Person Details

Birthday: 1923-10-07 12:17:20

Death: 2004-01-24 12:17:20

Aliases: 青木富夫

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 35

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Tomio Aoki (October 7, 1923 in Yokohama, Japan – January 24, 2004 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) aka Tokkan Kozō was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname. I Was Born, But... (1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (1935) were three other Ozu films in which Aoki had notable roles. Aoki disappeared from Japanese cinema in 1940, at the age of 16, but returned to film acting in Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956). During the 1960s he appeared in films for directors Seijun Suzuki and Teruo Ishii before retiring again in 1972. He again returned to the screen in 1995 in Makoto Shinozaki's Okaeri, and appeared in Suzuki's Pistol Opera (2001). He continued appearing in films, and in short comedies by Shinozaki until his death in 2004. He shared the Best Actor award at the French Three Continents Festival with two of his co-stars for Shinozaki's Not Forgotten (2000). By the time of his death, at the age of 80, Aoki had performed in over 300 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomio Aoki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

The Burmese Harp
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8

The Burmese Harp

(1956) Oyama
A Story of Floating Weeds
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7
The Only Son
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7

The Only Son

(1936) Tomio
Youth of the Beast
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7

Youth of the Beast

(1963) Terumi Matsui
Take Aim at the Police Van
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6

Take Aim at the Police Van

(1960) Clerk of Inn
Apart from You
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7

Apart from You

(1933) Shôkiku's younger brother
I Am Waiting
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6

I Am Waiting

(1957) Shibata's henchman
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
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7

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
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2003 N/A
2001 N/A
2000 Ito
1995 Man at Park
1972 Street person
1971 N/A
1970 N/A
1969 N/A
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1967 N/A
1966 N/A
1965 N/A
1964 Barbershop Owner
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Employee
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Terumi Matsui
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1962 Hayasaki
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Worker A
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1961 N/A
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Kyuro
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1960 N/A
Miyamoto
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Clerk of Inn
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1959 N/A
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Bota-san
Aioi Station policeman A
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Takeuchi
1958 Janitor at bank
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Artisan
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1957 Shibata's henchman
Shin
Painter
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1956 N/A
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Ice Man
Sailor B
Oyama
1955 N/A
Red District Businessman
1954 N/A
1953 N/A
1939 N/A
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1938 N/A
1937 Circus Boy
Kotarô (as Tokkan Kozô)
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Tomio
1936 Tomio
1935 N/A
Zenko
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Don-ko
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Kanichi as a boy
Tomibô
Boy at liquor shop
1934 Tomio
Shigeru, Ôsaki's brother
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Bellboy
1933 Tomio
Shôkiku's younger brother
1932 Neighbour's child
Keiji
boss of the children (as Tokkan Kozô)
1931 N/A
Prefectural Referee (uncredited)
1930 First son
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Masao
Landlady's son
Kurô, Child
1929 Tetsubo
Third son
Year Character Movie/Tv

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