Yūsuke Santamaria

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 54) Ōita, Ōita, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, singer
Years active	1994–present

Biography

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]

Filmography

Film

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		[7]
	Wilderness: Part Two	Horiguchi	Yoshiyuki Kishi		[7]
	The Stand-In Thief
2018	Eating Women	Tanabe			[8]
2019	Blue Hour				[9]
	One Piece: Stampede	Buena Festa (voice)	Takashi Ōtsuka		[10]
2022	Akira and Akira		Takahiro Miki		[11]
2023	The Silent Service	Eiichi Nanba	Kōhei Yoshino		[12]
2024	Living in Two Worlds	Akito Imai	Mipo O		[13]

Television

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	Awaiting Kirin	Asakura Yoshikage	NHK	Taiga drama	[14]
2022	The Journalist	Shinjirō Toyoda	Netflix		[15]
	Modern Love Tokyo	Yōji Suzuki	Amazon Prime Video		[16]
2024	Dear Radiance	Abe no Haruakira	NHK	Taiga drama	[17]
	The Silent Service	Eiichi Nanba	Amazon Prime Video		[18]