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 Television Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1966) - Hitachibō Kaison Ōgon no Hibi (1978) - Akechi Mitsuhide Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) - Honda Masanobu Sanga Moyu (1984) - Taketora Matsui Musashibō Benkei (1986) - Hōjō Tokimasa Takeda Shingen (1988) - Gishū Hana no Ran (1994) - Ichijō Kaneyoshi Aoi (2000) - Ishida Masatsugu Sakura (2002) - Daisaku Akebono References External links 1926 births 2012 deaths Japanese male film actors People from Kitakyushu Deaths from lymphoma 20th-century Japanese male actors