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'', and ''Not Forgotten''. Ōki started working as a shooting assistant at the

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Tamagawa studio at the age of 16. In 1951, he made his film debut with ''Aa　Seishun'' at Shin Saburi and

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's recommendation. In the same year, he officially signed his contract with

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film company and became an actor. In 1963, he left Shochiku and transferred to Toei. In Toei, he mainly appeared in yakuza films. In 2000, he won the best actor award at the Three Continents Film Festival for his role in ''Not Forgotten''. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2006.

Selected filmography

Films

* ''The Inposter'' (1952) * ''Somewhere Beneath The Sky'' (1954) * ''Lady and Rowdies'' (1955) * ''I Will Buy You'' aka ''Anata Kaimasu'' (1956) as Goro Kurita * ''The Gion Tempest'' (1958) * ''

'' (1958) * ''The Guitarist and the Rancher'' (1960) * '' Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki'' (1962) as Toda * '' Fukurō no Shiro'' (1963) as Gohei * ''Tokyo-Hong Kong,Gangsters'' (1964) * ''The Great Duel'' (1964) * ''

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'' (1964) as Hayato * '' Kaze no Bushi'' (1964) * '' Kamikaze Man: Duel at Noon'' (1966) as Kitazawa * '' Ninpō-chūshingura'' (1966) as Ōishi Kuranosuke * ''The Chivalrous Life'' (1967) as Koike * ''

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'' (1968) as Gōzō Kakui * ''

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'' (1969) * '' Yakuza's Law: Yakuza Keibatsushi: Rinchi'' (1969) * '' Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx'' (1972) * '' Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell'' (1974) as Yagyū Retsudō * '' Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons'' (1973) as Yagyū Retsudō * ''The Originator of Kamikaze'' (1974) * ''Gokuaku Kenpō'' (1974) as Kuroda * ''Fossilized Wilderness'' (1982) * ''Not Forgotten'' aka ''Wasurerarenu Hitobito'' (2000) * ''Gokudō no Tsumatachi Jōen'' (2005)

Television

* ''

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'' (1973-74) (ep.12, 25 and 26) * ''

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'' (1974) (2nd season ep.1) * ''

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'' (1975) (ep.11) as Saheiji * ''

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'' (1977) (ep.12 and 28) * ''

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'' (1978) (ep.35) as Sagimiya Rihei * ''

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'' (1979) (ep.25) as Araki Mataemon * ''

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'' (1980) (ep.65) as Deikichi * ''

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'' (1984) as Imoto Torazō * ''

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'' (1987) as

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* ''

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'' (1988) (ep.18) as Matsudaira Morichika * ''

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'' (1997) (4th season ep.4) as Sōhachi * ''Hōjō Tlokimune'' (2000) as Saionji Saneuji

References

External links

* Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male actors 1923 births 2009 deaths Actors from Osaka Prefecture {{Japan-film-actor-stub