was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993.「個性光る、名脇役」　 Asahi Shimbun読売新聞1993 March 26 朝刊31面 He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa Ōshima.

Biography

Toura was born Mutsuhiro Toura in Osaka, Japan. A graduate of

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, he worked as an English teacher at a private high school before becoming an actor at the Shochiku studios at Ōshima's recommendation. He left Shochiku together with Ōshima the following year and became a freelance actor who often worked with Ōshima, but also repeatedly with director Kaneto Shindō. Toura died of polyarteritis nodosa in 1993 at the age of 62.

Selected filmography

Film

* '' The Sun's Burial'' (1960) as Masa * '' Night and Fog in Japan'' (1960) as Higashiura * '' Zatoichi and the Chess Expert'' (1965) as crippled yakuza * '' Violence at Noon'' (1966) as Genji * '' Japan's Longest Day'' (1967) as Shun'ichi Matsumoto * '' Double Suicide: Japanese Summer'' (1967) * '' Tales of the Ninja'' (1967) (voice) * '' Diary of a Shinjuku Thief'' (1968) as himself * ''

Curse of the Blood is a 1968 Japanese jidaigeki Horror film directed by Kazuo Hase and screenplay by Masashige Narusawa. It stars Masakazu Tamura. Curse of the Blood was adapted from the novel ''Kaidan Kasanegafuchi'' written by Renzaburō Shibata. Plot Source: ...

'' (1968) as Fukaya Shinzaemon * '' Death by Hanging'' (1968) as medical officer * '' Kuroneko'' (1968) as a warlord * '' Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts'' (1969) (narrator) * '' Live Today, Die Tomorrow!'' (1970) as Gondo * '' The Ceremony'' (1971) as Sakurada Mamoru * ''Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71'' (1971) * '' Silence'' (1971) as interpreter * '' Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41'' (1972) as Ministry of Justice officer * '' Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons'' (1973) as Oribe * '' Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi'' (1973) as Karasaki Gen * '' Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs'' (1974) as Tani * '' Military Comfort Women'' (1974) as Yamagami * '' The Life of Chikuzan'' (1977) as Hikoichi * '' Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku'' (1979) as Ono Harunaga * '' Edo Porn'' (1981) * ''

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence , also known in many European editions as , is a 1983 war film co-written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima, co-written by Paul Mayersberg, and produced by Jeremy Thomas. The film is based on the experiences of Sir Laurens van der Post (portra ...

'' (1983) as interpreter * ''

Early Spring Story is a 1985 Cinema of Japan, Japanese film directed by Shinichirō Sawai. Plot summary 17-year-old Hitomi Okino's mother died four years ago, and her father has remarried, causing Hitomi to worry that her father is throwing away all memory of her ...

'' (1985) * ''

Tree Without Leaves is a 1986 Japanese autobiographical film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. Plot Haru, an aged scriptwriter living alone in a house in the mountains, reminiscences his childhood in Hiroshima Prefecture. The youngest child of four, Haru gro ...

'' (1986) as bailiff * '' Yearning'' (1993)

Television

* '' Akō Rōshi'' (1964) as Takebayashi Takashige * '' Taikoki'' (1965) as Hosokawa Fujitaka * ''

Ten to Chi to is a 1990 Japanese film, directed by Haruki Kadokawa and starring Takaaki Enoki, Tsugawa Masahiko, Asano Atsuko, Zaizen Naomi and Nomura Hironobu. The film was released in Japan in June 1990, and an English version was released in North Ameri ...

'' (1969) as Suwa Yorishige * '' Kunitori Monogatari'' (1973) as Shimozuma Rairen * '' Katsu Kaishū'' (1974) as Takano Chōei * '' Kusa Moeru'' as Minamoto no Yukiie * '' Tokugawa Ieyasu'' as Hirate Masahide * '' Unmeitōge'' (1974) as Yami no Hichibei * ''Miyamoto Musashi'' (1985) as Sakai Tadatoshi * '' Sanada Taiheiki'' (1985-86) as Ninja Nakayama Nagatoshi

References

External links

* * 1937 births 1993 deaths Male actors from Osaka 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-actor-stub