was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1953 and 2003. He died of lymphoma on 21 August 2012.
Selected filmography
Film
Mahiru no ankoku (1956) An Actress (1956) - Akio Satomi The Burmese Harp (1956) - Pvt. Kobayashi Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) - Announcer The Scent of Incense (1964) - Murata The Snow Woman (1968) Coup d'Etat (1973) - Army officer Shogun Assassin (1980) The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) - Narrator Chōchin (1987) Luminous Moss (1992) - Novelist Kamikaze Taxi (1995) - Domon My Secret Cache (1997) - Morita After Life (1998) - Ichiro Watanabe Samurai Fiction (1998) - Kanzen Inukai