Toshiyuki Nishida

Biography

Toshiyuki Nishida (西田敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947, died October 17, 2024) was a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsuribaka Nisshi 6 (1993). He has also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for Get Up! and Tsuribaka Nisshi 14 (2003). Outside Japan he is best known for his role as Pigsy (Cho Hakkai) in Monkey.

Known For

Monkey

Pigsy

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

Guest

Kita no kazoku

島田源太郎

Hitomi

Ippongi Katsutaro

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Shigekatsu Hiruma

As If In Flight

Saigo Takamori

Tiger and Dragon

Shoukichi Yanaka

Going My Home

Osamu Torii

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Doctor X: The Movie Final
2024	The Last Town We Saw	[Farmer]
2022	What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?	Prime Minister Kan Nishiotachime
2021	A Morning of Farewell	Toru Sengawa
2020	Voices in the Wind	Imada
2019	必殺仕事人2019
2018	4.50 from Paddington	Shinsuke Tomizawa
2018	Kohaku no yume
2017	Outrage Coda	Nishino
2017	The Miracles of the Namiya General Store	Yuuji Namiya
2017	Kohaku	Yoneda Katsumi
2016	Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
2016	A Living Promise	Kentaro Nishimura
2015	The Housekeeper Saw!	Iwakura Jusaburo
2015	Maestro!	Tetsusaburo Tendou
2015	A Farewell to Jinu	Nakanussan
2015	Love & Peace	Mysterious Old Man
2015	Galaxy Turnpike	Doctor Domoto
2015	Murder on the Orient Express	Buichi Miki
2015	大使閣下の料理人	倉木和也
2014	Out Burn	Shogo Senba
2014	Shadow Warrior Tokugawa Ieyasu	Ieyasu Tokugawa
2013	Reunion
2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Rokubei Sarashina
2013	A Tale of Samurai Cooking	Dennai Funaki
2013	The Glacier Fox - 35th Anniversary Edition	柏の木
2012	A Letter to Momo	Iwa (voice)
2012	Beyond Outrage	Nishino
2012	Emperor	General Kajima
2012	Fly with the Gold	Zii-chan
2012	The Castle of Crossed Destinies
2012	FLY！～平凡なキセキ～
2011	Phone Call to the Bar	Toshio Kirishima
2011	Hayabusa	Yasuhiro Matoba
2011	Star Watching Dog	Dad
2011	A Ghost of a Chance	Rokubei Sarashina
2011	A Flawless Concierge
2010	Space Battleship Yamato	Hikozaemon Tokugawa
2010	Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke	Yoshinaka Kira
2010	Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Episode Competition
2009	Castle Under Fiery Skies
2009	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	Kanji Takizawa
2009	Chichi yo, anata wa erakatta - 1969 nen no oyaji to boku
2009	Free and Easy 20: Final
2008	The Magic Hour	Teshio
2008	The Ramen Girl	Maezumi
2008	Free and Easy 19
2008	AIBOU: The Movie	Yoshinobu Kisahara
2008	What the War Meant	Soho Tokutomi
2008	Flowers in the Shadow	Moses
2008	Oka wo koete
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django
2007	Free and Easy 18
2007	Happily Ever After	Ieyasu Morita
2006	Free and Easy 17
2006	Suite Dreams	Zenbu Tokugawa
2006	Tsubakiyama's Send Back	Kazuaki Tsubakiyama
2005	広島昭和20年8月6日
2005	Miracle in Four Days
2005	Free and Easy 16	Densuke
2004	Half a Confession
2004	Free and Easy 15
2003	Free and Easy 14	Densuke Hamazaki
2003	Get Up!	Daisuke
2002	Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS	Kagaya
2002	Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso	Dr. Shibata
2001	Tokyo Zance
2001	Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project	Toshiaki Hamasaki
2000	Free and Easy 11	Dennosuke Hamasaki
1998	Free and Easy 10	Toshiaki Hamasaki
1998	Oda Nobunaga	Saitō Dōsan
1998	Free and Easy: Samurai Edition	Densuke Hamazaki
1997	Free and Easy 9	Densuke Hamazaki
1997	The Rainbow Seeker 2
1996	A Class to Remember II
1996	The Rainbow Seeker
1996	Free and Easy 8
1994	Free and Easy 7
1994	Free and Easy Special
1993	A Class to Remember	Mr. Kuroi
1993	Free and Easy 6	Densuke Hamazaki
1993	How to speak Japanese	Yamada
1992	The Dream of Russia	Atsuzou - navigator
1992	Midwinter Camellia
1992	Heavenly Sin
1992	Free and Easy 5	Densuke Hamazaki
1991	Free and Easy 4	Densuke Hamazaki
1990	Free and Easy 3	Densuke Hamasaki
1989	Free and Easy 2	Densuke Hamazaki
1988	The Silk Road	Zhu Wangli
1988	Free and Easy	Densuke Hamazaki
1986	Lost in the Wilderness	Naomi Uemura
1984	Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
1984	Station to Heaven	Tagawa
1984	Location
1982	Karate Cop	Scam Artist
1981	Edo Porn	Kyokutei Baken
1980	There Goes Our Hero: After the Ball Game	Kōichi Tabuchi
1980	There Goes Our Hero: The Heat of the Pennant Race	Kōichi Tabuchi
1979	The Man Who Stole the Sun	Loan Collector
1979	Devil's Flute	Kosuke Kindaichi
1979	Dead Angle
1979	There Goes Our Hero	Kōichi Tabuchi
1977	Ballad of Orin	Suketaro
1977	The Far Road
1974	The Last Swordsman	Nagakura Shinpachi
1974	The Tattered Banner

