was a Japanese actor. Ehara joined

Toei Company () (also styled TOEI) is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution and video game developer and publishing company. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan (all but two of them operated by i ...

and began his acting career with"Nagurikomi Nijyuohachinin shu". In 1957, he won

Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year The Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year is an award given at the Elan d'or Awards The are awards presented annually by the All Nippon Producers Association (ANPA) in Japan to recognize outstanding achievements in domestic motion picture ...

. He died on 27 September 2022, aged 85.

Selected filmography

Film

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Jun'ai Monogatari is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival where Imai won the Silver Bear for Best Director. Cast * Shinjirō Ehara as Hayakawa Kantaro * Hitomi Nakahara * Eiji Okada * Isa ...

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The Rice People is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 10th Cannes Film Festival. Plot Two young men, Tsuguo and Senkichi, return to their small home town during the rice planting festival, and try to make a living a ...

'' (1957) *'' Naked Sun'' (1957) *'' Invasion of the Neptune Men'' (1961) as scientist Yanagida *''Miyamoto Musashi: Hannyazaka no kettō'' (1962) as Seijurō Yoshioka *''

Bushido, Samurai Saga , also titled ''Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai'' and ''Cruel Tale of Bushido'', is a 1963 Japanese drama and jidaigeki film directed by Tadashi Imai. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golde ...

'' (1963) *''Miyamoto Musashi: Nitōryū kaigen'' (1963) as Seijurō Yoshioka *''Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō'' (1964) as Seijurō Yoshioka *'' Jakoman and Tetsu'' (1964) as Osaka *''

Wolves, Pigs and Men is a 1964 Japanese black-and-white crime film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Plot Three brothers are born in a slum. Kuroki, the eldest brother, leaves to join a yakuza organization. Jirō, the middle brother, leaves five years later, leaving the ...

'' (1964) as Mizuhara *'' Blackmail Is My Life'' (1968) *'' Outlaw:Kill!'' (1968) *'' Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie'' (1969) *''

Bakumatsu was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government ...

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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun is a 1972 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It is based on two of the stories in Yūki Shōji's Naoki Prize-winning short story collection of the same name. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreig ...

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Kage Gari is a 1969 jidaigeki manga series by Takao Saito. It follows the adventures of three ronin - Jubei (十兵衛), Sunlight (日光), and Moonlight (月光) - who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shog ...

'' (1972) * ''

Nichiren Nichiren (16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period. Nichiren declared that the Lotus Sutra alone contains the highest truth of Buddhist teachings suited for the Third Age of B ...

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Edo Jō Tairan ''Edo Jō Tairan'' ( ja, 江戸城大乱) also known as "Edo castle rebellion is a 1991 Japanese jidaigeki film, directed by Toshio Masuda. The film depicts political conflict during the Tokugawa shogunate. Plot The 4th Tokugawa Shogun Tokugaw ...

'' (1991) as

Ōkubo Tadatomo was a ''daimyō'' in early Edo period, Japan. He was assigned by the Tokugawa shogunate to Karatsu Domain, Sakura Domain, and finally to Odawara Domain in Sagami Province, (modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture), where his descendants remained until th ...

Television

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Daichūshingura (Dai Chushingura) is a Japanese television dramatization of the events of the Forty-seven Ronin. The first episode aired on January 5, 1971, and the 52nd and final episode appeared on December 28 of the same year. The NET network broadcast it in th ...

'' (1971) as Kataoka Gengoemon *''

Shinsho Taikōki is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1973. It is based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel of the same title. The lead star is Takashi Yamaguchi. Plot The drama depicts the story chronicles the life of Toyotomi H ...

'' (1973) as

Takeda Katsuyori was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen. He was son in law of Hojo Ujiyasu. Early life He was the son of Shingen by the daughter ...

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Naruto Hichō is a series of jidaigeki novels written by Eiji Yoshikawa. The stories were originally serialized as a serial in the Japanese newspaper ''Osaka Mainichishimbun'' , between 1926 and 1927. It has been re-released in book format in 1927 and 1933. Yo ...

'' (1977-78) as Magobei *''

Kusa Moeru is a 1979 Japanese television series. It is the 17th NHK taiga drama. Story Kusa Moeru deals with the Kamakura period. Based on Michiko Nagai's novels "Hojo Masako" and "Enkan". The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako. Cast Minamoto ...

'' (1979) as

Kajiwara Kagetoki was a samurai and retainer of the Kamakura Shogunate during the late Heian and early Kamakura period. He was a spy for Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Genpei War, and a warrior against the Taira clan. He came to be known for his greed and treachery. ...

, Taiga drama * ''

Fumō Chitai is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a movie in 1976 and then twice as a television mini-series in 1979 and 2009. Relationship with actual events *The main character Tadashi Iki is widely seen as based on the real life Ryuzo ...

'' (1979) as Isao Kawamata *''

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...

'' (1983) as

Ishikawa Kazumasa was a Japanese notable retainer under Tokugawa Ieyasu, who served him since childhood, when they were both hostages under the Imagawa in 1551. Biography Kazumasa, also accompanied Ieyasu in the Siege of Terabe 1558, and later at Siege of Marun ...

, Taiga drama *''

Ōoku The refers to the women's quarters of Edo Castle, the section where the women connected to the reigning resided. Similar areas in the castles of powerful , such as the Satsuma Domain, were also referred to by this term. History The ''Ōok ...

'' (1983) as Yamauchi Igasuke *''

Kawaite sōrō is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1984. It is also known as "A Samurai's Sorrow." It is based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike's manga of the same title. The lead star is Masakazu Tamura. Masakazu Tamura's ...

'' (1984) *''Miyamoto Musashi'' (1984–85) as Aoki Tanzaemon *''Hōjō Tokimune '' (2001) as Kō no Morouji, Taiga drama *''

Kokoro is a novel by the Japanese author Natsume Sōseki. It was first published in 1914 in serial form in the Japanese newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun''. The title translated literally means "heart". The word contains shades of meaning—notions of the he ...

'' (2003)

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