Biography

Takeshi Kaga was born in 1950 in Kanazawa City, Japan. At the age of 7, he joined the Kanazawa city boys choir, which began his life-long interest in music and the theatre. At the age of 22, he joined the SHIKI musical company, one of the most popular musical companies in Japan. Kaga became the first Japanese to perform as Tony in "West Side Story", the first Japanese Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973), and the first to play Jean ValJean in "Les Miserables". He left SHIKI in 1980 to focus on his film and TV work, but returned to the theatre in 2000 in "Macbeth", and in "Jeckyll and Hyde" in 2001.

Actor

Musical Aruotoko Urai Kenji×koike Teppei(2025)as Komiura Norio

Onzôshi ni koi wa muzu-sugiru(2025)as Wataru Tendô

Get Ready!(2023)as Michizo Kenmochi

Akai nâsu kôru(2022)as Makoto Enokida

Love Deeply(2021)as Taro Hasuda

Additional Crew

Wish(2023)

Self

Death Note: Genius of the Counterattack(2016)as Soichiro Yagami

Tokio kakeru(2012)as Self

Bokura no jidai(2007)as Self

Time Shock 21(2000)as Self - Toki no bannin

Smap×Smap(1996)as Self

Archive Footage

The Making of Iron Chef America(2004)as Self

Known for

Death Note2006 · Actor Mahjong Horoki1984 · Actor Death Note: The Last Name2006 · Actor Samurai Commando: Mission 15492005 · Actor

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Tatsuya Fujiwara and Takeshi Kaga in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Miyuki Komatsu, Ikuji Nakamura, Nana Katase, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, and Tatsuhito Okuda in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Miyuki Komatsu, Ikuji Nakamura, Pîtâ, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, and Tatsuhito Okuda in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, and Ken'ichi Matsuyama in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Takeshi Kaga, Miyuki Komatsu, Ikuji Nakamura, Hikari Mitsushima, Sota Aoyama, Michiko Godai, Shin Shimizu, and Tatsuhito Okuda in Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

Takeshi Kaga, Miyuki Komatsu, Sota Aoyama, Shin Shimizu, and Tatsuhito Okuda in Death Note (2006)

Credit Score: Takeshi Kaga

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Great Performances

Valjean - Japan

Sun Jan 01 1995 – Thu Nov 14 1974

#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	Great Performances	40.00	1971	•	8.0	29	105	1079
2	Death Note: The Last Name	3.75	2006	•	7.1	0	0	18509
3	Death Note	3.75	2006	•	7.5	0	0	33343
4	Suspicion	3.75	1982	•	7.1	0	0	248
5	Mahjong Horoki	3.25	1984	•	6.9	0	0	115
6	Island of the Evil Spirits	3.09	1981	•	5.8	0	0	119
7	Pokémon the Movie 2000	2.50	2000	•	6.1	0	0	25930
8	Samurai Commando: Mission 1549	2.38	2005	•	5.1	0	0	628
9	Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale	1.50	2017		7.3	0	0	10074