Tetsuya Takeda

Birthday: 11/4/1949
Place of birth: Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
Fame for: Acting
Also known as: 武田鉄矢, 타케다 테츠야, たけだてつや

Biography

Tetsuya Takeda is a Japanese folk singer and actor, perhaps most known in Japan for his starring role in the Tokyo Broadcasting System's (TBS) long-running, highly rated television drama Kinpachi-sensei (San-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei). The program, targeted at junior high and high school-aged adolescents, ran on TBS with Takeda at various times from 1979 until 2011.