Takao Osawa

Takao Osawa
Osawa at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Born	(1968-03-11) 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

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

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]

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
1999	The Island Tales	Haruki Fukuyama
1999	Sennen Tabito	Togashi
2001	All About Lily Chou-Chou	Takao Tabito
2002	Jam Films	Mathematician	Segment "Cold Sleep"
2002	Filament	Kyota Sawada
2003	Aragami	The Samurai
2003	The Battling Angel	Kazumasa Furuyoshi
2003	Hana	Yoichiro Nozaki
2003	Sky High	Tatsuya Kudo
2004	Gege	Takayuki Takano
2004	Hana and Alice	Ryo Taguchi
2004	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World	Sakutaro Matsumoto
2005	Into the Sun	Kuroda
2006	Helen the Baby Fox	Koji Yajima
2006	A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth	Naruse
2006	Riding the Metro	Sakichi Konuma
2006	Christmas on July 24th Avenue	Satoshi Okuda
2006	Bizan	Dr. Daisuke Terasawa
2007	Life: Tears in Heaven	Natsuki Iijima
2007	Midnight Eagle	Yuji Nishizaki
2008	The Taste of Fish	Shuntaro Akagi
2008	Ichi	Toma Fujihira
2008	Love Fight	Joe Oki
2009	Halfway	Hirabayashi
2009	Goemon	Kirigakure Saizō
2009	Ballad: Nameless Love Song	Takatora Okurai
2010	Flowers	Hiroshi Manaka
2010	The Sakurada Gate Incident	Tetsunosuke Seki
2012	Wolf Children Ame and Yuki	Ookami (voice)	Animated film
2012	A Terminal Trust	the prosecutor
2013	Strawberry Night	Isao Makita
2013	Shield of Straw	Kazuki Mekari
2014	Kano	Yoichi Hatta	Taiwanese film
2015	Kaze ni Tatsu Lion	Koichiro Shimada

Television

Year	Title	Role
1994	Kimi to Ita Natsu	Ryoichi Aizawa
	Wakamono no Subete	Shinsuke Yamazaki
	Hana no Ran	Ashikaga Yoshitane
1995	Hoshi no Kinka	Shuichi Nagai
1995	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
2006	Tokyo Wonder Tours
2009	JIN	Jin Minakata
2011	JIN 2	Jin Minakata
2013	Fiery Enmity: Hero of the North	Aterui
2015	Hana Moyu	Katori Tomohiko

Games

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

References

↑ Mes, Tom (September 18, 2012). "Midnight Eye review: Filament". Midnight Eye.
↑ Schilling, Mark (November 23, 2007). "'Midnight Eagle' - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
↑ DeFore, John (September 3, 2012). "A Terminal Trust (Tsui No Shintaku): Montreal Review - The Hollywood Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter.
↑ Mack, Andrew (February 16, 2013). "Trailer For Miike Takashi's STRAW SHIELD". Twitch Film.
↑ ”Wolf Children Newport Beach Film Festival 2013 Screening”

External links

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

Awards

Japanese Movie Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actor
2000s	Tarō Yamamoto (2001) Ryo Ishibashi (2002) Ken Watanabe, Teruyuki Kagawa (2003) Masaya Takahashi (2004) Takashi Sasano, Sansei Shiomi (2005) Tsuyoshi Ihara (2006) Kyosuke Yabe (2007) Ittoku Kishibe (2008) Renji Ishibashi (2009)
2010s	Teruyuki Kagawa, Yūsuke Iseya (2010) Kataoka Ainosuke VI (2011) Takao Osawa (2012) Lily Franky (2013) Masaki Suda (2014) Atsushi Itō (2015) Masahiro Higashide (2016)

The Television Drama Academy Award Best Actor Award
1st - 10th	1. Masakazu Tamura \| 2. Yūji Oda \| 3. Hiroyuki Sanada \| 4. Masahiro Nakai \| 5. Matsumoto Kōshirō IX \| 6. Etsushi Toyokawa \| 7. Issei Ishida \| 8. Masakazu Tamura \| 9. Takuya Kimura \| 10. Yūji Oda
11th - 20th	11. Shingo Katori \| 12. Yūji Oda \| 13. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi \| 14. Masahiro Nakai \| 15. Takuya Kimura \| 16. Issei Ishida \| 17. Yutaka Takenouchi \| 18. Takeshi Kaneshiro \| 19. Takuya Kimura \| 20. Yōsuke Eguchi
21st - 30th	21. Atsuro Watabe \| 22. Tsuyoshi Domoto \| 23. Etsushi Toyokawa \| 24. Takuya Kimura \| 25. Hideaki Takizawa \| 26. Tsuyoshi Domoto \| 27. Toshiaki Karasawa \| 28. Takuya Kimura \| 29. Tomoya Nagase \| 30. Yōsuke Eguchi
31st - 40th	31. Masakazu Tamura \| 32. Shingo Katori \| 33. Takuya Kimura \| 34. Hideaki Takizawa \| 35. Yūsuke Santamaria \| 36. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi \| 37. Satoshi Tsumabuki \| 38. Hidetaka Yoshioka \| 39. Yutaka Takenouchi \| 40. Masahiro Nakai
41st - 50th	41. Satoshi Tsumabuki \| 42. Takayuki Yamada \| 43. Shingo Katori \| 44. Yōsuke Eguchi \| 45. Tomoya Nagase \| 46. Hiroshi Abe \| 47. Kazuya Kamenashi \| 48. Takayuki Yamada \| 49. Etsushi Toyokawa \| 50. Hiroshi Abe
51st - 60th	51. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi \| 52. Takuya Kimura \| 53. Jun Matsumoto \| 54. Hiroshi Tachi \| 55. Masaharu Fukuyama \| 56. Junichi Okada \| 57. Takuya Kimura \| 58 Ryuta Sato \| 59. Kazunari Ninomiya \| 60. Kenichi Matsuyama
61st - 70th	61. Hiroshi Abe \| 62. Takuya Kimura \| 63. Takao Osawa \| 64. Toshiaki Karasawa \| 65. Satoshi Ohno \| 66. Masato Sakai \| 67. Kazunari Ninomiya \| 68 Yutaka Mizutani \| 69. Takao Osawa \| 70. Eita
71st - 80th	71. Kazuya Kamenashi \| 72. Jun Matsumoto \| 73. Satoshi Ohno \| 74. Shun Oguri \| 75. Takuya Kimura \| 76. Eita \| 77. Sho Sakurai \| 78. Masato Sakai \| 79. Masato Sakai \| 80. Jun Matsumoto
81st - 90th	81. Shun Oguri \| 82. Takuya Kimura \| 83. Junichi Okada \| 84. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi \| 85. Takeru Satoh \| 86. Masataka Kubota \| 87. Hiroshi Abe \| 88. Kengo Kora \| 89. Satoshi Ohno \| 90. Tatsuya Fujiwara
91st - 100th	91. Masato Sakai \| 92. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi \| 93. Tatsuya Fujiwara

The Television Drama Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Award
1st - 10th	1. Gorō Kishitani \| 2. Mikihisa Azuma \| 3. Gorō Kishitani \| 4. Katsunori Takahashi \| 5. Masahiko Nishimura \| 6. Kōji Imada \| 7. Shingo Katori \| 8. Masahiko Nishimura \| 9. Yutaka Takenouchi \| 10. Kōji Tamaki
11th - 20th	11. Yutaka Takenouchi \| 12. Atsuro Watabe \| 13. Masaaki Uchino \| 14. Masato Hagiwara \| 15. Mansai Nomura \| 16. Hideaki Takizawa \| 17. Gorō Kishitani \| 18. Takaya Kamikawa \| 19. Mitsuru Fukikoshi \| 20. Atsuro Watabe
21st - 30th	21. Masanori Ishii \| 22. Kippei Shiina \| 23. Takao Osawa \| 24. Atsuro Watabe \| 25. Yōsuke Kubozuka \| 26. Shingo Katori \| 27. Shinichi Tsutsumi \| 28. Yōsuke Kubozuka \| 29. Shingo Katori \| 30. Hiroshi Abe
31st - 40th	31. Kippei Shiina \| 32. Naohito Fujiki \| 33. Jun Matsumoto \| 34. Satoshi Tsumabuki \| 35. Koichi Domoto \| 36. Shinichi Tsutsumi \| 37. Arata Furuta \| 38. Mirai Moriyama \| 39. Kazuki Kitamura \| 40. Ken Watanabe
41st - 50th	41. Ryusei Saito \| 42. Hiroshi Abe \| 43. Koji Yamamoto \| 44. Kazuya Kamenashi \| 45. Toshiyuki Nishida \| 46. Atsushi Itō \| 47. Jun Matsumoto \| 48. Tetsuya Takeda \| 49. Hideaki Itō \| 50. Koki Tanaka
51st - 60th	51. Shinichi Tsutsumi \| 52. Kin'ya Kitaōji \| 53. Kazuki Kitamura \| 54. Toma Ikuta \| 55. Yo Oizumi \| 56. Ryuhei Matsuda \| 57. Ryo Nishikido \| 58. Hayato Ichihara \| 59. Ken Ogata \| 60. Takeru Satoh
61st - 70th	61. Yutaka Takenouchi \| 62. Masato Sakai \| 63. Masaaki Uchino \| 64. Mitsuhiro Oikawa \| 65. Arata \| 66. Osamu Mukai \| 67. Teruyuki Kagawa \| 68. Masanobu Takashima \| 69. Masaaki Uchino \| 70. Shunsuke Kazama
71st - 80th	71. Hiroki Hasegawa \| 72. Eita \| 73. Kōichi Satō \| 74. Yukiya Kitamura \| 75. Kiichi Nakai \| 76. Kōtarō Yoshida \| 77. Ryunosuke Kamiki \| 78. Teruyuki Kagawa \| 79. Masaki Okada \| 80. Masahiro Higashide
81st - 90th	81. Masaki Suda \| 82. Kōtarō Yoshida \| 83. Masataka Kubota \| 84. Hiroki Hasegawa \| 85. Ryohei Suzuki \| 86. Issei Takahashi \| 87. Kōji Kikkawa \| 88. Hiroshi Tamaki \| 89. Yūya Yagira \| 90. Toshiaki Karasawa
91st - 100th	91. Gen Hoshino \| 92. Tadanobu Asano \| 93. Masahiro Higashide

Tokyo Drama Award for Best Actor
Kōichi Satō (2008) Kiichi Nakai (2009) Takao Osawa (2010) Kazunari Ninomiya (2011) Masato Sakai (2012) Eita (2013) Masato Sakai (2014) Takeru Satoh (2015) Hiroshi Abe (2016)

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