Tomio Aoki
Date of Birth: 7th October 1923
Details of Death: 24th January 2004
Country of Birth: Japan
Biography
Tomio Aoki made his debut in Yasujiro Ozu's "The Life of an Office Worker" ("Kaishain seikatsu", 1929), and it was under the great Japanese director's patronage that he was to find fame, initially with his second film, "Straightforward Boy" ("Tokkan kozô"), in which he plays a young lad who proves more than a handful for his would-be kidnapper. Sadly, only about 10 of the original 38 minutes of this film survives, but the film was so popular that Aoki adopted the Japanese title of the film (literally 'dashing boy') as his screen name for much of the remainder of his pre-war career. The filmography on the left of this page lists all Aoki's pre-war films. After the war he would have two further periods of acting. From 1952 to 1974 he would have mainly secondary movie roles. And then in the mid-1990s he would be coaxed to appear again before the camera by the director Makoto Shinozaki, in the latter's "Okaeri" (1995). He would make further appearances in films before his death in 2004, receiving a much-deserved Best Actor award at the 2000 Nantes Three Continents Festival for his performance in Shinozaki's "Not Forgotten" ("Wasurerarenu hitobito", 2000).
Filmography
- Kaishain seikatsu (1929) (as Third Son)
- Tokkan kozô (1929) (as Tetsubo)
- Zembu seishin ijô ari [Short] (1929) (as Yoshi-bô)
- Ara! sono shûnkanyô (1930)
- Ara! taryodanê (1930)
- Ashi ni sawatta kôun (1930) (as First Son)
- Chanbara fûfu [Short] (1930) (as Kurô, Child)
- Entotsu otoko [Short] (1930)
- Fukeiki jidai (1930) (as Masao)
- Îroke dangô sodoki (1930)
- Ishikawa goemon no hoji [Short] (1930)
- Kinuyo monogatari (1930)
- Koi no shakkingurui no senjutsu [Short] (1930)
- Rakudai wa shitakeredo (1930) (as Landlady's son)
- Umi no kôshinkyoku (1930)
- Yometori kônki kurabê (1930)
- Hige no chikara [Short] (1931) (as Son, Shôichi)
- Machî no runpên (1931)
- Namida no aikyômono [Short] (1931)
- Onna wa tsûyokutê hîtorimonô (1931)
- Shima no ratai jiken (1931)
- Shukujo to hige (1931) (as Kendo no shinpan - uncredited)
- Watashi no papa-san mama ga suki (1931)
- Aozora ni naku (1932) (as Younger cousin, Kenji)
- Chokoreeto gaaru (1932)
- Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki (1932)
- Eraku nare [Short] (1932) (as Shinichi, son)
- Kawaii goke san [Short] (1932)
- Nasanunaka (1932) (as Neighbour's child)
- Onna wa nete matê (1932)
- Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo (1932) (as Keiji)
(aka I Was Born, But...) - Umi no ôja (1932)
- Awatemono no kumasan (1933)
- Dekigokoro (1933) (as Tomio)
(aka Passing Fancy) - Kimi to wakarete (1933) (as Shôkiku's younger brother)
- Kujakubune (1933)
- Nemure haha no mune ni (1933)
- Ôendanchô no koi (1933)
- Okusama no moryokû [Short] (1933)
- Rappa to musume (1933)
- Taihen na shojo [Short] (1933)
- Ureshii koro (1933)
- Yotamono to geisha (1933) (as Buhei's son)
- Genkan-ban to ojôsan (1934)
- Kagirinaki hodô (1934) (as Bellboy)
- Kinkanshoku (1934) (as Shigeru, Ôsaki's brother)
- Koshi no nuketa onna (1934)
- Ukikusa monogatari (1934) (as Tomi-boh)
- Yotamono to hanayome (1934)
- Haha no koibumi (1935)
- Hakoiri musume (1935) (as Tomibô)
- Hanamuko no negoto (1935) (as Boy at liquor shop)
- Jinsei no onimotsu (1935)
- Kare to kanojo to shônentachi (1935)
- Konokô sutezarebâ (1935)
- Tôkyô no eiyû (1935) (as Kanichi, as a Boy)
- Tôkyô no yado (1935) (as Zenko)
- Wakadanna haru ranman (1935)
- Hitori musuko (1936) (as Tomibo)
- Wakadanna - Hyakumangoku (1936)
- Hanagata senshu (1937) (as Country Boy)
- Kaze no naka no kodomo (1937) (as Circus Boy)
(aka Children in the Wind) - Koi mo wasurete (1937) (as Kotarô)
- Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (1937) (as Tomio)
- Furusato no haika (1938)
- Kokumin no chikai (1938)
- Gonin no kyodai (1939) (as Yoji, as a Boy)
- Onna no fûzoku - Dai ichi-wa: Ojôsan no nikki (1939) (as Tomekichi)
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