is a Japanese actor, comedian and television presenter.
Filmography
Film
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Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman
, also known as ''Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman'' and ''The Blind Swordsman Meets His Equal'', is a 1971 '' chambara''-''wuxia'' crossover by Japanese film director Kimiyoshi Yasuda and Chinese film director Hsu Tseng Hung. A Japanes ...
'' (1971)
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Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy'' (1974)
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Princess from the Moon'' (1987)
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A Taxing Woman'' (1987)
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Minbo'' (1992)
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Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie'' (2004) as Jinzo Hattori
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The Uchōten Hotel
(also known as ''Suite Dreams'', ''The Wow-Choten Hotel'', or ''Suite Hotel'') is a 2006 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Kōki Mitani. The film is set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year's Eve and follows the misadventures of va ...
'' (2006)
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Talk Talk Talk
''Talk Talk Talk'' is the second studio album by the English rock band the Psychedelic Furs. It was released on 15 May 1981 by Columbia Records. It was reissued with bonus tracks in 2002 by Columbia/Legacy and on vinyl in the UK in 2011 withou ...
'' (2007)
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Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime'' (2008)
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The Hovering Blade'' (2009)
* ''The Hikita's Are Expecting!'' (2019)
* ''The Woman of S.R.I. the Movie'' (2021)
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Doctor-X: The Movie'' (2024) as Ryunosuke Busujima
Television
* ''
Ten to Chi to'' (1969)
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Oshin
is a Japanese television, Japanese Asadora, serialized morning television drama (''asadora''), which originally aired on NHK from 4 March 1983 to 31 March 1984; it is the 31st ''asadora'' overall to be produced. The 297 15-minute episodes follo ...
'' (1983–84) as Tanimura Sakuzo
* ''Hōjō Tokimune'' (2001) as
Hōjō Masamura
was the seventh ''Shikken'' (regent) of the Kamakura Shogunate, regining from 1264 to 1268. He was the son of Hōjō Yoshitoki, the second ''Shikken,'' and brother of Hōjō Yasutoki and Hōjō Shigetoki.
Life
Hōjō Masamura was born on Jul ...
* ''Okashina Keiji'' (2003-Now) (Lead role)
* ''
Shinsengumi!
is a 2004 Taiga drama historical fiction television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.
Actors include Koji Yamamoto (actor), Koji ...
'' (2004)
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Clouds Over the Hill'' (2009)
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Onihei Hankachō
is a series of historical novels written by Japanese author Shōtarō Ikenami. Following the character Heizo Hasegawa in the Edo period of Japan, Ikenami wrote the first story for the December 1967 issue of the light novel magazine ' published ...
'' as Amabiki no Bungorō (2009)
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The Waste Land
''The Waste Land'' is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United ...
'' (2009) as Seizo Hisamatsu
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Taira no Kiyomori
was a military leader and '' kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan.
Early life
Kiyomori was born in Japan, in 1118 as the first son of Taira ...
'' (2012) as
Emperor Shirakawa
was the 72nd emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 白河天皇 (72)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Shirakawa's reign lasted from 1073 to 1087.
Genealogy
Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum T ...
* ''
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon'' (2012)
* ''Taiga Drama ga Umareta Hi'' (2023)
Variety shows
* ''Ito Family'' (1997–2007)
* ''
IQ Sapuri'' (2004–2009)
* ''
Gaki no Tsukai (Youth High School, New Years Special)'' (2020)
References
External links
NHKアーカイブ Actor Shirō ItōShirō Itō official site
1937 births
Living people
Male actors from Tokyo
Comedians from Tokyo
Mass media people from Tokyo
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male comedians
Japanese game show hosts
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
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