---
name: "Yoshi Oida"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yoshi-oida"
fi1m_id: "yoshi-oida"
imdb_id: "nm0645224"
tmdb_id: 21663
wikidata_id: "Q188435"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 July 1933"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:48:01.135260+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yoshi Oida

## Identity

Yoshi Oida

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yoshi-oida
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yoshi-oida
- **IMDb ID:** nm0645224
- **TMDB ID:** 21663
- **Wikidata ID:** Q188435
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645224/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21663

Actor. Born 26 July 1933 in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 July 1933, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
- **Also known as:** Yoshi Oïda
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188435, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0645224/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21663

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Pillow Book*](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Yoshi Oida is a Japanese actor, stage director and writer, also credited as Yoshi Oïda. Born on 26 July 1933 in Kobe, he trained in traditional Japanese theatre forms including Noh and Kyogen, studied philosophy at Keio University, and collaborated early in his career with Yukio Mishima.

He has lived in France since the late 1960s, joining Peter Brook’s company and the Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale in Paris in 1970. Oida has appeared in numerous international films, including *The Pillow Book* (1995) as The Publisher, *Wasabi* (2001), *Taxi 2* (2000), *The Stone Council* (2006) and *Silence* (2016). He has also directed theatre and opera productions and written books on acting.

In 2013 he was appointed Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.

*Sources: imdb.com, nippon.com, nl.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Pillow Book* (1995), Fi1m 64, as The Publisher — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nô Feminist* (2022), as Hiro
- *Adieu Paris* (2022), Actor
- *Show Me the Way to the Station* (2019), as Fuse Kotaro
- *The Last Recipe* (2017), as Seimei Yo
- *Open at Night* (2017), as Atsuhiko Dazai
- *Basho* (2017), as Basho Matsuo
- *Silence* (2016), as Ichizo
- *Sannin Kichisa* (2015), as Yasumori's retainer Yajibei/Dojo guardian
- *Invisible World* (2013), as Segment "O Ser Transparente"
- *Operation Casablanca* (2011), as Takahata
- *The Last Ronin* (2010), as Chaya Shirōjirō
- *The Stone Council* (2006), as Kamal
- *Carmen* (2005), as Firiushi
- *The Tragedy of Hamlet* (2002), as First Player
- *Wasabi* (2001), as Takanawa 'Zébra'
- *Taxi 2* (2000), as Yuke Tsumoto
- *Autumn Blossoms* (1999), Actor
- *Felice… Felice…* (1998), as Matsukichi
- *The Eyes of Asia* (1997), as Julião Nakaura
- *Madame Butterfly* (1995), as Butterfly's Father
- *The Pillow Book* (1995), as The Publisher — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pillow-book.md)
- *Tollgate* (1994), as Kleist
- *The Mahabharata* (1990), series, as Drona
- *The Mahabharata* (1990), as Drona

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 2013: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Officer of Arts and Letters 2007: Officer of Arts and Letters (won)
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1992: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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