Toshiyuki Nishida
Acting
Biography
Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947, died October 17, 2024) was 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.
Born: November 4, 1947
Place of Birth: Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan
Known For
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who solidified the Tokugawa power base.
人生の楽園
Special Crime Investigation Front
The Three Musketeers
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that his feudal lord, Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori (Tamayama Tetsuji), had stabbed Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka (Nishida Toshiyuki), the master of ceremonies, at Edo castle. Lord Asano was ordered to commit ritual suicide and the Ako clan abolished. Facing up to the gravity of this unfair ruling, since only one party was being punished instead of both as would be usual, Oishi decides to lead the loyal former retainers in an attack on Lord Kira so that he could take Kira’s head to his lord’s gravesite so that Lord Asano could finally rest in peace.
Station to Heaven
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.
The Great White Tower
Two surgeons with contrasting objectives are asked to work together in a city hospital. While one of them strives to achieve fame and power through his work, the other wants to save human lives.
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has more affection for insects than people after years of being bullied at school when he was young. Yoshida soon realizes that Asahiyama Zoo is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director Takizawa (Toshiyuki Nishida) has been doing everything in his power to save the zoo from closing down. Moved by Takizawa's passion, Yoshida and other zoo keepers came to share the zoo director's belief that one's dreams can come true, and together they tackle this seemingly impossible task of revitalizing Asahiyama. A breakthrough arrives in the form of “Behavioral Exhibition,†a method that is pioneered by Ashiyama's zoo keepers and which eventually makes the zoo renowned throughout the world.
Family's Form
39-year-old Nagasato Daisuke is a bachelor who works for a stationery manufacturer. Although he is attuned to trends and interacts with other people flawlessly, he hates being hurt by love. Daisuke is not disatissified with living alone. On the day he moves to his new apartment, he meets his neighbour Hanako for the first time due to an unpleasant situation. 32-year-old Kumagai Hanako is a divorced office lady. She has the clear intention not to remarry and is already preparing for old age. For some reason, Daisuke and Hanako keep quarreling right from the time they meet. But the two of them actually have many similarities. One day, Daisuke’s father Yozo suddenly visits for the first time in five years. He had secretly remarried in this time and has a step-son in tow. Meanwhile Hanako’s mother Ritsuko starts living separately from her husband and comes to live with her beloved daughter without consulting her. Daisuke and Hanako’s lives as swinging singles get disrupted because of parents who have no hesitation about enjoying their own lives.
Filmography
as [Farmer]
as Jiro Komura
as Goichi Hongo
as Prime Minister Kan Nishiotachime
as Toru Sengawa
as Jusaburo Miyama
as Imada
as Kuniaki Hyodo
as Kanji Kitamura
as Shinsuke Tomizawa
as Nishino
as Yuuji Namiya
as Yoneda Katsumi
as Kentaro Nishimura
as Iwakura Jusaburo
as Doctor Domoto
as Mysterious Old Man
as Yukio Kozukue
as Nakanussan
as Tetsusaburo Tendou
as Buichi Miki
as Kuraki Kazuya
as Dosan Saito
as Shogo Senba
as Koizumi Kinjirou
as Ieyasu Tokugawa
as Dennai Funaki
as Rokubei Sarashina
as 선생님
as Tanomo Saigo
as Zii-chan
as Shigekatsu Hiruma
as Osamu Torii
as General Kajima
as Nishino
as Iwa (voice)
as The Salaryman
as Rokubei Sarashina
as Yasuhiro Matoba
as Toshio Kirishima
as Dad
as Hideyoshi Hashiba (Hideyoshi Toyotomi)
as Yoshinaka Kira
as Hikozaemon Tokugawa
as Tokijiro Yame
as 高橋是清
as Bertrand (voice)
as Kanji Takizawa
as Soho Tokutomi
as Teshio
as Yoshinobu Kisahara
as Ippongi Katsutaro
as Maezumi
as Moses
as Ieyasu Morita
as 刈谷一
as Daikichi Fukumaru
as Kazuaki Tsubakiyama
as Zenbu Tokugawa
as Ieyasu Tokugawa
as MC
as Elder Toshiaki Yajima
as Densuke
as Shoukichi Yanaka
as Matachi Zaizen
as Daisuke
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Hanbei
as Dr. Shibata
as Toshiaki Hamasaki
as Dennosuke Hamasaki
as Tokugawa Hidetada
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Toshiaki Hamasaki
as Saitō Dōsan
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Katsuo Shirogane
as Tokugawa Yoshimune
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Mr. Kuroi
as Yamada
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Huang Fung Foo
as Atsuzou - navigator
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Densuke Hamasaki
as Saigo Takamori
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Densuke Hamazaki
as Zhu Wangli
as Naomi Uemura
as Tagawa
as Tadashi Amo
as Akashi Kanpei
as Scam Artist
as Kyokutei Baken
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
as Kōichi Tabuchi
as Kōichi Tabuchi
as Kōichi Tabuchi
as Loan Collector
as Kosuke Kindaichi
as Pigsy
as Suketaro
as Detective Takasugi
as Nagakura Shinpachi
as 島田源太郎