is a retired Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 150 films, including many

yakuza , also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the ter ...

films produced by Toei. When he was a child, he became

Mas Oyama , more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate. A Zainichi Korean, he spent most of his life living in Japan and acquired Japanese ...

's pupil. He is currently an advisor to the International

Karate (; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fuj ...

Organization

Kyokushin is a style of karate originating in Japan. It is a style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training. Kyokushin Kaikan is the martial arts organization founded in 1964 by Korean-Jap ...

-kaikan.

Filmography

Film

*'' Kurenai no Tsubasa'' (1958) *''

Kunoichi ninpō is a 1964 Japanese erotic film directed by Sadao Nakajima in his directorial debut. It is based on Futaro Yamada's novel of the same title. Plot In the Siege of Osaka, five female ninjas who pregnanted with Toyotomi Hideyori's child escape fr ...

'' (1964) *''

Abashiri Prison is a prison in Abashiri, Hokkaido Prefecture that opened in 1890. The northernmost prison in Japan, it is located near the Abashiri River and east of Mount Tento. It holds inmates with sentences of less than ten years. Older parts of the priso ...

'' (1965) *'' Zoku Soshiki Bōryoku'' (1967) *'' Zatoichi and the Fugitives'' (1968) as Ogano Genpachiro *'' Outlaw: Gangster VIP'' (1968) as Sugiyama Katsuhiko *'' The Valiant Red Peony'' (1969) *'' Bloodstained Clan Honor'' (1970) *'' Soshiki Bōryoku Kyōdaisakazuki'' (1971) *''

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) *''

The Yakuza ''The Yakuza'' is a 1974 neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith. The screenplay by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne is from a story by Schrader's brother, Leonard Schrader. ...

'' (1975) as Kato Jiro *''Wolf Guy: Burning Wolf Man '' (1975) *'' The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf'' (1979) *'' The Go Masters'' (1983) *''Saigo no Bakuto'' (1985)

Television

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Edo no Kaze was a Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) broadcast on prime-time television that ran from 1975 to 1981. Its lead star was Yūzō Kayama. The series was based on Kazuo Shimada's novel of the same title. It became a popular broadcast, leading to th ...

Part2'' (1976) (ep. 11, guest) *'' Edo no Uzu'' (1978) (ep. 9, guest) *''

Daitsuiseki was a Japanese comedy-action police TV series. It starred regulars Yūzō Kayama, Masaya Oki, Tatsuya Fuji, Naomi Hase, and Kyohei Shibata, with Fumio Watanabe as a semi-regular. It ran for twenty-six episodes in 1978 and won popularity. It is ...

'' (1978) (ep. 14, guest) *''

Seibu Keisatsu is a television drama series produced by and broadcast on TV Asahi. Plot The series portrays the Western Police Headquarters Criminal Investigation Division's Sergeant Keisuke Daimon, played by Tetsuya Watari and his subordinates, dubbed t ...

'' (1979) (ep. 5 & 12, guest) *'' Shishi no Jidai'' (1981) ( Taiga drama) as Detective Ueda *''

Sanada Taiheiki is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast on NHK in 1985–1986. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Sanada Taiheiki. The drama focuses on the history of the Sanada clan during the late Sengoku period. The comple ...

'' (1985–86) as Ban Naganobu

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* 1936 births Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors 20th-century Japanese male actors Japanese male stage actors Japanese male child actors Living people Actors from Chiba Prefecture People from Chiba (city) {{japan-stage-actor-stub