was a Japanese actor from

Kurashiki is a historic Cities of Japan, city located in western Okayama Prefecture, Japan, sitting on the Takahashi River, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea. As of March 31, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 483,576 and a populat ...

Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the nor ...

. He was an actor who specialized in playing comical roles. He became popular for his role as Sakura Kyōjyurō in the ''

Three Outlaw Samurai is a 1964 Japanese ''chambara'' film directed and co-written by Hideo Gosha in his feature-length debut. The film is an origin-story offshoot of Gosha's 1963 Japanese television series of the same name, with the same lead actors, Tetsuro Tamb ...

series''.

Selected Filmography

Films

* ''Taiyō Umi o Someru toki'' (1961) as Rice * ''Mekishiko Mushuku'' (1962) as Ankō * ''Samurai from Nowhere'' (1964) as Misawa Ihei * ''

'' (1964) as Sakura Kyōjyurō * '' Akumyō Ichidai'' (1967) * '' Lady Sazen and the Drenched Swallow Sword'' (1969) as Gamou Taiken * '' Bloodstained Clan Honor'' (1970) as Taishō * '' Tora-san Goes Religious?'' (1983) as Osakaya * ''Hei no Naka no Purei Boru'' (1987) * ''Shōrishatachi'' (1992) * '' Ambition Without Honor'' (1996) * ''

Blooming Again is a 2003 novel by Ranzō Ōta. It has been adapted into a film by Isshin Inudo in 2004. Film Adaptation * ''Blooming Again'' directed by Isshin Inudo, a Toei production in 2004, it stars Tsutomu Yamazaki. Hisaya Morishige and Takuya Fujioka ma ...

'' (2004) as Sakiyama Rokubei * ''Mrs.'' (2005) as Yamamoto Tatsuo

Television drama

* ''

'' (1963-69) * ''

Hana no Shōgai is a 1963 Japanese television series. It is the 1st NHK taiga drama. Story Ten to Chi to deals with the Sengoku period. Based on Funahashi Seiichi's novels "Hana no Shōgai". The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke. Cast * Onoe Shoroku ...

'' (1963) as Kanroku * '' Haru no Sakamichi'' (1971) as Yoya * ''

The Water Margin ''Water Margin'' (''Shuihu zhuan'') is one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin, and is attributed to Shi Nai'an. It is also translated as ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' and ''All Men Are Brothers''. The story, which is s ...

'' (1973) as

Lu Zhishen Lu Zhishen is a fictional character in ''Water Margin'', one of the four great classical novels in Chinese literature. He is the main character in the first segment of the novel, which spans about six chapters. Nicknamed "Flowery Monk", he ran ...

* '' Kaze to Kumo to Niji to'' (1976) as Taira no Yoshikane * ''Seishi Yokomizo Series'' (1978) as Detective Hiyori * '' Akō Rōshi'' (1979) as Kumo no Jinjyurō * '' Kage no Gundan II'' (1981-82) as Gohei * ''MUSASHI'' (2003) as Hōzōin In'ei

References

External links

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Isamu Nagato at NHK
Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male actors 1932 births 2013 deaths People from Kurashiki Male actors from Okayama {{Japan-film-actor-stub