Yūsuke Nakayama (中山 裕介, Nakayama Yūsuke, born 12 March 1971, Ōita, Ōita), better known by his stage name Yūsuke Santamaria (ユースケ・サンタマリア, Yūsuke Santamaria), is a Japanese actor and singer.
Yūsuke Santamaria | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yūsuke Nakayama (1971-03-12) 12 March 1971 (age 51) Ōita, Ōita, Japan |
| Occupation | Actor, singer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Santamaria appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 film Doppelganger.[1] He starred in Katsuyuki Motohiro's 2005 film Negotiator.[2] He directed and starred a segment of the 2008 anthology film R246 Story.[3] He also appeared in Kiyoshi Sasabe's 2011 film The Legacy of the Sun.[4]
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Bayside Shakedown: The Movie | Masayoshi Mashita | Katsuyuki Motohiro | ||
| 2001 | Calmi Cuori Appassionati | Takashi | Isamu Nakae | ||
| 2003 | Bayside Shakedown 2 | Masayoshi Mashita | Katsuyuki Motohiro | ||
| Doppelganger | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | ||||
| 2005 | Negotiator | Masayoshi Mashita | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Lead role | [5] |
| 2006 | The Sakai's Happiness | Mipo O | |||
| Udon | Katsuyuki Motohiro | Lead role | [5] | ||
| 2007 | Kisaragi | Yūji Oda | Yūichi Satō | ||
| 2008 | R246 Story | ||||
| 2009 | 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope | Kiyoshi "Sadakiyo" Sada | |||
| Shonen Merikensack | Kankurō Kudō | ||||
| Donju | |||||
| Go Find a Psychic! | |||||
| 2010 | Bayside Shakedown 3 | Masayoshi Mashita | Katsuyuki Motohiro | ||
| 2011 | The Legacy of the Sun | ||||
| 2012 | Bayside Shakedown 4: The Final | Masayoshi Mashita | Katsuyuki Motohiro | ||
| Crow's Thumb | Tadafumi Itō | ||||
| 2013 | Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story | Keiichi Hara | |||
| 2014 | Our Family | Yuya Ishii | |||
| The Vancouver Asahi | Yuya Ishii | ||||
| Giovanni's Island | Hideo (voice) | [6] | |||
| 2015 | April Fools | ||||
| 2016 | Gold Medal Man | ||||
| Birthday Card | |||||
| 2017 | Wilderness: Part One | Horiguchi | Yoshiyuki Kishi | ||
| Wilderness: Part Two | Horiguchi | Yoshiyuki Kishi | |||
| The Stand-In Thief | |||||
| 2018 | Eating Women | Tanabe | [7] | ||
| 2019 | Blue Hour | [8] | |||
| One Piece: Stampede | Buena Festa (voice) | Takashi Ōtsuka | [9] | ||
| 2022 | Akira and Akira | Takahiro Miki | [10] | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Bayside Shakedown | Masayoshi Mashita | Fuji TV | [5] | |
| 1998 | Nemureru Mori | Fuji TV | |||
| 1999 | Perfect Love | Fuji TV | |||
| 2000 | Omiai Kekkon | Fuji TV | [5] | ||
| 2001 | Rocket Boy | Fuji TV | |||
| 2012 | ¥20,000,000 Quiz! Money Drop | The host | TBS | Game show | |
| 2016 | The Sparks | Shingo Takeuchi | Fuji TV | Lead role | [5] |
| Cold Case | Wowow | ||||
| 2018 | Auditor Shuhei Nozaki | Wowow | |||
| 2019 | I Will Not Work Overtime, Period! | Seiji Fukunaga | TBS | [5] | |
| 2020 | Kirin ga Kuru | Asakura Yoshikage | NHK | Taiga drama | [11] |
| 2022 | The Journalist | Shinjirō Toyoda | Netflix | [12] | |
| Modern Love Tokyo | Yōji Suzuki | Amazon Prime Video | [13] | ||