Takeshi Ōbayashi
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1942-01-24
Place of Birth:Okayama Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:Takeshi Ohbayashi

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are...

Heaven and Earth (1990)
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across...

Antarctica (1983)
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Space Battleship Yamato (1977)
When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic...

Super Girl Maria (1991)
Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural...

Super Girl Maria: Final Fight (1991)
It's been a year since the fierce battle with the incarnation of hatred, "Yama". Peace returned to the city, and Maria was in her second year of high...

Kobayashi Hitomi no reijo monogatari (1987)
A young lady who lives in a villa, drives a luxury car, plays tennis, throws garden parties and lives a comfortable life. However, she was actually a...

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun (1982)
Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was...

The Two Musashis (1981)
Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the...

Pika**nchi Life Is Hard Dakara Happy (2004)
Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.

Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

Chameleon (2008)
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men...

Ekiro (2009)
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is...

SP: The Motion Picture (2010)
At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro...

Bishimai: hagu! (1985)
Two unmarried sisters live together. They both have careers and boyfriends. And in the end they always have each other.

Kichiku (2002)
Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously...

Serial Killer: Coldblooded (1984)
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

Beaten by Black Rain (1984)
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the...

The Eyes of Asia (1997)
Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538,...

Memory & Desire (1998)
Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have...

The Highest Honour (1982)
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

Sunset Sunrise (1973)
Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a “hippie” road movie chronicling the trek that a...

Love Scenario (2010)
Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him,...

Zankoku! Shōjo tarento (1984)
After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.

The Imperial Navy (1981)
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Gate of Youth (1981)
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

Heavenly Sin (1992)
Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...

Hold Me and Kiss Me (1992)
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Female Doctor: Flesh Slave (1986)
A female doctor tries to prove her innocence when an erotic tape is shown to her fiancé.

A Brief Message from the Heart (1995)
A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Lifetime Insecurity (1994)
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are...

Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy (2002)
"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students,...

GO CRAZY 銃弾を駆け抜けろ! (1996)
Satomi breaks her lover Takao out of jail, who was falsely accused of killing her parents.

SEXY COP 348 (1996)
Asuka Hanyu, a lone wolf who will stop at nothing to investigate, is a cool beauty who throws away her voluptuous body and strikes her enemies right...

Flickering Flames (1977)
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo...

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders (1986)
Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain...

To the Sea, See You (1988)
Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple...

Spring Bell (1985)
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...

Michi (1986)
A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a diner. Their affair brings tragedy to themselves and those...

Denji Sentai Megaranger (1997)
When his video game prowess is discovered by the International Network of Excel-Science and Technology — or I.N.E.T. — high school...

Naguru Onna (1998)
Fired by the company she works at, and desperate for a new job, accountant Yoshimura Kaoru finds herself taking a job at Paradise Gym - a boxing...

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)

The Water Margin (1973)
The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel...

Himitsu Chouhouin Erika (2011)
Sanada plays a salariman who just lost his job. Yonekura, his wife, is a dancer who gave up her career when they got married. In the middle of family...

Kogarashi Monjiro (1972)
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been...

Shōgun (1980)
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

Kumokiri Nizaemon (2013)
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo,...

Hanamura Daisuke (2000)
A comical look at the Japanese legal system. Big corporate law firm seeking to increase their profit margin notices that a lot of the partners spend...

The Woman of S.R.I. (1999)
Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the...

Kisarazu Cat's Eye (2002)
When 21-year-old Kohei learns he has six months to live, he recruits his friends to form a group of cat burglars who steal for the good of the...