Draft:Yuki Kedoin

Yuki Kedoin (祁答院雄貴) is a Japanese actor and martial artist. He is best known for the role of Takemaru in the Shōgun.

Career
He was born in Yokohama, Japan. He started his acting career in theatre and has starred in many plays. Since 2018, he has played an important role in the Promising Next-Generation Actor Cultivation Program by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the works of Juro Kara - a dramatist representing the Japanese theatrical world.

He has also appeared in multiple films and TV Series, The Manga Master, Netflix's The Naked Director. In 2021, he was selected to be part of the "Emerging Artist Overseas Training Program" sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Then he received an artistic mentorship in Vancouver, Canada, from one of the largest non-profit Canadian theatre companies, The Arts Club Theatre Company. Furthermore, he acted in all ten episodes, as Takemaru in "Shōgun (2024 miniseries)", a Hollywood production TV series filmed in Vancouver. This work became the most significant of his career.

Over the last years, he was also working on his own projects as a writer, director, and actor. His most recent work is the short film "IPPO" shoot in Vancouver, Spoken languages were English & Japanese. Currently, he is based in both Japan and North America.

Film

 *  JinJin-Part2:  (2017), Young Samurai
 * The Manga Master (2019), Ryushi Kawabata
 * Usogui (2022)

Television

 * The Naked Director (Netflix, TV series, 2019)
 * Shōgun,  (Disney+,FX, TV series, 2024), Takemaru

Theatre

 * Proof (play) (2023), Harold (Hal) Dobbs