(born 10 June 1935 in Tōkamachi, Niigata), is a Japanese actor, who attended Niigata Prefectural Tōkamachi High School and later

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Career

While he was at Toyo University, Takahashi became a chauffeur of

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese stage and film actor who appeared in films of Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and many others. Biography Born in Tokyo and a graduate of Tokyo Municipal Junior High School, Miyaguchi w ...

, an actor of the theatrical company . In 1959, he joined Bungakuza, and made his debut with the play . In 1963, he had a role in the film directed by

Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include '' Children of Hiroshima'', '' The Naked Island'', '' Onibaba'', '' Kuroneko'' a ...

. Subsequent major roles include

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He is sometimes referred as the "Demon Daimyō" and "Demo ...

in the third NHK

Taiga Drama is the name NHK gives to the annual year-long historical drama television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the black-and-white ''Hana no Shōgai'', starring kabuki actor Onoe Shoroku II and Awashima Chikage, the network regul ...

'' Taikōki'' in 1965, and Lieutenant Hayami in the NHK morning drama series '' Ohanahan'' in 1966.

Filmography

Films

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'' (1963) – Haruo *'' Samurai Spy'' (1965) – Sasuke Sarutobi *'' Tempyō no Iraka'' (1980) *'' Imperial Navy'' (1981) – Ugaki *'' Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis'' (1988) –

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*'' Godzilla vs. Biollante'' (1989) – Dr. Genichiro Shiragami

Television

*'' Taikōki'' (1965, NHK) –

*'' Ten to Chi to'' (1969、NHK) –

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*'' Shin Heike Monogatari'' (1972, NHK) –

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'' (1978, NHK) – Oda Nobunaga *''Sekigahara'' (1981, TBS) –

Ōtani Yoshitsugu was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through the Azuchi-Momoyama Period. He was also known by his court title ''Junior Assistant Minister of Justice'' or . He was born in 1558 to a father who was said to be a retainer of either Ōtom ...

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'' (1983, NTV)

References

1935 births Living people Japanese male actors Actors from Niigata Prefecture {{Japan-screen-actor-stub