was a Japanese actor.

Career

In 1959, Wada was scouted and joined

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Company at the age of 15. Wada's film debut was the 1959 film ''Mugon no Rantō'' directed by

Katsumi Nishikawa (1 July 1918 – 6 April 2010) was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films (seishun eiga). Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkats ...

. In 1971, he left Nikkatsu and became a freelance actor. As a freelance actor he appeared in supporting roles in such films as ''

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'', '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss''.

Selected filmography

Film

* ''Mugon no Rantō'' (1959) : Masao Kinoshita * ''The Poem of the Blue Star'' (1960) : Toru Fujimoto * ''

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'' (1960) : Sadao Matsudaira * ''

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'' (1962) : Akira Sakata * ''Sunset Hill'' (1964) : Shinji * ''

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'' (1964) : Abe * ''Three Stray Dogs'7 : Eiji Minagawa * ''The Black Sheep'' (1967) : Jun Yamazaki * '' Gappa: The Triphibian Monster'' (1967) : Machida * ''To Kill a Kille'' (1967) : Hanji * '' Alleycat Rock: Female Boss'' (1970) : Michio Yagami * ''

'' (1974) : Kunigami * ''Barefoot in Blue Jeans'' (1975) : Keiichi Kazama * '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Last Days of the Boss'' (1976) : Tsutomu Nakamichi * ''Eden no Umi'' (1976) * '' A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness'' (1977) : Yoshizawa * ''

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'' (1977) : Kawanishi * ''

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'' (1978) : Genpachiro Tsurugi

Television

*'' Ryōma ga Yuku'' (1968) : Takasugi Sinsaku *'' Edo o Kiru III'' (1977) : Sakichi *''

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'' (1978–86) : Kazama Shunsuke

References

1944 births 1986 deaths Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male actors People from Mito, Ibaraki Actors from Ibaraki Prefecture {{japan-film-actor-stub