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Ayumu Saito

Ayumu Saito (斎藤 歩, Saitō Ayumu, born 20 December 1964, in Kushiro, Hokkaido) is a Japanese playwright, director, actor, and theatre producer. He is represented with Knockout. He is the director of the Japan Directors Association.

Ayumu Saito
斎藤 歩
Born (1964-12-20) 20 December 1964 (age 59)
Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Occupations
  • Playwright
  • director
  • actor
  • theatre producer
Years active1990s–
AgentKnockout
Height181 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Filmography

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Stage

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Title Creator Producer Notes
Life of Galileo Bertolt Brecht Osamu Matsumoto
Three Sisters Anton Chekhov
Amerika Franz Kafka
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Fuyu no Bayer Ayumu Saito
Caucasian White Circle Ring Bertolt Brecht Kazuyoshi Kushida
Turtle or.... Frigyes Karinthy Ayumu Saito Also adapted
The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare
Whispering Voice Joe Penhall Osamu Matsumoto
Andante Cantabile –Aruku Haya-sa de Utau yō ni– Osamu Matsumoto Also did the music
Tragedy of King Lear William Shakespeare Makoto Sato
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov Hirotaka Kumahayashi
Engeki Kikaku Shūdan The Gajira Waga Tōsō Tatsuo Kaneshita
Saisen 11-jō no Aria Ayumu Saito
Uncle Vanya at 43°N Anton Chekhov Ayumu Saito
The Trial/Der Verschollene Franz Kafka Osamu Matsumoto
The Dying King Eugène Ionesco Makoto Sato
Theater Company Caramelbox The Devotion of Suspect X Keigo Higashino Yutaka Narui As Shunpei Kusanagi

Films

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Date Title Role Distributor Notes
2 Feb 2002 Consent Tsuno
7 Sep 2002 Kinyū Hametsu Nippon: Tōgenkyō no Hitobito
5 Oct 2002 Gunjō no Yoru no Umōfu
12 Oct 2002 Gomen Naoku Uryuu
19 Oct 2002 Out Sugimoto
30 Nov 2002 Aiki
7 Dec 2002 Doing Time Factory manager Yokoyama
18 Jan 2003 When the Last Sword Is Drawn Itō Kashitarō
15 Feb 2003 Fune o Oritara Kanojo no Shima Sato
23 Aug 2003 Ju-on: The Grudge 2
4 Oct 2003 Onmyōji 2 Fujiwara no Kanemichi
17 Jan 2004 Yudan Taiteki Nekota
20 Mar 2004 Kyō no Deki-goto
29 May 2004 Heaven's Bookstore Concert manager
9 Oct 2004 is A. Masaya Shiozaki
16 Oct 2004 Mare Hito
6 Nov 2004 Blood and Bones Kyu Gensho
27 Nov 2004 Nejirinbō Naoto Imura Lead role
19 Mar 2005 Hasami Otoko Hidaka
23 Apr 2005 Village Photobook
4 Jun 2005 Niraikanai kara no Tegami Sakiyama
12 Nov 2005 No Pants Girls
2005 Yoru no Cafe
26 Aug 2006 Oyayubi sagashi
30 Sep 2006 Dōshin
21 Oct 2006 The Angel's Egg
25 Nov 2006 Kurai to koro de Machiawase
21 Apr 2007 Mizūmi
2007 Kokoro
27 Oct 2007 Crows Zero
2008 Kanjō Kyōiku
24 May 2008 After School
Sekai de Ichiban Utsukushī Yoru Kenji Onizuka
31 May 2008 My Girlfriend Is a Cyborg Girls High prisoner
7 Jun 2008 God's Puzzle
19 Jul 2008 One Million Yen Girl Yuzo Kurosawa
2008 Kikyō Presley
25 Oct 2008 Cafe Daikanyama II Yume no Tsuzuki
Ichi
20 Dec 2008 Someday's Dreamers Sora's father
K-20: Legend of the Mask Technical officer
24 Jan 2009 Tabidachi: Ashoro yori Ryoji Yamamoto
7 Mar 2009 Yatterman
11 Aug 2009 Crows Zero II
3 Jul 2010 Lost Climb -Senkō- Koshio Iijima
28 Aug 2010 Flower and Snake 3
25 Sep 2010 13 Assassins Gambling Yazuka
22 Oct 2010 Raiou Toho
22 Jan 2011 Inu to Anata no Monogatari: Inu no Eiga Public health official
29 Jan 2011 Journey Under the Midnight Sun Hisashi Koga Gaga/Wowow
27 Aug 2011 Kamisama no Karute Yokota
11 Feb 2012 Ace Attorney
2012 Ie o Tateru koto
6 Oct 2012 Beyond Outrage
17 Nov 2012 39 Settō-dan
13 Sep 2013 Unforgiven
22 Mar 2014 Akaneiro Clarinet
2015 Koisuru Vampire
2016 The Magnificent Nine Dennosuke Yashima
2016 Twisted Justice Sakuraba
2018 Recall
2020 Hotel Royal [1]
2021 Utsusemi no Mori

