was a Japanese actor. Ehara joined

Toei Company , simply known as Toei Company or Toei, is a Japanese entertainment company. Headquartered in Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, it is involved in film and television production, distribution, video game development, publishing, and ownership of 34 movi ...

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 in Japan. This award is given to the person who is considered to be the most promising actor through the year. References External links

* {{in lang, ...

. He died on 27 September 2022, aged 85.

Selected filmography

Film

*'' Jun'ai Monogatari'' (1957) *'' The Rice People'' (1957) *'' Naked Sun'' (1957) *''

Rice Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...

'' (1957) *'' Invasion of the Neptune Men'' (1961) as scientist Yanagida *''Miyamoto Musashi: Hannyazaka no kettō'' (1962) as Seijurō Yoshioka *'' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963) *''Miyamoto Musashi: Nitōryū kaigen'' (1963) as Seijurō Yoshioka *''Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō'' (1964) as Seijurō Yoshioka *''

Jakoman and Tetsu ''Jakoman and Tetsu'' is a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and Senkichi Taniguchi that was based on the novel ''Nishin gyogyo'' (''Herring Fishery'') by Keizo Kajino. It has been adapted into film twice. 1949 Toho adaptation ''Jakoman and Tetsu'' (194 ...

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

Bakumatsu were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate Meiji Restoration, ended. Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a Feudali ...

'' (1970) *'' Men and War Part I'' (1970) *'' Men and War Part II'' (1971) *''

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 Best Foreign Language Film ...

'' (1972) *''

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 shogu ...

'' (1972) *'' Men and War Part III'' (1973) * ''

Nichiren was a Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism based on the '' Lotus Sutra''. Nichiren declared that the '' Lotus Sutra ...

'' (1979) *'' Edo Jō Tairan'' (1991) as Ōkubo Tadatomo

Television

*'' Daichūshingura'' (1971) as Kataoka Gengoemon *''

Shinsho Taikōki ''Taiko'' (Japanese: 新書太閤記, Hepburn: ''Shinsho Taikōki''), also known as ''Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan'', is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa about the life and rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyo ...

'' (1973) as

Takeda Katsuyori was a Japanese ''daimyō'' (military lord) 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, ''daimyō'' of Hojo clan. Early life H ...

*'' Naruto Hichō'' (1977-78) as Magobei *'' Kusa Moeru'' (1979) as Kajiwara Kagetoki,

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 ...

* ''

Fumō Chitai is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine ''Sunday Manichi'' from 1973 to 1978. The novel was partially adapted into a film starring Tatsuya Nakadai and directed by Satsuo Yamamoto in 1976. It was later adapted i ...

'' (1979) as Isao Kawamata *''

Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

'' (1983) as Ishikawa Kazumasa, Taiga drama *''

Ōoku The was historically the harem, 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. During ...

'' (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 Tamur ...

'' (1984) *''Miyamoto Musashi'' (1984–85) as Aoki Tanzaemon *''Hōjō Tokimune '' (2001) as Kō no Morouji, Taiga drama *'' Kokoro'' (2003)

References

External links

* * 1936 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Japanese male actors Male actors from Kyoto {{Japan-screen-actor-stub