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

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^[13]
• The Negotiator: Behind The Reversion of Okinawa (2017)
• Everyone's Demoted (2019) – Takashi Umehara
• Awaiting Kirin (2020) – Toki Yorinori^[13]
• Pareto's Miscalculation (2020)
• The Supporting Actors 3 (2021) – Himself
• Yū-san no Nyōbō (2021) – Masahiko Kobayashi^[14]
• Kamen Rider Black Sun (2022) – Isao Nimura^[15]
• The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023)^[16]