was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1953 and 2003. He died of lymphoma on 21 August 2012.

Selected filmography

Film

* ''

Mahiru no ankoku is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Tadashi Imai. It is based on an actual court case, described in the non-fiction book "Saibankan–Hito no inochi wa kenryoku de ubaeru mono ka" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki. Cast * Kōjirō Kusanagi * Sac ...

'' (1956) * '' An Actress'' (1956) - Akio Satomi * '' The Burmese Harp'' (1956) - Pvt. Kobayashi * ''

Lucky Dragon No. 5 Lucky may refer to: *An adjective of luck Lucky may also refer to: Film and television * '' Lucky: No Time for Love'', a 2005 Hindi-language romance starring Salman Khan, Sneha Ullal, and Mithun Chakraborty * ''Lucky'', a 2005 short film by Av ...

'' (1959) - Announcer * '' The Scent of Incense'' (1964) - Murata * ''

The Snow Woman is a 1968 Japanese fantasy horror film directed by Tokuzō Tanaka and produced by Daiei Film. The film is an expanded adaptation of the Yuki-onna short story as it appeared in the 1904 collection '' Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things ...

'' (1968) * '' Coup d'Etat'' (1973) - Army officer * ''

Shogun Assassin ''Shogun Assassin'' is a 1980 ''jidaigeki'' film directed by Robert Houston. ''Shogun Assassin'' was edited and compiled from the first two films in the ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' series, using 12 minutes of the first film, '' Lone Wolf and Cub: Sw ...

'' (1980) * '' The Battle of Port Arthur'' (1980) - Narrator * ''

Chōchin The traditional lighting equipment of Japan includes the , the , the , and the . The is a lamp consisting of paper stretched over a frame of bamboo, wood or metal. The paper protected the flame from the wind. Burning oil in a stone, metal, ...

'' (1987) * '' Luminous Moss'' (1992) - Novelist * '' Kamikaze Taxi'' (1995) - Domon * ''

My Secret Cache ''My Secret Cache'' is a 1997 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is . It was directed by Shinobu Yaguchi. Plot The film begins with a prologue that quickly sketches the backstory of the protagonist: since childhood, Saki ...

'' (1997) - Morita * ''

After Life The afterlife (also referred to as life after death) is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. The surviving esse ...

'' (1998) - Ichiro Watanabe * '' Samurai Fiction'' (1998) - Kanzen Inukai

Television

* '' Minamoto no Yoshitsune'' (1966) - Hitachibō Kaison * '' Ōgon no Hibi'' (1978) - Akechi Mitsuhide * '' Tokugawa Ieyasu'' (1983) - Honda Masanobu * ''

Sanga Moyu ''Sanga Moyu'' (山河燃ゆ) is a Japanese television drama based on the 1983 novel ''Futatsu no Sokoku'' (二つの祖国) by Toyoko Yamazaki. It was NHK's taiga drama in 1984. Synopsis The Amo family lives in Los Angeles, California. Two of ...

'' (1984) - Taketora Matsui * ''Musashibō Benkei'' (1986) - Hōjō Tokimasa * '' Takeda Shingen'' (1988) - Gishū * '' Hana no Ran'' (1994) -

Ichijō Kaneyoshi , also known as Ichijō Kanera, was the son of regent Tsunetsugu. He was a '' kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Muromachi period (1336–1573). He held regent positions sesshō in 1432, and kampaku from 1447 to 1453 and from 1467 to 1470. ...

* '' Aoi'' (2000) - Ishida Masatsugu * ''

Sakura A cherry blossom, also known as Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of many trees of Prunus, genus ''Prunus'' or Prunus subg. Cerasus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus''. They are common species in East Asia, including China, Korea and especia ...

'' (2002) - Daisaku Akebono

References

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* 1926 births 2012 deaths Japanese male film actors People from Kitakyushu Deaths from lymphoma 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-film-actor-stub