was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.

Selected filmography

Film

* '' Gendai-jin'' (1952) * ''

Mahiru no ankoku is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Tadashi Imai. It is based on an actual court case, described in the non-fiction book "Saibankan–Hito no inochi wa kenryoku de ubaeru mono ka" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki. Cast * Kōjirō Kusanagi * Sach ...

'' (1956) * '' An Actress'' (1956) * '' Underworld Beauty'' (1958) * '' Arashi no naka o tsuppashire'' (1958) * ''

My Second Brother is a 1959 Japanese drama film by Shōhei Imamura. The screenplay is based on the diary of ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) Sueko Yasumoto, which became a bestseller upon publication. Plot The film tells the story of four orphans li ...

'' (1959) * '' Everything Goes Wrong'' (1960) * '' Kurenai no Kenju'' (1961) - Kokuta * ''

Red Angel is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Yasuzo Masumura. It tells the story of a young Japanese nurse on the front lines in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Yoriyoshi Arima ( ja). Plot Sakur ...

'' (1966) - Doctor Okabe * ''

Red Handkerchief is a 1964 Japanese film directed by Toshio Masuda. Inspired by Yujiro Ishihara's hit song of the same title. Plot Mikami was deceived by his friend and colleague detective Ishizuka, but he didn't know the fact and was forced to quit the job, ...

'' (1964) * ''

Woman of the Lake is a 1966 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It is based on Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' The Lake''. Plot Miyako, comfortably married to businessman Yuzo Mizuki, is having an affair with Kitano, who is himself engaged. She allo ...

'' (1966) * ''Shōsetsu Yoshida gakkō'' (1983) -

Ichirō Hatoyama was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956. A conservative, Hatoyama helped oversee the 1955 merger of the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party to create the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), of which Hatoyam ...

* '' Death of a Tea Master'' (1989) -

Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and '' daimyō'' ( feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the C ...

* '' Shaso'' (1989) * ''

Childhood Days is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony. It was based on a manga of the same name by Motoo Abiko. Synopsis The film is a story of childhood life during wartime Japan ...

'' (1990) * ''

Ruten no umi is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Buichi Saitō. The lead star is Hisaya Morishige. It is based on Teru Miyamoto`s novel of the same title. Plot Cast * Hisaya Morishige as Kumago Matsuzaka * Yumiko Nogawa as Fusae Matsuzaka * Kōichi Sa ...

'' (1990)

Television

* '' Akō Rōshi'' (1964) * '' Shin Heike Monogatari'' (1972) -

Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106 – 20 June 1180) was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies. He served eight different emperors in his long career, holding posts such as ''hyōgo no kami'' (head of the arsenal). He was also a warrior, le ...

* ''Genroku Taiheiki'' (1975) -

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the fifth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan. He was the younger brother of Tokugawa Ietsuna, as well as the son of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the grandson of Tokugawa Hidetada, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu.Nussbaum, Louis-F ...

* ''Musashibō Benkei'' (1986) -

Taira no Kiyomori was a military leader and ''kugyō'' of the late Heian period of Japan. He established the first samurai-dominated administrative government in the history of Japan. Early life Kiyomori was born in Heian-kyō, Japan, in 1118 as the first s ...

* ''Nobunaga: King of Zipangu'' (1992) - Saitō Dōsan

References

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* 1914 births 1999 deaths Japanese male film actors People from Shimane Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-film-actor-stub