Takuya Kimura

Q: Has Takuya Kimura won any awards?

Yes, Takuya Kimura has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Best Actor Award at the 2004 Tokyo Drama Awards for his performance in 'HERO'.

Q: What was Takuya Kimura's first film?

Takuya Kimura made his film debut in 1996 with the movie 'Shin Godzilla', which helped launch his career in acting.

Q: What are Takuya Kimura's most successful films?

Some of Takuya Kimura's most successful films include '2046', 'The Last Recipe', and 'How to Become a Japanese Citizen'.

Q: What is Takuya Kimura's background?

Takuya Kimura was born in Tokyo and began his career in the entertainment industry as a member of the boy band SMAP before transitioning to acting.

Q: What is Takuya Kimura's estimated net worth?

Takuya Kimura's estimated net worth is approximately $25 million, making him one of the wealthiest actors in Japan.

Q: What are some milestones in Takuya Kimura's filmography?

Milestones in Takuya Kimura's filmography include starring in the iconic drama 'HERO' and his role in the critically acclaimed film '2046', directed by Wong Kar-wai.

Q: Is Takuya Kimura involved in any other activities besides acting?

In addition to acting, Takuya Kimura is also a successful singer and has been involved in various television shows, modeling, and endorsements.

Known for

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

IMDb 8.2 / 10

2004 / Adventure, Animation / 119 min

"The Folding Castle" - a musical drama - Built in blue, lasts longer than you think, can withstand being watch. The shadow of the...

Blade of the Immortal (2019–)

2019– / Action, Animation / N/A

Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his...

Name

Takuya Kimura

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

13 November 1972, Tokyo, Japan

Spouses

Kudo Shizuka (2000–present)

Children

2 (Kaito, Mitsuki)

