was a Japanese actor. Inoue was born from

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. He was represented with K Factory.

Biography

Inoue participated as a founding member of Gekidan Kakusoko presided over by Ikuji Nakamura from 1987, in which he was active mainly on

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. After the dissolution of the theatre unit in 2002 he was active in television dramas and theatre, in which he appeared in popular series such as ''

Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari (Making It Through) is a Japanese television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama ...

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), '' Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon'' and ''

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'' (both

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), and played an active role as a name apprentice who skillfully plays diverse characters ranging from hot middle-aged men to cold villains. Inoue's special skill was on the

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, in the Wataoni Oyaji Band in the form of Takuzo Kadono in ''Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari'', he was in charge of percussion and also performed his CD debut. He found out he had cancer in December 2015, and he continued his work while repeating hospital admissions, and later became hospitalized after losing his physical condition in late February 2017. Inoue died of lower laryngeal cancer at a hospital in Tokyo at 18:30 on 4 March of the same year. The stage play ''Yukimaroge'' in 2016 became his final appearance.

Filmography

Stage

TV dramas

; NHK ; Nippon TV ; Tokyo Broadcasting System ; Fuji Television ; TV Asahi ; TV Tokyo

Anime television

Films

Dubbing

References

External links

* – K Factory {{DEFAULTSORT:Inoue, Takashi People from Miyazaki Prefecture 1960 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Japanese male stage actors Japanese male television actors