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 Diary
  • Nowhere Man
  • ''Hello Harinezumi''

    1992

  • The River with No Bridge
  • ''The Guard from Underground''

    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FARDA
  • Drive
  • MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
  • Utsutsu
  • Dolls
  • The Twilight Samurai
  • Last Scene
  • ''Doing Time''

    2003

  • Thirteen Steps
  • Getting Off the Boat at Her Island
  • Collage of Our Life
  • Revolver - Green Spring
  • Rockers
  • Director 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

  • Nightmare Detective
  • Dear Friends
  • Exte
  • ''Glory to the Filmmaker!''

    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 Suzuki
  • Shinsengumi Keppūroku as Susumu Yamazaki
  • Manatsu no Merry Christmas as Akira Ohashi
  • Kôrei a.k.a. Seance a.k.a. Seance as Restaurant customer
  • Furenzu a.k.a. Friends as Kobayashi
  • Tajuu jinkaku tantei saiko - Amamiya Kazuhiko no kikan a.k.a. MPD Psycho a.k.a. Multiple Personality Detective Psycho - Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns as Tooru Sasayama
  • Sayonara ozu sensei
  • Paato-taimu tantei
  • Sabu as Heizo
  • Paato-taimu tantei 2
  • Boku to kanojo to kanojo no ikiru michi as Yoshirou Koyanagi
  • Proof of the Man
  • Seibu Keisatsu Special
  • Samurai Rebellion
  • The Supporting Actors as himself
  • Uso no Sensou as Mamoru Sanpei
  • Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light as Hirotaro Inaba
  • Kinkyu Torishirabeshitsu Season 1, Season 2 as Nakata Zenjiro
  • The Supporting Actors 2 as himself

    Video games

  • Black Panther 2: Like a Dragon Asura Chapter .... Tadashi Tsurumi