Parents

Kimura Yoshihiro, Kimura Yoshiko

Estimated Net Worth

$25 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Kyojo Reunion Kyojo is a school that trains future police officers. In its closed room, where unqualified students are weeded out, students...	Kimichika Kazama	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2026	Movie Kyojo Requiem	Kimichika Kazama	Not rated
2025	Movie Tokyo Taxi One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care...	Koji Usami	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	Movie Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the...	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	TV New Year's Eve All-Star Sports Festival TBS's legendary sports project is coming together for one night only! Matsuzaka Tori, Matsuyama Kenichi, Suzuki Kyoka & Olympic medalists,...	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	Movie Grande Maison Paris Famous Japanese chef Obana opens a new restaurant in Paris in the quest for his elusive third Michelin star. But...	Natsuki Obana	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2024	Movie Grande Maison Tokyo Special Just one year after opening, Hayami Rinko became the first Asian woman to be the chef of a three-star restaurant,...	Obana Natsuki	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2024	Movie Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron A documentary that chronicles the making of The Boy and the Heron, filmed with exclusive access to Studio Ghibli across...	Self	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2024	TV Believe: A Bridge to You This series, produced to commemorate the 65th anniversary of TV Asahi, tells the story of Riku Kariyama, an architectural designer...	Riku Kariyama	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	Movie The Boy and the Heron While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to...	Shoichi Maki (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	TV Dead Mount Death Play As a legendary hero nears victory against a necromancer known as The Corpse God, things take an unexpected turn with...	Employee (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	TV Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero The mystery of how Kazama Kimichika became so ruthless and unmatched will be revealed. Kyojo Zero depicts the time before...	Kimichika Kazama	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	TV The Swarm Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of...	Aito Mifune	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2023	Movie THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil...	Oda Nobunaga	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2022	Movie Next Destination: Live Tour 2022 The final tour date of Takuya Kimura's live tour Next Destination, recorded live in Yokohama.	Unknown character	Not rated
2022	TV Ten Count to the Future When Kirisawa Shogo was a high school student, he was a brilliant amateur boxer. He won 4 boxing tournaments and...	Shogo Kirisawa	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	Movie Masquerade Night An anonymous letter is delivered to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The letter states that a criminal of a murder...	Kosuke Nitta	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2020	Movie Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur Nobita accidentally finds a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited...	Jill (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2020	Movie Go with the Flow: Live Tour The first solo live performance of Takuya Kimura, held on February 8, 2020 (Saturday) has finally been made into a...	Unknown character	Not rated
2020	TV Kyojo Kimichika Kazama is an instructor at a police academy. He is keenly observant and watches over his students. He is...	Kimichika Kazama（風間公親）	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	TV Let me tell your fortune With Ikki Sawamura, Miki Mizuno and Miyu Ikeda (Michopa) as regular "fortune watchers" in the studio, other popular fortune tellers...	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	TV La Grande Maison Tokyo Determined to attain three stars, a middle-aged female chef teams up with a disgraced Michelin-starred chef to start a new...	Natsuki Obana	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	Movie Masquerade Hotel A serial (3) killer leaves a GPS code of his next target with each victim - this time Hotel Cortesia...	Kosuke Nitta	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie Killing for the Prosecution Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent...	Takeshi Mogami	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	TV Kimura Sa~~n! GYAO! and TOKYO FM "Takuya Kimura Flow" will present a special program "Kimura Sa~~n!" Captain Takuya will do his best...	Unknown character	Not rated
2018	TV BG: Personal Bodyguard Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due...	Akira Shimazaki	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2017	Movie Blade of the Immortal Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his...	Manji	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	TV A Life When Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He left his...	Okita Kazuaki	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Hero Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due...	Kohei Kuryu	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	TV I'm Home Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because...	Ieji Hisashi	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	TV Miyamoto Musashi Musashi Miyamoto left his village and ended up fighting in the battle of Sekigahara with his friend Matahachi, but Musashi...	Miyamoto Musashi	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2013	TV Ando Lloyd ～A.I. knows LOVE ?～ Reiji Matsushimais a genius physicist. He realizes that he and his fiancé Asahi Ando will be killed a theory that...	Andō Lloyd（安堂ロイド）/ Reiji Matsushima（沫嶋黎士）	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2012	Movie Gift of SMAP Plenty of charm! Plenty of volume! All the best parts of the concert! The Tokyo Dome performance of the nationwide...	Unknown character	Not rated
2012	TV Priceless Originally a mid-level manager (Kimura Takuya) with a promising future in a big corporation and loved by his subordinates, the...	Fumio Kindaichi	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2011	TV Antarctica Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at...	Takeshi Kuramochi	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2010	Movie Space Battleship Yamato In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens'...	Susumu Kodai	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	TV SMAPに内緒でドラマ作っちゃいましたSP ~毒トマト殺人事件	Unknown character	Not rated
2010	TV Moon Lovers Rensuke Hazuki, the president of Regolith, a rapidly growing interior manufacturer in Japan, is planning to expand into China. Rensuke...	Rensuke Hazuki	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2009	Movie Redline A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs...	JP (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV MR.BRAIN Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique...	Tsukumo Ryuusuke	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie I Come with the Rain Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate...	Shitao	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	TV CHANGE CHANGE is a Japanese television drama which aired on Fuji TV starting May 12, 2008.	Keita Asakura	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2007	Movie Hero After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public...	Kohei Kuryu	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	TV Baby SMAP A promotional program that was broadcast on the Fuji TV series [Note 1] from April 15, 2007 ( early morning...	Unknown character	Not rated
