is a Japanese actor and artist from Isa District, Kagoshima. He is known for his role as private detective Mitsuhiko Asami in the ''Asami Mitsuhiko Series''. He attended

Musashino Art University or is a private university in Kodaira, Western Tokyo, founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan. History In October 1929, was founded. In December 1948, it became , and in ...

but left before graduating and joined the

Shiki Theatre Company is one of Japan's best-known and largest theatre companies. Shiki Theatre Company employs around 1,400 actors and staff, and stages more than 3,000 performances to around 3 million audience members a year. It operates seven theaters for their ex ...

. In 1990, Enoki landed the lead role in '' Heaven and Earth'' in place of

Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in '' Letters from Iwo Jima'' and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in ''The Last Samurai'', for which he was nominated for the Academy Awa ...

, who had to pull out due to illness. He is also known as an ink painter and his museum opened in 2003.(Located in

Kokonoe, Ōita 270px, Kokonoe Town Hall is a town located in Kusu District, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 8,536 in 3,881 households, and a population density of 31 persons per km2. The total area of the city is Geogra ...

Filmography

Film

* ''Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion'' (1985) * '' Heaven and Earth'' (1990) as

Uesugi Kenshin , later known as , was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (magnate). He was born in Nagao clan, and after adoption into the Uesugi clan, ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan. He was one of the most powerful ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period ...

* '' Best Guy'' (1990) as Tetsuo "Apollo" Kajitani * ''Tenkawa Densetsu Satsujinjiken'' (1991) as Asami Mitsuhiko * '' Bloom in the Moonlight'' (1991) as

Tōson Shimazaki was the pen-name of Haruki Shimazaki, a Japanese writer active in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. He began his career as a Romantic poet, but went on to establish himself as a major proponent of Japanese Naturalism. The ...

* '' Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'' (1997) * '' Sleeping Bride'' (2000) * '' Merdeka 17805'' (2001) * ''

Koinu Dan no Monogatari , is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Shinichi Sawai, starring Hello! Project Kids, Morning Musume, and Maki Goto. The film was given a limited screening on December 14, 2002, where it was screened as a double-feature with ''Mini-Moni the Movie ...

'' (2002) as Yoshitaka Morishita * '' Spy Sorge'' (2003) as Duke Fumimaro Konoye * ''

The Wind Carpet ''The Wind Carpet'' or Kaze no jûtan () is a 2003 Iranian drama film directed by Kamal Tabrizi. Plot A Japanese female designer wants a carpet made that she plans to show at the Nakayama Carnival. She asks weavers in Isfahan to weave the carpet ...

'' (2003) * '' Spring Snow'' (2005) * '' Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea'' (2007) * ''

Kaidan is a Japanese language, Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (''kai'') meaning "strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparition" and 談 (''dan'') meaning "talk" or "recited narrative". Overall meaning and usage In its broadest sense ...

'' (2007) * ''

Share House A roommate is a person with whom one shares a living facility such as a room or dormitory ''except'' when being family or romantically involved. Similar terms include dorm-mate, suite-mate, housemate, or flatmate ("flat": the usual term in Brit ...

'' (2011) * '' Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo'' (2011) * '' Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High'' (2017) as The prime minister * '' Mio's Cookbook'' (2020) * ''Nobutora'' (2021) as

* ''Signature'' (2022) as Usuke Asai * ''Shimamori'' (2022) * ''Oshorin'' (2023) * '' Salary Man Kintaro'' (2025) as Morinosuke Yamato * ''Salary Man Kintaro 2'' (2025) as Morinosuke Yamato

Television

* '' Sanada Taiheiki'' (1985) as Higuchi Kakubei * ''

Dokuganryū Masamune is a 1987 Japanese historical television series. It is the 25th NHK ''taiga'' drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area with the highest viewing rating of 47.8%. The drama was adapted from the novel ...

'' (1987) as

Ōno Harunaga was a general under Toyotomi Hideyori, and fought in the Siege of Osaka in 1615. He became lord of Osaka castle after the Battle of Sekigahara. Ono led forces against those of Wakayama Castle in the Battle of Kashii, also the Battle of Shi ...

* ''

Taiheiki The (Chronicle of Great Peace) is a medieval Japanese historical epic (see '' gunki monogatari'') written in the late 14th century and covers the period from 1319 to 1367. It deals primarily with the Nanboku-chō, the period of war between the ...

'' (1991) as Hino Toshimoto * ''

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 ...

'' (xxxx) as Hisamitsu Aoyama * ''Asami Mitsuhiko Series'' (1995-2006) as Mitsuhiko Asami / Yōichirō Asami * ''

Kōmyō ga Tsuji ''Kōmyō ga Tsuji'' (功名が辻) is a 2006 Japanese historical television series, and the 45th NHK ''taiga'' drama. It is written by Shizuka Ōishi, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Ryōtarō Shiba. The series chronicles the lives o ...

'' (2006) as

Azai Nagamasa was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period known as the brother-in-law and enemy of Oda Nobunaga. Nagamasa was head of the Azai clan seated at Odani Castle in northern Ōmi Province and married Nobunaga's sister Oichi in 1564, fathering ...

* '' Atsuhime'' (2008) as Kimotsuki Kaneyoshi * '' Clouds Over the Hill'' (2009) as Mori Rintaro * '' No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35'' (2013) as Yoshio Noda * '' Yae's Sakura'' (2013) as

Ii Naosuke was a ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Hikone (1850–1860) and also '' Tairō'' of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his assassination in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous ...

* '' Awaiting Kirin'' (2020) as Yamazaki Ieyoshi

Awards

References

External links

*
Takaaki Enoki Museum (Kyushu Geijutsu no Mori)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Enoki, Takaaki 1956 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Actors from Kagoshima Prefecture Artists from Kagoshima Prefecture Asadora lead actors 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors