Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi (Japanese: 竹内 力, Hepburn: Takeuchi Riki; born January 4, 1964) is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.

Riki Takeuchi
竹内 力
Riki Takeuchi (left) and Junichi Matsushita, "Blowback 2: Gangs of the Sunset" 1991
Born	(1964-01-04) January 4, 1964 (age 61)[1] Saiki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985–present
Website	rikitakeuchi.com

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.^{[2][unreliable source?]}

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.^[3]

Selected filmography

Films

• His Motorbike, Her Island (1985)
• Yakuza Wives (1986) as Taichi Hanata
• The King of Minami (1992‍–‍2009) as Ginjirô Manda
• Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars (1995) as Ginya Yabuki
• Tokyo Mafia: Wrath of the Yakuza (1995) as Ginya Yabuki
• Peanuts (1996)
• Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) as Daigen Nohma
• Tokyo Mafia: Battle For Shinjuku (1996) as Ginya Yabuki
• Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood (1997) as Ginya Yabuki
• Blood (1998)
• The Yakuza Way (1998) as Kanuma
• Dead or Alive (1999) as Ryuuichi
• Nobody as Nanbu (1999)
• Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) as Shuuichi Sawada
• Dead or Alive: Final (2002) as Officer Takeshi Honda
• Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) as Kunisada
• Mafia Family Yanagawa (2002)
• Mafia Family Yanagawa 2 (2002)
• Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) as himself
• Last Life in the Universe (2003) as Takashi
• Yakuza Demon (2003) as Seiji
• Arashi no Yoru Ni (2005) as the voice of Giro
• Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006) as Kazutoshi Kira
• Elite Yankee Saburo (2009) as Tokujirō Kunō
• Thermae Romae (2012) – Tateno
• Thermae Romae II (2014) – Tateno
• Tokyo Tribe (2014) as Buppa
• Real Girl (2018)
• My Father's Tracks (2021)^[4]

Television

• Kuroshoin no Rokubei (2018) as Saigō Takamori

Video games

• Yakuza 0 (2015) as Hiroki Awano
• Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (2023) as Takeda Kanryusai^[5]

Japanese dub

• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)^[6]
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) as Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand)^[7]