Born in Tokyo in 1972, Nao Omori grew up in a film family and became one of the most quietly commanding actors of Japanese cinema in the 2000s. He gave a career-defining performance as the whimpering hitman Ichi in Takashi Miike s Ichi the Killer (2001), and later starred as the writer at the centre of Zoku Onibaba: The Female Demon (2003) and the acclaimed drama Vibrator (2003). He worked with Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Wife of a Spy (2020) and continues as a leading name in the Japanese arthouse. Omori is regarded as an actor of unusual internal weight and precise physical stillness. Read more