Takuya Kimura
Takuya Kimura (Japanese木村拓哉; born November 13, 1972), nicknamed Kimutaku, is a Japanese singer and actor. Many of the TV drama, in which he has appeared, were extremely successful. He is also a member of the J- pop group SMAP.
Career
1987 sent a relative of an application to the Johnny & Associates talent, specializing on training good-looking young men teen idol. He was taken into Johnny's Juniors and a member of the group skate Boys. Skate Boys was a 12-member Backup Dancer troupe for Hikaru Genji, a very successful group at that time. 1988 finally the boy band SMAP was founded: Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Katsuyuki Mori, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Shingo Katori; Katsuyuki Mori left the band, however, the mid-90s to become a racing driver.
1991 brought SMAP 's first single Can not Stop! ~ Loving. on the market. Success was something to be desired. Also, the first concert was half empty. Nevertheless, SMAP gained more and more popularity - not by her singing, but through their TV show愛 ラブSMAP (English Love Love SMAP) and for her roles in TV doramas.
In 1993, a breakthrough for Kimura. He plays a major role in the drama Asunaro Hakusho (あすなろ 白書). The series is based on a then highly successful manga of the same name and was also a great success.
1996 series Long Vacation is a huge success. Kimura plays the shy pianist Sena, whose roommate blows before his marriage with another. The Abandoned Bride ( Yamaguchi Tomoko ) comes to pick her groom to the wedding, but finds the young Sena alone. The wedding falls into the water, but it has already canceled her apartment and blackmailed therefore Sena to let them move in with you. Gradually they fall in love.
In the same year, the new weekly entertainment show SMAPxSMAP will be broadcast for the first time, which contributes to the further popularity of the band. SMAPxSMAP runs successfully today and has a wide fan base. In the first part of the show each week a celebrity is invited to Bistro SMAP who places an " order" in the bistro owner Masahiro Nakai. The other SMAP members then deliver in a group of 2 " Kochduell ", the winner of the celebrities have to nominate at the end. As international guests including Richard Gere, Cameron Diaz, Jackie Chan, Michael Jackson, O-Zone and many other guests.
In November 1999 he became the first Asian advertising for Levi's jeans company, after he was awarded from 1994 to 1998 in unbroken succession to the Best Jeanist, the best Jean carrier of the year. The award is conferred by Best Jeanist Japanese Jean manufacturers annually to artists.
In 2000, he announced his marriage with another idol Shizuka Kudo Onyanko Club at. He has two daughters with her now - Kokomi and Mitsuki. His successful career in TV doramas he is continuing in 2000 with Beautiful Life - followed successful series such as 2001 Hero, Sora kara furu Ichioku no hoshi, Good Luck, Pride and ENGINE! .
In 2004 he for the first time a role in an international film. He plays with Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Faye Wong - albeit a small role without text - in 2046 by Wong Kar-wai with. 2005 he speaks Howl ( Howl ) in Hayao Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle. In July 2006, Fuji TV beamed from a two hours special of HERO. Kimura occurs with the old cast again as a prosecutor Kuryu Kohei. In the final part of Yoji Yamada's "Samurai Trilogy", the work published in 2006, Love and Honor - Bushi no ichibun, Kimura played the lead role of a blind samurai of the Edo period. In 2008, he played the role of Shitaro in the film I Come with the Rain " by Josh Hartnett holds the lead role.
Dorama
- Nankyoku Tairiku ~ Kami no Ryouiki ni Otoko to Inu no Monogatari Idomunda ~ TBS ( 2011)
- Tsuki no Koibito Fuji TV ( 2010)
- Mr. Brain TBS ( 2009)
- Change! Fuji TV ( 2008)
- Karei naru Ichizoku TBS ( 2007)
- Hero SP Fuji TV ( 2006)
- Saiyuuki Fuji TV (2006, Ep 1 )
- Engine Fuji TV ( 2005)
- Love and Dreams (2005)
- Pride Fuji TV ( 2004)
- Good Luck! TBS ( 2003)
- Sora Kara Furu Ichioku no Hoshi Fuji TV ( 2002)
- Chuushingura 1/47 Fuji TV ( 2001)
- Hero Fuji TV ( 2001)
- Food Fight NTV (2000)
- Beautiful Life TBS ( 2000)
- Konya wa eigyouchu Fuji TV ( 1999)
- Nemureru Mori Fuji TV ( 1998)
- Oda Nobunaga (1998)
- Love Generation Fuji TV ( 1997)
- Gift Fuji TV ( 1997)
- Boku ga boku de aru tame ni Fuji TV ( 1997)
- Kyousoukyoku TBS ( 1996)
- Long Vacation Fuji TV ( 1996)
- Furuhata Ninzaburo 1 Fuji TV ( 1996)
- Jinsei wa joujoda TBS ( 1995)
- Wakamono no subete Fuji TV ( 1994)
- Asunaro hakusho Fuji TV ( 1993)
- Sono toki haatowa nusumareta Fuji TV ( 1992)
- Otouto TBS ( 1990)
Film
- I Come with the Rain ( Shitaro ) (2008 )
- 2046 ( Tak ) (2004 )
- Howl's Moving Castle (Chairman ) (2004 )
- Kimi wo wasurenai ( Junichiro Ueda ) ( 1995)
- Hit the Goal!
- Space Battleship Yamato