Film
My daughter Yoshiko Hideyo Dir. Brian Blum
The Beaver Japanese Businessman #1 Dir. Jodie Foster
An Ideal Marriage Yoshiro Watanabe Dir. Ted Sharks
Beneath Fiery Skies Ichii Dir. Adam Hayes
Save the Underprivileged Yoshi Dir. Ted Sharks
Samurai Seirei Main Dir. DS
A Man Full of Days Good Samaritan Dir. Enrico Cullen
8:46 Ken Yoshida Dir. Jennifer Azano
Ai Yoshizo Dir. Raffi Asdourian
A Samurai Story Genzo Dir. Ittisak Eu-A.
Sleepy Heads Shun Ichikawa Dir. Yoshifumi Hosoya
Labor Pains Father (Day Player) Dir. Tracy Alexson
Father of Mine Shiro Shimura Dir. Aaron McFalane
Sabrina Businessman Dir. Sydney Pollack
Television
Mr. Robot Season 4 Limousine Driver USA Network
Blacklist :Redemption Cab Driver NBC TV
Billions Samurai SHOWTIME
Japanizi Going Going Gong Main Host Disney XD Channel
White Collar Eye Patch (Chinese Gangster) USA Network
Big in Japan Main Host European National TV
Late Night w/Jimmy Fallon Opening Host NBC TV
Samurai Sportsman Main (13 episodes) OLN TV
Late Night w/Connan O'Brien Myself (Guest) NBC TV
Monday Night Football Promo Samurai (Main) ESPN
Shinobi Girl Samurai Spirit Hulu
MTV2 Promo Video Traditional/Modern Samurai MTV2
Today Show Samurai Performer NBC TV
Saturday Night Live Waiter for Halle Berry NBC TV
News Samurai Master ABC/NY1/Fox TV
Theater
Deadly She-wolf, Assassin Rogue (Main) La MaMa Theater/Japan Society
at Armageddon Mandell Theater(Philadelphia)
Utuyo Kakuryo Izo Tachibana Theater HERE
Gekiryu Toshimitsu Theater DNA
Scattered Lives(Fringe NYC) Genji The Robert Moss Theater
The Soul of Samurai Masayuki Sasa Miller Theater, Columbia Univ.
The Karaoke Show Angelsan Project 400
Cannibal the Musical! Indian Chief Saturday Player Production
NY Nippon Republic Main (5 Roles) Jane Street 2R
Performance
Target Free Thursday David Rubenstein Atrium of Lincoln replica rolexCenter
“An Evening with Samurai” Embassy of Japan, WDC,
The first Japanese Delegation 1869 Museum of the City of New York
Cherry Blossom Festival Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Washington DC, Atlanta, Springfield, etc.
all by Samurai Sword Soul For more info, Click HERE
Second Generation Concert Chorus Carnegie Hall
Amateure Night Comedy Rapper Apollo Theater
Master of Ceremony (MC)
Voice Over
Our Cartoon President Show Time
Challengers NHK Cosmomedia
NHK Special NHK
New Yorkers NHK-BS
NBA Fastbreak TV Asahi
Corporate Videos Polo Ralph Lauren, Microsoft, eLearning,etc
TV/Radio Commercials AT&T, Japan Airlines, KDDI, etc
Training
Acting Meisner Technique Gushee & Anania Studio
Samurai Sword Fighting Waki Style Tahei Waki
Karate World Seido Karate Tadashi Nakamura
Kendo New York Kendo Club Noboru Kataoka
Japanese Classic Dance Fujima Style Souke Fujima
Speech Basic Geddeth Smith
Singing Basic Tanya Crist
Special Skill
Samurai Sword Fighting CHOREOGRAPH & PERORMANCE
Karate/World Seido Karate 4th Degree Black Belt (4 Dan/Sensei)
Kendo/NewYork City Need Club Shodan (1st Dan)
Stage Combat
Emcee
Improvisation
Voice Over (Japanese Narration for TV, Radio, Corporate Video, eLearninig, Audio books,etc)
Cherry Blossom Festival Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Washington DC, Mill River Park (Stamford)
Memorial Ceremony for 911 Japan Society
JAM(Japan Arts Matsuri) Theater for the New York City
Ramen Contest Japan Street Festival
NY Cross-Industrial Party Janet, G-Labo
Quiz Show at Atlanta TV Japan
Biography
YOSHI AMAO Biography
Photo by Antonio M. Rosario
Since arriving in New York from Nara, Japan, in 1990, Yoshi Amao has been entertaining audience as an actor, emcee, and samurai martial artist.
After studying under the samurai master, Tahei Waki, Yoshi formed a unique performance group, Samurai Sword Soul (SSS) in 2003. He has been seeking for the spirit of samurai and ultimate sword fighting, and performing all over the world.
As a samurai artist, he was cast for the main role of the TV series, "Samurai Sportsman" (OLN, 2003) and invited as a guest for "The late night with Conan O'Brien" (NBC, 2004), Monday Night Football Promo. Also performed the main role, “Rogue” of "Deadly She-Wolf, Assassin at Armageddon!" at Japan Society NYC, 2005 in Mandell Theater, Philadelphia in 2006, and La MaMa Theater in 2013, which was highly acclaimed as an actor and a co-choreographer by New York Times.
On the other hand, he has been hosting a lot of events and game shows on TV in US and Europe such as "Big In Japan" for Greece, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal in 2008-2009, and “Japanizi Going Going Gong” (Disney XD) in 2013. He also has been emceeing the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Sakura Matsuri as well as Washington DC.
Yoshi also has been doing a lot of voice over works for TV/Radio programs, commercials, and corporate videos, etc.