Eijirō Tōno
Born September 17, 1907 (Age: 118)
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Gunma, Japan
Biography
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
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Filmography
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990
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as Prime Minister
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Age: 82
Days with Harasu
1989
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as
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Age: 82
Death of a Tea Master
1989
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as Kokei
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Age: 82
So What
1988
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as
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Age: 80
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1982
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as
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Age: 74
The King and His Vassal
1981
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as
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Age: 73
Lord Mito
1978
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as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
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Age: 71
First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
1971
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as Keinosuke Takamatsu, Dainippon Steel President
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Age: 64
First-Decade President vs. Second-Decade Staff
1971
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as Keinosuke Takamatsu
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Age: 63
Five Gents and a Kuniang
1970
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as Gōji Keinosuke
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Age: 62
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1970
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as
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Age: 62
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
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as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
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Age: 62
Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
1970
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as Takeyunosuke Gōji
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Age: 62
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969
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as Sanpo Sensei
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Age: 62
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
1969
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as Umehara Kannosuke (textile CEO)
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Age: 61
Goyokin
1969
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as
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Age: 61
5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
1969
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as Kannosuke Umehara (President, Marubō Textiles)
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Age: 61
Crazy Big Discovery
1969
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as
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Age: 61
Song of Vengeance
1968
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as 看守Ａ
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Age: 61
The Saga of Tanegashima
1968
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as Kinbei Yaita
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Age: 60
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1968
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as
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Age: 60
Four and A Half Mats
1966
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as Uyu
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Age: 58
A Company President's Life Story
1966
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as Ōta Gōzaemon (Ōnichi Wool President)
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Age: 58
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965
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as Seizo
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Age: 58
An Innocent Witch
1965
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as
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Age: 58
Blood and Sea
1965
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as
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Age: 58
Sword of the Beast
1965
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as Minister
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Age: 58
The Spy
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Illusion of Blood
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Life of Matsu the Untamed
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
1965
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as
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Age: 57
The Last Judgment
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Start Here
1965
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as President Sagara
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Age: 57
Red Beard
1965
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as Goheiji
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Age: 57
Salaryman's Medal
1965
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as
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Age: 57
Samurai Assassin
1965
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as Masagorō Kisoya
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Age: 57
Five Gents' Trick Book
1965
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as
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Age: 57
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
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as
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Age: 57
Eddy Currents of Life
1964
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as Shigesuke Hayashi
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Age: 57
The Sandal Keeper
1964
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as
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Age: 57
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
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as
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Age: 56
The Naked Executive
1964
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as Kosugi, president
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Age: 56
A Story from Echigo
1964
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as
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Age: 56
A Public Benefactor
1964
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as
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Age: 56
Our Happiness Alone
1964
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as
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Age: 56
The Bride is Fifteen
1964
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as
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Age: 56
Pale Flower
1964
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as Yasuoka
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Age: 56
白さぎと少年
1964
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 56
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964
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as Haiya
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Age: 56
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1963
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as
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Age: 56
Fight of the Gamblers
1963
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as
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Age: 56
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1963
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as
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Age: 56
Tange Sazen
1963
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as
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Age: 56
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963
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as Akiharu
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Age: 56
A House in the Quarter
1963
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as
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Age: 56
The Sea of Eden
1963
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as
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Age: 55
The Navy
1963
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as
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Age: 55
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
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as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Age: 55
Double Wedding
1963
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as Goro
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Age: 55
Life of Hishakaku 2
1963
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as
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Age: 55
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1963
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as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
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Age: 55
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1963
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as
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Age: 55
The Sunshine Girl
1963
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as
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Age: 55
High and Low
1963
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as Factory Worker
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Age: 55
Girls Born in August
1963
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as
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Age: 55
Pressure of Guilt
1963
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as
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Age: 55
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963
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as Sosuke Otomo
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Age: 55
Born in Sin
1962
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as
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Age: 55
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
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as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
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Age: 55
The Great Wall
1962
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as Li Tang
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Age: 55
Mount Hakone
1962
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as
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Age: 54
No Image
The Man From the Sea
1962
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as
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Age: 54
This Madding Crowd
1962
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as Grandpa Yoshi
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Age: 54
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
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as Priest
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Age: 54
A Carpenter and Children
1962
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as
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Age: 54
The Bandits
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Facing to the Clouds
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Foundry Town
1962
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as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
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Age: 54
Seinen no isu
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Musume to watashi
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962
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as Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Age: 54
Our Marriage
1962
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as Father
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Age: 54
Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Season of Farewell
1962
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as
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Age: 54
Shimizu Port Salaryman
1962
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as
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Age: 54
The Red Shadow
1961
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as Jinzaburô Kamo
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Age: 54
No Image
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
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as
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Age: 54
Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
1961
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as
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Age: 54
Run, Genta, Run!
