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Takao Osawa (大沢 たかお, Ōsawa Takao^?, born March 11, 1968) is a Japanese actor and a producer. 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.

Filmography [link]

Movies [link]

• Gerende ga tokeruhodo koishitai (1995) .... Masaru Shigure
• Chinpira: Two Punks / Chinpira (1996) .... Yoichi Fujikawa
• The Island Tales / Ihojin tachi / You shi tiaowu (1999) .... Haruki Fukuyama
• Sennen tabito (1999) .... Togashi
• All About Lily Chou-Chou / Lily Chou-Chou no subete / Rirī Shushu no Subete (2001) .... Tabito Takao
• Jam Films (Segment "Cold Sleep") (2002) .... mathematician
• Filament / Firamento (2002) .... Kyota Sawada
• Duel / Aragami (2003) .... The Samurai
• The Battling Angel / Tenshi no kiba B.T.A. (2003) .... Kazumasa Furuyoshi
• Hana (2003) .... Yoichiro Nozaki
• Sky High (2003 film) .... Tatsuya Kudo
• Gege (2004) .... Takayuki Takano
• Hana and Alice / Hana to Arisu (2004) .... Ryo Taguchi (Photographer)
• Socrates in Love / Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World / Shouting Love from the World's Center / Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu (2004) .... Sakutaro Matsumoto
• Into the Sun (2005) .... Kuroda
• Helen the Baby Fox / Kogitsune Helen (2006) .... Koji Yajima
• A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth / Yōki　Na Gyangu Ga Chikyū O Mawasu (2006) .... Naruse
• Metro ni notte (2006) .... Sakichi Konuma
• Christmas on July 24th Avenue / 7 gatsu 24 ka douri no Kurisumasu (2006) .... Satoshi Okuda
• Bizan (2007).... Dr. Daisuke Terasawa
• Life: Tears in Heaven / Tengoku de kimi ni aetara (2007).... Natsuki Iijima
• Midnight Eagle / Middonaito Iiguru (2007) .... Yuji Nishizaki
• The Taste of Fish / Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime (2008) .... Shuntaro Akagi
• Ichi (2008) .... Toma Fujihira
• Love Fight / Rabu faito (2008) .... Joe Oki .... Also producer
• Halfway / Harufuwei (2009).... Hirabayashi
• Goemon (2009) .... Kirigakure Saizō
• Ballad: Na mo naki koi no uta (2009) .... Takatora Okurai
• Flowers (2010) .... Hiroshi Manaka
• Sakurada mongai no hen (2010) .... Tetsunosuke Seki

TV dramas [link]

• Kimi to Ita Natsu (Fuji TV, 1994) .... Ryoichi Aizawa
• Wakamono no Subete (Fuji TV, 1994) .... Shinsuke Yamazaki
• Heaven's Coins / Hoshi no kinka －Die Sterntaler－ (NTV, 1995) .... Shuichi Nagai
• Kamisan no Waruguchi 2 (TBS, 1995) .... Satoshi Mikami
• Heaven's Coins 2 | Zoku Hoshi no Kinka (NTV, 1996) .... Shuichi Nagai
• Gekiteki Kiko - Shinya Tokkyu (Asahi, 1996–1998) .... Koutaro Sawaki
• Only You - Aisarete (NTV, 1996) .... Sumio Ozaki
• Rennai Zenya Ichidodake - Shoya no Asa (NTV, 1996)
• Dessin - Le Dessin d'amour - (NTV, 1997) .... Satoshi Asakura
• Seikimatsu no uta (episode 4) / The Last Song - Boku no namae o atete (NTV 1998) .... Mysterious Man
• Beauty | Utsukushii Hito (TBS, 1999) .... Jiro Murasame
• Another Heaven -eclipse- (Asahi, 2000) .... Goro Minazuki
• Hyaku-nen no monogatari (episode 2) (2001) .... Kazuo Hirose
• Worst Contact (BS-i, 2000) .... Takimoto
• Ex-Lover | Mukashi no Otoko (TBS, 2001) .... Arashi Ikeda
• Ore wa Iwashi (WOWOW, 2003)
• Tokyo Wonder Tours (NTV, 2006)
• JIN (TBS, 2009/2011) .... Jin Minakata

Games [link]

• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (USA) / Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (Europe)/ Reiton Kyoju to Akuma no Hako (Nintendo DS) (2007) .... Vampire Anthony (voice)

External links [link]

• Official website (Japanese)
• Takao Osawa at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• JDorama profile (English)
• Japanese TV Drama Database (Japanese)
• JMDb profile