Issey Takahashi

is a Japanese actor and singer.

Early life

Takahashi was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. At the age of 10, he starred in a Dragon Quest IV commercial featuring him as a schoolboy.

Personal life On May 16, 2024, Takahashi and actress Marie Iitoyo, who is eighteen years younger than him, jointly announced through their respective agencies that they had registered their marriage. The couple revealed that they met on the set of the live-action adaptation of Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe, in which they had co-starred.

Filmography

Film Year Title RoleNotes 1990 Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono Shohei Endo 1991 Only Yesterday Classmate (voice) 1995 Whisper of the Heart Seiji Amasawa (voice) Himeyuri no Tō 2001 All About Lily Chou-Chou Ikeda-senpai 2004 Swing Girls Sanga High School concert band director Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Crazy 88 member American film Half a Confession Ikegami March Goes out like a Lamb Takashi Hayashida The Limit of Sleeping Beauty Kaito Blank13 Kōji Lead role 2018 Recall Kazuaki Izaki The Lies She Loved Kippei Koide Lead role 2019 Until I Meet September's Love Susumu Hirano Lead role Samurai Shifters Gen'emon Takamura Romance Doll Tetsuo Lead role 2020 Wife of a Spy Yūsaku Fukuhara 2021 Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning Katsura Kogorō 2022 Shin Ultraman Ultraman (voice) 2023 Rohan at the Louvre Rohan Kishibe Lead role 2025 Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe: At a Confessional Rohan Kishibe Lead role 2026 Sunekosuri no Mori Mysterious man Lead role Rhapsody Rhapsody Mikio Natsuno Lead role 2027 Ghost Mass (voice)

Television Year Title RoleNotes 1990 New York Koi Monogatari II: Otome Kazunori Togami 1992 Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger Kai Episodes 47 to 50 1998 Jiken 6 Yuichi Iwamoto Kowai Dōwa Yuichi Kimijima 2001 Tales of the Unusual: Fall 2001 Short drama 2002 Emergency Room 24hours Shinsengumi! Matsudaira Sadaaki Taiga drama 2008 One Pound Gospel Yusuke Ishizaka Nobunaga Concerto Azai Nagamasa Episode 5-10 Night Teacher Ichiro Yamada My Long Awaited Love Story Soichirou Kurosawa Lead role; television film Quartet Yutaka Iemori Lead role The Public Enemy Makoto Todo 2018 Miracles Kazuki Aikawa Lead role 2019 Crescent Moon Goro Oshima Lead role Tokyo Bachelors Taro Ishibashi Lead role 2020–24 Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan Rohan Kishibe Lead role; 9 episodes 2021 Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange Haruto Hidaka 2022 Snow Country Shimamura Lead role; television film Invisible Takafumi Shimura Lead role The Aromantics Satoru Takahashi Lead role 2023 Six-Second Path: The Melancholy of Fireworks Master Seitaro Mochizuki Mochizuki Seitaro Lead role 2025 Zero Day Isamu Fujiwara Taiwanese drama 1972: Nagisa no Keika Taichi Maeda Lead role; miniseries 2026 Izumi Kyoka wa Damaranai Rohan Kishibe Television film Criminal Soma Lead role

Japanese dub Live-action Year Title Role Voice dub for Notes 2018 Legend of the Demon Cat Bai Letian Huang Xuan

Animation Year Title Role Notes 2019 Moominvalley Snufkin

Awards and nominations