2007	TV The Family The Family, the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV station, is a social drama...	Teppei Manpyo	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2006	Movie Love and Honor A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order...	Shinnojo Mimura	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2006	Movie HERO SP Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ends up in...	Kohei Kuryu	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2005	TV Engine Jiro Kanzaki is an F3000 test driver blessed with acute sensitivity and breathtaking driving techniques. He's a daredevil who feels...	Jiro Kanzaki	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie 2046 Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses...	Tak	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	Movie Howl's Moving Castle Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her....	Howl (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2004	TV Pride Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only...	Haru Satonaka	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Smap! Tour! 2002! Release of the 2002 SMAP tour, Drink! Smap! Tour filmed at Tokyo Stadium	Unknown character	Not rated
2003	TV Good Luck!! A young, maverick airline copilot navigates love, ambition and workplace drama while struggling to prove himself worthy of promotion to...	Hajime Shinkai	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2003	TV SanTaku SanTaku is FujiTV's annual New Year's Day special hosted by Sanma and Kimura Takuya.	MC	Not rated
2002	TV One Million Stars Falling from the Sky The down-and-out detective Kanzo Dojima (Sanma Akashiya) is thinking about hanging up his job. A mysterious man named Ryo Katase...	Ryo Katase （片瀬涼）	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2001	Movie Chûshingura 1/47 During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge...	Yasube Horibe	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2001	TV Hero Former delinquent turned unconventional prosecutor Kohei Kuryu shakes up the legal world with his street-smart instincts and unorthodox style, clashing...	Kohei Kuryu / 久利生公平	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2001	Movie Tales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special Consisting of 5 stories: 1. Extra Synopsis: A man decides to go against a society whose every action and exchange...	Naoki Yunomoto	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	TV Food Fight Ihara Mitsuru , who grew up in the orphanage "Tsukushien," is a cleaner at Miyazono General Foods, a prestigious company....	Kyutaro the crow (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2000	TV Legendary Teacher A man who appears to have no particular passion for anything ironically proves effective with troubled high school students. Known...	Yoji Mizutani（水谷庸司）	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2000	TV Beautiful Life Kyoko's, a wheelchair-bound librarian, first meeting with her hairdresser leads to more encounters as Kyoko starts to like him because...	Shuji Okishima	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1999	TV Open tonight!	Unknown character	Not rated
1999	Movie Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP.	Takuya Kimura	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1998	TV A Sleeping Forest Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to...	Naoki Ito	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1998	Movie Oda Nobunaga The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a young man...	Oda Nobunaga	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	TV Love Generation Love Generation revolves around the relationship of the two leading protagonists, Katagiri Teppei and Uesugi Riko, who begin their relationship...	Teppei Katagiri	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1997	TV Gift An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio...	Yukio Hayasaka（早坂由紀夫）	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1997	Movie Because I Am Me The members of SMAP play former high school classmates who were members of the Ekiden team 6 years ago. This...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Concerto Love and ambition collide when two brilliant architects compete for the same woman and the glory of success in their...	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1996	TV SMAP×SMAP SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The...	Host	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1996	TV Long Vacation Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura's ex-roommate and a...	Hidetoshi Sena	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1995	TV Life is Good	Kazuma Ogami（大上一馬）	Not rated
1995	Movie Fly Boys, Fly! Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.	Junichiro Ueda	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1994	Movie SEXY SIX SHOW It contains the performance of " SEXY SIX SHOW " by SMAP from July 24th to August 30th, 1994 at...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1994	TV Stay Gold	Takeshi Ueda（上田武志）	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1994	TV Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in...	Isao Hayashi	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1994	Movie Shoot! The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School...	Yoshiharu Kubo	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	TV The Ordinary People Upon entering college, Narumi forms the Asunaro Group along with four other boys and girls. In time, she starts to...	Osamu Toride	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1993	Movie SMAP VIDEO Hajimete no natsu Yo Kitayama, Kentaro Eda, and Kentaro’s older brother join Sekine Shogo, Atsushi Yukihiro, Tetsuo Baba, and Shione Kobayashi in an...	Yo Kitayama	Not rated
1992	TV Who stole my heart Sono toki Heartwa Nusumareta is a 5 part drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1992	Movie 1992.1 SMAP 1st LIVE "Come on New Year !!" Concert " 1992.1 SMAP 1st LIVE" Came on New Year !! "Concert " (1992.1 SMAP First Live "Come on Oshogatsu !!...	Unknown character	Not rated
1990	TV Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen	Unknown character	TMDB 9.5 / 10
TBA	Movie 教場III	Kimichika Kazama	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2018	TV Kimura Sa~~n! GYAO! and TOKYO FM "Takuya Kimura Flow" will present a special program "Kimura Sa~~n!" Captain Takuya will do his best...	Creator Creator	Not rated
2003	TV SanTaku SanTaku is FujiTV's annual New Year's Day special hosted by Sanma and Kimura Takuya.	Creator Creator	Not rated

Kyojo Requiem

2026

Kyojo Reunion

2026 / TMDB 5.5

Tokyo Taxi

2025 / TMDB 7.3

Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special

2025

Grande Maison Paris

2024 / TMDB 7.5

Grande Maison Tokyo Special

2024 / TMDB 7.4

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