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	Sayonara, Maestro!	Jiro Komura
2023	Fixer	Goichi Hongo
2022	Nature’s Hidden Miracles	教授
2021	Story of My Family!!!	Jusaburo Miyama
2020	Peep Time
2019	SIGN	Kuniaki Hyodo
2018	Miss Devil	Kanji Kitamura
2016	Family's Form
2015	Free and Easy: The Rookie Densuke Hamasaki
2015	Murder on the Orient Express
2015	I'm Home	Yukio Kozukue
2014	Nobunaga Concerto	Dosan Saito
2014	TEAM -警視庁特別犯罪捜査本部
2014	Miyamoto Musashi
2014	Back of Father	Koizumi Kinjirou
2013	Yae's Sakura	Tanomo Saigo
2013	Onna Nobunaga
2013	居眠り先生	선생님
2012	Going My Home	Osamu Torii
2012	Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon	Shigekatsu Hiruma
2011	Taro no Tō
2011	The Two Strategists of the Warring States Era	Hideyoshi Hashiba (Hideyoshi Toyotomi)
2010	The History of Our Family	Tokijiro Yame
2010	Detective Lovesick
2009	The Three Musketeers	Bertrand (voice)
2009	Clouds Over the Hill	高橋是清
2008	Hitomi	Ippongi Katsutaro
2007	Asakusa Fukumaru Ryokan	Daikichi Fukumaru
2007	浅草福丸旅館
2007	王様の心臓〜リア王より〜	刈谷一
2006	Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006	Love and Glory	Ieyasu Tokugawa
2005	Tiger and Dragon	Shoukichi Yanaka
2005	人生の楽園	MC
2004	Jiiji~Mago to ita Natsu~
2003	Musashi	Hanbei
2003	The Great White Tower	财前又一
2003	川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語
2003	Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game	Guest
2000	Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations	Tokugawa Hidetada
1999	Kagayakeru Shunkan
1995	Eighth Shogun Yoshimune	Tokugawa Yoshimune
1994	Always Have The Sun in Mind	Koutarou
1990	As If In Flight	Saigo Takamori
1988	Takeda Shingen
1984	Burning Mountain River	Tadashi Amo
1983	Akashi Kanpei 35-sai	Akashi Kanpei
1982	淋しいのはお前だけじゃない
1981	Onna Taikoki	Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1980	Ikenaka Genta 80 kilo
1978	Monkey	Pigsy
1977	Special Crime Investigation Front	Detective Takasugi
1974	White Runway
1973	Kita no kazoku	島田源太郎
	Japan Academy Film Prize Award Ceremony
	いごこち満点
	Downtown Story