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

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Toshinori Omi
尾美としのり
Born	(1965-12-07) December 7, 1965 (age 56) 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

Television

• Kusa Moeru (1979) – young Hōjō Yasutoki
• Hōjō Tokimune (2001) – Ashikaga Yoriuji
• Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (2006) – Nakagawa Yoshio
• Ryūsei no Kizuna (2008) – Hayashi George
• Teppan (2010)
• Ariadne no Dangan (2011) – Jōichirō Kitayama
• Taira no Kiyomori (2012) – Taira no Koretsuna
• Amachan (2013), Masamune Kurokawa
• Akira and Akira (2017) – Toshio Kitamura
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017) – Sakakibara Yasumasa[10]
• The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa (2017)
• Everyone's Demoted (2019) – Takashi Umehara
• Awaiting Kirin (2020) – Toki Yorinori[10]
• Pareto's Miscalculation (2020)
• The Supporting Actors 3 (2021) – Himself
• Yū-san no Nyōbō (2021) – Masahiko Kobayashi[11]
• Kamen Rider Black Sun (2022) – Isao Nimura[12]
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023)[13]

References

External links

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

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