Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi (竹内 力) 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.

Films

 * His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)
 * The King Of Minami (19922009) 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)

Television

 * Kuroshoin no Rokubei (2018) as Saigō Takamori

Video games

 * Yakuza 0 (2015) as Hiroki Awano
 * Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! (2023) as Takeda Kanryusai

Japanese dub

 * Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)
 * Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) as Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand)