is a Japanese actor and singer from

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

. Kuroswa joined

Toho is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer an ...

film studio as an actor and made his film debut with ''Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sanninyoreba'' in 1964. His first starring role was in the 1966 film ''Hikinige''. In 1971, Kurosawa left Toho and became a freelance actor. His song ''Tokiniwa Shōfu no Yōni'' became a big hit in 1978.

Selected filmography

Film

* ''Hibari・Chiemi・Izumi Sanninyoreba'' (1964) * ''

Samurai Assassin is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto, Yūnosuke Itō, and Michiyo Aratama. It is set in 1860, immediately before the Meiji Restoration changed Japanese society forever by doing awa ...

'' (1965) * ''

Ereki no Wakadaishō is a 1965 Japanese film starring Yūzō Kayama. It is the sixth in the Wakadaishō series of films. The film was inspired by the mid-sixties electric guitar boom created by the popularity of groups such as The Beatles and The Ventures. The spor ...

'' (1965) as Izawa * ''Hikinige'' (1966) * ''

Izu no Odoriko is a novel by Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata first published in 1926. Plot The narrator, a twenty-year-old student from Tokyo, travels the Izu Peninsula during the last days of the summer holidays, a journey which he ...

'' (1966) * ''

The Stranger Within a Woman is a 1966 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the 1951 novel ''The Thin Line'' by Edward Atiyah. Plot Isao and Masako Toshiro are what looks like a happily married middle-class couple with two children. One day, Sayuri ...

'' (1966) as Bartender * ''

Japan's Longest Day is a 1967 Japanese war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945 and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World ...

'' (1967) as Hatanaka Kenji * ''Admiral Yamamoto'' (1968) as Kimura Keisuke * '' Hymn to a Tired Man'' (1969) as Zensaku's son * '' Battle of the Japan Sea'' (1969) as Pfc. Maeyama Sankichi * ''Yajyū-toshi'' (1970) * ''

The Militarists is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Hiromichi Horikawa. Release ''The Militarists'' had a roadshow release in Japan on 11 August 1970 where it was distributed by Toho. It received general release 12 September 1970 in Japan. The film was Toho's ...

'' (1970) as Shimagaki * ''Hakuchu no Shugeki'' (1970) * '' The Wolves'' (1971) as Tsutomu Onodera * ''

The Water Margin ''Water Margin'' (''Shuihu zhuan'') is one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin, and is attributed to Shi Nai'an. It is also translated as ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' and ''All Men Are Brothers''. The story, which is ...

'' (1972) as Shi Wengong * ''

The Human Revolution is a roman à clef written by Daisaku Ikeda, the third and honorary president of the Soka Gakkai, chronicling the efforts of Jōsei Toda, the second president of the Soka Gakkai, to construct this Buddhist organization upon his release from ...

'' (1973) * '' Lady Snowblood'' (1973) as Ryūrei Ashio * ''

Horror of the Wolf is a 1973 Japanese horror film directed by Masashi Matsumoto and produced by Toho. Based on the manga series '' Wolf Guy'', the film's screenplay was co-written by Matsumoto with Jun Fukuda and Shirō Ishimori. It stars Taro Shigaki as Akira In ...

'' (1973) as Akira Jin * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics'' (1974) as Shigeru Takemoto * ''EVIL OF DRACULA'' (1974) as Shiraki * ''

Prophecies of Nostradamus is a 1974 disaster film by Toshio Masuda, based on a 1973 novel by Ben Goto, itself inspired by the prophecies of Nostradamus. Plot In 1853, Genta Nishiyama begins preaching the prophecies of Michel de Nostradame using a copy of his book ''Ce ...

'' (1974) as Akira Nakagawa * ''

Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon is a 1974 Japanese film based on the Soviet Union's invasion of Karafuto during the Soviet–Japanese War near the end of World War II. The movie is set in Maoka (present day Kholmsk), and the story is based on the deaths of nine women who worked ...

'' (1974) as Muraguchi * '' Best Guy'' (1990) as Lt. Colonel Tadayuki "Odyssey" Yamamoto * ''Kimi no Manazashi'' (2017)

Television

* ''

Hissatsu Shiokinin is a Japanese television ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was broadcast in 1973. It is the 2nd in the Hissatsu series. Hissatsu Shiokinin is one of the most popular ''jidaigeki'' dramas in Japan. Plot A group of common merchants in Edo city(Tok ...

'' (1973) (ep.4) as Seiten no Masagorō * ''

'' (1973) as

Dai Zong Dai Zong is a fictional character in '' Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Magic Traveller", he ranks 20th among the 36 Heavenly Spirits, the first third of the 108 Stars of Destiny. Backg ...

* ''Kage Dōshin II'' (1975–76) as Hotta Genpachiro * ''

Japan Sinks is a disaster novel by Japanese writer Sakyo Komatsu, published in 1973. Komatsu took nine years to complete the work. It was published in two volumes, both released at the same time. The novel received the 27th Mystery Writers of Japan Award ...

'' (1974–75) * ''

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 Kokemaru * ''

Doberman Deka is a Japanese hardboiled manga series written by Buronson and illustrated by Shinji Hiramatsu. It was serialized in the ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' manga anthology from 1975 (Issue 39) throughout 1979 (Issue 48), with the chapters collected into ...

'' (1980) as Jōji Kanō * ''The Hungman'' (1980–82) * '' Aoi'' (2000) as Natsuka Masaie

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kurosawa, Toshio 1944 births Living people Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Actors from Yokohama 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors