* 1996-2001 — Takeshi Tanaka

* Battle Planner — Takeshi Endo

* Count " Beat " Takeshi ( ビートたけし ; Kitano, born 18 January 1947 ) — The lord of the castle and eventual target of the competition.

* Saburo Ishikura ( 石倉三郎, born 16 December 1946 ) — First advisor ( or councillor ) of Takeshi.

* General Lee ( Hayato Tani ) ( 谷隼人, born 9 September 1946 ) — Led the contestants through the challenges set by Count Takeshi.

* Geisha Girls or Bunny Girls — Led by Miyuki Ono, they helped contestants in several games and also helped Takeshi and his advisor in comedy skits.

* 2004 — Chikahi Suma, Takeshi Yasumoto ( 94th )

" However, science fiction critic Robert K. J. Killheffer, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, wrote " it's not his best — it lacks the dense and evocative background of his Takeshi Kovacs books, and Morgan is not as sure-handed with near-future situations and characters — but it takes chances and largely succeeds.

Logistello was written by Michael Buro and is regarded as a strong player, having beaten the human world champion Takeshi Murakami six games to none in 1997 — the best Othello programs are now much stronger than any human player.

* Gojo Takeshi, a character in Kodocha — see List of Kodocha characters

* February 5 – 6: Emerald City ComiCon ( Qwest Field Event Center, Seattle, Washington ) — guests include Adam Kubert, Jhonen Vasquez, Tony Harris, Josh Middleton, Travis Charest, Cary Nord, Steve McNiven, Mike Choi, Russ Heath, Michael Lark, David Finch, Eric Powell, Dustin Nguyen, Roy Thomas, Andy Owens, Drew Johnson, Pete Woods, Jason Pearson, Tim Sale, Brian Michael Bendis, Kurt Busiek, Robert Kirkman, Jim Cheung, Ed Brubaker, Sean Chen, Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, Greg Rucka, Alex Maleev, Scott Kurtz, Crab Scrambly, Dexter Vines, Gail Simone, Jay Faerber, John Layman, Ford Gilmore, David Hahn, Matthew Clark, Tom Peyer, Karl Kesel, Rebecca Woods, Jeff Parker, Steve Lieber, Ron Randall, Paul Guinan, Steve Rolston, Takeshi Miyazawa, Dave Stewart, Matt Haley, Bill Schelly, and Steve Sadowski

* Takeshi Kaga — Original Japanese cast

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

During an international meeting of fuzzy researchers in Tokyo that year, Takeshi Yamakawa demonstrated the use of fuzzy control, through a set of simple dedicated fuzzy logic chips, in an " inverted pendulum " experiment.

According to Japanese historian Moriya Takeshi in his article " The Mountain Dwelling Within the City ," the ideal of wabi-style tea ceremony ( wabi-cha ) had its roots in the urban society of the Muromachi period ( 1336 to 1573 ), and took form in the tea houses that townspeople built at their residences and which affected the appearance of thatched huts in mountain villages.

* Rosetta-Home planet of Rosemary and Takeshi Shishidou, who fled to Earth when it was invaded by the Black Star Army ; in the 1979 Japanese TV series Honou no Choujin Megaloman ( Megaloman: Superman of Flame ).

Takeshi Hongo and FBI agent Kazuya Taki fake their deaths when they are attacked by Shocker soldiers during a motocross race.

" While his main role on the show was as a commentator, Hattori took the place of Chairman Takeshi Kaga at least once when the chairman " boycotted " Kitchen Stadium to protest the poor performance of his Iron Chefs.

However, when Ryo and the Jabberwock merged with Black Alice, White Alice offered Takeshi his choice of one of many weapons, all of which would give him more power than any earthly weapon.

Quite content with being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong's life takes a sudden turn one day when a Malay schoolgirl, Orked, arrives at his stall while looking for films starring her favorite actor Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine ( 1993 ), Kids Return ( 1996 ) and Hana-bi ( 1997 ), which was given the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Three films have so far received international recognition by being selected to compete in major film festivals: Caterpillar by Kōji Wakamatsu was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, Outrage by Takeshi Kitano was in competition for the Palme d ' Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and Himizu, by Sion Sono was in competition for the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

While this was happening, Andoh calls his boss, Takeshi Tomokane.

Sakamoto has also acted in several films: perhaps his most notable performance was as the conflicted Captain Yonoi in Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, alongside Takeshi Kitano and British rock singer David Bowie.

A number of staff from Sunrise have gone on to form independent animation companies which have become well known in their own rights: Studio Deen was co-founded by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Takeshi Mochida, Bones was co-founded by Masahiko Minami, Toshihiro Kawamoto, and the late Hiroshi Ōsaka, and Manglobe was co-founded by Shinichirō Kobayashi and Takashi Kochiyama.

