Nao Ōmori

Japanese actor

Nao Ōmori
Omori at the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival
Born	(1972-02-19) February 19, 1972 (age 52) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1997–present
Father	Akaji Maro
Relatives	Tatsushi Ōmori (brother)

Nao Ōmori (大森南朋, Ōmori Nao, born February 19, 1972), sometimes credited as Nao Ohmori or Nao Omori, is a Japanese actor. He was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival.^[1]

Career

Omori starred in Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer.^[2] He co-starred with Shinobu Terajima in Ryuichi Hiroki's Vibrator.^[3]

Personal life

Omori is the son of the actor Akaji Maro and the younger brother of the film director Tatsushi Ōmori.^[4]

Filmography

Films

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Fades (1997)
Tenshi ni Misuterareta Yoru (1999) as Shop assistant
Big Show! Hawaii ni Utaeba (1999) as Jimmy
Monday (2000)
Swing Man (2000)
Quartet (2001) as Daisuke
Ichi the Killer (2001) as Ichi
Harmful Insect (2001) as Man at Love Hotel^[5]
Out (2002) as Kenji Yamamoto
Dolls (2002) as Matsumoto's Colleague
Demonlover (2002) as Shoji
Pakodate-jin (2002)
Perfect Blue (2002) as Toshihiko Horibe
Saru (2003) as Isomura
Akame 48 Waterfalls (2003)
Vibrator (2003) as Takatoshi
Hyaku Iro Megane (2003) as Man Investigating Kaede
1-Ichi (2003) as Ichi/Shiroishi
Iden & Tity (2003) as Toshi
Jam Films 2 (2004) as Kuroki Iwao
Kagen no Tsuki (2004)
Breathe In, Breathe Out (2004) as Yutaka Tadokoro
Socrates in Love (2004)
Nonki-na Nesan (2004) as Kazuo
Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005) as Tortured Samurai
It's Only Talk (2005)
Yokubo (2005) as Goro Nose
Rampo Noir (2005) as First Lieutenant Sunaga (story "Imomushi")
A Day Beyond the Horizon (2005)
The Whispering of the Gods (2005) as Ukawa
Kagi ga Nai (2005)
Su-ki-da (2005)
I Just Didn't Do It (2006) as Koji Yamada
Children (2006) as Tatsuya Jinnai
Catch Ball Ya (2006) as Takashi Oyama
Tekkonkinkreet (2006) (voice) as Chocola
Tears for You (2006) as Doctor
The Go Master (2006) as Utaro Hashimoto
Mushishi (2006) as Koro
Otoko wa Sore o Gaman Dekinai (2006) as Takashi
Midnight Eagle (2007) as Kensuke Saito
Missing (2007) as Son
Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
Tokyo! (2008)
Fish Story (2009)
The Vulture (2009) as Masahiko Washizu
The Laughing Policeman (2009) as Kochi Saeki
Sweet Little Lies (2010)
Golden Slumber (2010)
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) (voice) as Akio Kazama
The Egoists (2011)
Unfair 2: The Answer (2011)
Tokyo Playboy Club (2012)
Helter Skelter (2012)
The Ravine of Goodbye (2013)
R100 (2013)
Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
Museum (2016)
Outrage Coda (2017) as Ichikawa
The Outsider (2018) as Seizu
Lying to Mom (2018)
First Love (2019)
This Old Road: Kono Michi (2019) as Hakushū Kitahara
Living in the Sky (2020)^[6]
The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021) as Nurarihyon^[7]
And So the Baton Is Passed (2021)^[8]
Goodbye Cruel World (2022)^[9]
Dr. Coto's Clinic 2022 (2022) as Takashi Sakano^[10]
Shin Kamen Rider (2023) as Spider Augment-01 (voice)^[11]
Kubi (2023) as Hashiba Hidenaga^[12]
The Innocent Game (2023) as Daigo Numata^[13]
Broken Rage (2025)^[14]

Television

Dr. Coto's Clinic (2003–06) - Takashi Sakano^[10]
Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth (2007) - Masahiko Washizu
Ryōmaden (2010) - Takechi Hanpeita
Dr. Storks (2015) - Takayuki Imahashi
Totto TV (2016) - Tadasu Iizawa
My Housekeeper Nagisa-san (2020) - Nagisa-san
Chimudondon (2022) - Kenzō Higa^[15]
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023) - Sakai Tadatsugu

Video games

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016) - Tsuneo Iwami

References

^ 第25回ヨコハマ映画祭日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2004-05-05. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
^ Kehr, Dave (May 19, 2003). "Film Review; The Way of the Yakuza Is (Watch Out!) Lethal". The New York Times.
^ Schilling, Mark (January 7, 2004). "Vibrator - Reviews - Screen". Screen International.
^ Mes, Tom (June 23, 2006). "Midnight Eye review: The Whispering of the Gods". Midnight Eye.
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