Teppei Koike Explained

Teppei Koike
Native Name:	小池 徹平
Native Name Lang:	ja
Background:	solo_singer
Birth Date:	5 January 1986
Birth Place:	Ōsakasayama, Osaka, Japan
Instrument:	Guitar
Genre:	J-pop
Occupation:	Singer-songwriter, actor
Years Active:	2002–present
Label:	Universal Music Group, A&M
Past Member Of:	WaT

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.

Career

2002

• Moved to Tokyo in the spring. Changed schools to Horikoshi High (also attended at the same time as NEWS' Tomohisa Yamashita & Yuya Tegoshi, D-BOYS' Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer Toma Ikuta and KAT-TUN's Koki Tanaka)
• Met Eiji Wentz while working and formed WaT. Started doing street lives.
• Debuted as an actor in the drama Tentai Kansoku.

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
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		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
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
2003	Yankee Bokō ni Kaeru	Motoya Murase	TBS
2004	Water Boys 2	Iwao Iwata	CX
2004	Division 1: Hōkago	Kaname Komiya	CX
2005	Gokusen 2	Keita Takeda	NTV		^[14]
2005	Dragon Sakura	Hideki Ogata	TBS
2005	Oniyome Nikki	Ryōsuke Sawamura	CX
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
2009	Chelsea Hotel e Yōkoso		CX
2009	Ohitorisama	Shinichi Kamisaka	TBS
2010	Tetsu no Hone	Heita Tomishima	NHK
2010	Iryū 3	Noboru Ijūin	CX
2011	Propose Kyōdai	Jirō Yamada	CX
2012	Joi Kuraishi Shōko	Shun Kamata	CX
2012	Naniwa Shōnen Tanteidan	Shūhei Shindō	TBS
2012	Doroctor	Shinichi Nakamura	NHK BS Premium
2013	Amachan	Hiroshi Adachi	NHK	Asadora
2013	Nigakute, Amai: Kibō no Cha	Kōta Hayakawa	NHK		^[19]
2014	Iryū 4	Noboru Ijūin	CX
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]
	2007	-		Pieces
My Brand New Way		-
	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

See main article: 32nd Japan Academy Prize. |-| 2009 || The Homeless Student || Newcomer of the Year^[28] || |-

External links

• Teppei Official site
• WaT Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://eiga.com/movie/41245/ . ja:誰がために . eiga.com . ja . November 8, 2018 .
2. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0004515 . ja:ラブ☆コン (2006) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
3. Web site: My Favorite Girl -The Movie- . Universal Music . ja . November 8, 2018 .
4. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0005729 . ja:KIDS (2008) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
5. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0005899 . ja:ホームレス中学生 (2008) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
6. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/67624/full/ . ja: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 . . ja . July 11, 2009 . November 8, 2018 .
7. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0007509 . ja: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) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
8. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0010375 . ja:サラリーマンNEO 劇場版 (笑) (2011) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
9. Web site: https://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0020311 . ja:サブイボマスク (2016) . Cinema Today . ja . November 8, 2018 .
10. Web site: https://eiga.com/news/20180322/14/ . ja: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！ . eiga.com . ja . March 22, 2018 . November 8, 2018 .
11. Web site: https://eiga.com/news/20180619/3/ . ja: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 . eiga.com . ja . June 19, 2018 . November 8, 2018 .
12. Web site: https://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nlp/get/article/430854/ . ja: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 . . ja . July 7, 2018 . November 8, 2018 .
13. Web site: http://www.teppeifc.com/free/profile/ . ja:プロフィール . Ohata Enterprise . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150301021536/http://www.teppeifc.com:80/free/profile/ . March 1, 2015 . dead .
14. Web site: http://www.ntv.co.jp/gokusen/backnumber/02/index.html . ja:ごくせん 第2シリーズ . Fuji TV . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121019165313/http://www.ntv.co.jp/gokusen/backnumber/02/index.html . October 19, 2012 . dead .
15. Web site: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/iryu/cast_m.html . ja:医龍 Team Medical Dragon . . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081028200842/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/iryu/cast_m.html . October 28, 2008 . dead .
16. Web site: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/iryu2/staff/index.html . ja:医龍 Team Medical Dragon 2 . Fuji TV . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071011012119/http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/iryu2/staff/index.html . October 11, 2007 . dead .
17. Web site: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2007/07-368.html . ja:まだ見ぬ父へ、母へ～全盲のテノール歌手・新垣勉の軌跡 . Fuji TV . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071209150139/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2007/07-368.html . December 9, 2007 . dead .
18. Web site: http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp:80/shibatora/cast_staff/index.html . ja:シバトラ～童顔刑事・柴田竹虎～ . Fuji TV . ja . November 8, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080703112342/http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp:80/shibatora/cast_staff/index.html . July 3, 2008 . dead .
19. Web site: https://www.nhk.or.jp/fukuoka/drama/nigaama/ . ja:福岡発地域ドラマ｢苦くて、甘い～希望の茶～｣ . . ja . November 8, 2018 .
20. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2053694/full/ . ja:伊藤歩“異色刑事”役で民放連ドラ初主演 相棒は小池徹平 . Oricon . ja . June 5, 2015 . November 8, 2018 .
21. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2059884/full/ . ja:小池徹平、時代劇初主演は石ノ森作品「携われてうれしい」 . Oricon . ja . September 28, 2015 . November 8, 2018 .
22. Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2061340/full/ . ja:青木崇高×松尾スズキ、『曾根崎心中』誕生秘話を創作 . Oricon . ja . October 26, 2015 . November 8, 2018 .
23. Web site: https://thetv.jp/news/detail/88376/ . ja:塚本高史、主演作でピン芸人に！元相方役に小池徹平 . The Television . ja . September 30, 2016 . November 8, 2018 .
24. Web site: https://thetv.jp/news/detail/168351/ . ja:「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… . The Television . ja . November 7, 2018 . November 8, 2018 .
25. News: Jennifer . Sherman . Live-Action Guilty Series Casts Keita Machida, Teppei Koike . . 2020-03-05 . 2021-06-19.
26. Web site: 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」. June 29, 2021. Mantan-web.
27. Peak chart positions on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart:
    • "Kimi Dake": Web site: キミだけ . ja . . 2021-05-09.
28. Web site: 32nd Japan Academy Prize Newcomer of the Year Winners . . ja . February 20, 2009 . November 8, 2018 .