Takao Toji

Acting

Takao Toji

Born 1948-07-25 · Niigata, Japan

Acting credits

Departures poster
7.9

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

Departures

2008

Fireworks poster
7.7

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

Fireworks

1997

Kids Return poster
6.9

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

Kids Return

1996

The Locked Room Murders SP poster
6.8

Erika Toda joins a law firm headed by Serizawa-san, on the first case she meets Enomoto Kei of Tokyo total security who unlocks Serizawa who has accidentally been trapped in a vault. Form thereon the trio solve 10 cases related to the locked room. Enomoto always makes a small scale model and thinks technically in terms of security and locks to solve cases, while Serizawa assists by hinting some circumstantial evidences. Serizawa is always ready to take credit of new found fame.

The Locked Room Murders SP

2014

Princess Toyotomi poster
5.7

National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularities & to ensure the correct use of federal money in the Osaka city government. Their initial audits go smoothly, but things turn more interesting once they enter the Karahori shopping district - the area with a long history reaching back to the Meiji era.

Princess Toyotomi

2011

Dreaming to Accept Reality poster
NR

A young woman visits her grandparents. But they do not seem to be completely in control of their senses. Composed to a strict beat, bizarre comedy and absurd ghost horror meet.

Dreaming to Accept Reality

2020

Ikiru poster
NR

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.

Ikiru

2007

Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika poster
NR

The story is about a family of three sisters and one brother with a dog living and running a Japanese Ryokan in Tenjin-cho, Hiroshima near Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.

Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika

2005

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special

1998

The Hero Show poster
NR

Two men, a freeter (played by Shusuke Fukutoku) and a man who used to be a non-combat solider (played by Junpei Goto), becomes involved in a cruel crime.

The Hero Show

2010