Toshinori Omi

Toshinori Omi (尾美としのり, Omi Toshinori, born 7 December 1965) is a Japanese actor.

Toshinori Omi
尾美としのり
Born	(1965-12-07) December 7, 1965 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1973–present
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)

Career

Born in Tokyo, Omi joined the children's theater troupe Himawari Theatre Group when he was still in kindergarten.[1] He made his film debut at age 13 in Kon Ichikawa's Hi no Tori (1978) and got his first starring role in a film with Shinji Somai's Tonda Couple (1980).[1] He starred in Nobuhiko Obayashi's Tenkosei (1982), for which he won a Japan Academy Prize best newcomer award.[2] He appeared in most of Obayashi's films until the mid-1990s.[1] Since then he has moved on to adult roles, playing white collar businessmen and fathers.

Selected filmography

Film

• Hi no Tori (1978) – Nagi
• Tonda Couple (1980) – Nakayama, Wataru
• I Are You, You Am Me (1982) – Kazuo Saitoh
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) – Goro Horikawa
• Haishi (1984) – Saburoh
• Itsuka darekaga korosareru (1984) – Shota Watakabe
• Lonely Heart (1985) – Hiroki Inoue
• Typhoon Club (1985) – Kobayashi
• Rabu hoteru (1985) – Assistant director
• Shimaizaka (1985) – Ryou Sakura
• Rokumeikan (1986) – Kenjiro, Einosuke's son
• Noyuki yamayuki umibe yuki (1986) – Yuuta Hayami
• Makeup (1987)
• Hachiko Monogatari (1987) – Ogata
• Nihon junjo-den okashina futari (1988) – Hitman
• Hope and Pain (1988) – Arles, Sadaichi Takai
• Revolver (1988) – Arata Nagai
• Watashi no kokoro wa papa no mono (1988) – Yuuki Matsushita
• Bakayarô! 2: Shiawase ni naritai (1989) – Tamotsu Yoriai (Episode 3)
• Byôin e ikô (1990) – Sasazo
• Inamura Jên (1990) – Satoru
• Isan sôzoku (1990) – Kazuhito Fujishima
• Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991) – Tomoya Kaminaga
• Ryakudatsu ai (1991)
• Tsuribaka Nisshi 4 (1991) – Kazuhiko Usami
• Tōki Rakujitsu (1992)
• Okoge (1992)
• Seishun dendekedekedeke (1992) – Sugimoto Fujiwara
• Haruka, nosutarujii (1993) – Noburu Ohta
• Onna-zakari (1994) – Tamaru's secretary
• Nozokiya (1995) – Matsumiya
• Ashita (1995) – Megumi's Teacher
• Onihei hankachô (1995)
• Miyazawa Kenji sono ai (1995) – Fujiwara
• Happy People (1997)
• Ikinai (1998) – Kimura
• Kaza-hana (2000) – Nightclub manager
• Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001) – Shibukawa
• The Twilight Samurai (2002) – Shichijuro Otsuka
• Kusa no ran (2004)
• Koi no mon (2004)
• Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô- Negai (2005) – Yoshiro
• Arigatô (2006) – Kenta Arino
• I Just Didn't Do It (2006)
• Sekai wa tokidoki utsukushii (2006) – Customer
• Kôan keisatsu sôsakan (2007)
• Jeneraru rûju no gaisen (2009) – Keiji Mifune
• Wasao (2011)
• Itsukaichi monogatari (2011)
• Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari (2012) – Tadahiko
• Megamisama (2017)
• The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa (2018) – Fumio Ishino
• 37 Seconds (2019)
• Peer (2019) – Terunobu Kuramatsu
• Labyrinth of Cinema (2020) – Kondō Isami

Television

• Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (2006) – Nakagawa Yoshio
• Ryūsei no Kizuna (2008) – Hayashi George
• Teppan (2010)
• Ariadne no Dangan (2011)
• Taira no Kiyomori (2012) – Taira no Koretsuna
• Amachan (2013), Masamune Kurokawa
• Akira and Akira (2017) – Toshio Kitamura
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017) – Sakakibara Yasumasa
• The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa (2017)
• Everyone's Demoted (2019) – Takashi Umehara
• Kirin ga Kuru (2020) – Toki Yorinori
• Pareto's Miscalculation (2020)

References

1. "Omi Toshinori". Nihon Eiga Gekijō (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 April 2013.
2. "第６回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品". Japan Academy Prize Association. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

External links

• Official profile (in Japanese)
• Toshinori Omi on IMDb