Lou Ohshiba

Okay, I genuinely love this guy. Lou Ohshiba built an entire persona around blending English into Japanese mid-sentence, and somehow that gimmick never got old, which tells you it was never really a gimmick at all. There's craft under the goofiness. Born in 1954 in Tokyo, he's been at it for decades as both a comedian and a working actor, and that range surprises people who file him under "novelty." What gets me is the warmth: he walks into a frame and the temperature goes up a few degrees, all easy grins and zero pretension. Plenty of personalities flame out chasing whatever's trendy, but he just kept being unapologetically himself, and watching someone stay that joyful and busy into their later years honestly gives me a little jolt of energy.

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Lou Ohshiba is a Japanese actor and comedy entertainer born on January 14, 1954, in Fukucho, Shinjuku, Tokyo. He is widely known for his distinctive comedic style of freely mixing English words and phrases into everyday Japanese speech, a habit that became his signature trademark. Active across both comedy and acting, he has maintained a long career in Japanese entertainment spanning several decades.

Name (English)

Lou Ohshiba

Name (Japanese)

ルー大柴

Reading

るー おおしば

Born

January 14, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Tokyo (Fukucho), Japan

Height

172cm

Occupation

Actor / Comedy Entertainer / Talent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Horse

Agency

Carino

Active years

1977 -

Works summary

Appearances

161 (1977–2025)

By year (titles with a known year)

1977: 1, 1980: 1, 1986: 1, 1989: 3, 1990: 3, 1991: 4, 1992: 8, 1993: 4, 1994: 2, 1995: 1, 1996: 1, 1997: 3, 1998: 5, 1999: 3, 2000: 3, 2001: 5, 2002: 4, 2003: 3, 2004: 3, 2005: 5, 2006: 3, 2007: 3, 2008: 9, 2009: 3, 2010: 4, 2011: 3, 2012: 4, 2013: 2, 2014: 2, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 5, 2019: 1, 2020: 1, 2021: 3, 2022: 3, 2024: 1, 2025: 1, year unknown: 41

Debut work

明日の刑事

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/louoshiba_
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E5%A4%A7%E6%9F%B4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11349287

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actor
• Comedy Entertainer
• Talent

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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