Takeshi Kaneshiro

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Born: October 11, 1973
in Taipei, Taiwan
Takeshi Kaneshiro, born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwanese and Japanese actor of mixed heritage – his father is Ryukyuan and his mother is Taiwanese. He speaks Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese Hokkien and English. Known for his versatile roles in Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Japanese cinema, he gained international recognition for his performances in films like "Chungking Express" (1994), "Fallen Angels" (1995), and "House of Flying Daggers" (2004). In addition to his acting career, Kaneshiro has also released several music albums and has been involved in numerous commercial endorsements. Despite maintaining a relatively private personal life, his talent and enduring popularity have made him a prominent figure in Asian entertainment.

Movies for Takeshi Kaneshiro...

One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
Title: One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features never-before-seen materials, including deleted scenes, behind-the-scene footage, and selected narration by Wong Kar Wai.
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This Is Not What I Expected
Title: This Is Not What I Expected
Character: Lu Jin
Released: April 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant female sous chef Gu Shengnan creates the perfectionist what may be a perfect meal. Now, these bitter rivals find themselves brought together in the kitchen in this light-hearted romantic comedy, infused with fun and flavors to create a delicious dish that foodies around the world wouldn't dare to miss.
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See You Tomorrow
Title: See You Tomorrow
Character: Guan Chun
Released: December 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Chen Mo, a bar owner, listens to his customers' heartbreaks and helps them navigate their lives during their hard times while dealing with his own tragedy.
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The Crossing II
Title: The Crossing II
Character: Yan Zenkun
Released: July 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: Yan Shikun
Released: December 2, 2014
Type: Movie
At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.
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Dragon
Title: Dragon
Character: Xu Baijiu
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: Movie
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
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Red Cliff II
Title: Red Cliff II
Character: Zhuge Liang
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Title: K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Character: Heikichi Endo
Released: December 20, 2008
Type: Movie
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
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Red Cliff
Title: Red Cliff
Character: Zhuge Liang
Released: July 10, 2008
Type: Movie
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
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Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
Title: Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
Character: Chiba
Released: April 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.
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The Warlords
Title: The Warlords
Character: Jiang Wu-Yang
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi.
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Title: Bokura no Jidai
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
A talk show broadcast on Fuji TV every Sunday.
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Confession of Pain
Title: Confession of Pain
Character: Yau Kin-Bong
Released: December 21, 2006
Type: Movie
In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror. When his father-in-law, the billionaire benefactor Kim, is gruesomely murdered in his palatial mansion, he enlists the assistance of his former partner turned private detective.
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Perhaps Love
Title: Perhaps Love
Character: Lin Jian-Dong
Released: December 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
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House of Flying Daggers
Title: House of Flying Daggers
Character: Jin
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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Turn Left, Turn Right
Title: Turn Left, Turn Right
Character: John Liu
Released: August 11, 2003
Type: Movie
An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.
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Returner
Title: Returner
Character: Miyamoto
Released: August 31, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
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Title: Golden Bowl
Character: Shu Akutagawa
Released: April 20, 2002
Type: TV
Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa's favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better than the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins? --NTV
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Takeshi Kaneshiro's Antarctic Adventure
Title: Takeshi Kaneshiro's Antarctic Adventure
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Taiwanese entertainment star Takeshi Kaneshiro accepted an invitation from a Japanese TV station to go on an 11-day expedition to the Antarctic continent.
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Title: 裸にしたい男
Released: February 19, 2001
Type: TV
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Lavender
Title: Lavender
Released: December 22, 2000
Type: Movie
A young woman's life is changed when an angel with a broken wing lands on her balcony.
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Space Travelers
Title: Space Travelers
Character: Nishiyama
Released: April 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
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Title: Love 2000
Character: Nogami / Yuri Maroev
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: TV
Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.
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Tempting Heart
Title: Tempting Heart
Character: Ho-jun
Released: September 23, 1999
Type: Movie
A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.
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Title: God, Please Give Me More Time
Character: Keigo Ishikawa
Released: July 7, 1998
Type: TV
Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?
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Sleepless Town
Title: Sleepless Town
Character: Kenichi Ryuu
Released: June 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
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Anna Magdalena
Title: Anna Magdalena
Character: Chan Kar-Fu
Released: May 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".
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Too Tired to Die
Title: Too Tired to Die
Character: Kenji
Released: January 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it
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First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Title: First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Character: Lam Kar Tung
Released: December 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and finally his two chosen tales, about a sleepwalker guided through the night by a lonely admirer, and a married convenience store owner faced with the vengeful first love that he once rejected.
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Downtown Torpedoes
Title: Downtown Torpedoes
Character: Jackal
Released: August 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Jackal, Cash and Sam form the core of ATM (Available Tactical Mercenaries), an industrial espionage unit that utilizes high-tech gadgetry to steal technology and fence it on the black market. However, they're blackmailed by the Hong Kong government to snatch some counterfeit plates called SN2 from the British MI5. Naturally stuff goes wrong, our heroes are framed for SN2’s disappearance, and then they must set about clearing their names with whatever hi-tech gadgets they have leftover.
