was a

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actor. He was the leader of the comic jazz band

The Crazy Cats The also known as Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats (, ''Hana Hajime to Kurējī Kyattsu'') were a Japanese jazz band and comedy group popular in film and television, particularly between the 1950s and 1970s. Led by Hajime Hana, the band's other mai ...

, which featured such talent as Hitoshi Ueki and Kei Tani, and which starred in a series of film comedies (such as the "Irresponsible" (Musekinin) series at

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) and in TV variety shows such as "Shabondama Holiday." He won the award for best actor at the 31st

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for '' Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You''.

Filmography

*'' Ten Dark Women'' (1961) (as himself) *'' Alone on the Pacific'' (1963) *'' The Water Margin'' (1973) (TV series) *''

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) (TV series) *'' Graveyard of Honor'' (1975) *'' Hokuriku Proxy War'' (1977) *'' Proof of the Man'' (1978) - Detective Yokotawashi *'' Hunter in the Dark'' (1979) *'' Tantei Monogatari'' (1980) (TV series) - episode 18, Gonzaburo Shinoda *'' A Distant Cry from Spring'' (1980) *''

Tokugawa Buraichō is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama, that was broadcast in 1992. Plot Matsudaira Tadateru the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu was exiled from Tokugawa shogunate and he secretly lives in Yoshiwara in Edo. One day he accidentally meet Yagy ...

'' (1992) (TV series) *'' Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You'' (1988)

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* * 1930 births 1993 deaths Male actors from Tokyo Japanese male comedians 20th-century Japanese male actors Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon 20th-century Japanese comedians Crazy Cats members People from Toshima Comedians from Tokyo {{Japan-screen-actor-stub