was a Japanese

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

Career

Born in

Kure, Hiroshima is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japa ...

, Kōyama joined the

Bungakuza is a Japanese theatre company. Along with the Mingei Theatre Company and the Haiyuza Theatre Company it is considered one of the "Big Three" among Shingeki theatre troupes. History The company was founded by Kunio Kishida, Mantarō Kubota an ...

theatre troupe in 1952, first as a directorial assistant and then as an actor. He made his film debut in 1953 in

Tadashi Imai was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include ''An Inlet of Muddy Water'' (1953) and '' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963). Life Although leaning towards left-wing ...

's '' An Inlet of Muddy Water''. He left Bungakuza in 1963 and participated in other troupes such as Gekidan Kumo and Engeki Shūdan En. He was also well known for his role in the hit TV show '' The Guardman''. He died in Kyoto Prefecture from

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on 3 January 2017, 13 days before his 88th birthday.NHK news on January 16, 2017 (in Japanese)
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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Koyama, Shigeru 1929 births 2017 deaths Japanese male actors People from Kure, Hiroshima Japanese military personnel of World War II