Emerging from Japan's post-war film scene, he began his professional path with a 1957 contract at Toei Studio and went on to appear in more than a thousand productions, often cast as a villain or tough-guy figure. His versatility earned him the Best Supporting Actor prize at the Yokohama Film Festival for his performance in Shinde mo ii, and he became a familiar presence on television, contributin… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Kagemusha 1980 Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 1972 ★ 7 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 1972
Okizaki ★ 7.3 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima 1973
Keisuke Nakahara ★ 7 Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 1972
Okizaki ★ 7.3 A Fugitive from the Past 1965
Pressman ★ 7.8 Proof of the Man 1977
★ 7 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War 1973
Hideo Hayakawa ★ 7.1 Sympathy for the Underdog 1971
'Shark' Samejima ★ 7 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics 1974
Hideo Hayakawa ★ 7 Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy 1978
Sagenta Nogero ★ 7.4 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss 1975
Takeo Akamatsu ★ 6.8 Street Mobster 1972
Miyahara ★ 6.7 Graveyard of Honor 1975
Yasuo Yoshioka ★ 6.7 Dogra Magra 1988
Dr. Wakabayashi ★ 6.7 A Taxing Woman 1987
Jukichi Ishii ★ 6.8 Violent Streets 1974
Kunihiro Mochizuki ★ 6.6 Gonin 1995
Shikine ★ 6.6 Yakuza Graveyard 1976
Yoshito Hidaka ★ 6.6 Doberman Cop 1977
Officer Jirō Takahashi ★ 6.6 The Executioner 1974
Five Dragons Chairman ★ 6.5 Heaven and Earth 1990
Obu Toramasa ★ 6.4 Black Angel 1998
Mitsuru Amaoka ★ 6.4 Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread 1974
Kazushige Osone ★ 6.3 Hunter in the Dark 1979
★ 6.4 Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs 1974
Kusaka ★ 6.2 Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather 1982
Sagara ★ 6.1 An Adolescent 2001
Shozo ★ 6.1 Cops vs. Thugs 1975
★ 6.3 Hiruko the Goblin 1991
Watanabe ★ 5.9 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 1974
Masuo Nozaki ★ 5.8 A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse 1975
Yûzô Shikauchi ★ 5.8 The Executioner II: Karate Inferno 1974
Tatsuzo ★ 5.8 The Beast to Die 1980
Hideyuki Kashiwagi ★ 5.3 Terror Beneath the Sea 1966
Henchman ★ 5.8 Samurai Reincarnation 1981
Priest Inshun Hozoin ★ 5.8 Wolf Guy 1975
Sanuki ★ 5.1 Isola: Multiple Personality Girl 2000
Old victim of the Great Hanshin Earthquake ★ 5.1 The Bodyguard 1973
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