Osamu Takizawa

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-11-13 (94 years old)

Deathday

2000-06-22

Place of Birth

Ushigome, Tokyo,Japan

Osamu Takizawa

Biography

Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修 Takizawa Osamu , 13 November 1906 – 22 June 2000 ) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno.  His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The Diary of Anne Frank.  Perhaps his most notable film role was in Fires on the Plain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Osamu Takizawa , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1965

Kwaidan

as Author / Narrator (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

1959

1970

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

as Yasuke Eboshiya

1958

Stolen Desire

as Taminosuke Yamamura

1947

1968

1962

Love Under the Crucifix

as Hideyoshi Toyotomi

1954

1955

Christ in Bronze

as Cristóvão Ferreira

1938

1954

Asakusa at Night

as Tozuki's father

1949

1948

1965

A Trap

as Kinzô Ôtsuka

1961

1962

The Inheritance

as Kyoichiro Kurayama

1978

August without Emperor

as Prime Minister Sabashi

1948

Apostasy

as Tatsutarô Inoko

1949

Broken Drum

as Naoki

1950

1938

1953

Before Dawn

as Hanzo

1952

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

as Kôzukenosuke Kira

1951

The Tale of Genji

as Emperor Kiritsubo

1950

1959

1949

1958

1946

The Brick Factory Girl

as Le père de Thuy

1935

Drifting

as Aoyama (an actor)

1960

Jungle Block

as Yonekichi Azusa

1980

1966

The Heart of Hiroshima

as Director of the Hospital

1953

Miniature

as Ino

1958

Crimson Wings

as Junpei Naganuma

1957

On This Earth

as Meichô

1950

Resurrection

as Hiroshi Ushio

1959

1955

1971

The Earth is Born Again

as Corporate chairman

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