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Riki Takeuchi (Japanese: 竹内 力, Hepburn: Takeuchi Riki, born January 4, 1964 in Saiki, Ōita Prefecture) is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.

Riki Takeuchi
竹内 力
Born	(1964-01-04) January 4, 1964 (age 58)[1] Saiki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actor and singer
Years active	1985–present
Agent	Riki Project
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Website	www.rikitakeuchi.com

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.[2]

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.[3]

Selected filmography

Films

• The King Of Minami (1992-2009) 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)[4]

Television

• Kuroshoin no Rokubei (2018) as Saigō Takamori

Video games

• Yakuza 0 (2015) as Hiroki Awano
• Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (2023) as Takeda Kanryusai[5]

Japanese dub

• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)[6]

References

External links

• Riki Takeuchi at IMDb
• Official Website in Japanese
• https://web.archive.org/web/20060508105800/http://www.pulp-mag.com/archives/5.07/feature_takeuchi.shtml

На других языках

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Riki Takeuchi (竹内力, Takeuchi Riki?) (4 de enero de 1964) es un actor y cantante japonés. Takeuchi ha participado en muchas películas de yakuzas y de acción, entre las que se cuenta Dead or Alive de Takashi Miike. También participó en Battle Royale II: Réquiem, donde interpretó a su personaje homónimo.

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