Teppei Koike

Teppei Koike (小池 徹平, Koike Teppei, born January 5, 1986) is Japanese actor and singer associated with Burning Productions. After appearing in the television drama Tentai Kansoku in 2002, Koike began appearing in several other films and dramas, notably as Atsushi Otani in Love Com. At the same time, Koike was also in the music duo WaT with Eiji Wentz from 2002 to 2016.

Teppei Koike
小池 徹平
2019
Background information
Born (1986-01-05) January 5, 1986
Ōsakasayama, Osaka, Japan
GenresJ-pop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, actor
Instrument(s)Guitar
Years active2002–present
LabelsUniversal Music Group, A&M
Websiteteppei.fanmo.jp

Career

2002

2004

  • WaT released debut indies C.D. Sotsugyō Time in June.

2005

  • Acted in the drama Gokusen 2 (January 15 – March 19), which was part of the reason for his increasing popularity.
  • Appeared as Hideki Ogata, a major, regular character in the TBS television drama "Dragon Zakura" (July – September 2005), alongside his high school fellow Tomohisa Yamashita.
  • WaT signs with Universal Music in August, releases first major single Boku no Kimochi in November, reaching second place on the Oricon chart. They are the band with the shortest time gap between debut and appearing on NHK's Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
  • Released his first photobook, First Letter From Teppei.

2006

  • Presented with the Newcomer's forty-third Golden Arrow Award (WaT).
  • Presented with the twentieth Gold Disc Award for "Best New Artist".
  • First leading role in the movie Lovely Complex as Atsushi Otani.
  • Official supporter in 2006's International Volleyball Tournament (WaT).
  • Nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the forty-ninth Drama Academy Award, for his performance in Iryu.
  • Released his second photobook, Kiss me, Kiss me.
  • On New Year's Eve, WaT performed for the second time in N.H.K.'s Kōhaku.
  • Acted in the drama Iryu, as Ijyuuin.

2007

  • First music solo project was announced on January tenth.
  • His story of leaving his family and hometown to pursue his dream to be a performer was turned into a fifty-two pages one shot manga entitled Bokura no Ibasho by Nakahara Aya, the author of the manga Lovely Complex.
  • Solo single, Kimi ni Okuru Uta, was released on February fourteen, Valentine's Day, with Wentz's solo song Lucky de Happy as the B-side song.
  • Solo album, Pieces was released on June 27.

2015

  • Performed as "L" in the Death Note musical in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan, premiere April 6, 2015.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2005 Taga Tame ni Boy [1]
2006 Love Com Atsushi Ōtani [2]
2006 My Favorite Girl: The Movie Direct-to-video [3]
2008 Kids Asato [4]
2008 The Homeless Student Hiroshi Tamura [5]
2009 Gokusen: The Movie Keita Takeda [6]
2009 Genkai in a Black Company Masao Ōneta [7]
2011 Salaryman Neo Makoto Shinjō [8]
2016 Sabuibo Mask Gonsuke [9]
2018 Eating Women Yūta [10]
2018 Lock-On Love Masaki Takatsugu [11]
2019 The Confidence Man JP: The Movie

Television
Year Title Role Network Notes Ref(s)
2002 Searchin' For My Polestar Noboru Yamada CX [12]
2003 Okāsan to Issho Naoki Kobayakawa CX [13]
2003 Anata no Jinsei o Hakobishimasu! Yoshimatsu Kogure TBS [13]
2003 Yankee Bokō ni Kaeru Motoya Murase TBS [13]
2004 Water Boys 2 Iwao Iwata CX [13]
2004 Division 1: Hōkago Kaname Komiya CX
2005 Gokusen 2 Keita Takeda NTV [14]
2005 Dragon Sakura Hideki Ogata TBS [13]
2005 Oniyome Nikki Ryōsuke Sawamura CX [13]
2006 Iryū Noboru Ijūin CX [15]
2007 Iryū 2 Noboru Ijūin CX [16]
2007 Mada Minu Chichi e, Haha e Tsutomu Aragaki CX Television film [17]
2008 Shibatora Taketora Shibata CX [18]
2008 The Homeless Student Man CX Television film [13]
2009 Chelsea Hotel e Yōkoso CX [13]
2009 Ohitorisama Shinichi Kamisaka TBS [13]
2010 Tetsu no Hone Heita Tomishima NHK [13]
2010 Iryū 3 Noboru Ijūin CX [13]
2011 Propose Kyōdai Jirō Yamada CX [13]
2012 Joi Kuraishi Shōko Shun Kamata CX [13]
2012 Naniwa Shōnen Tanteidan Shūhei Shindō TBS [13]
2012 Doroctor Shinichi Nakamura NHK BS Premium [13]
2013 Amachan Hiroshi Adachi NHK Asadora [13]
2013 Nigakute, Amai: Kibō no Cha Kōta Hayakawa NHK [19]
2014 Iryū 4 Noboru Ijūin CX [13]
2014 Borderline Akira Kawabata NHK
2015 Konkatsu Keiji Tsutsuji Fujioka YTV [20]
2015 Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae Satake BS4 Television film [21]
2016 Chikaemon Tokubei NHK [22]
2017 Senju Crazy Boy Kō Saitō NHK BS Premium Television film [23]
2017 Reverse Yoshiki Hirosawa TBS
2018 Dai Renai: Boku o Wasureru-kun to Kōhei Matsuo TBS Episode 6 [24]
2020 Guilty: Kono Koi wa Tsumi desu ka? Kazuma Ogino YTV, NTV [25]
2021 Reach Beyond the Blue Sky Sanai Hashimoto NHK Taiga drama
2021 Dragon Sakura 2 Hideki Ogata TBS Cameo [26]

