Takeshi Kaneshiro
Actor
Takeshi Kaneshiro, born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwanese and Japanese actor of mixed heritage – his father is Ryukyuan and his mother is Taiwanese. He speaks Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese Hokkien and English.
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Sons of the Neon Night (2020)
A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.
Directed by: Juno Mak
Stars: Louis Koo | Kara Hui | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Lau Ching-Wan | Tony Leung Ka-Fai
This Is Not What I Expected (2017)
As: Lu Jin
Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant female sous chef Gu Shengnan creates the perfectionist what may be a perfect meal. Now, these bitter rivals find themselves brought together in the kitchen in ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Derek Hui
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Tony Yang | Zhou Dongyu | Ming Xi | Sun Yizhou
The Ferryman (2016)
As: Guan Chun
Every city has its legends and this city's legend is the 'Ferryman'. It is said that a person who takes on this role can help eliminate pain and sorrow from the world. Chen Mo, a bar owner, and his partner Guan Chun may seem foolish but in reality, they are an embodiment of this legend. As long as one makes a reservation, there is no problem either are incapable of solving. A young woman, Xiao Yu, makes ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Zhang Jiajia
Stars: Eason Chan | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Sandrine Pinna | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | AngelaBaby
The Crossing II (2015)
As: Yan Zenkun
A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: John Woo
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Tong Dawei | Zhang Ziyi | Song Hye-kyo | Huang Xiaoming
The Crossing (2014)
As: Yan Shikun
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to an island of Taiwan.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: John Woo
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Tong Dawei | Zhang Ziyi | Song Hye-kyo | Huang Xiaoming
Dragon (2011)
As: Xu Bai-jiu
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Peter Chan
Stars: Donnie Yen | Kara Hui | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Tang Wei | Jimmy Wang Yu
Red Cliff Part II (2009)
As: Zhuge Liang
The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: John Woo
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Chang Chen | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | Zhao Wei | Zhang Fengyi
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008)
As: Heikichi Endo
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat ...
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Shimako Sato
Stars: Jun Kunimura | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Toru Nakamura | Takako Matsu | Kanata Hongo
Red Cliff (2008)
As: Zhuge Liang
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: John Woo
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Chang Chen | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | Zhao Wei | Zhang Fengyi
Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)
As: Chiba
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s ...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Masaya Kakei
Stars: Ken Mitsuishi | Manami Konishi | Sumiko Fuji | Takuya Ishida | Takeshi Kaneshiro
The Warlords (2007)
As: Zhang Wen-Xiang
A heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Peter Chan | Raymond Yip Wai-Man
Stars: Jet Li | Andy Lau | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Wei Zongwan | Xu Jinglei
Confession of Pain (2006)
As: Yau Kin-Bong
A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Alan Mak | Andrew Lau
Stars: Chapman To | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Shu Qi | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai | Xu Jinglei
Perhaps Love (2005)
As: Lin Jian-dong
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Peter Chan
Stars: Eric Tsang | Jacky Cheung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Zhou Xun | Ji Jin-hee
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
As: Jin
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Stars: Andy Lau | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Song Dandan | Zhang Ziyi | Zhao Hongfei
Wind and Cloud: The Storm Riders (2004)
As: voice
The battle between Wind and Cloud has long since passed, but as the most fearsome warriors across the land cross swords in a violent quest to become supreme leader, the two old foes are once again forced to do battle in director Ching Siu Tung's fantasy filled sequel to the 1998 Hong Kong hit The Storm Riders. It's been twelve years since that fateful fight, but true enemies can never stay at peace ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Shui Chung-Yuet | Raymond Lee
Stars: Ekin Cheng | Yiu-Cheung Lai | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Sonny Chiba | Kristy Yang
Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)
As: John Liu
John Liu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is an aspiring violinist and Eve Choi (Gigi Leung) is a professional translator whose true passion is translating love poems. They live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building and separated by one thin wall, they never meet, because when they ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Wai Ka-Fai | Johnnie To
Stars: Terri Kwan | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Edmund Chen | Gigi Leung | Lam Suet
Returner (2002)
As: Miyamoto
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Takashi Yamazaki
Stars: Kirin Kiki | Gorô Kishitani | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Anne Suzuki | Yukiko Okamoto
Lavender (2000)
A young woman's life is changed when an angel with a broken wing lands on her balcony.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Riley Yip
Stars: Eason Chan | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Terence Yin | Kelly Chen | Cheng Pei-Pei
Space Travelers (2000)
As: Nishiyama
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Stars: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi | Eri Fukatsu | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Masatoshi Hamada | Masanobu Ando
Tempting Heart (1999)
As: Ho-jun
A female director (Chang) decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting. Leung plays the younger Chang as she goes through a relationship with Kaneshiro which spans 3 decades.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Sylvia Chang
Stars: Leon Dai | Sylvia Chang | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Gigi Leung | Karen Mok
Sleepless Town (1998)
As: Kenichi Ryuu
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Lee Chi-Ngai
Stars: Eric Tsang | Kippei Shiina | Sihung Lung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Mirai Yamamoto
Anna Magdalena (1998)
As: Chan Kar-Fu
Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Yee
Stars: Anita Yuen | Leslie Cheung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Aaron Kwok | Kelly Chen
Too Tired to Die (1998)
As: Kenji
Keith is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Wonsuk Chin
Stars: Mira Sorvino | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Michael Imperioli | Geno Lechner | Jeffrey Wright
First Love: Litter on the Breeze (1997)
Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and finally his two chosen tales, about a sleepwalker guided through the night by a lonely admirer, and a married convenience store owner faced with the vengeful first love that he once rejected.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Eric Kot
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Wai-Wai Lee | Karen Mok | Eric Kot | Nancy Lan Sai
The Odd One Dies (1997)
As: Mo
A failure of a Triad who is desperate for money decides to accept an assassination mission. With his advance in money he decides to risk it in gambling, he becomes lucky and wins a fortune. With all this money he is not so sure that he wishes to do the murder anymore, he looks for a hitman to take his place. He finds a women willing to take the job but she ends up more trouble than he expected. He ends ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Johnnie To | Patrick Yau
Stars: Carman Lee | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Lam Suet | Woo Nin Byun
Downtown Torpedoes (1997)
As: Jackal
Jackal (Takeshi Kaneshiro), Cash (Jordan Chan) and Sam (Charlie Young) form the core of ATM (Available Tactical Mercenaries), an industrial espionage unit that utilizes high-tech gadgetry to steal technology and fence it on the black market. However, they're blackmailed by the Hong Kong government (led by Alex Fong Chung-Sun) to snatch some counterfeit plates called SN2 from the British ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Teddy Chan
Stars: Charlie Yeung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Ken Wong | Jordan Chan | Theresa Lee Yee-Hung
Misty (1997)
As: Takehiro
Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Kenki Saegusa
Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa | Eisuke Sasai | Dankan | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Yuki Amami
Jail in Burning Island (1997)
As: Yeung Chung
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Nicky Wu | Anthony Wong | Chan Chung-Yung | Hao Shao-Wen
Hero (1997)
As: Ma Wing Jing
Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the territory a well. Corruption and violence rule the streets as Wing Jing and Tam Sei must battle not only the rival gangs but the corrupt ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Corey Yuen
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Valerie Chow | Yuen Wah | Yuen Biao | Jessica Hsuan
Lost and Found (1996)
As: Mr. Worm
Where is the end of the world? A rich girl diagnosed with leukemia wants to follow a sailor friend to St Kilda, Scotland to find out...but first she must search him out, who is missing.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Lee Chi-Ngai
Stars: Michael Wong | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Kelly Chen | Jordan Chan | Joyce Tang
Feeling of Love (1996)
A business man (Tekeshi Kaneshiro) follows a woman (Athena Chu) who tells him not to follow him but he does anyway. Then he learns that the woman is his boss and step-sister.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Alec Su | Athena Chu | Lien Pi-tung
Dr. Wai in 'The Scripture with No Words' (1996)
As: Shing
A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Ching Siu-Tung
Stars: Jet Li | Charlie Yeung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Rosamund Kwan | Law Kar-Ying
Young Policemen in Love (1995)
A high school loser dreams of winning the heart of the principal's daughter, but his chances are slim as long as her bruiser boyfriend's around. Fortunately, a chance meeting with a pair of Garlic (Nicky Wu) and Gimmick (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are renegade cops who cause nothing but headaches for their superiors. Chief Wong Yat Fei decides to send his boys undercover in Wong Fei Hong College ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Charlie Yeung | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Nicky Wu | Wong Yat-Fei | Elsie Yeh
Fallen Angels (1995)
As: Ho Chi-mo
In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for, a depressed woman looking for the prostitute who supposedly stole her ex-boyfriend's affections.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Stars: Charlie Yeung | Michelle Reis | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Karen Mok | Leon Lai
Forever Friends (1995)
A couple of friends join the Taiwanese army to fight the Mainland Chinese. But life in the army isn't all that they dreamed off....
