Takeshi Kaneshiro

Takeshi Kaneshiro (Japanese, Okinawan and Chinese: 金城 武, romaji: Kaneshiro Takeshi, Pinyin: Jīnchéng Wǔ, maintained , conceived October 11, 1973) is a Taiwanese-Japanese on-screen character and vocalist. 

Substance 

Kaneshiro is a typical Okinawan name. In kanji, 金城 is Kaneshiro and 武 is Takeshi (given name), with Japanese readings. He shows up as 金城 武 (Kaneshiro Takeshi) in Japanese media. 

Since individual names are generally composed in Chinese characters in both Chinese and Japanese naming traditions, with surnames before given names, this gives Kaneshiro the flexibility whether to separate himself as a Japanese or not when working in Chinese-talking nations by protecting or expelling the space between his surname and given name. 

Biography

Kaneshiro's mom is Taiwanese and his dad is from Okinawa, Japan. He was brought up in Taipei additionally holds Japanese citizenship.

The child of a Japanese specialist and a Taiwanese homemaker, he has two senior siblings; one is his senior by seven years, the other just by one.After moving on from Taipei Japanese Junior High School, he enlisted at English-based Taipei American School, which empowered him to chat in English. While he was concentrating on there, he started doing TV ads and chose to stop school to seek after a singing and acting profession. He is multilingual, familiar with Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien and Japanese, and to lesser degrees in English and Cantonese. 

Career

In 1992, Kaneshiro made his singing presentation, entering the business with the handle Aniki, signifying 'more established sibling' in Japanese. His introduction collection was Heartbreaking Night (1992). Contracted to EMI, he composed his very own hefty portion Mandarin and Cantonese tunes. The next year, his notoriety pushed him into acting and he no more creates any business music. 

His film introduction was Executioners (1993) and this was trailed by Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express (1994) and a string of other Hong Kong movies. Later, Kaneshiro featured in the Japanese TV small scale arrangement God, Please Give Me More Time (1998), permitting him to branch into Japanese movies, for example, Returner (2002). 

Kaneshiro's work, be that as it may, is all the more intensely amassed in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 2008 and 2009 he featured in Red Cliff, a high spending plan film by Hong Kong executive John Woo. He has likewise played the sentimental lead in Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, and featured close by Jet Li and Andy Lau in The Warlords. Kaneshiro has likewise turned out to be surely understood in the computer game industry depicting the samurai warrior Samanosuke in Capcom's Onimusha. In a June 2007 article on the film site Ain't It Cool News, it was uncovered that Kaneshiro would have been in the Onimusha film, repeating his part as Samanosuke and for a 2011 discharge, yet that venture was derailed. The maker Samuel Hadida needed to defer the recording of Onimusha, which has brought about the film's Japanese cast taking a shot at other film ventures amid the postponement, and being distracted to begin shooting. These elements were sufficient that French chief Christophe Gans will now coordinate an adjustment of Leo Perutz's novel The Swedish Cavalier initially, assuming control over the reins from Gilles Mimouni. Satomi Ishihara and Tsuyoshi Ihara stay joined to the venture. 

In 2003, Kaneshiro was highlighted in the magazine Time and was authored as turning into the Asian film industry's Johnny Depp. Moreover, Kaneshiro was met by CNN in the TalkAsia section in 2006.

Outside of the diversion business, Kaneshiro has gone about as a representative and model for Emporio Armani (2008) and also, Prada (1998), Lifecard charge card organization, VAIO PC, Honda, Lipice lips cream, SonyEricsson, Pocari Sweat soda pop, Morinaga chocolate, Volvic, GEOS (eikaiwa) (dialect school), Petronas oil organization, Japan Asia Airways, Hyundai Motor Company, Toyota MarkX ZiO, Mitsubishi Galant, NTT docomo the prevalent cell telephone administrator in Japan, NTT Yellow Pages, Shiseido, Lycos, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Kadokawa Shoten a surely understood Japanese distributer situated in Tokyo, Rice Burger, Roasted grain tea, One2Free (HK), and Kiwi frosty beverage, and the latest Biotherm Homme since 2005.