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Toshiyuki Nishida

Name in Native Language: "西田敏行" (Japanese/JA)
Actor / Voice Acting In Japan | * 11/04/1947 (76) | Fukushima, Japan (Japan)
Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947) is a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He has also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Get Up! and Tsuribaka Nisshi 14 (2003). Outside Japan he is best known for his role as Pigsy (Cho Hakkai) in Monkey. Nishida serves as the current President of Japan Actors Union and Vice President of the Japan Academy Film Prize Organization Committee. He received the Order of the Rising Sun in 2018. ()
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Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947) is a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He has also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Get Up! and Tsuribaka Nisshi 14 (2003). Outside Japan he is best known for his role as Pigsy (Cho Hakkai) in Monkey.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange st ...

Emperor

PG-13

2012 | 3.1/5 | 1h 45min
Drama, History, War
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Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan's new boss naively tries to retrain him. Later, Su-san and Hama-chan go on a ...

Free and Easy 14

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2003 | 4.0/5 | 1h 56min
 
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Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity. ...

Free and Easy 6

Certification unknown

1993 | 4.0/5 | 1h 36min
Comedy
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An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master. ...

The Ramen Girl

PG-13

2008 | 3.2/5 | 1h 42min
Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Toshiyuki Nishida

2x Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Medal With Purple Ribbon Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor The Order of The Rising Sun, Gold Rays With Rosette Golden Arrow Award Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor 7x Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
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Movies with Toshiyuki Nishida as Actor(90)

as Prime Minister Kan Nishiotachime2022 What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
as Toru Sengawa2021 A Morning of Farewell
as Imada2020 Voices in the Wind
as Shinsuke Tomizawa2018 4.50 from Paddington
2018 Kohaku no yume
as Nishino2017 Outrage Coda
as Yuuji Namiya2017 The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Kentaro Nishimura2016 A Living Promise
2016 Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
as Buichi Miki2015 Murder on the Orient Express
as Tetsusaburo Tendou2015 Maestro!
as Nakanussan2015 A Farewell to Jinu
as Mysterious Old Man2015 Love & Peace
as Doctor Domoto2015 Galaxy Turnpike
as Iwakura Jusaburo2015 The Housekeeper Saw!
as Ieyasu Tokugawa2014 Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Shogo Senba2014 Out Burn
as Rokubei Sarashina2013 The Kiyosu Conference
as Dennai Funaki2013 A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013 Reunion
as General Kajima2012 Emperor
as Iwa (voice)2012 A Letter to Momo
as Zii-chan2012 Fly with the Gold
as Nishino2012 Beyond Outrage
as Toshio Kirishima2011 Phone Call to the Bar
as Yasuhiro Matoba2011 Hayabusa
as Rokubei Sarashina2011 A Ghost of a Chance
as Dad2011 Star Watching Dog
as Hikozaemon Tokugawa2010 Space Battleship Yamato
as Kanji Takizawa2009 Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
2009 Castle Under Fiery Skies
2009 Chichi yo, anata wa erakatta - 1969 nen no oyaji to boku
2009 Free and Easy 20: Final
as Soho Tokutomi2008 What the War Meant
2008 Oka wo koete
as Teshio2008 The Magic Hour
as Yoshinobu Kisahara2008 AIBOU: The Movie
as Maezumi2008 The Ramen Girl
as Moses2008 Flowers in the Shadow
2008 Free and Easy 19
2007 Sukiyaki Western Django
as Ieyasu Morita2007 Happily Ever After
2007 Free and Easy 18
as Kazuaki Tsubakiyama2006 Tsubakiyama's Send Back
as Zenbu Tokugawa2006 Suite Dreams
2006 Free and Easy 17
2005 Miracle in Four Days
as Densuke2005 Free and Easy 16
2004 Half a Confession
2004 Free and Easy 15
2003 Get Up!
as Densuke Hamazaki2003 Free and Easy 14
as Kagaya2002 Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2001 Tokyo Zance
as Toshiaki Hamasaki2001 Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Dennosuke Hamasaki2000 Free and Easy 11
as 斋藤道三1998 Oda Nobunaga
as Densuke Hamazaki1998 Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
as Toshiaki Hamasaki1998 Free and Easy 10
1997 The Rainbow Seeker 2
as Densuke Hamazaki1997 Free and Easy 9
1996 A Class to Remember II
1996 The Rainbow Seeker
1996 Free and Easy 8
1994 Free and Easy Special
as Mr. Kuroi1993 A Class to Remember
as Yamada1993 How to speak Japanese
as Densuke Hamazaki1993 Free and Easy 6
1992 Heavenly Sin
as Shouzou1992 The Dream of Russia
as navigator1992 The Dream of Russia
1992 Midwinter Camellia
as Densuke Hamazaki1992 Free and Easy 5
as Densuke Hamazaki1991 Free and Easy 4
as Densuke Hamasaki1990 Free and Easy 3
as Densuke Hamazaki1989 Free and Easy 2
as Zhu Wangli1988 The Silk Road
as Densuke Hamazaki1988 Free and Easy
as Naomi Uemura1986 Lost in the Wilderness
as Tagawa1984 Station to Heaven
1984 Location
as 種井（詐欺師）(Scam artist)1982 Karate Cop
as Kyokutei Baken1981 Edo Porn
1979 Dead Angle
as Loan Collector1979 The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Kosuke Kindaichi1979 Devil's Flute
1977 The Far Road
as Suketaro1977 Ballad of Orin
as Nagakura Shinpachi1974 The Last Swordsman
1974 The Tattered Banner

