Riki Takeuchi
Riki Takeuchi is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.
Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike. Takeuchi also starred in Battle Royale II: Requiem, in which he played a fictionalized version of himself.
Takeuchi had also a short stint at the end of the professional wrestling promotion Hustle in 2009, posing as a villainous character based on himself called "King RIKI". The same year, Takeuchi recorded with Avex Group a version of Morning Musume's "Love Machine" for the song's tenth anniversary, appearing under his RIKI persona along with wrestlers Riki Choshu and Yoshihiro Takayama.
Selected filmography
Films
His Motorbike, Her Island Yakuza Wives as Taichi HanataThe King of Minami as Ginjirô Manda Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars as Ginya Yabuki Tokyo Mafia: Wrath of the Yakuza as Ginya YabukiPeanuts Fudoh: The New Generation as Daigen NohmaTokyo Mafia: Battle For Shinjuku as Ginya YabukiTokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood as Ginya YabukiBlood The Yakuza Way as KanumaDead or Alive as RyuuichiNobody as Nanbu Dead or Alive 2: Birds as Shuuichi SawadaDead or Alive: Final as Officer Takeshi HondaDeadly Outlaw: Rekka as KunisadaMafia Family Yanagawa Mafia Family Yanagawa 2 Battle Royale II: Requiem as himself Last Life in the Universe as Takashi Yakuza Demon as Seiji Arashi no Yoru Ni as the voice of GiroYo-Yo Girl Cop as Kazutoshi KiraElite Yankee Saburo as Tokujirō KunōThermae Romae – TatenoThermae Romae II – TatenoTokyo Tribe as BuppaReal Girl- ''My Father's Tracks''