Takeshi Kaneshiro

Acting

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Born

1973-10-11 (53)

Place of birth

Taipei, Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

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. Known for his versatile roles in Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Japanese cinema, he gained international recognition for his performances in films like "Chungking Express" (1994), "Fallen Angels" (1995), and "House of Flying Daggers" (2004). In addition to his acting career, Kaneshiro has also released several music albums and has been involved in numerous commercial endorsements. Despite maintaining a relatively private personal life, his talent and enduring popularity have made h…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Dragon poster
6.9

A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.

Dragon

2011

See You Tomorrow poster
4.5

Chen Mo, a bar owner, listens to his customers' heartbreaks and helps them navigate their lives during their hard times while dealing with his own tragedy.

See You Tomorrow

2016

The Crossing I poster
5.5

At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.

The Crossing I

2014

This Is Not What I Expected poster
6.8

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 this light-hearted romantic comedy, infused with fun and flavors to create a delicious dish that foodies around the world wouldn't dare to miss.

This Is Not What I Expected

2017

The Crossing II poster
5.3

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

The Crossing II

2015

Where Love Blooms in the Sky poster
2.0

The man feels nostalgic when he sees the coastal townscape he hasn't seen in a long time, and when he heads to the beach, his ex is waiting for him. Although he is a model now, he was still in his infancy at the time, and it was thanks to his lover, a government official, that the fire was ignited...but that lover was also demoted and there was no sign of him looking back...

Where Love Blooms in the Sky

2011

2000s · 13 titles

The Warlords poster
6.8

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is saved by a beautiful young woman along with two other men. Together they vow to eradicate the rebels.

The Warlords

2007

House of Flying Daggers poster
7.3

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.

House of Flying Daggers

2004

Red Cliff II poster
7.3

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?

Red Cliff II

2009

Red Cliff poster
7.1

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.

Red Cliff

2008

Returner poster
6.6

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

Returner

2002

Perhaps Love poster
6.7

A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.

Perhaps Love

2005

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces poster
6.1

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 named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.

K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces

2008

Confession of Pain poster
6.3

In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror. When his father-in-law, the billionaire benefactor Kim, is gruesomely murdered in his palatial mansion, he enlists the assistance of his former partner turned private detective.

Confession of Pain

2006

Lavender poster
6.3

A young woman is devastated after her fiance's death. She lives in isolation and her only daily treat is sending a balloon with a message to her late loved one. One day her life is changed when an angel with a broken wing lands on her balcony.

Lavender

2000

Turn Left, Turn Right poster
7.2

An aspiring violinist and a professional translator 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, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.

Turn Left, Turn Right

2003

Space Travelers poster
6.1

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...

Space Travelers

2000

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death poster
7.1

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 time for the Reaper to go to work.

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

2008

Takeshi Kaneshiro's Antarctic Adventure poster
NR

Taiwanese entertainment star Takeshi Kaneshiro accepted an invitation from a Japanese TV station to go on an 11-day expedition to the Antarctic continent.

Takeshi Kaneshiro's Antarctic Adventure

2001

1990s · 27 titles

Chungking Express poster
8.0

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Chungking Express

1994

Fallen Angels poster
7.7

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

Fallen Angels

1995

Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words poster
5.8

A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.

Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words

1996

Lost and Found poster
7.0

A woman diagnosed with leukemia meets a Chinese-Scottish sailor who she loses contact with. In order to find him she enlists Worm, a man who runs a “lost and found” business, and the two set out to find what she’s looking for.

Lost and Found

1996

Anna Magdalena poster
6.5

Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".

Anna Magdalena

1998

First Love: The Litter on the Breeze poster
6.7

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.

First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

1997

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners poster
5.9

In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

1993

Hero poster
6.8

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 police officials as well.

Hero

1997

Tempting Heart poster
6.0

A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.

Tempting Heart

1999

Mermaid Got Married poster
5.7

A water-phobic teacher is saved by a mermaid and accidentally swallows her magical pearl, trapping her on land. She enrolls in his school to retrieve it, and they fall in love, but their romance is threatened when the school principal uncovers her secret.

Mermaid Got Married

1994

Don't Give a Damn poster
5.3

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 to a climatic and bruising conclusion

Don't Give a Damn

1995

Too Tired to Die poster
5.1

Kenji 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.

Too Tired to Die

1998

Sleepless Town poster
7.4

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 attempts to do so by using Kenichi.

Sleepless Town

1998

Downtown Torpedoes poster
5.5

Jackal, Cash and Sam 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 to snatch some counterfeit plates called SN2 from the British MI5. Naturally stuff goes wrong, our heroes are framed for SN2’s disappearance, and then they must set about clearing their names with whatever hi-tech gadgets they have leftover.

Downtown Torpedoes

1997

China Dragon poster
7.5

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.

China Dragon

1995

Jail in Burning Island poster
5.5

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.

Jail in Burning Island

1997

The Wrath of Silence poster
6.4

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.

The Wrath of Silence

1994

Trouble Maker poster
6.4

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.

Trouble Maker

1995

The Odd One Dies poster
6.3

Mo applies to become a hit-man to pay off all his debt. But just before he starts working, he wins loads of money from gambling and decides to hire a woman to replace him.

The Odd One Dies

1997

Misty poster
5.4

Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.

Misty

1997

No Sir poster
8.0

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.

No Sir

1994

Forever Friends poster
5.2

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....

Forever Friends

1995

School Days poster
8.0

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"...

School Days

1995

Feeling of Love poster
7.0

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.

Feeling of Love

1996

Young Policemen in Love poster
9.5

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 Garlic and Gimmick, 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 to protect a general's daughter from Mainland China, but that's where their problems begin. Their boyish good looks may fool their classmates, but how will the two undisciplined cops pass their classes, let alone protect a girl who's tougher than they are?

Young Policemen in Love

1995

Fuji Colours of Amours poster
NR

Summer - "Free Carnival" A story of a love affair between men and women. - Winter - "Warm affection" A tale of a couple and grandmother. - Autumn - "A Midnight Nightmare" A story of a nightmare surrounding men and women. - Spring - "Romantic date" A story about the love and friendship involving one man and three women.

Fuji Colours of Amours

1995

The Miracle on a Christmas Night poster
NR

A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.

The Miracle on a Christmas Night

1995

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

裸にしたい男

2001

Love 2000 poster
7.5

Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.

Love 2000

2000

Bokura no Jidai poster
NR

A talk show broadcast on Fuji TV every Sunday.

Bokura no Jidai

2007

Precious Time poster
7.7

Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?

Precious Time

1998

Golden Bowl poster
9.5

Focus, concentration, proper posture and good release are the hallmarks of a good bowler. Welcome to Golden Bowl bowling alley. A bit rundown and small but no worse for wear, the Golden Bowl is stockbroker Shu Akutagawa's favorite haunt. A regular, he likes nothing better than the rumble of the bowl running down the alley and crash and crackle of the pins tumbling down. When a beautiful, older and married neighbor - who shares the same name as his old flame Hitomi - makes an appearance at the Golden Bowl, things start to heat up as Shu teams up with her to challenge some pro bowlers. Will Shu be as lucky with Hitomi as he is with the pins? --NTV

Golden Bowl

2002