was a Japanese

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

Career

Born in

Kure, Hiroshima is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...

, Kōyama joined the

Bungakuza is a Japanese theatre company. Along with the Mingei Theatre Company and the Haiyuza Theatre Company it is considered one of the "Big Three" among Shingeki theatre troupes. History The company was founded by Kunio Kishida, Mantarō Kubota and ...

theatre troupe in 1952, first as a directorial assistant and then as an actor. He made his film debut in 1953 in

Tadashi Imai was a Japanese film director known for Social realism, social realist filmmaking informed by a Left-wing politics, left-wing perspective. His most noted films include ''An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and ''Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963). Life ...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water ''An Inlet of Muddy Water'' ( ja, にごりえ, Nigorie) is a 1953 Japanese drama film based on short stories by Ichiyō Higuchi and directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival and awarded numerous national film p ...

''. He left Bungakuza in 1963 and participated in other troupes such as

Gekidan Kumo The was a Japanese theatre company that staged Western-style plays. In 1963, its members split from the Bungakuza company to form their own troupe in response to what they viewed as their former troupe's overly leftist politics. In 1976, the ...

and Engeki Shūdan En. He was also well known for his role in the hit TV show '' The Guardman''. He died in Kyoto Prefecture from

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on 3 January 2017, 13 days before his 88th birthday.NHK news on January 16, 2017 (in Japanese)
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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koyama, Shigeru 1929 births 2017 deaths Japanese male actors People from Kure, Hiroshima Japanese military personnel of World War II