Keisuke Minami (南 圭介, Minami Keisuke?) (born 3 July 1985) is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Kunimitsu Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, of the third generation Seigaku cast. He is one of PureBOYS.
In 2006, Keisuke won the role of Kunimitsu Tezuka, the stoic captain of Seigaku Middle School's tennis club, as part of the third generation Seigaku cast, becoming the fourth actor to play Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis musicals, Tenimyu. He made his debut as Tezuka on 3 August 2006 in the Advancement Match Rokkaku feat. Hyotei Gakuen performance in Osaka.
In 2007, after the Absolute King Rikkai feat. Rokkaku ~ Second Service performance, he, along with the majority of the third generation Seigaku cast, graduated from their roles. Since his graduation, the role of Tezuka has been played by Daisuke Watanabe and Ryoma Baba.
Tenimyu: The Prince of Tennis Musical Series (as Kunimitsu Tezuka):
Keisuke Kuwata (桑田 佳祐, Kuwata Keisuke?, born February 26, 1956) has gained fame as a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and frontman for the Southern All-Stars, as well as his own solo band, the Kuwata band. He has also done significant amount of scoring music for films. He went to Aoyama Gakuin University.
Kuwata is known for his innovation with differing genres of Western music. As a musician, he performs primarily on lead guitar and lead vocals, although he has experimented with playing in a variety of positions, and released one album in which he played every instrument on the record. In 2010, Southern All-Stars was ranked #1, and Kuwata's solo band, the Kuwata Band, ranked #12 on a list of the top 100 musicians in Japan.
Kuwata has worked as a record producer, a movie director, has recorded albums as bandleader of his own band, the Kuwata Band, and has worked on projects scoring music to film.
Keisuke Kuwata was born February 26, 1956, and raised in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Keisuke Honda (本田 圭佑, Honda Keisuke?, born 13 June 1986) is a Japanese footballer who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and the Japan national football team. His current position is as a deep-lying playmaker, but he can equally play as an attacking midfielder or second striker. He is also a very skilled free kick taker, scoring one in the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
Honda was born in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He started playing football for the local club; Settsu FC, he started there when he was in second grade at primary school. He entered Seiryo High School in Ishikawa Prefecture and chose to play for the school. He was one of the best players in the team and the school team advanced to the semi-finals of the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament. This was the first time a school from Ishikawa Prefecture had reached the semi-finals of the competition.
In 2004 he was selected as a Designated Player for Development by the J-League and JFA.
Because of this status, Honda was able to register as a Nagoya Grampus player while he was still eligible to play for his high school. He played one J. League Cup match for Nagoya while he was still a boy student.
Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken?, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
Watanabe was born in Koide, Niigata prefecture. His mother was a school teacher and his father taught calligraphy. Ken has two children. His daughter Anne Watanabe is a model.
After graduating from high school in 1978, Watanabe moved to Tokyo to begin his acting career, getting his big break with the Tokyo-based theater troupe En. While with the troupe, he was cast as the hero in the play Shimodani Mannencho Monogatari, under Yukio Ninagawa's direction. The role attracted critical and popular notice.