Variety TV shows
  • Ame ni mo makezu! (Fuji Terebi) – host along with his partner, Wentz.

Solo discography

Singles
List of singles, with selected chart positions, sales figures and certifications
Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Album
JPN
[27]
"Kimi ni Okuru Uta" (君に贈る歌) 2007 — — Pieces
My Brand New Way — —
"Kimi Dake" (キミだけ) 2009 4 — Jack In The Box
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Albums
  • 2007-06-27: pieces, which contains 12 self-penned songs
  • 2009-07-15: Jack in the Box . Debut position & 1st week sales – No. 15; 10,580

Awards

Japan Academy Prize
Main article: 32nd Japan Academy Prize
Year Nominee / work Award Result
2009The Homeless StudentNewcomer of the Year[28]Won

References
  1. 誰がために (in Japanese). eiga.com. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  2. ラブ☆コン (2006) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  3. "My Favorite Girl -The Movie-" (in Japanese). Universal Music. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  4. KIDS (2008) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  5. ホームレス中学生 (2008) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  6. 仲間由紀恵、ヤンクミ“ジャージ”見納めに感無量 映画『ごくせん』公開 (in Japanese). Oricon. July 11, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  7. ブラック会社に勤めてるんだが、もう俺は限界かもしれない (2009) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  8. サラリーマンNEO 劇場版 (笑) (2011) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  9. サブイボマスク (2016) (in Japanese). Cinema Today. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  10. 食とエロス描く「食べる女」にユースケ、勝地涼、小池徹平、間宮祥太朗ら参戦！ (in Japanese). eiga.com. March 22, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  11. 小池徹平「覚悟はいいかそこの女子。」でイケメン教師に！主演・中川大志と恋のバトル (in Japanese). eiga.com. June 19, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  12. 小池徹平「１曲ごとにカロリー計算して歌う」 プロフェッショナルな素顔 (in Japanese). Nishinippon Shimbun. July 7, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  13. プロフィール (in Japanese). Ohata Enterprise. Archived from the original on March 1, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  14. ごくせん 第2シリーズ (in Japanese). Fuji TV. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  15. 医龍 Team Medical Dragon (in Japanese). Fuji TV. Archived from the original on October 28, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  16. 医龍 Team Medical Dragon 2 (in Japanese). Fuji TV. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  17. まだ見ぬ父へ、母へ～全盲のテノール歌手・新垣勉の軌跡 (in Japanese). Fuji TV. Archived from the original on December 9, 2007. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  18. シバトラ～童顔刑事・柴田竹虎～ (in Japanese). Fuji TV. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  19. 福岡発地域ドラマ｢苦くて、甘い～希望の茶～｣ (in Japanese). NHK. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  20. 伊藤歩“異色刑事”役で民放連ドラ初主演 相棒は小池徹平 (in Japanese). Oricon. June 5, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  21. 小池徹平、時代劇初主演は石ノ森作品「携われてうれしい」 (in Japanese). Oricon. September 28, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  22. 青木崇高×松尾スズキ、『曾根崎心中』誕生秘話を創作 (in Japanese). Oricon. October 26, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  23. 塚本高史、主演作でピン芸人に！元相方役に小池徹平 (in Japanese). The Television. September 30, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  24. 「大恋愛～僕を忘れる君と」小池徹平が戸田恵梨香とムロツヨシの関係をかき乱す… (in Japanese). The Television. November 7, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  25. Sherman, Jennifer (March 5, 2020). "Live-Action Guilty Series Casts Keita Machida, Teppei Koike". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
  26. "ドラゴン桜:最終回に山下智久＆新垣結衣… 卒業生"全員集合"にSNS大盛り上がり「昔のまんまで懐かしい」「私の青春」". Mantan-web. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  27. Peak chart positions on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart:
  28. "32nd Japan Academy Prize Newcomer of the Year Winners" (in Japanese). Oricon. February 20, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
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