The 114-113 score by ringside judge Takeshi Shimakawa was announced in favor of Ruiz.

The first single released in Japan was " Set Your Heart " which gained significant airplay there and was used in the advertising campaign for the 2008 Toyota Car Model ( Mark X ZIO ) starring actor and singer Takeshi Kaneshiro.

The screenplay was written by Kunihiko Kondo and Nahoko Hasegawa, and the music was provided by Takeshi Yasuda.

Modern enka singer Takeshi Kitayama himself admitted in 2006, " I was even confused because musical note was different from that of an old singer.

The technique was pioneered by artists Sven König, Takeshi Murata, Jacques Perconte and Paul B. Davis in collaboration with Paperrad, and more recently used by David OReilly and within music videos for Chairlift and Kanye West.

The ceremony was attended by the several persons involved in the erection of the plaque ( principally Mr Takeshi Shimizu ) and representatives of various Sherlock Holmes Clubs and Societies.

Takeshi Kitano's new hair color was adopted a few months before the release of Zatoichi ( 2003 film ) | Zatoichi.

Kitano was also notorious for four video games released on the Nintendo Famicom ( NES ) including Takeshi no Chōsenjō ( roughly translated as Takeshi's Challenge ) by Taito Corporation.

Takeshi's Castle, a game show hosted in the 1980s by Kitano featuring slapstick-style physical contests, has gained cult popularity in the United States ( where portions are broadcast on Spike TV as MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge ) and in the United Kingdom where it was given a voiceover by Craig Charles, though these feature very little of Takeshi Kitano as they are heavily edited.

The now internationally acclaimed Takeshi Kitano was awarded an honorary Bachelor of Science in engineering by Meiji University on September 7, 2004, 34 years after he dropped out to pursue his career in entertainment.

Kentarou, Takeshi, and Eri all appear in a chapter of Tsubasa, another manga by Clamp.

In Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels human colonies on distant planets maintain contact with earth and each other via hyperspatial needlecast, a technology which moves information "... so close to instantaneously that scientists are still arguing about the terminology ...".

The host is the flamboyant Takeshi Kaga, known on the show as, who is famous for the words from Arthur Rimbaud " If I remember ...(「 私の記憶が確かならば …（( Jadis ) si je me souviens bien ...）" and Allez cuisine!

The first Antarctic observation corps commanded by Takeshi Nagata left Japan in 1956, arriving at Antarctica on January 29 1957.

The film premiered in Japan first on April 15, 1995, with a longer version ( 103 mins ) that is closer to the director's cut and features a previously composed score by Mychael Danna, different editing, and more scenes with Japanese star Takeshi Kitano and Dolph Lundgren notably.

They took on the stage names Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi ; together referring to themselves as Two Beat ( sometimes romanized as The Two Beats ).

* Takeshi This Week ( corner on Kitano's Great World TV show ))

is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation.

However, on one occasion, the decision to kidnap and modify the young college prodigy Takeshi Hongo proved to be their undoing.

Hiroshi Fujioka and Takeshi Sasaki reprised their roles as Kamen Rider # 1 and Kamen Rider # 2 in this movie, before going on to be absent from the films of the franchise until Let's Go Kamen Riders, almost 36 years later.

Some 30 years after Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is now serving in Carrera's Wedge, a mercenary organisation which joins a corporate war on a distant colony, Sanction IV, and fights the rebellion against the corporate-sponsored government.

In 2001, Takuro along with Ryuichi Sakamoto started " Artists Power ", an organization of artists who want to be active in the research on renewable energy .< ref name =" Artists Power "></ ref </ ref > " AP Bank ", which was founded by Mr. Children's Kazutoshi Sakurai, composer Takeshi Kobayashi and also Ryuichi Sakamoto, is linked to this organization-" AP " stands for both " Artists Power " and " Alternative Power ".

* Original Picture: Tatsuki Amaduyu, CHARM, Nak-Mura ( Takeshi Nakamura ), Yukihiro Matsuo ( additional character on Saturn version )

Takeshi Nozue and Nomura, who had first worked together on the video game Kingdom Hearts, split the role of directing, as Nomura felt this would add depth to the film.

They censured Minister of Defense Naoki Tanaka and Minister of Land Takeshi Maeda, and refused to cooperate with the government on passing an increase to Japan's consumption tax from 5 % to 10 %.

Meanwhile, the Japan U-20 side led by Takeshi Sawada win the AFC Youth Championship, defeating South Korea 6-5 on penalty kicks in the final.

Since Takeshi Kitano started directing, on Violent Cop, thanks to Kinji Fukasaku's withdrawal, some believes that Sonatine is an homage to Fukasaku, one of Kitano's masters along with Akira Kurosawa.

The asteroid 6025 SATO-NAOTO, which Takeshi Urata discovered on December 30, 1992, was named after him.

It's suspected that she has a crush on Takeshi.