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Nicky Wu | Alec Su | Jimmy Lin Zhi-Ying
Trouble Maker (1995)
As: A Miu
A meek, middle-aged schoolteacher is put in charge of a class of trouble makers. Unable to withstand the torments they put him through, he runs away to a Shaolin temple. At the temple, he studies martial arts under the guidance of an old master. With his new skills, he returns to school and whips his misbehaving students into shape.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Hui Lou Chen | Athena Chu | Ng Man-Tat | Hao Shao-Wen
School Days (1995)
Hui Chi-Ho (Jimmy Lin) is a secondary college student, coming from a rich family. It causes the dissatisfaction of "Crow", the big brother in the class, and he always finds ways to challenge Ho. Then enters a new student, , "Eagle" (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who takes Hui under his wings. Ho is really grateful to what Eagle has done. At the same time, the assassins from the underworld are revenging "Eagle"...
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Jimmy Lin Zhi-Ying
Don't Give a Damn (1995)
As: Tang Chuen-Shek
Sammo Hung plays a cop on the trail of drug dealers. Customs officer Yuen Biao is investigating the same gang. Sammo's new partner is eager-beaver Takeshi Kaneshiro. Despite each having their own ideas on how best to proceed, they are teamed together and must put aside their differences in order to crack the case. Romance, plot twists, comedic asides, and, of course, plenty of fights bring the film ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Sammo Hung
Stars: Kathy Chow | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Annabelle Lau | Sammo Hung | Yuen Biao
China Dragon (1995)
As: Kok Tong Miu
Two agile Hong Kong martial arts kids join up with a pair of bungling Chinese-immigrant beach bums on the sunny shores of Hawaii, where they divide their time between sophomoric kung-fu kid hijinks and their designated mission--tracking down a missing book whose secrets have fallen into the hands of a power-hungry villain.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Chu Yen-ping
Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro | Ng Man-Tat | Elsie Yeh | Ashton Chen | Tony Halme
No Sir (1994)
As: Chin Tieh-Sheng
Hilarious sequel to the movies 'Yes Sir' and 'Yes Sir 2,' about the Nationalist soldiers of the Taiwan Army. This is equivalent in the US as M*A*S*H 3.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Chin Ao-hsun
Stars: Richie Ren | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Tou Chung-Hua | Jimmy Lin Zhi-Ying
Mermaid Got Married (1994)
As: Kenji / Mark Kim
A mermaid pursues a teacher by attending school.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Norman Law Man
Stars: Ekin Cheng | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Christy Chung | Teresa Mak | Dennis Chan
The Wrath of Silence (1994)
As: Patrick Ko
A mortician seeks revenge against a serial killer who has murdered her sister. However, there is a case of mistaken identity and she begins to target her psychiatrist instead.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Stars: Anita Yuen | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Mars | Maggie Siu | Lap-Man Sin
Chungking Express (1994)
As: He Zhiwu, Cop 223
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Stars: Brigitte Lin | Faye Wong | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Valerie Chow | Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Executioners (1993)
As: Chung Hon
Set some time after the The Heroic Trio (1993) the city has been devastated by nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over both a popular leader and a militarist colonel. The trio of Chat the Thief catcher, Ching and Wonder Woman (along with her young daughter) have to avert a military takeover and find clean headwaters to save the city.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Ching Siu-Tung | Johnnie To
Stars: Michelle Yeoh | Damian Lau | Maggie Cheung | Anita Mui | Anthony Wong