1961
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Age: 54
Wind and waves of the South
1961
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as Genji
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Age: 54
Buddha
1961
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as Suratha
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Age: 54
The Last War
1961
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as Captain Umehara
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Age: 54
Boss Takes to the Road
1961
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as
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Age: 54
Immortal Love
1961
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as Policeman
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Age: 53
The Crimson Plains
1961
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as Shinzô Okui
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Age: 53
The Estuary
1961
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as
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Age: 53
The Orphan Brother
1961
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as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
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Age: 53
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1961
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as
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Age: 53
Challenge to Live
1961
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as
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Age: 53
Fine Man
1961
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as
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Age: 53
Yojimbo
1961
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as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
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Age: 53
An Edo Magistrate
1961
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as
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Age: 53
The Masterless 47 – Part II
1961
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as
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Age: 53
Pigs and Battleships
1961
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as Kan'ichi
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Age: 53
For This We Fight
1961
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as
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Age: 53
Botchan yarō seizoroi
1961
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as
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Age: 53
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
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as
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Age: 53
The Masterless 47
1960
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as Gonosuke Kira
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Age: 53
The War Without Weapons
1960
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as
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Age: 53
Wait for Tomorrow
1960
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as Seisaku Kajiwara
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Age: 53
The Pirates
1960
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as
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Age: 53
The Twilight Story
1960
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as
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Age: 52
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1960
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as Isuke Tsujikura
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Age: 52
Police Precinct Part 13
1960
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as
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Age: 52
The Master Spearman
1960
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as
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Age: 52
The Man of Seven Faces
1960
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as Genkichi Miyashita
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Age: 52
Ajisai no uta
1960
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as
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Age: 52
The Gambling Samurai
1960
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as Kansuke
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Age: 52
The Great Road
1960
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as
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Age: 52
The Forbidden Scoop
1960
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as
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Age: 52
The Cards Will Tell
1960
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as
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Age: 52
New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
1960
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as Isuke Tsujikura (President)
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Age: 52
The Bride from Japan
1959
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as Mieko's father
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Age: 52
The Three Treasures
1959
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as Ootomo
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Age: 52
The Human Wall
1959
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as
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Age: 52
Akatsuki no chiheisen
1959
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as
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Age: 52
Ripe and Marriageable
1959
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as Saemon, Hikari's father
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Age: 52
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1959
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as
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Age: 51
Police Precinct: Car 108
1959
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Age: 51
The Beast Shall Die
1959
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as Detective Kuwashima
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Age: 51
High Teen
1959
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Age: 51
Good Morning
1959
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as Hiroshi Tomizawa
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Age: 51
Diary of Forsaken Love
1959
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as
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Age: 51
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1959
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as Policeman
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Age: 51
Kaze no uchi so to
1959
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as
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Age: 51
The Big Scoop: Challenge at Twilight
1959
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as
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Age: 51
The Third Dead Angle
1959
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as
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Age: 51
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
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as
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Age: 51
The Stream of Youth
1959
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as
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Age: 51
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958
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as
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Age: 51
The Days of Evil Women
1958
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as
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Age: 51
Theater of Life
1958
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as
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Age: 51
The Naked General
1958
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as
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Age: 51
The Naked Sun
1958
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as
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Age: 51
Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
1958
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as Mouri
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Age: 50
A Grain of Wheat
1958
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as Aisawa
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Age: 50
The Young Beast
1958
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Age: 50
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
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as
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Age: 50
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
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Age: 50
The Ballad of Narayama
1958
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as Messenger
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Age: 50
Night Drum
1958
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as
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Age: 50
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
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as Chamberlain
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Age: 50
Firefly Light
1958
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as
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Age: 50
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
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as Fugetsusai
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Age: 50
Actress
1956
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as
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Age: 49
I Will Buy You
1956
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as Ogushi
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Age: 49
Love on Rainbow Island
1956
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as Shiimbei Hayashi
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Age: 49
The Forest Is Alive
1956
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Age: 49
Tears
1956
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as
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Age: 49
Undercurrent
1956
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as Yujiro Funaki
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Age: 48
No Image
How Sorrowful
1956
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as
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Age: 48
No Image
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
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as
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Age: 48
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956
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as
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Age: 48
Flowery Brothers
1956
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as
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Age: 48
Farewell to Dream
1956
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as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
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Age: 48
The Vampire Moth
1956
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as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
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Age: 48
No Image
White Fan
1956
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as Takuetsu
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Age: 48
Early Spring
1956
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as Tokichi Hattori
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Age: 48
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
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as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
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Age: 48
I Live in Fear
1955
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as Old man from Brazil
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Age: 48
Floating Weeds Diary
1955
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as Magoro Ichikawa
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Age: 48
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
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as Baiken Shishido
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Age: 47
The Wolves
1955
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as
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Age: 47
No Image
Murder on the Last Train
1955
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as
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Age: 47
Twilight Saloon
1955
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as Onizuka
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Age: 47
Beautiful Days
1955
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as Imanishi's Father
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Age: 47
Burden of Love
1955
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as Jozo Araki
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Age: 47
Here Is a Spring
1955
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as
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Age: 47
Policeman's Diary
1955
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as Old man Murata
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Age: 47
The Cock Crows Twice
1954
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Age: 47
Women's House
1954
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as
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Age: 47
The Surf
1954
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as Schoolmaster
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Age: 47
The Black Current
1954
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as
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Age: 46
The Street Without Sun
1954
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as President Kunio
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Age: 46
Seven Samurai
1954
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as Kidnapper
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Age: 46
The Glorious Days
1954
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as
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Age: 46
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
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Age: 46
Tokyo Story
1953
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as Numata
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Age: 46
The Wild Geese
1953
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as Suezo
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Age: 45
Hiroba no kōdoku
1953
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Age: 45
Girls in the Orchard
1953
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Age: 45
Shishun no izumi
1953
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as Nakamura, a policeman
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Age: 45
Jūdai no seiten
1953
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as
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Age: 45
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
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Age: 43
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
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Age: 43
A Man from Akagi
1950
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Age: 43
Heat and Mud
1950
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Age: 42
Devil's Gold
1950
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Age: 42
Izu no musumetachi
1945
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as
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Age: 37
Otome no iru kichi
1945
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Age: 37