is an American actor. Tsuji is best known for his performance as Jin Sakai in the video game Ghost of Tsushima (2020) and as the Crown Prince Akihito in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019).
Early life Daisuke was born in Kuwait to Japanese parents, where his father worked as an architect. His brother Hisayasu, or Yasu, Tsuji is a documentary producer and editor. At two years old Daisuke moved to Chiba in Japan and at eight years old he moved to Sacramento, California. He attended the Rio Americano High School and American River College. He earned a bachelor in Theatre Arts at UCLA.
Career
Tsuji worked at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles. He started working at two theatre companies, Tim Robbins' The Actors' Gang and The Three Chairs Theatre Company. He was a party clown before he became a professional clown at Cirque du Soleil. went on several tours in the US and internationally such as Speak Theater Arts' and Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. Tsuji created his own clown shows called Death and Giggles, Limerence, and Clowns are Peoples Too. In 2006, he played a cave soldier in Letters from Iwo Jima. In 2009, Tsuji wrote and directed Monkey Madness, which was produced by The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble. The same year, he wrote and starred in Death and Giggles. In 2010, he became a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010, and appeared in more than 10 productions. In 2013, he returned to Los Angeles to focus on television and films. In 2019, he was Chief Warrant Officer Lee in the Love, Death & Robots TV series on Netflix. He did voice acting for the video games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018) and Prey: Mooncrash (2018). In 2017, Tsuji played William Shakespeare in the three-act play Imogen Says Nothing.
In 2020, he was the voice actor and face of the protagonist Jin Sakai in the action-adventure game Ghost of Tsushima. He played the Crown Prince Akihito in the TV series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019) on Amazon Prime. In 2019, he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in Cambodian Rock Band at South Coast Rep!.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes2006Letters from Iwo JimaCave Soldier No. 22016The God ChairEskimo ManShort film2018Magic Sunset Hour Aaron2019Jake and Kyle Get Wedding DatesKenji (voice)Direct-to-video2020The Watch-ers BradleyShort film2025SmurfsNo Name Anime (voice)2026The RipFBI Agent Logan Casiano
Television Year Title Role Notes 2014 Homemade Movies Dr. Ishiro Serizawa Episode: "Godzilla Trailer"2015 The Blacklist Cambodian Carl Episode: "Luther Braxton (No. 21)" The Man in the High Castle Crown Prince 3 episodes 2017 Brockmire Yoshi Takatsu 5 episodes 2019 Love, Death & Robots Chief Warrant Officer Lee Episode: "Lucky 13"2021 Amphibia Captain Bufo (voice) Episode: "Barrel's Warhammer" D.P. Ahn Joon-ho (voice) 6 episodes, English dub Invasion Kaito Kawaguchi 8 episodes NCIS: Hawaiʻi Major Mike Ito 9 episodes 2022Action Pack Mr. Chang (voice) 2 episodes Type S: Chiaki's Journey Noboru (voice) 4 episodes2024Creature CommandosScorpion / Kuai Liang (voice)Episode: "The Iron Pot"; Archival recording
Video games Year Title Role NotesSource2017–2018Prey: Mooncrash Li Phang / Ken Mizuki / Chao Wei, additional voices (2017)Voices2018Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Specialist ReconVoice2019Death Stranding The Musician20209 Monkeys of ShaolinWei ChengGhost of Tsushima Jin Sakai / Young JinEnglish voice, likeness, motion capture performance2022 GhostWire: Tokyo Man B Voice Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Hiro "Oni" Watanabe Voice, PlayStation exclusive until 2023 2023Fortnite Thunder Uncredited role Mortal Kombat 1 Scorpion / Kuai Liang Voice Mortal Kombat: Onslaught 2024 Rise of the Rōnin Toranosuke Shimada 2025 Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Teruhiko Shigaki Date Everything! Daisuke
Stage Year Title Role Venue 2012 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck Portland Center Stagehttps://www.oregonlive.com/performance/2012/11/a_midsummer_nights_dream_revie_1.html 2013 King Lear Fool Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttps://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2013-plays/king-lear.aspx 2014 The Orphan of Zhao The Orphan of Zhao American Conservatory Theater/La Jolla Playhousehttps://contemporarytheatrereview.org/2014/orphan-a-la-crouching-tiger/ 2017 Imogen Says Nothing William Shakespeare/Warden Yale Repertory Theatrehttps://yalerep.org/productions/imogen-says-nothing/ 2019 All's Well That Ends Well Bertram Oregon Shakespeare Festivalhttps://www.daisuketsuji.com/alls-well-that-ends-well-at-osf-playing-in-rep-with-crb/ 2025 Laowang Wesley Primary Stageshttps://exeuntnyc.com/reviews/review-laowang-a-chinatown-king-lear-at-primary-stages/
Awards and nominations Award Category Title ResultLos Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (2019)Outstanding Featured Performance Cambodian Rock Band The Game Awards 2020Best PerformanceJin Sakai (Ghost of Tsushima) Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards 2020Best Actor British Academy Games AwardsPerformer in a Leading Role
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