Takao Osawa

Biography

Takao Osawa (born on March 11, 1968) is a Japanese actor and a former model. He began his career as a fashion model when he was a university student in 1987. He rose to prominence in a lead role on the television drama Heaven's Coins in 1995. He turned his focus to film roles from 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takao Osawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Galileo

Jin

All About Lily Chou-Chou

The Silent Service

Burning Flower

NHK Special: Unsolved Cases

Wolf Children

The Smashing Machine

All Movies (57)

• The Keeper of the Camphor Tree2026 · as Toshiaki Saji (voice)
• The Smashing Machine2025 · as Nobuyuki Sakakibara
• The Silent Service: The Battle of Arctic Ocean2025 · as Shiro Kaieda
• Kingdom: Return of the Great General2024 · as Ou Ki (Wang Qi)
• The Silent Service2023 · as Shiro Kaieda
• Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny2023 · as Ou Ki (Wang Qi)
• Kingdom 2: Far and Away2022 · as Ou Ki (Wang Qi)
• The Great Yokai War: Guardians2021 · as Gyobu Inugami
• AI Amok2020 · as Kosuke Kiryu
• Kingdom2019 · as Ou Ki (Wang Qi)
• Wish You Were Here2019 · as Tomiya Morishima
• Ooku Saishusho2019 · as Tokugawa Yoshimune
• The King and I2018 · as The Kralahome
• The Lion Standing in the Wind2015 · as Koichiro Shimada
• The Man of the Tokyo Olympics2014 · as Fred Isamu Wada
• KANO2014 · as Yoichi Hatta
• Shield of Straw2013 · as Kazuki Mekari
• Strawberry Night2013 · as Isao Makita
• The Terminal Trust2012 · as Toru Tsukahara
• Wolf Children2012 · as Wolf Man (voice)
• Sakurada Gate Incident2010 · as Seki Tetsunosuke
• Flowers2010 · as Hiroshi Manaka
• Ballad2009 · as Itakatora Ohkura
• Goemon2009 · as Saizo Kirigakure
• Halfway2009 · as Hirabayashi
• ICHI2008 · as Toma Fujihira
• Love Fight2008 · as Joe Oki
• The Taste of Fish2008 · as Shuntaro Akagi
• Midnight Eagle2007 · as Yuji Nishizaki
• Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara2007 · as Natsuki Iijima
• Bizan2007 · as Daisuke Terasawa
• Christmas on July 24th Avenue2006 · as Satoshi Okuda
• Riding the Metro2006 · as Sakichi Konuma
• A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth2006 · as Naruse
• Helen the Baby Fox2006 · as Koji Yajima
• Into the Sun2005 · as Kuroda
• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World2004 · as Sakutaro Matsumoto
• I Am a Sardine2004
• Hana & Alice2004 · as Ryo Taguchi
• Milk White2004 · as Tanako
• Sky High2003 · as Tatsuya Kudo
• Hana2003 · as Yoichiro Nozaki
• The Battling Angel2003 · as Kazumasa
• Aragami2003 · as Samurai
• Jam Films2002
• Filament2002
• All About Lily Chou-Chou2001 · as Tabito Takao
• Worst Contact2000 · as Takemoto
• Yakuza Ladies: Revenge2000
• The Island Tales2000 · as Haruki
• Sennen-Tabito1999
• Dramatic Travelogue: Midnight Express ’98 – Toward the Light, Europe1998
• Dramatic Travelogue: Midnight Express ’97 – Westward to Eurasia1997
• Two Punks1996 · as Yoichi Fujikawa
• Dramatic Travelogue: Midnight Express ’96 – Torrid Asia1996
• Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai1995
• The Hungry Shinjuku Detective1994

All TV Shows (17)

• The Silent Service2024 · as Shiro Kaieda
• ONE DAY ~It's Wonderful Christmas Ado~2023 · as Tachiaoi Tokio
• Burning Flower2015
• Ka'en Kita no Eiyū Aterui Den2013
• NHK Special: Unsolved Cases2011
• Jin2009 · as Jin Minakata
• Galileo2007 · as Shiko Renzaki
• Ex Lover2001 · as Arashi Ikeda
• Ex−Lover2001 · as Arashi 池田嵐
• Another Heaven2000
• Kagayakeru Shunkan1999
• Le Bel Homme1999 · as 村雨次郎
• Only You: Aisarete1996
• Heaven's Coin1995
• Heaven's Coin1995 · as Shuichi Nagai
• Stay Gold1994 · as Shinsuke Yamazaki（山崎 慎介）
• A summer with you1994 · as Ryoichi Aizawa