was a Japanese actor. He is most famous for playing

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roles. He is also known as voice actor. In 1950, he joined the Bungakuza Theatre Company. In 1963, he left the Bungakuza Theatre Company and established the Kumo Theatre Company. He appeared in more than 120 films.

Filmography

Films

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Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese epic ''jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of English dramatist William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' (1606) fr ...

'' (1957) - Tsuzuki soldier *''Nusumareta yokujô'' (1958) *''Anyakôro'' (1959) - Mizutani *''Kenju no okite'' (1960) *''Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen'' (1960) *''Taiyô no hakaba'' (1960) - Black Glasses *''Banana'' (1960) *''Happiness of Us Alone'' (1961) *''Minami no kaze to nami'' (1961) - Mineo Koike *''Wakarete ikiru toki mo'' (1961) *''Netsuai sha'' (1961) - Tomonari *''

Akitsu Springs is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada and Hiroyuki Nagato. Plot Shortly before the end of World War II, young soldier Shusaku, ill with tuberculosis, arrives at Akitsu, expecting to die soon. Shink ...

'' (1962) - Osaki *''Ao beka monogatari'' (1962) *''Nikui an-chikushô'' (1962) - Toshio Kosaka *''Namida o shishi no tategami ni'' (1962) - Gen, the big man *''Hitoribotchi no futari daga'' (1962) - Utsumi *''Kiri no yoru no otoko'' (1962) *''Dorodarake no junjô'' (1963) - Hanai *'' Bad Girl'' (1963) *''Yogiri no burûsu'' (1963) *''Tantei jimusho 2 3 - zeni to onna ni yowai otoko'' (1963) *''Otoko no monshô'' (1963) *''Shin meoto zenzai'' (1963) - Shinichi *''Zoku otoko no monshô'' (1963) *'' The Insect Woman'' (1963) - Sawakichi *''Kyojin Ôkuma Shigenobu'' (1963) - Kiyotaka Kuroda *''Akai ka to roku denashi'' (1963) *''Suna no ue no shokubutsu-gun'' (1964) - Imura *''Ryojin nikki'' (1964) - Narrator *''Otoko no monshô - kanka jô'' (1964) *''Surai no gyanburaa'' (1964) *''Sâtsujin sha o kêse'' (1964) *''Otoko no monshô - fuun futatsu ryu'' (1964) *''Otoko no monsho: hana to nagadosu'' (1964) *''Suruga yûkyôden: Dokyô garasu'' (1965) *''Hana saku otome tachi'' (1965) - Kawamoto *''Kuroi tobakushi'' (1965) *''Gyangu chôjô sakusen'' (1965) - Tajima *''Otoko no monshô ore wa kiru'' (1965) *''Kenju mushuku-datsy goku no buruusu'' (1965) *''Otoko no monshô: Ryûko mujô'' (1966) *''Zenigata Heiji'' (1966) *''

A Certain Killer is a 1967 Japanese crime suspense film directed by Kazuo Mori. Screenplay by Yasuzo Masumura and Yoshihiro Ishimatsu. It stars Raizō Ichikawa. The film was adapted from the novel ''Zenya'' written by Keishi Nagi. A sequel, ''Aru Koroshiya no ...

'' (1967) *''Kyôkaku-dô'' (1967) *'' Akumyō Ichidai'' (1967) *''Shayô no omokage'' (1967) - Journalist *''Tôkyô shigai sen'' (1967) *''

Zatoichi Challenged is a 1967 Japanese ''chambara'' film directed by Kenji Misumi and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. The film was originally released by the Daiei Film, Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures). ''Z ...

'' (1967) - Maebara of Gonzo *''Zankyo no sakazuki'' (1967) *''Shichinin no yajû: chi no sengen'' (1967) *''Nihon ânkokushi: chî no koso'' (1967) *''Dorifutazu desu yo! Zenshin zenshin matazenshin'' (1967) *''Choueki juhachi-nen'' (1967) *''Bakuchi uchi'' (1967) *''Âa dôki no sakura'' (1967) - First Lieutenant Ôoka *''Ah kaiten tokubetsu kogetikai'' (1968) *''Hitori okami'' (1968) *''

Shogun's Joys of Torture is a 1968 Japanese ''ero guro'' film directed by Teruo Ishii and distributed by Toei. The film, which can be classified as belonging to a subgenre of pink films, is considered a precursor to Toei's ventures into the "pinky violent" style of fi ...

