Takao Osawa

Takao Osawa (Japanese: 大沢 たかお, Hepburn: Ōsawa Takao, born March 11, 1968) is a Japanese actor.

Takao Osawa
Osawa at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Born	March 11, 1968 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor, model, producer
Years active	1987–present
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)
Website	www.osawatakao.jp

Career

Osawa starred in the 2002 film Filament[1] and the 2007 film Midnight Eagle.[2] He has also appeared in films such as Masayuki Suo's A Terminal Trust[3] and Takashi Miike's Shield of Straw.[4]

The Newport Beach Film Festival in Newport Beach, CA, screened Osawa's film Wolf Children on April 27, 2013.[5]

In mid-2018, he is playing the Kralahome in the West End revival of The King and I.[6]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	I Want to Love You in a Way That'll Melt the Ski Slopes	Masaru Shigure
1996	Two Punks	Yoichi Fujikawa	Lead role
1999	The Island Tales	Haruki Fukuyama
	Sennen Tabito	Togashi
2001	All About Lily Chou-Chou	Takao Tabito
2002	Jam Films	Mathematician	Lead role, segment "Cold Sleep"
	Filament	Kyota Sawada
2003	Aragami	The Samurai	Lead role
	The Battling Angel	Kazumasa Furuyoshi	Lead role
	Hana	Yoichiro Nozaki	Lead role
	Sky High	Tatsuya Kudo
2004	Gege	Takayuki Takano	Lead role
	Hana and Alice	Ryo Taguchi
	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	Sakutaro Matsumoto	Lead role
2005	Into the Sun	Kuroda
2006	Helen the Baby Fox	Koji Yajima	Lead role
	A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth	Naruse	Lead role
	Riding the Metro	Sakichi Konuma
	Christmas on July 24th Avenue	Satoshi Okuda
	Bizan	Dr. Daisuke Terasawa
2007	Life: Tears in Heaven	Natsuki Iijima	Lead role
	Midnight Eagle	Yuji Nishizaki	Lead role
2008	The Taste of Fish	Shuntaro Akagi	Lead role
	Ichi	Toma Fujihira
	Love Fight	Joe Oki
2009	Halfway	Hirabayashi
	Goemon	Kirigakure Saizō
	Ballad: Nameless Love Song	Takatora Okurai
2010	Flowers	Hiroshi Manaka
	The Sakurada Gate Incident	Tetsunosuke Seki	Lead role
2012	Wolf Children Ame and Yuki	Ookami (voice)	Animated film
	A Terminal Trust	The prosecutor
2013	Strawberry Night	Isao Makita
	Shield of Straw	Kazuki Mekari
2014	Kano	Yoichi Hatta	Taiwanese film
2015	The Lion Standing in the Wind	Koichiro Shimada	Lead role
2019	Kingdom	Wang Qi
2020	AI Amok	Kiryū	Lead role
2021	The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Kimi to Ita Natsu	Ryoichi Aizawa
	Wakamono no Subete	Shinsuke Yamazaki
	Hana no Ran	Ashikaga Yoshitane	Taiga drama
1995	Hoshi no Kinka	Shuichi Nagai
	Kamisan no Waruguchi 2	Satoshi Mikami
1996	Zoku Hoshi no Kinka	Shuichi Nagai
	Gekiteki Kiko: Shinya Tokkyu	Koutaro Sawaki
	Only You: Aisarete	Sumio Ozaki
	Rennai Zenya Ichidodake: Shoya no Asa
1997	Dessin	Satoshi Asakura
1998	Seikimatsu no Uta / The Last Song	Mysterious Man
1999	Utsukushii Hito	Jiro Murasame
2000	Another Heaven	Goro Minazuki
	Worst Contact	Takimoto
	Hyaku-nen no Monogatari	Kazuo Hirose
2001	Ex-Lover / Mukashi no Otoko	Arashi Ikeda
2003	Ore wa Iwashi	Wang	TV movie
2006	Tokyo Wonder Tours	Himself
2009	JIN	Jin Minakata	Lead role
2011	JIN 2	Jin Minakata	Lead role
2013	Fiery Enmity: Hero of the North	Aterui	Lead role
	Galileo	Shikō Renzaki	Episode 1, season 2
2015	Hana Moyu	Katori Tomohiko	Taiga drama
2019	Ōoku the Final	Tokugawa Yoshimune	TV movie

Games

• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (2007) as Anton Herzen (voice)

References

1. Mes, Tom (September 18, 2012). "Midnight Eye review: Filament". Midnight Eye.
2. Schilling, Mark (November 23, 2007). "'Midnight Eagle' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
3. DeFore, John (September 3, 2012). "A Terminal Trust (Tsui No Shintaku): Montreal Review - The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter.
4. Mack, Andrew (February 16, 2013). "Trailer For Miike Takashi's STRAW SHIELD". Twitch Film.
5. ”Wolf Children Newport Beach Film Festival 2013 Screening”
6. "Bartlett Sher Revival of The King and I to Head Out on International Tour", BroadwayWorld.com, July 5, 2018

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Takao Osawa at IMDb
• Takao Osawa at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)