Born Yasunori Yamauchi in 1936, Akira Kubo entered the Japanese film world in the early 1950s and quickly became a prolific character actor, amassing more than seventy screen credits. His early breakthrough came with the title role in Arashi, which was selected for competition at the seventh Berlin International Film Festival, and he soon appeared in classics such as Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blo…
