Acting

Tomio Aoki

Born October 7, 1923 · Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Died January 24, 2004 · aged 80

Tomio Aoki (October 7, 1923 in Yokohama, Japan – January 24, 2004 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) aka Tokkan Kozō was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname. I Was Born, But... (1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (193…

Known For

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp · 1956

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

Youth of the Beast

Youth of the Beast · 1963

Youth of the Beast

MovieThrillerCrime

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

The Only Son

The Only Son · 1936

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.

Blood for Blood

Blood for Blood · 1971

Blood for Blood

MovieCrimeDrama

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era · 1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

A Story of Floating Weeds

A Story of Floating Weeds · 1934

A Story of Floating Weeds

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships · 1961

Pigs and Battleships

MovieCrimeDrama

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

I Was Born, But...

I Was Born, But... · 1932

I Was Born, But...

MovieComedyDrama

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.

Filmography

Sort

The Burmese Harp

The Burmese Harp · 1956

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

Oyama

Youth of the Beast

Youth of the Beast · 1963

Youth of the Beast

MovieThrillerCrime

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Terumi Matsui

The Only Son

The Only Son · 1936

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.

Tomibo, Otaka's son

Blood for Blood

Blood for Blood · 1971

Blood for Blood

MovieCrimeDrama

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.

Terasaki

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era · 1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

A Story of Floating Weeds

A Story of Floating Weeds · 1934

A Story of Floating Weeds

An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.

Tomio

Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships · 1961

Pigs and Battleships

MovieCrimeDrama

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Kyuro

I Was Born, But...

I Was Born, But... · 1932

I Was Born, But...

MovieComedyDrama

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.

Keiji

Walking With The Dog

Walking With The Dog · 2004

Walking With The Dog

Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura's ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss · 1970

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

MovieDramaCrime

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District · 1956

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.

Ice Man

Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder · 1964

Intentions of Murder

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

Neighbor

Take Aim at the Police Van

Take Aim at the Police Van · 1960

Take Aim at the Police Van

MovieThrillerMystery

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Clerk of Inn

Five Siblings

Five Siblings · 1939

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune

The Luck Which Touched the Leg

The Luck Which Touched the Leg · 1930

The Luck Which Touched the Leg

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.

First son

Apart from You

Apart from You · 1933

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.

Shôkiku's younger brother

The Will to Live

The Will to Live · 1967

The Will to Live

Forget Love for Now

Forget Love for Now · 1937

Forget Love for Now

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Kotarô (as Tokkan Kozô)

Pistol Opera

Pistol Opera · 2001

MovieCrimeAction

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu · 1965

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

What Did the Lady Forget?

What Did the Lady Forget? · 1937

What Did the Lady Forget?

MovieDramaComedy

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

Tomio

Burden of Love

Burden of Love · 1955

MovieComedyDrama

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu

Red District Businessman

A Japanese Tragedy

A Japanese Tragedy · 1953

A Japanese Tragedy

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

The Rambler Rides Again

The Rambler Rides Again · 1960

The Rambler Rides Again

MovieWesternCrime

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.