Takayuki Yamada 山田 孝之 Yamada Takayuki born October 20 1983 is a Japanese actor and singer He has two elder sisters and one son At age 15 he was discovered by talent agency Stardust and made his debut in his acting career in the TV drama Psychometrer Eiji 2 in 1999 One of his first big roles was starring as Matsumoto Sakutaro in Sekai no Chuushin de Ai wo Sakebu in the 2004 TBS series In 2005 he made his name known with the movie Densha Otoko His recent projects include Taiyou no Uta and the Japanese movie The Letter Tegami with costar Erika Sawajiri Description above from the Wikipedia article Takayuki Yamada licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia