Takao Osawa

Takao Osawa

Birthday: 1968-03-11

Place of Birth: Musashino, Tokyo, Japan

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.

Movies

The Silent Service
The Silent Service

Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and...

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Aragami
Aragami

Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsma...

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Sky High
Sky High

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...

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Goemon
Goemon

Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night w...

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Into the Sun
Into the Sun

After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherto...

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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep with...

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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a p...

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Sakurada Gate Incident
Sakurada Gate Incident

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of ...

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All About Lily Chou-Chou
All About Lily Chou-Chou

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...

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劇的紀行 深夜特急’97 西へ!ユーラシア編
劇的紀行 深夜特急’97 西へ!ユーラシア編

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ICHI
ICHI

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

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Ballad
Ballad

Based on the plot of an award-winning Crayon Shin-chan animated movie from 2002, a boy named Shinich...

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Halfway
Halfway

In this high school romance Hiro is dismayed to learn her new love Shu will be going away to college...

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Midnight Eagle
Midnight Eagle

A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese...

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Shield of Straw
Shield of Straw

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter ...

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Kingdom 2: Far and Away
Kingdom 2: Far and Away

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification....

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The Terminal Trust
The Terminal Trust

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, S...

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Strawberry Night
Strawberry Night

Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko do...

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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
The Hungry Shinjuku Detective

The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity...

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Filament
Filament

Due to his short fuse, Kyota is never able to hold a job for very long. Instead, he wastes his days ...

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Flowers
Flowers

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way t...

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Jam Films
Jam Films

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse....

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Kingdom: Return of the Great General
Kingdom: Return of the Great General

Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zha...

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Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai
Gerende ga tokeru hodo koishitai

A film about love and winter sports....

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Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield along...

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The Lion Standing in the Wind
The Lion Standing in the Wind

Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He...

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The Battling Angel
The Battling Angel

Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is ass...

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Hana
Hana

Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises imme...

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Kano
Kano

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament....

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Two Punks
Two Punks

Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a ma...

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The Island Tales
The Island Tales

A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coas...

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Milk White
Milk White

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome...

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Hana & Alice
Hana & Alice

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a doo...

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Sennen-Tabito
Sennen-Tabito

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl ...

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Riding the Metro
Riding the Metro

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964....

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Christmas on July 24th Avenue
Christmas on July 24th Avenue

Sayuri Honda (Miki Nakatani) claims she has no interests in love affairs. She refuses to take things...

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Bizan
Bizan

Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is ho...

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The Taste of Fish
The Taste of Fish

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshe...

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Love Fight
Love Fight

Minoru has spent most of his life being protected by his spunky female best friend Aki. Fed up, he d...

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Wolf Children
Wolf Children

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son ...

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Helen the Baby Fox
Helen the Baby Fox

A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet....

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Kingdom
Kingdom

Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has ...

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The King and I
The King and I

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...

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Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here

On the eve of her latest fashion showcase in Beijing, successful entrepreneur Yuan Yuan is approache...

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AI Amok
AI Amok

In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence...

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Yakuza Ladies: Revenge
Yakuza Ladies: Revenge

13th installment of the 16-film franchise....

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Ooku Saishusho
Ooku Saishusho

Kume tries to protect her husband Tokugawa Yoshimune and their three children from the schemes of th...

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Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara
Life Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara

Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his ...

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The Man of the Tokyo Olympics
The Man of the Tokyo Olympics

After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent who ...

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Worst Contact
Worst Contact

In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a ...

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The Great Yokai War: Guardians
The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt...

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The Silent Service: The Great Sea Battle of the Arctic Ocean
The Silent Service: The Great Sea Battle of the Arctic Ocean

Yamato submerges in the cold, deep northern seas with Mozart's music echoing. The nuclear-powered su...

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The Smashing Machine
The Smashing Machine

In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fight...

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The Keeper of the Camphor Tree
The Keeper of the Camphor Tree

In Tokyo, left on his own after the loss of his mother and jobless, a series of bad decisions and mi...

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I Am a Sardine
I Am a Sardine

A worn-down office worker, Takagi, meets a Taiwanese woman, Huimin, during a business night out and ...

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