Takeyama was in charge of the writing of the yearly NHK Taiga dramas Hideyoshi (1996) and Toshiie to Matsu (2002).
drama film | drama | Drama | Guildhall School of Music and Drama | Japanese television drama | Drama Desk Award | National School of Drama | radio drama | Central School of Speech and Drama | Taiwanese drama | Drama film | Taiga | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series | Philippine drama | Legal drama | Yale School of Drama | Radio drama | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series | drama school | Taiga drama | National Student Drama Festival | Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award | Drama League Award | Drama, Greece | Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Oxford School of Drama | legal drama | Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series | British American Drama Academy | BBC television drama |
Composition credits include Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Yomigaeri, Fūrin Kazan (Taiga drama), Nada Sōsō (film), Rampo (film), Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, the 2012 revival of Iron Chef and the soundtrack of Red Garden.
The subsequent major roles include Oda Nobunaga in the 3rd NHK Taiga Drama Taikōki in 1965, as Lieutenant Hayami in the NHK Morning Drama Series Ohanahan in 1966.
Among them are Mōri Hiromoto (in Mōri Motonari, 1997), Sanada Yukimura (Aoi Tokugawa Sandai, 2000), and Honda Masanobu (NHK's Taiga drama Musashi, 2003) in addition to Katakura Kagetsuna.
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As an actor, he has portrayed people as varied as 20th century Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (in the 1983 film Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō) and 16th century samurai Katakura Kagetsuna (in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune).
Returning to NHK, he portrayed Saitō Yoshitatsu in the 1973 taiga drama Kunitori Monogatari. He has also appeared as Sanada Yukimura in Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), and as the same warrior in Dokuganryū Masamune (1987).