TV Shows/Series with Toshiyuki Nishida as Actor(35)

as Jiro Komura2024 Sayonara, Maestro!
2021 Story of My Family!!!
2020 Peep Time
as Kuniaki Hyodo2019 SIGN
as Kanji Kitamura2018 Miss Devil
2016 Family's Form
as Yukio Kozukue2015 I'm Home
2015 Free and Easy: The Rookie Densuke Hamasaki
2014 Miyamoto Musashi
as Dosan Saito2014 Nobunaga Concerto
as Koizumi Kinjirou2014 Back of Father
2014 Back of Father
2013 Onna Nobunaga
as Tanomo Saigo2013 Yae's Sakura
as Shigekatsu Hiruma2012 Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Osamu Torii2012 Going My Home
2011 Taro no Tō
as Hideyoshi Hashiba (Hideyoshi Toyotomi)2011 The Two Strategists of the Warring States Era
2010 Detective Lovesick
as Tokijiro Yame2010 The History of Our Family
as Ippongi Katsutaro2008 Hitomi
as Daikichi Fukumaru2007 Asakusa Fukumaru Ryokan
as Ieyasu Tokugawa2006 Love and Glory
as Shoukichi Yanaka2005 Tiger and Dragon
as Hanbei2003 Musashi
2003 The Great White Tower
as Tokugawa Hidetada2000 Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
as Tokugawa Yoshimune1995 Eighth Shogun Yoshimune
as Saigo Takamori1990 As If In Flight
1988 Takeda Shingen
as Tadashi Amo1984 Burning Mountain River
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi1981 Onna Taikoki
as Pigsy1978 Monkey
as Detective Takasugi1977 Special Crime Investigation Front
as 島田源太郎1973 Kita no kazoku

Additional Information

Full Name: Toshiyuki Nishida
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Tuesday, 11/04 1947 (November) in Fukushima, Japan (Japan) (current age: 76 years + 175 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: Japanese (JA, native language)
Educated at: Meiji University
Member of: Seinenza Theater Company
Represented by: Office Koback
Record Label: Gr8! Records
Other names for Toshiyuki Nishida (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"西田 敏行"
"西田敏行"
"니시다 토시유키"
"にしだ としゆき" (Kana/Japanese)
Toshiyuki Nishida frequently works together with these people:
Rentaro Mikuni (21x, Actor)
Takashi Sasano (21x, Actor)
Yoji Yamada (21x, Crew)
Kei Tani (17x, Actor)
Takeshi Katō (14x, Actor)
Ken Nakamoto (12x, Actor)
Takeshi Kitano (11x, Actor)
Koki Mitani (11x, Crew)
Tomio Kuriyama (10x, Crew)
Yuzo Asahara (10x, Crew)
Miyoko Asada (10x, Actress)
Kenta Kiritani (4x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1236, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/26/2024