is 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 (), l ...
. He is well known for his role as Gorisan (Detective Ishizuka) in ''
Taiyō ni Hoero!''. He has a son , who is a musician and guitarist.
Once, he belonged to
Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as '' Rashomon'', '' Seven Samurai'', '' The Hidden Fortress'', '' Throne of Blood'', a ...
's production company.
Selected filmography
Films
*''Moero! Seishun'' (1968) - Raita Ejima
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The Bullet Train
(also known as ''Super Express 109'') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Satō and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode au ...
'' (1975) - Kikuchi
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
''aka'' ''Tora-san's Stage-Struck'' is a 1978 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Nana Kinomi as his love interest or "Madonna". ''Stage-Struck Tora-san'' is the twenty-first e ...
'' (1978) - Detective Hashikawa
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G.I. Samurai'' (1979) - Haruhisa Kimura
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Station
Station may refer to:
Agriculture
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** Cattle statio ...
'' (1981)
*''Sukkari... sono ki de!'' (1981) - Detective
*''Kizudarake no Kunshō'' (1986) - Toshima
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Tokyo Blackout'' (1987) - Horie
*''Kanbakku'' (1990)
*''Isan Sōzoku'' (1990) - Motoharu Fujishima
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Rainbow Kids'' (1991) - Sakuma
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Tsuribaka Nisshi'' (1994-1998) - Chief of Personnel Haraguchi
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Oishinbo
is a long-running Japanese cooking manga series written by and drawn by . The manga's title is a portmanteau of the Japanese word for delicious, ''oishii'', and the word for someone who loves to eat, ''kuishinbo''. The series depicts the ...
'' (1996)
*''Hana no oedo no Tsuribaka Nisshi'' (1998)
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Keizoku: The Movie'' (2000) - Kōtarō Nonomura
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Happily Ever After
Happily Ever After may refer to:
Film and television Film
* ''Happily Ever After'' (1985 film), a Brazilian romantic drama film directed by Bruno Barreto
* ''Happily Ever After'' (1989 film), an animated movie continuing the adventures of Snow ...
'' (2007)
*''
20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End'' (2008) - Chō-san
*''First Love: A Memory in Summer'' (2009)
*''Hanjiro'' (2010)
*''Homecoming'' (2011) - Tadashi Ohshima
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SPEC: Ten'' (2012) - Kotaro Nonomura
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SPEC: Close'' (2013) - Nonomura Kotaro
*''A Banana? At This Time of Night?'' (2018) - Kiyoshi Kano
*''We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous'' (2019) - Manzo Okuno
*''Hope'' (2020)
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Food Luck'' (2020)
*''What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?'' (2021)
Television
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Taiyō ni Hoero!'' (1972-1982) - Ishizuka "Gori-san" Makoto
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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 fel ...
'' (1983) -
Tenkai
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Sanada Taiheiki'' (1985-1986) -
Katō Kiyomasa
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was Higo-no-kami. His name as a child was ''Yashamaru'', and first name was ''Toranosuke''. He was one of Hideyoshi's Seven Spears of Shizugatake.
Biograph ...
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Dokuganryū Masamune
is a 1987 Japanese historical television series. It is the 25th NHK ''taiga'' drama. The broadcast received an average viewer rating of 39.7 percent in the Kanto area.
The drama was adapted from the novel of Sōhachi Yamaoka.
Plot
Toyotomi Hidey ...
'' (1987) -
Date Sanemoto
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Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi was a network prime-time television ''jidaigeki'' series in Japan from 1991 to 1994. It starred Teruhiko Saigō.
The series began in 1991 in the 9:00 p.m. time slot on the TV Tokyo network. Saigō created the role of Tōdō Heihachirō. The c ...
'' (1991-1994)
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Hoshi no Kinka'' (1996) - Seiichirō Nagai
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Unsolved Cases'' (1999) - Kōtarō Nonomura
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Aoi Tokugawa Sandai
is a 2000 Japanese historical drama television series and the 39th NHK taiga drama. The series respectively stars Masahiko Tsugawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, and Onoe Tatsunosuke II as the first three Tokugawa shōguns. It aired from January 9 to Dec ...
'' (2000) - Gamō Satoie
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Kokoro'' (2003) - Ikkoku Nakajima
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The Man Who Can't Get Married'' (2006)
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Fūrin Kazan'' (2007) -
Amari Torayasu
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period, and served the Takeda clan under Takeda Nobutora and Shingen. Amari was a ''shukurō'', or clan elder, following Shingen's accession to family headship and was one of "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda S ...
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Teppan'' (2010-2011) - Den Hasegawa
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Gunshi Kanbei'' (2015) - Kuroda Shigetaka
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Segodon
is a 2018 Japanese historical drama television series and the 57th NHK taiga drama. It stars Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori, who has been dubbed ''the last true samurai''.
Plot
The drama follows the life of historical figure Saigō Takamor ...
'' (2018) -
Zusho Hirosato
References
External links
Official profile
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Japanese male actors
1940 births
Living people
People from Minoh, Osaka
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