Takashi Yamaguchi (; 17 November 1936 – 18 April 2025) was a Japanese actor. In 1966, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year. Yamaguchi died from lung cancer in Tokyo, on 18 April 2025, at the age of 88.

Filmography

Television

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 ...

** ''

Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian period, Heian and early Kamakura period, Kamakura periods. During the Genpei War, he led a series of battles that toppled the Ise-Heishi branch of the Taira clan, helping his half-br ...

'' (1966) ** '' Ten to Chi to'' (1969) ** '' Kaze to Kumo to Niji to'' (1976) as Taira no Sadamori ** ''Haru no Hatō'' (1985) as

Kaneko Kentarō Count was a statesman, diplomat, and legal scholar in Meiji period Japan. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he drew on his connections in the American legal community over the course of his long career in Japanese government, particularly in ...

** ''Genroku Ryoran'' (1999) as Ōno Kurobei *''

Ōoka Echizen is a Japanese prime-time television ''jidaigeki'' series. From March 16, 1970 to March 15, 1999, 402 episodes and 15 seasons were broadcast. Also, a two-hour special aired on March 20, 2006, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the '' Nation ...

'' (1970–2006) as

Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune is know ...

*''Tenka Gomen'' (1970) *''

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

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: ...

*'' Kiso Kaido Isogitabi'' (1973) *'' Naruto Hichō'' (1978) as

Hiraga Gennai was a Japanese polymath and ''rōnin'' of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of ''Rangaku'', author, painter and inventor well known for his '' Erekiteru'' (electrostatic generator), ''Kandankei'' (thermometer) and ''Kakanpu'' ...

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On'yado Kawasemi On'yado Kawasemi or On-yado Kawasemi () is a Japanese series of novels written by Yumie Hiraiwa and dramas and a play based on it. It is set in "Kawasemi" ("kingfisher" in Japanese), an inn in Ōkawabata, Edo (now Sumida, Tokyo). It was serialised ...

'' (1980–83) *'' Furuhata Ninzaburo'' (1994) *'' Shin On'yado Kawasemi'' (2013)

Film

* ''Natsukashi Furaibo'' (1966) * ''

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 ...

'' (1976) * '' Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron'' (1978) * ''Konokowo Nokoshite'' (1983) * '' Hit Me Anyone One More Time'' (2019)

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