<figure id="attachment_458013" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 886px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-458013"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="299487c2"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/1fef90a7f64a67f5d43341b766efe5ea.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-458013" class="wp-caption-text">Even in casual clothes, Osawa’s aura can’t be hidden</figcaption></figure>
<h2>An astonishing carnivorous lifestyle</h2>
<p data-start="104" data-end="621">On a January day when the city was still wrapped in New Year’s cheer, a supermarket in Minato Ward, Tokyo, was bustling with celebrity shoppers picking up ingredients for nanakusa-gayu (seven-herb rice porridge). At the checkout, customers lined up with baskets overflowing with goods. Among them stood a muscular, stylishly imposing ikemen middle-aged man who seemed completely out of place. A housewife gasped, “Ah!” as she caught sight of none other than actor <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Takao Osawa</span></span> (57).</p>
<p data-start="623" data-end="773">That day, Osawa wore a white hoodie under a khaki MA-1 jacket. True to his modeling background, he pulled off the casual look with effortless style.</p>
<p data-start="775" data-end="984"><strong>“Osawa-san comes to this store often, so usually no one makes a fuss when they see him. There’s no need to call out to him. I guess someone unfamiliar with him must have noticed today,”</strong> said a local regular.</p>
<p data-start="986" data-end="1188">After taking a roughly two-year break starting in 2016, Osawa returned to the screen in the 2019 film Kingdom. In 2024, he appeared in the fourth installment, Kingdom: Return of the Great General.</p>
<p data-start="1190" data-end="1562"><strong>“To prepare for his role as General Wang Qi in Kingdom, he trained and controlled his diet for eight years. He gained a staggering 20 kilograms of muscle. Last September, he starred in and produced Chinmoku no Kantai: Arctic Ocean Battle. Shinzo Matsuhashi (56), who produced the Kingdom series, was also involved as co-producer,”</strong> explained a film magazine writer.</p>
<p data-start="1564" data-end="1748">Although his eight-year commitment to General Wang Qi ended with Kingdom: Return of the Great General, in his private life he still maintains a wild, real-life Wang Qi lifestyle.</p>
<p data-start="1750" data-end="2136"><strong>“In October last year, Osawa appeared on the variety show Talk Queens (Fuji TV), where he shared his unique carnivorous habits: ‘The cows are eating enough grass for me, so I don’t need vegetables.’ He apparently dislikes vegetables and caused a stir in the studio by saying, ‘If I’m eating steak, I want at least 500 grams. Anything under 200 grams is just ham,’”</strong> the writer added.</p>
<p data-start="2138" data-end="2277" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">Osawa will turn 58 in March. Perhaps it’s this hearty meat-centric lifestyle that allows him to show no signs of aging as he approaches 60.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_458014" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1123px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-458014"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="21a64771"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/d5055eca35a93b550d5f49fbd6e0778d.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-458014" class="wp-caption-text">He has posted many photos of himself in a sweatshirt on his SNS.</figcaption></figure>
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