is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.

Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike. Takeuchi also starred in Battle Royale II: Requiem, in which he played a fictionalized version of himself.

Takeuchi had also a short stint at the end of the professional wrestling promotion Hustle in 2009, posing as a villainous character based on himself called "King RIKI". The same year, Takeuchi recorded with Avex Group a version of Morning Musume's "Love Machine" for the song's tenth anniversary, appearing under his RIKI persona along with wrestlers Riki Choshu and Yoshihiro Takayama.

Selected filmography

Films

• His Motorbike, Her Island (1985)

• Yakuza Wives (1986) as Taichi Hanata

• The King of Minami (19922009) as Ginjirô Manda

• Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars (1995) as Ginya Yabuki

• Tokyo Mafia: Wrath of the Yakuza (1995) as Ginya Yabuki

• Peanuts (1996)

• Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) as Daigen Nohma

• Tokyo Mafia: Battle For Shinjuku (1996) as Ginya Yabuki

• Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood (1997) as Ginya Yabuki

• Blood (1998)

• The Yakuza Way (1998) as Kanuma

• Dead or Alive (1999) as Ryuuichi

• Nobody as Nanbu (1999)

• Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) as Shuuichi Sawada

• Dead or Alive: Final (2002) as Officer Takeshi Honda

• Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) as Kunisada

• Mafia Family Yanagawa (2002)

• Mafia Family Yanagawa 2 (2002)

• Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) as himself

• Last Life in the Universe (2003) as Takashi

• Yakuza Demon (2003) as Seiji

• Arashi no Yoru Ni (2005) as the voice of Giro

• Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006) as Kazutoshi Kira

• Elite Yankee Saburo (2009) as Tokujirō Kunō

• Thermae Romae (2012) – Tateno

• Thermae Romae II (2014) – Tateno

• Tokyo Tribe (2014) as Buppa

• Real Girl (2018)

• My Father's Tracks (2021)

Television

• Kuroshoin no Rokubei (2018) as Saigō Takamori

Video games

• Yakuza 0 (2015) as Hiroki Awano

• Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (2023) as Takeda Kanryusai

Japanese dub

• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)

• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) as Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand)

References

External links

• PULP : : The Manga Magazine : : 5.07 Feature