Naoto Takenaka movies and tv shows: he is affiliated with From 1st Pro. He has appeared in films such as Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t (1992), Shall We Dance? (1996), Waterboys (2001), Ping Pong (2002), Azumi (2003), Swing Girls (2004), Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Lady Maiko (2014), Gonin Saga (2015), Samurai Marathon (2019), Not Quite Dead Yet (2020), Enter the Fat Dragon (2020), The Way of the Househusband (2022) and What If Tokugawa Ieyasu Became Prime Minister? (2024). His television appearances include the NHK Taiga dramas Hideyoshi (1996), Gunshi Kanbei (2014) and Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021), and the dramas Nodame Cantabile (2006), Samurai Gourmet (2017) and Your Turn to Kill (2019). He also voiced characters in the anime films One Piece Film: Strong World (2009), One Piece: Stampede (2019) and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction (2024). Naoto was born on March 20, 1956 in Yokohama.