Takaaki Enoki

Takaaki Enoki (榎木 孝明) is a Japanese actor and artist from Isa District, Kagoshima. He is known for his role as private detective Mitsuhiko Asami in the Asami Mitsuhiko Series. He attended Musashino Art University but left before graduating and joined the Shiki Theatre Company. In 1990, Enoki landed the lead role in Heaven and Earth in place of Ken Watanabe, who had to pull out due to illness.

He is also known as an ink painter and his museum opened in 2003.(Located in Kokonoe, Ōita.)

Film

 * Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion (1985)
 * Heaven and Earth (1990) as Uesugi Kenshin
 * Best Guy (1990) as Tetsuo "Apollo" Kajitani
 * Tenkawa Densetsu Satsujinjiken (1991) as Asami Mitsuhiko
 * Bloom in the Moonlight (1991) as Tōson Shimazaki
 * Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1997)
 * Sleeping Bride (2000)
 * Merdeka 17805 (2001)
 * Koinu Dan no Monogatari (2002) as Yoshitaka Morishita
 * Spy Sorge (2003) as Duke Fumimaro Konoye
 * The Wind Carpet (2003)
 * Spring Snow (2005)
 * Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)
 * Share House (2011)
 * Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo (2011)
 * Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High (2017) as The prime minister
 * Mio's Cookbook (2020)
 * Nobutora (2021) as Uesugi Kenshin
 * Signature (2022) as Usuke Asai
 * Shimamori (2022)
 * Oshorin (2023)

Television

 * Sanada Taiheiki (1985) as Higuchi Kakubei
 * Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) as Ōno Harunaga
 * Taiheiki (1991) as Hino Toshimoto
 * Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari as Hisamitsu Aoyama
 * Asami Mitsuhiko Series (1995-2006) as Mitsuhiko Asami / Yōichirō Asami
 * Kōmyō ga Tsuji (2006) as Azai Nagamasa
 * Atsuhime (2008) as Kimotsuki Kaneyoshi
 * Saka no Ue no Kumo (2009) as Mori Rintaro
 * No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35 (2013) as Yoshio Noda
 * Yae's Sakura (2013) as Naosuke Ii
 * Awaiting Kirin (2020) as Yamazaki Ieyoshi