Sato Takeru

Career

Satoh's first drama was inPrincess Princess D( TV Asahi ) where he appeared as Toru Kouno. In 2007 he appeared inShinigami no Balladas a guest (Kentarō Ishihara) and gained popularity in the seventeenth installment of theKamen Rider seriesas Ryotaro Nogami . Satoh claims thatDen-Obecame popular because of its comedic timing.

Following the success and popularity ofKamen Rider Den-Oand a further two films, in spring 2008 Satoh starred in award-winning dramaRookies( TBS ) with the role of supporting character Yuya Okada. Okada belongs to a group of delinquents who belong to a baseball club but are no longer able to play due to suspension from a previously violent match. The arrival of new teacher, Koichi Kawato, finds that the club members left (the delinquents) are only interested in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under Kawato's guidance, they discover their dream of going to the Koshien high school baseball tournament . Satoh considers his role inRookiesto be his "break out role" even though it was only a minor part.However, asRookieswas shown at 8pm on a Saturday, during primetime, it reached a much larger audience than any of his previous works. Satoh also featured in the special episode ofRookiesand starred in the film version in the summer of 2009. He reprised his role in the third film ofKamen Rider Den-Oin October 2008. This movie would be Satoh's last time playing Ryotaro. During the same month, he starred in the dramaBloody Monday, based on the manga with the same name . For this drama, Satoh co-starred with fellow Amuse member, Haruma Miura and their characters, Otoya Kujo and Fujimaru Takagi respectively, are best friends like Miura and Satoh are in real life.

In early 2009, Satoh starred inMei-chan no Shitsujias Kento Shibata who decides to enroll in a butler school so that he can stay close to childhood friend Mei Shinonome who attends St. Lucia Girls' Academy, where all the students have butlers! His role in this drama is a firm favourite with fans. He starred inGoemonand the film forRookiesin summer 2009. Later on he guest starred on TV shows, Mr. Brain and True Horror Stories and starred in MW Dai-0-sho. For 2010, he is set to star in TV showRyōmadenand has a major supporting role in the film Beck co-starring Hiro Mizushima and Osamu Mukai , both of them being his co-stars from Mei-chan no Shitsuji.

Personal life

Takeru graduated from North High School in Koshigaya, Saitama prefecture on March 2007, weeks before his 18th birthday. On his blog, he has talked about the stress and loneliness sometimes felt in being the star of a television show. His hobbies include playing with his pet cats, break dancing and Rubik's Cube .

He celebrated his 20th birthday with a festival in Odaiba , called "Takeru Festival 2009". Fans gathered and watched montages of Satoh's previous and current works and even the commercial for Lotte 's Fits mint. It also included a live chat between Satoh and an MC and ended with Satoh singing.

CM

• Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. 「Oronamin C」 (2007)
• Bandai Namco Group 「DX Den O Belt Den Gasher」(2007)
• Nike 「Jersey」(2007-2008)
• Hudson Soft Company「Mezase Tsuri Master」(2008)
• Itōen
  • 「W BLACK」(2009)
  • 「MINERAL SPARKIES」(2009)
• LOTTE
  • 「Fit's」(2009-)
  • 「Ghana chocolate」(2009)
  • 「Coolish」(2009)
• Sony Music Japan International Inc.「Time Flies...1994-2009(Oasis)」(2010)
• KOSÉ「Cosmagic」(2010-)
• Suntory Holdings Limited「Horoyoi」(2010-)
• NTT Communications Corp 「Hikari Portable」(2010-)
• Japan Post Bank 「Family Yū-cho」(2010-)
• Acecook「JANJAN Yakisoba」(2010-)

Photobooks

• Pre-go ~ZERO~ (2007)
• "Intently" First Photobook (2008)
• "400 Days" Photo Album/Diary (2008)
• Deep Breathing/「深呼吸。」Second Photobook (2009)
• TAKERU MAGAZINE/TAKERU MAGAZINE PLUS (2008-)
• "So Far So Good!" TAKERU SATOH PROFILE 2007-2010 (2010)

Singles

• "Pre-go ~ZERO~" (2007)
• "Double-Action" (2007)
• "Perfect-Action ~Double-Action Complete Collection~" (2007)
• "Real-Action" (2007)
• "Double-Action Wing form" (2008)

DVD

• "My Color" (2008)
• "HT"(HT 〜N.Y.の中心で、鍋をつつく〜) (2010)

• Bolddenotes major roles

Dramas

Movies

PV

• Bahashishi, Oasis(オアシス)(2007)
• Bahashishi, Yakusoku (約束)(2007)
• Bahashishi, Kiseki (キセキ)(2008)

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