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Hero
Title: Hero
Character: Ma Wing Jing
Released: June 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the territory a well. Corruption and violence rule the streets as Wing Jing and Tam Sei must battle not only the rival gangs but the corrupt police officials as well.
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The Odd One Dies
Title: The Odd One Dies
Character: Mo
Released: May 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A failure of a Triad who is desperate for money decides to accept an assassination mission. With his advance in money he decides to risk it in gambling, he becomes lucky and wins a fortune. With all this money he is not so sure that he wishes to do the murder anymore, he looks for a hitman to take his place. He finds a women willing to take the job but she ends up more trouble than he expected.
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Jail in Burning Island
Title: Jail in Burning Island
Character: Yeung Chung
Released: April 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
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Misty
Title: Misty
Character: Takehiro
Released: December 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.
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Lost and Found
Title: Lost and Found
Character: Mr. Worm
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
A rich girl diagnosed with leukemia wants to follow a sailor friend to St Kilda, Scotland to find out. but first she must search him out, who is missing.
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Feeling of Love
Title: Feeling of Love
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
A business man (Tekeshi Kaneshiro) follows a woman (Athena Chu) who tells him not to follow him but he does anyway. Then he learns that the woman is his boss and step-sister.
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Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words
Title: Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words
Character: Shing
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.
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聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Title: 聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Released: December 23, 1995
Type: Movie
A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.
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Young Policemen in Love
Title: Young Policemen in Love
Released: November 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A high school loser dreams of winning the heart of the principal's daughter, but his chances are slim as long as her bruiser boyfriend's around. Fortunately, a chance meeting with Garlic and Gimmick, renegade cops who cause nothing but headaches for their superiors. Chief Wong Yat Fei decides to send his boys undercover in Wong Fei Hong College to protect a general's daughter from Mainland China, but that's where their problems begin. Their boyish good looks may fool their classmates, but how will the two undisciplined cops pass their classes, let alone protect a girl who's tougher than they are?
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Fallen Angels
Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Ho Chi-mo
Released: September 6, 1995
Type: Movie
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
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Forever Friends
Title: Forever Friends
Character: Private Li Ta-Wei
Released: August 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A couple of friends join the Taiwanese army to fight the Mainland Chinese. But life in the army isn't all that they dreamed off....
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Fuji Colours of Amours
Title: Fuji Colours of Amours
Character: Kim
Released: June 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Summer - "Free Carnival" A story of a love affair between men and women. - Winter - "Warm affection" A tale of a couple and grandmother. - Autumn - "A Midnight Nightmare" A story of a nightmare surrounding men and women. - Spring - "Romantic date" A story about the love and friendship involving one man and three women.
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School Days
Title: School Days
Character: 老鹰 - 戴冠英
Released: April 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Hui Chi-Ho (Jimmy Lin) is a secondary college student, coming from a rich family. It causes the dissatisfaction of "Crow", the big brother in the class, and he always finds ways to challenge Ho. Then enters a new student, , "Eagle" (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who takes Hui under his wings. Ho is really grateful to what Eagle has done. At the same time, the assassins from the underworld are revenging "Eagle"...
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Trouble Maker
Title: Trouble Maker
Character: A Miu
Released: April 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A meek, middle-aged schoolteacher is put in charge of a class of trouble makers. Unable to withstand the torments they put him through, he runs away to a Shaolin temple. At the temple, he studies martial arts under the guidance of an old master. With his new skills, he returns to school and whips his misbehaving students into shape.
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Don't Give a Damn
Title: Don't Give a Damn
Character: Inspector Tang Chuen-Shek
Released: February 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Sammo Hung plays a cop on the trail of drug dealers. Customs officer Yuen Biao is investigating the same gang. Sammo's new partner is eager-beaver Takeshi Kaneshiro. Despite each having their own ideas on how best to proceed, they are teamed together and must put aside their differences in order to crack the case. Romance, plot twists, comedic asides, and, of course, plenty of fights bring the film to a climatic and bruising conclusion
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Shaolin Popey 3
Title: Shaolin Popey 3
Character: Kok Tong Miu
Released: January 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Two agile Hong Kong martial arts kids join up with a pair of bungling Chinese-immigrant beach bums on the sunny shores of Hawaii, where they divide their time between sophomoric kung-fu kid hijinks and their designated mission--tracking down a missing book whose secrets have fallen into the hands of a power-hungry villain.
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Mermaid Got Married
Title: Mermaid Got Married
Character: Kenji / Mark Kim
Released: November 10, 1994
Type: Movie
A mermaid pursues a teacher by attending school.
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The Wrath of Silence
Title: The Wrath of Silence
Character: Patrick Ko
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: Movie
A mortician seeks revenge against a serial killer who has murdered her sister. However, there is a case of mistaken identity and she begins to target her psychiatrist instead.
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Chungking Express
Title: Chungking Express
Character: Ho Chi-mo / Cop 223
Released: July 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
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No Sir
Title: No Sir
Character: Chin Tieh-Sheng
Released: June 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Hilarious sequel to the movies 'Yes Sir' and 'Yes Sir 2,' about the Nationalist soldiers of the Taiwan Army. This is equivalent in the US as M*A*S*H 3.
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The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Title: The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Character: Chung Hon
Released: September 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio' the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
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The Star
Title: The Star
Character: Cop
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Sons of the Neon Night
Title: Sons of the Neon Night
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.