was a leading Japanese actor. His film credits span three decades, from 1960 to 1990.
(Suga Kantarō) at JMDB
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(Retrieved on April 30, 2009) One of his prominent appearances was in the lead role in '' Pastoral: To Die in the Country''. Suga also appeared in '' The Gate of Youth'',Kotaro Minami
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A frequent television guest star, Suga acted in '' jidaigeki'' and contemporary shows. Twenty appearances on '' Abarenbō Shōgun'', thirteen on '' Zenigata Heiji'', eleven on '' Momotarō-zamurai'', nine on ''Ōoka Echizen
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'', seven on '' Edo o Kiru'', and numerous guest roles on various programs in the Mito Komon'' and Hissatsu series top his list of roles.[
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Death
On the night of March 16, 1994
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, on his way home in Aso ward, Kawasaki city, Kanagawa Prefecture, he was hospitalized for a blow to the head in contact with a motorcycle at a pedestrian crossing in front of his home, and 6 days later, on March 22, 1994, due to a brain contusion, Midori ward, Yokohama city he died at Yokohama New Urban Neurosurgery Hospital. on March 23, after the burial by family relatives was held, it became known in newspapers on March 24, and on March 25, the news was reported in each newspaper. on April 10, a funeral and farewell ceremony was held at the Yamaguchidai kaikan in Kawasaki city with Masao Sato, director of the Toei kyoto Studio, as the funeral chairperson. He died at the age of 59.
Filmography
Film
*''Knightly Advice'' (1962)
*''Jûsan-nin no shikaku'' (1963) - Naritsugu
*''Ankokugai Main Street'' (1964) - Katsuo Nakata
*'' Sword of the Beast'' (1965) - Daizaburo
*''Gohiki no shinshi'' (1966)
*''Eleven Samurai
, also known as ''11 Samurai'', is a 1967 Japanese ''jidaigeki'' (period drama) film directed by Eiichi Kudo. This is the third and final chapter in Kudo's Samurai Revolution trilogy. The plot is a samurai epic with a loose historical basis. "Th ...
'' (1967) - Lord Nariatsu
*''Mushukunin mikogami no jôkichi: Kawakaze ni kako wa nagareta'' (1972)
*''Mushukunin Mikogami no Jôkichi: Kiba wa hikisaita'' (1972)
*''Onsen suppon geisha'' (1972) - Kurajirô Hattori
*''Sukeban: Tamatsuki asobi'' (1974) - Koike
*'' Pastoral: To Die in the Country'' (1974) - Me
*''Ôoku ukiyo-buro'' (1977)
*''Piranha-gundan: Daboshatsu no ten'' (1977) - Keiji Sasamoto
*''Tarao Bannai: Kimen mura no sangeki'' (1978) - Kazuomi Ebata
*'' The Yagyu Conspiracy'' (1978) - Matsudaira Tadanao
*''Seishun no mon'' (1981) - Ichimura
*''Tsumiki kuzushi'' (1983) - Teacher
*''Jinsei gekijo'' (1983)
*''Renzoku satsujinki: Reiketsu'' (1984) - Takafumi Tatsuta
*''Hakujitsumu 2'' (1987) - Doctor
*'' Shinran: Path to Purity'' (1987) - Zennen
*''Hanazono no meikyu'' (1998)
*'' Shaso'' (1989) - Hiroto, Fukamachi
*''Gokudo no onna-tachi: Saigo no tatakai'' (1990) - Lawyer Sakurai
*''Kyokutô kuroshakai'' (1993)
Television
*'' Shinsho Taikōki'' (1973) - Ashikaga Yoshiaki
*'' Shadow Warriors'' (1980)
*'' Ōoku'' (1983)
*'' Kawaite sōrō'' (1984)
*'' Kamen Rider Black'' (1987, episode 1) - Souichiro Akizuki
*'' Mito Komon''（1989,episode 18） - Ichijyo Sanyi
References
Japanese male film actors
1934 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Japanese male actors
People from Yuzawa, Akita
Actors from Akita Prefecture
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