Toshiyuki Nishida

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Toshiyuki Nishida
西田 敏行
Nishida in 2018
Born	Toshiyuki Imai (今井 敏行) (1947-11-04)November 4, 1947 Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Died	October 17, 2024(2024-10-17) (aged 76) Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, business executive
Years active	1967–2024

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

Nishida served as president of the Japan Actors Union and vice president of the Japan Academy Film Prize Organization Committee. He received the Order of the Rising Sun in 2018.