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. He is well known for his role as Gorisan (Detective Ishizuka) in ''

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''. He has a son , who is a musician and guitarist. Once, he belonged to

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's production company.

Selected filmography

Films

*''Moero! Seishun'' (1968) - Raita Ejima *''

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'' (1975) - Kikuchi *'' Stage-Struck Tora-san'' (1978) - Detective Hashikawa *'' G.I. Samurai'' (1979) - Haruhisa Kimura *''

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'' (1981) *''Sukkari... sono ki de!'' (1981) - Detective *''Kizudarake no Kunshō'' (1986) - Toshima *'' Tokyo Blackout'' (1987) - Horie *''Kanbakku'' (1990) *''Isan Sōzoku'' (1990) - Motoharu Fujishima *'' Rainbow Kids'' (1991) - Sakuma *'' Tsuribaka Nisshi'' (1994-1998) - Chief of Personnel Haraguchi *'' Oishinbo'' (1996) *''Hana no oedo no Tsuribaka Nisshi'' (1998) *'' Keizoku: The Movie'' (2000) - Kōtarō Nonomura *'' Happily Ever After'' (2007) *'' 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End'' (2008) - Chō-san *''First Love: A Memory in Summer'' (2009) *''Hanjiro'' (2010) *''Homecoming'' (2011) - Tadashi Ohshima *'' SPEC: Ten'' (2012) - Kotaro Nonomura *'' SPEC: Close'' (2013) - Nonomura Kotaro *''A Banana? At This Time of Night?'' (2018) - Kiyoshi Kano *''We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous'' (2019) - Manzo Okuno *''Hope'' (2020) *'' Food Luck'' (2020) *''What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?'' (2021)

Television

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'' (1972-1982) - Ishizuka "Gori-san" Makoto *''

Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

'' (1983) -

Tenkai was an influential Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. He achieved the rank of ''Daisōjō'', the highest rank of the Tendai priesthood and was an influential advisor to various Shoguns, including To ...

*'' Sanada Taiheiki'' (1985-1986) -

Katō Kiyomasa was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo periods. His court title was . His name as a child was ''Yashamaru'', and first name was ''Toranosuke''. He was one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi's Seven ...

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'' (1987) - Date Sanemoto *'' Abare Hasshū Goyō Tabi'' (1991-1994) *'' Hoshi no Kinka'' (1996) - Seiichirō Nagai *'' Unsolved Cases'' (1999) - Kōtarō Nonomura *'' Aoi'' (2000) - Gamō Satoie *'' Kokoro'' (2003) - Ikkoku Nakajima *'' The Man Who Can't Get Married'' (2006) *'' Fūrin Kazan'' (2007) - Amari Torayasu *'' Teppan'' (2010-2011) - Den Hasegawa *''

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'' (2015) - Kuroda Shigetaka *''

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'' (2018) -

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*'' Ōoku: The Inner Chambers'' (2023) - Keishō-in

References

External links

Official profile
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