Anime films

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Year Title Role Ref.
2009 Summer Wars Wabisuke Jinnouchi [2]

Direct-to-video

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Year Title Notes
2000 Kishiwada Shōnen Gurentai Yakyū-dan
2003 All Night Long: Initial 0 Lead role
Jitsuroku Masahisa Takenaka no shōgai: Ara-ra Buru shishi: Zenpen As Hideo Takenaka
2006 Kyōkatsu koso, Waga Jinsei
Cosplay no Hito

TV dramas

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1999
Title Network
Getsuyō Drama Special Kuniko Mukōda Shūsen Tokubetsu Kikaku Asaki Yumemishi TBS
2001
Title Network Notes
Hero CX Episode 8
Doyō Wide Gekijō Kyoto B-kyū Gourmet Satsujin Menu EX
Hamidashi Keiji Jōnetsukei Part 6 Episode 7
2002
Title Role Network Notes
Drama D Mode Kanojotachi no Kemono Igakunyūmon NHK
Kayō Suspense Gekijō 1000-Kai Toppa Kinen Sakuhin Seicho Matsumoto Special: Kichiku Requestor of flyer printing NTV
Yonimo Kimyōna Monogatari 02 Aki no Tokubetsu-hen "Saiyō Shiken" No. 52 CX
Getsuyō Drama Special Mei Tantei Catherine 12: Sakamoto Ryōma Satsujin Jiken TBS
Trick 2 EX Episodes 3 and 4
Mibu Gishiden TX
Onna to Ai no Mystery Mīra ga Yonde iru
2003
Title Network Notes
Itan no Natsu
TV Tokyo Drama Special Love Letter
NHK Hokkaido Special Documentary Kao Regular
Otorisōsa-kan Shiho Kitami 7
Paradise Ticket FBS
Onsen Nakai Tantei 2 TBS
Jikū Keisatsu Sōsaikka Part 3 NTV
Ryōma ga yuku TX
2004
Title Network Notes
Ten-kiri Matsu: Yami ga tari CX
Obasan Deka Episode 13
2005
Title Role Network Notes
Onna to Ai no Mystery Seicho Matsumoto Tokubetsu Kikaku Kuroi Gashū Himo Takashi Saegusa TX
Kayō Suspense Gekijō Jiken Kisha Yuta Mikami 3 Masahiko Mochizuki NTV
Drama Complex Tsugunosuke Kawai: Kakenuketa Sō Ryū
Kinyō Entertainment Kyoto Gion-iri Muko Keiji Jiken-bo 12 CX
Monochrome no Hanten Toda TBS
Haru to Natsu: Todokanakatta Tegami NHK Broadcast 80th anniversary large drama
Ai no Gekijō Byōin e Ikō TBS
Tsugunosuke Kawai: Kakenuketa Sō Ryū Teizo Sakai NTV
2006
Title Network Notes
Tenka Sōran: Tokugawa Mitsuyo no Inbō TX New Year's Era Drama
Tokumei! Keiji don Kame TBS
Gakincho: Return Kids
Cupsel CX
Mokuyō Jidaigeki Jirochō Seoi Fuji NHK
Drama Complex Watashi ga Watashidearu tame ni NTV
2007
Title Role Network Notes
Torihada: Yofukashi no anata ni Zokutto suru Hanashi o CX Episode 6 "Soko ni aru Yokubō to Shōdō no Yami"
Suiyō Mystery 9 Ryokō Sakka Jiro Chaya 7 Takahiko Matsunaga TX
Yagyuu Jūbee Nanaban Shōbu: Saigo no Tatakai NHK Episode 5
Shūkan Jiro Akagawa: Utsukushī Yami TX
Shikaku Ukeoinin
Aibō EX Aired on 14 Nov; Season 6 Episode 4 "Taxi"
2008
Title Role Network
Bloody Monday Junichiro Kamata TBS
2009
Title Role Network Notes
Boss "Black moon" executive in prison CX Episodes 12–11
Saru Lock#Television drama YTV/NTV Episode 13–14
Doyō Drama Gaiji Keisatsu Taisei Takizawa NHK
Mokuyō Night Drama Bōchō Mania 09: Saiban-chō! Koko wa Chōeki 4-nen de dō suka Tomoya Kagami NTV
2010
Date Title Role Network Notes
Doyō Jidaigeki Sakuyako no Hana Official NHK Final Episode
Zettai Reido Masafumi Asai CX Episode 10
Joker: Yurusa rezaru Sōsa-kan Takeshi Nadaki
GM: Odore Doctor Professor Saeki TBS Episodes 9–10
13 Sep Getsuyō Golden Keibu Kyosuke Tsuge Yasunari Hyodo
The Ancient Dogoo Girl Manager Yamato / Yokai Skinship MBS
