Toshiji Takeshima is an actor born in Tokyo, known for SWAT (2020), The Forgotten Army (2020) and Grisse (2018). He has a long professional acting career in Japan and moved to the US in 2005. He studied at Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio, New York). He has performed numerous theatre plays in New York and notable international festivals and has appeared in films and TV series in the US and Asian countries. Toshiji is trained Iai-Do (real sword) , Tate-Do (Japanese sword fighting choreography) , other martial arts and hand-to-hand combat. This allows him to do his own stunt work on set.