'' (1968) - Makino Bingo-no-kami *''Teppô denraiki'' (1968) - Matasaburo Tachibanaya *''Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi'' (1968) - Horichô *'' Outlaw: Goro the Assassin'' (1968) - Kensaku Kaidô *''Kyûketsu dokuro-sen'' (1968) - Tsuji (Estate Agent) *''Zankyo mujo'' (1968) - Hamaoka *''Otoko no okite'' (1968) *'' Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword'' (1968, TV Movie) *''Nippon ankokushi: nasake muyô'' (1968) *''Kanto onna yakuza'' (1968) *''Zankoku ijô gyakutai monogatari: Genroku onna keizu'' (1969) *''Nemuri Kyôshirô: Akujo-gari'' (1969) *''Carta de uma flor'' (1969) *''Ijô seiai kiroku: Harenchi'' (1969) - Terauchi *''

The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots is a 1969 Japanese animated action comedy musical film produced by Toei Animation and directed by Kimio Yabuki. The screenplay and lyrics, written by Hisashi Inōe and Morihisa Yamamoto, are based on the European fairy tale character Puss i ...

'' (1969) - Lucifer (voice) *''Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku'' (1969) - Horitatsu *''Nuretsubame katageri'' (1969) *'' A Thousand and One Nights'' (1969) - Kamahakim (voice) *''Nihon ansatsu hiroku'' (1969) *''

Horrors of Malformed Men is a 1969 Japanese horror film directed by Teruo Ishii, who also co-wrote the film. It is based on the novels and by Edogawa Rampo. Plot Hitomi Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida), a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped i ...

'' (1969) - Hirukawa *''Gonin no Shôkin Kasegi'' (1969) - Lord Ozeki *''Tosei-nin Retsuden'' (1969) *''Showa onna jingi'' (1969) *''Kanto onna do konjo'' (1969) *''Gokuaku bozu hitokiri kazoe uta'' (1970) *''Maruhi joshidai-ryô'' (1970) *''Shiruku hatto no ô-oyabun: chobi-hige no kuma'' (1970) *''Shiruku hatto no ô-oyabun'' (1970) *''Sengo hiwa, hoseki ryakudatsu'' (1970) *''Sanbiki no mesubachi'' (1970) *''Onsen konnyaku geisha'' (1970) *''Hana fudâ tibakû: Ino shî ka sânban shobû'' (1970) *'' Sympathy for the Underdog'' (1971) *''Zubeko banchô: Hamagure kazoe uta'' (1971) - Nakao *''

Animal Treasure Island is a 1971 Japanese anime adventure comedy film directed by Hiroshi Ikeda and based on the 1883 novel ''Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was produced by Toei Animation and released on the studio's 20th anniversary. It was ...

'' (1971) - Silver (voice) *''Gendai yakuza: Chizakura san kyodai'' (1971) *''Gendai poruno-den: Sentensei inpu'' (1971) - Kiyoshi Ôba *''Gendai yakuza: Sakazuki kaeshimasu'' (1971) *''Boryokudan sai buso'' (1971) *''Bakuto kirikomi-tai'' (1971) - Suzaki *''Mesubachi no chosen'' (1972) - Masayoshi Kurochi, Yakuza Boss *''Mamushi no kyôdai: Chôeki jûsankai'' (1972) *''

Street Mobster ''Street Mobster'', known in Japan as , is a 1972 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando. It is the sixth installment in Toei's ''Gendai Yakuza'' series of unrelated films by different directo ...

'' (1972) *''Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Oreta tsue'' (1972) - Boss Mangoro Kagiya *''Hijirimen bakuto'' (1972) *'' Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril'' (1972) - Tokugawa Yoshinao *''Nihon Aku Nin Den: Jigoku No Michizure'' (1972) *''Kogarashi Monjirô'' (1972) *''Furyo gai'' (1972) *''

Battles Without Honor and Humanity , also known in the West as ''The Yakuza Papers'', is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life ya ...

'' (1973) - Narrator *''Teppôdama no bigaku'' (1973) *''Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa'' (1973) - Buchô Keiji *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima'' (1973) - Takanashi Kunimatsu *'' Hissatsu Shikakenin Baian Arijigoku'' (1973) - Sôhaku Yamazaki *''Gendai ninkyô-shi'' (1973) - Sekiguchi *'' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics'' (1974) *''Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban'' (1974) - Ishiyama *''Violent Streets'' (1974) - Moroki *''Dai dâtsu gokû'' (1975) *''Daidatsugoku'' (1975) - Sagawa *''Afurika no hikari'' (1975) - Tokumatsu *''Dômyaku rettô'' (1975) - Yamazaki *''Shôrinji kenpô'' (1975) - Sakae Akamatsu *''Tekiya no Ishimatsu'' (1976) *''Kigeki Daiyûkai'' (1976) - Daisaku *''Utareru mae-ni ute!'' (1976) - Kinugasa, a reporter *''Andô Noboru no waga tôbô to sex no kiroku'' (1976) - Yuji Tadokoro *''Yakuza senso: Nihon no Don'' (1977) - Katsunosuke Miura *''Yakyukyô no uta'' (1977) - Tetsugorô Iwata *''Jingi to kôsô'' (1977) - Yoshimatsu Sasamoto *''Nippon no Don: Yabohen'' (1977) - Akimasa Onizawa *''

