, better known by his stage name , is the front man for Japanese

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group

Denki Groove is a Japanese music group founded in 1989. It consists of Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki. History Denki Groove was founded in 1989 by Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki, both of whom are natives of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture. The group's major-lab ...

, which consists of himself and

Takkyu Ishino , better known by his stage name , is a Japanese DJ, record producer, and singer from Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture. He is a member of Denki Groove is a Japanese music group founded in 1989. It consists of Takkyu Ishino and Pierre Taki. Histo ...

. As of 2001 he was involved in an exhibit called Prince Tongha with

Hideyuki Tanaka is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Tokyo who is attached to Aoni Production. He is a graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He is most known for his roles in ''One Piece'' (as Donquixote Doflamingo), ''Dokaben'' (as Tarou ...

in New York City. He also frequently appears as an actor in film and on television.

Selected filmography

Films

*'' Red Shadow'' (2001) *''1980'' (2003) *'' Survive Style 5+'' (2004) *''

Linda Linda Linda is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. It stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine (of the band Base Ball Bear) as teenagers who form a band to cover songs by the Japanese punk rock band the Blue Hearts; th ...

'' (2005) *'' Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean'' (2005) *'' Sway'' (2006) *''

Rainbow Song is a 2006 Japanese film by director Naoto Kumazawa and produced by Shunji Iwai (who also co-wrote the screenplay under pseudonym Aminosan). Kumazawa had worked with Iwai before, having directed the making-of documentary for ''Swallowtail But ...

'' (2006) *''

Ten Nights of Dreams or ''Ten Nights' Dreams'' is a series of short pieces by Natsume Sōseki. It was serialized in the ''Asahi Shimbun'' from July 25 to August 5, 1908. Sōseki writes of ten dreams set in various time periods, including his own time (the Meiji peri ...

'' (2007) *'' 10 Promises to My Dog'' (2008) *''One Million Yen Girl'' (2008) *''

School Days with a Pig is a 2008 Japanese drama film that is based on a true event that took place in an elementary school in Osaka Prefecture. The film is directed by Tetsu Maeda, and its story is based on a novel about the event by Yasushi Kuroda. Actor Satoshi Ts ...

'' (2008) *''Rakugo Story'' (2010) *''

The Floating Castle is a 2012 Japanese historical-drama film directed by Shinji Higuchi and Isshin Inudo, starring Mansai Nomura, and adapts Ryō Wada's novel (2007) of the same name. Set in feudal Japan, the film is based on the Siege of Oshi and depicts the strugg ...

'' (2012) *'' The Devil's Path'' (2013) – Sudō *'' Like Father, like Son'' (2013) *'' Parasyte: Part 1'' (2014) *''

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'' (2015) *'' Twisted Justice'' (2016) *''

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'' (2016) *'' Rage'' (2016) *'' Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate'' (2016) – Fujimoto *'' Outrage Coda'' (2017) – Hanada *'' The Blood of Wolves'' (2018) – Ginji *''Sunny/32'' (2018) *''A Gambler's Odyssey 2020'' (2019) *'' Miyamoto'' (2019) *''Samurai Shifters'' (2019) *''Romance Doll'' (2020) – Kaoru Kubota *''Zokki'' (2021) *''Fukuda-mura Jiken'' (2023)

Television

*'' Amachan'' (2013) *'' Gunshi Kanbei'' (2014) –

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*'' Toto Neechan'' (2016) – Sōkichi Morita *''Rikuoh'' (2017) – Kenji Obara *'' The Naked Director'' (2019) – Wada *''

Idaten Skanda (Chinese:塞建陀, 室建陀), also known as Wei Tuo (Chinese: 韋馱) and Idaten (Japanese: 韋駄天) is a Mahayana bodhisattva regarded as a devoted guardian of Buddhist monasteries who protects the teachings of Buddhism. He is also ...

'' (2019) – Shinsaku Kurosaka

Animation

*'' Hakaba Kitarō'' (2008) *''

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'' (2021) – Gladiator

Video games

Dubbing

Discography

Legal issues

In March 2019, Taki was arrested on suspicion of cocaine use and his latest video game, ''

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'', was withdrawn from sale by the publisher,

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. His appearance has been removed in the Western release. He was later released on bail on April 4, 2019. Having admitted to using cocaine, the Tokyo District court sentenced him to eighteen months in prison, suspended for three years. His voice acting roles were also replaced such as Olaf from '' Frozen''. Home video releases of ''Frozen'' were removed in Japan. Since then, Shunsuke Takeuchi became the new Japanese dub voice of Olaf.

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* * * * 1967 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors Japanese techno musicians Sony Music Entertainment Japan artists Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Shizuoka Prefecture Actors from Shizuoka Prefecture Male voice actors from Shizuoka Prefecture 21st-century Japanese male actors 20th-century Japanese male singers 20th-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese male singers 21st-century Japanese singers {{Japan-musician-stub