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. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd

Yokohama Film Festival The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, ...

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Shiki Natsuko is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Yōichi Higashi. Cast * Setsuko Karasuma as Natsuko * Morio Kazama as Kanamori * Hirotarō Honda as Nakagaki * Shōhei Hino as Kawamoto * Masumi Okada as Takahito Mori * Nobuko Miyamoto as Mariko Awards 5th Ho ...

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Yūgure made is a 1980 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Release ''Yūgure made'' was received a roadshow theatrical release in Japan on September 20, 1980 where it was distributed by Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distributi ...

'' and at the 6th and 7th Japan Academy Prizes.

Filmography

Films

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Wanpaku Ōji no Orochi Taiji is a Anime, Japanese animated Fantasy film, fantasy adventure film, the 6th feature produced by Toei Animation (then Tōei Dōga), released in Japan on March 24, 1963. English-dubbed versions have been released under several titles, including ''T ...

'' (1963) – childhood Zushiōmaru (voice, credited as Tomohito Sumita) * ''

'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1982) – Ginshirō * ''

Theater of Life is a 1983 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Sadao Nakajima and Junya Satō. Cast *Keiko Matsuzaka *Toshiyuki Nagashima * Kie Nakai *Hiroki Matsukata *Aiko Morishita *Hideo Murota *Morio Kazama *Kō Nishimura * Toshiro Mifune *Kantarō Suga *Yuri ...

'' (1983) * ''

Shanghai Rhapsody is a 1984 Japanese musical drama film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, adopted from the 1979 musical with the same name. It received multiple nominations at the 8th Japan Academy Film Prize, including Director of the Year and Outstanding Performan ...

'' (1984) * '' The Tale of Genji'' (1987) * '' A Chaos of Flowers'' (1988) * ''

Samurai Fiction is a 1998 comedy-samurai film directed by Hiroyuki Nakano. It is almost entirely black-and-white, and follows a fairly standard plotline for a comedy and ''jidaigeki'' samurai film, but the presence of Tomoyasu Hotei's rock-and-roll soundtrack se ...

'' (1998) * ''

The Wind Rises is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI. It was rele ...

'' (2013) – Satomi (voice) * '' A Bolt from the Blue'' (2014) * ''

Honnō-ji Hotel is a temple of the Nichiren branch of Buddhism located in Kyoto, Japan. Honnō-ji incident Honnō-ji is most famous for the Honnō-ji incident – the assassination of Oda Nobunaga – that occurred there on 21 June 1582. Nobunaga lodged at ...

'' (2017) * ''

Flea-picking Samurai is a 2018 Japanese comedy film directed by Yasuo Tsuruhashi.Review "nomitori-samurai" http://www.fareastfilms.com/?news_post_type=trailer-nomitori-samurai Cast *Abe Hiroshi as Hironoshin Kobayashi *Shinobu Terajima as Omine *Etsushi Toyokawa a ...

'' (2018) * ''Underdog'' (2020) * ''

Asakusa Kid ''Asakusa Kid'' is a 2021 Japanese film written and directed by Gekidan Hitori and starring Yo Oizumi and Yuya Yagira. It is a biopic based on the apprenticeship of Takeshi Kitano by Senzaburo Fukami, and adapted from Kitano's 1988 memoir of the ...

'' (2021)

Television drama

*''Onna Taikōki'' (1981) –

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*''Byakkotai'' (1986) –

Matsudaira Katamori Matsudaira Katamori after the Meiji restoration was a samurai who lived in Bakumatsu period and the early to mid Meiji period Japan. He was the 9th ''daimyō'' of the Aizu Domain and the Kyoto Shugoshoku (Military Commissioner of Kyoto). He in ...

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Unmeitōge is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1974. It is based on Renzaburō Shibata's novel of the same title. The lead star is Masakazu Tamura. Plot Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but ...

'' (1993) *''

Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes (specials) in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of ''Columbo'' ...

'' (1996) *''Celeb to Binbō Tarō'' (2008) *''

Massan is a Japanese television drama series, the 91st Asadora (morning drama) broadcast daily on NHK from September 29, 2014, until March 28, 2015. ''Massan'' is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowa ...

'' (2015) – Kumatora Morino *''

Segodon is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori, who has been dubbed ''the last true samurai''. Plot The drama follows the life of historical figure Saigō Takamori ...

'' (2018) – Saigō Kichibei *''

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'' (2020) – Mohei Gondō *'' Japan Sinks: People of Hope'' (2021) – Makoto Ikushima *''Lost Man Found'' (2022) – Satoru's father

Television animation

*'' Akagi'' (2005–06) – Urabe

Live-action

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'' (TV Asahi edition) –

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David Duchovny David William Duchovny ( ; born ) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for portraying FBI agent Fox Mulder on the television series ''The X-Files'' (1993–2002, 2016-2018) and as write ...

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Animation

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The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, ...

'' – Fox Mulder

References

External links

* 1949 births Living people Japanese male actors People from Tokyo Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon {{Japan-actor-stub