Masaya Oki

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title: "Masaya Oki" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["actors-from-ōita-prefecture", "people-with-bipolar-disorder", "suicides-by-jumping-in-japan", "1952-births", "1983-deaths", "20th-century-japanese-male-actors", "people-from-beppu,-ōita", "singers-from-ōita-prefecture", "1983-suicides"] description: "Japanese actor and singer" topic_path: "arts/film" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaya_Oki" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese actor and singer ::

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Field	Value
name	Masaya Oki
image	Masaya Oki.jpg
birthname	Jōji Kusunoki
birth_date
birth_place	Beppu, Ōita, Japan
death_date
death_place	Keio Plaza Hotel, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
occupation	Actor
years_active	1968–1983
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| name = Masaya Oki | image = Masaya Oki.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = Jōji Kusunoki | birth_date = | birth_place = Beppu, Ōita, Japan | death_date = | death_place = Keio Plaza Hotel, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1968–1983 Masaya Oki was a Japanese actor and singer who appeared in many films and television series.

Life

He was born in Beppu, Ōita, as Jōji Kusunoki. Because of his parents' divorce, he left his home and went to Tokyo. In the same year, he debuted as a film actor at the Nikkatsu studio. In 1969, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. Oki was playing lead role in Toshiya Fujita's film " Wet Sand in August" but was forced to drop off in a motorcycle accident while shooting.

He gradually won popularity through his roles in television dramas such as Hissatsu series and Taiyo ni Hoero!. In 1979, Oki played lead role in Oretachi wa Tenshi da! on NTV and won new popularity.

In 1975, he became an adopted child of his talent agency president, Tadao Hikage.

Oki was one of the most influential candidates for the role of D Capt. Yonoi in Nagisa Oshima's film in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence but he had to step down because of his illness.

He ended his life by leaping from the top of a 47-story building, the Keio Plaza Hotel. He suffered from bipolar disorder. His suicide note for Hikage was "Dad, I'm waiting in Nirvana."

Films

• *Arushojonokukuhaku Junketsu * (1968)
• ** (1969)
• ** (1969)
• Hanahiraku Musumetachi (1969)
• • • (1970)
• ** (1970)
• ** (1970)
• Shinjuku outlaw: Step On the Gas (1970) as Rikiya
• Kantō Exile (1971)
• A Man′s World (1971) as Osamu Ogata
• • Za Gokiburi * (1973)
• The War in Space (1977) as Reisuke Muroi
• Queen Bee (1978) as Rentarō Tamon
• Kitamura Toya Wagafuyunouta (1978) as Ishizaka Kozen
• Hi no Tori (The Phoenix) (1978) as Uraji
• Blue Christmas (1978) as Harada
• Toward the Terra (1980)
• Koto (also known as Koto, the Ancient City) (1980) as Ryusuke Mizuki

Television

• Key Hunter (From episode210)
• Hissatsu series
  • Hissatsu Shiokinin (1973) as Kanoke no Joe
  • Hissatsu Shiokiya Kagyō (1975) as Ichimatsu
  • Hissatsu Karakurinin Fugakuhiyakkei Koroshitabi (1978) as Tōjūrō
• Taiyō ni Hoero! ("Scotch") (1976–77) (1980-1982) as Taki Ryūichi
• Daitsuiseki (1978) as Yabuki Shirō
• Sanshiro Sugata as Higaki Gennosuke/ Higaki Tesshin
• Oretachi wa Tenshi da! (1979) as Asō Masato
• Shin Edo no Kaze (1980-1981) as Tachibana Seiichirō
• Edo no Asayake (1981)
• Ōoku (1983) as Tokugawa Iemitsu

References

References

1. Oki Masaya to Daitsuiseki p.29
2. 沖雅也と「大追跡」 70年代が生んだアクションの寵児』　かわだわか 2008 ワイズ出版ISBN 978-4898302316 P.10-12
3. Oki masaya to Daitsuiseki p27-29
4. 沖雅也in太陽にほえろ!　p.100-101 {{ISBN. 978-4820383581
5. "沖雅也とは". kotobank.
6. "創刊60年の騒然男女」芸能スキャンダルの真相！". Asahi.
7. "Oki Masaya". Asahi Shinbun.
8. [[Yomiuri Shimbun]] 28 June 1983 evening p.1

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