Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi, born Takashi Osugi was a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVD commentary to the MPD Psycho television series, director Takashi Miike said that he admired Osugi's experience to shift quickly from comic and imbecilic to authoritative and earnest. He died of heart failure at the age of 66 on February 21, 2018.
Filmography
Films
1980s
Kinbaku ikenie Empire of Kids Beautiful Mystery Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride a.k.a. Spring Bride- ''Momoiro shintai kensa''
1990
- ''Love of Sawako''
1991
Door II: Tokyo DiaryNowhere Man- ''Hello Harinezumi''
1992
1993
Sonatine Bodyguard Kiba The Wicked Reporter- ''We're No Angels''
1994
- Ninja Sentai Kakuranger - Sarugami
1995
Black Money- Getting Any?
- ルビー The Target
- Marks
- A Weather Girl
- Voyeurs, Inc. Shinjuku Triad Society
- ''Maborosi''
1996
- XX: Beautiful Prey Ghost Actress a.k.a. Don't Look Up
- Boys Are Ambitious
- Door III
- Scandal
- Kids Return
- A Weatherwoman お天気お姉さん
- ''Non-Stop''
1997
- The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
- Postman Blues
- GANSTER II: 東京魔悲夜 外伝
- D#1
- Full Metal Yakuza
- ''Cure''
1998
- Hana-bi
- Dolphin Through
- Love Letter
- The Black Angel
- The Goofball
- Unlucky Monkey
- Heavenz
- Dog Race
- Give It All
- Tokyo Eyes
- Fishes in August
- ''License to Live''
1999
- Falling Into the Evening
- Shikoku
- Avec mon mari
- Ley Lines
- The Exam
- 新極道伝説 三匹の竜
- Secret
- Charisma
- Dead or Alive
- ''Audition''
2000
- Uzumaki/''Spiral a.k.a. Vortex
- Crazy Lips
- Space Travelers
- Monday
- Persona
- I Am an S+M Writer
- The City of Lost Souls
- By Player
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds
- PARTY7
- 鞠智城物語 防人たちの唄
- Brother''
2001
- 降霊
- Stereo Future
- Rush!
- Go
- Rain of Light
- 化粧師
2002
- Long Love Letter: Hyouryu kyoushitsu
- Kikuchijou monogatari - sakimori-tachi no uta
- Sabu さぶ
- 旅の途中でFARDADriveMPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
- Utsutsu
- Dolls
- The Twilight Samurai
- Last Scene
- ''Doing Time''
2003
- Thirteen Steps
- Getting Off the Boat at Her Island Collage of Our LifeRevolver - Green Spring RockersDirector Infection: "Kenenn"
2004
- Red Moon
- Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
- Zebraman
- eiko
- Village Photobook
- Lady Joker
- ''Out of This World''
2005
- Dead run
- Takeshis'
- ''Life on the Longboard''
2006
- Origin: Spirits of the Past.... Agashi
2007
2008
- Achilles and the Tortoise
- ''Nekonade''
2009
- ''Baton''
2010s
- Postcard
- Yuriko, Dasvidaniya
- Crying 100 Times: Every Raindrop Falls
- Garo: Makai no Hana
- Chasuke's Journey
- Bitter Honey
- Shin Godzilla
- Outrage Coda
- The Chaplain
- ''Back Street Girls: Gokudols''
Television
Katte ni shiyagare! Eiyû-keikaku a.k.a. Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero as SuzukiShinsengumi Keppūroku as Susumu YamazakiManatsu no Merry Christmas as Akira OhashiKôrei a.k.a. Seance a.k.a. Seance as Restaurant customerFurenzu a.k.a. Friends as KobayashiTajuu jinkaku tantei saiko - Amamiya Kazuhiko no kikan a.k.a. MPD Psycho a.k.a. Multiple Personality Detective Psycho - Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns as Tooru SasayamaSayonara ozu sensei Paato-taimu tantei Sabu as HeizoPaato-taimu tantei 2 Boku to kanojo to kanojo no ikiru michi as Yoshirou KoyanagiProof of the Man Seibu Keisatsu Special Samurai Rebellion The Supporting Actors as himselfUso no Sensou as Mamoru SanpeiFinal Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light as Hirotaro InabaKinkyu Torishirabeshitsu Season 1, Season 2 as Nakata ZenjiroThe Supporting Actors 2 as himselfVideo games
- Black Panther 2: Like a Dragon Asura Chapter .... Tadashi Tsurumi