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness is a 1977 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. Plot The film is about a professional model Reiko (Shiraki) who is being groomed for the golf circuit by the editor of a golfing fashion magazine. During her first professional competition she h ...

'' (1977) *''Inubue'' (1978) - Police Inspector Kamizuki *''Fuyu no hana'' (1978) *''Nihon no Don: Kanketsuhen'' (1978) - Fujii *''Hakatakko junjô'' (1978) - Goro, Rokuhei's dad *''Yokohama ankokugai mashingan no ryu'' (1978) *''Sochô no kubi'' (1979) - Kazuaki Yashiro *'' Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (1979) - Hidenobu Fujioka *''

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf is a 1979 Japanese crime thriller film based on a novel by Haruhiko Oyabu. It stars Yūsaku Matsuda as a criminal who disguises himself as a salaryman, and Jun Fubuki as his girlfriend. It was directed by Toru Murakawa. Plot Tetsuya Asakura, ...

'' (1979) - Kaneko *'' G.I. Samurai'' (1979) - Koizumi Yukinaga *''

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) - Tōjō Kagenobu *''Dôran'' (1980) - Misumi *''Harukanaru sôro'' (1980) - Iwataro Okabe *'' Shogun's Ninja'' (1980) -

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: ...

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Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoje ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, links=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failu ...

'' (1981) - Rothbart (voice) *''Nihon Philharmonic Orchestra: Honoo no dai gogakusho'' (1981) *''Rennyo to sono haha'' (1981) - Narrator (voice) *''Conquest'' (1982) - Toru Shimoda *''

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

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The Geisha ''The Geisha, a story of a tea house'' is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts. The score was composed by Sidney Jones to a libretto by Owen Hall, with lyrics by Harry Greenbank. Additional songs were written by Lionel Monckton and Jame ...

'' (1983) *''Nogare no machi'' (1983) - Katsuichi Suzuki *'' Fireflies in the North'' (1984) - Yuhara *''Shura no mure'' (1984) - Narration (final film role)

Television drama

*'' Taikōki'' (1965) -

Araki Murashige was a retainer of Ikeda Katsumasa, head of the powerful "Setssu-Ikeda clan" of Settsu Province. Under Katsumasa, Murashige sided with Oda Nobunaga following Nobunaga's successful campaign to establish power in Kyoto. Military life Murashige b ...

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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 ...

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Shibata Katsuie or was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku period. He was retainer of Oda Nobuhide. He served Oda Nobunaga as one of his trusted generals, was severely wounded in the 1571 first siege of Nagashima, but then fought ...

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Ono no Michikaze was a prominent ''shodōka'' (Japanese calligrapher) during the Heian period (794–1185). One of the so-called Sanseki 三跡 (Three Brush Traces), along with Fujiwara no Sukemasa and Fujiwara no Yukinari, Michikaze is considered the founder ...

*'' Daitokai Part II'' (1977) *'' Message from Space: Galactic Wars'' (1978-1979) - Narrator *''

The Yagyu Conspiracy is a Japanese television jidaigeki (period drama) that was broadcast from 1978 to 1979. It is adapted from the 1978 film ''Shogun's Samurai'' starring Sonny Chiba, who reprises his role in the series. Plot After the death of Tokugawa Hidetada, h ...

'' (1979) - Negoro Sagenta *''

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 ...

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Ii Naosuke was a ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of Hikone (1850–1860) and also '' Tairō'' of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his assassination in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous ...

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Columbo ''Columbo'' is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originall ...

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Peter Falk Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Columbo (character), Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/American Broadcasting Company, ABC series ''Columbo'' (196 ...

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Superman Superman is a superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, which first appeared in the comic book ''Action Comics'' Action Comics 1, #1, published in the United States on April 18, 1938.The copyright date of ''Action Comics ...

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Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – ) was an American actor. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama ''Lilith (film), Lilith'' (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for ...

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