17 Oct Taiga drama Ryōmaden Kishū Domain clan, Okamoto Hakuro NHK Episode 42 "Iroha Maru Jiken"
Oct–Dec 2012 Katsuo Tajiri TX
2011
Title Role Network Notes
Hanchō: Jinnan-sho Asaka Han Yuichi Mochizuki TBS Series 4: Seigi no Daishō, Episode 3
Control: Hanzai Shinri Sōsa Kenji Takizawa CX Episodes 8–9
Umareru. Eita Nakano TBS
Honto ni atta Kowai Hanashi: Natsu no Tokubetsu-hen 2011 CX "Akumu no Jū San-nichi"
Kikyō Masafumi Saito TBS
2012
Date Title Role Network
Shinshun Wide Jidaigeki Chūshingura: Sono Yoshi Sono ai Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu TX
Unmei no Hito Yuzo Torii TBS
30 Jan Getsuyō Golden Keishi Seiji Fukamachi: Ōkami wa Tenshi no Nioi Inspector Atsushi Hirakubo
10 Dec Getsuyō Golden Akakabu Kenji Funsenki 4 Shu Nunoura
2013
Dates Title Role Network Notes
14 Jan Getsuyō Golden Seicho Matsumoto Botsugo 20-nen Special Kanryū Kato TBS
Getsuyō Drama Special Made in Japan Tai Igarashi NHK
4 Feb Getsuyō Golden Joi Misa Saotome: Glass no Kaidan Fujita TBS
Momeru Mon ni wa Fuku Kitaru Kazuki CX
Detarame Hero NTV Episode 1
24 Apr Iryū sōsa Hideo Kakei EX 3rd Series Episode 2
8 Jul Getsuyō Golden Keishi Seiji Fukamachi 2 Satsujin-sha ni Love Song o Inspector Atsushi Hirakubo TBS
Aug–Sep Na mo naki Doku Hiroshi Hagiwara
25 Nov Kō no tori no yuri kago: "Akachan Post" no 6-nenkan to Sukuwa reta 92 no Inochi no Mirai Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare official
2014
Dates Title Role Network Notes
Jan–Mar Inpei Sōsa Eisuke Shimohira TBS Episodes 3, 5, 10, 11
21 Mar Yoru no sensei Sameshima Final Episode
28 Apr White Lab: Keishichō Tokubetsu Kagaku Sōsahan Shigeo Maki Episode 3
28 Jun 55-Sai kara no Hello Life Cameraman NHK
17 Jul Zero no Kansatsu-i Mao Matsumoto Tadakatsu Mikami EX Episode 1
10 Dec Suiyō Mystery 9 Zaika Masahiro Morioka TX
20 Dec Doyō Wide Gekijō Yame Jen no Onna 5 Tsutomu Aihara ABC
2015
Dates Title Role Network Notes
Jan–Feb Iron Grandma Yanagisawa NHK BS Premium
11, 18 Feb Aibō Makoto Mizoguchi EX Season 13 Episodes 15 "Ayukawa Kyōju Saigo no Jugyō" and 16 "Ayukawa Kyōju Saigo no Jugyō Kaiketsu-hen"
14 Feb Doyō Wide Gekijō Hōigaku Kyōshitsu no Jiken File 40 Mitsuhiko Matsumura
26 Aug Beat: Keishichō Kyōkō-han Ken Higuchi Tamio Negishi TX
31 Oct Doyō Wide Gekijō Shihō Kyōkan Yoshiko Hotaka 4 Koji Hayama EX
16 Dec Nōgyō Joshi wa ra pe Musume Yuka's father NHK BS Premium
2016
Date Title Role Network
28 Mar Getsuyō Golden Asami Mitsuhiko Series 35 Keiji Tsuchida TBS
2 Oct Drama Special v Minoru Takeshita EX
2017
Title Role
Sasurai Shochō: Shohei Kazama 13 Kazushi Motokawa

Other television

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Title Notes
Kagai Jugyō: Yōkoso Senpai "Oku e Oku e: Kokoro no Oku e –Shijin Masayo Koike–" Narrator

Advertisements

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Product Notes
Rover Company Narrator
Japan Post "Postal Insurance Nagaiki-kun"
kanebo "Akai Bihaku Essence"
Sony "Vaio"
Kao Corporation "Healthya green tea"
Subaru Outback
Nissan Lafesta
Hitachi Flora Prius
Häagen-Dazs "Dolce"
Nomura Securities Company advert
Toyota

References

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  1. ^ "松山ケンイチ、安田顕ら17人が「ホテルローヤル」に出演、公開は11月13日". Natalie. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "サマーウォーズ" (in Japanese). Madhouse. Retrieved 13 Jul 2017.
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