Matsumoto
1962	Hitotsu no inochi MOVIE	Self
1961	The Song of the Season MOVIE	Self
1961	Mahiru no yūkai MOVIE	Self
	Japanese Traditional Arts TV	Self
	Japan's Strongest Castles TV	Self
	茂七の事件簿・新ふしぎ草紙 TV	Self

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