He joined the Toho film company and his career as a screen actor started in 1974. Kusakari won Elan d'Or Awards in 1975.
He won popularity through his role in Sanada Maru in 2016. In 2017, Kusakari won Best Supporting Actor of 10th Tokyo Drama Awards for his role in Sanada Maru.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/6dg82_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fujioka Hiroshi", "alternateName": "藤岡弘", "birthDate": "February 19, 1946", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Fujioka Kunihiro, better known by his stage name Fujioka Hiroshi, is a Japanese actor known for playing the hero Takeshi Hongo in the tokusatsu superhero series Kamen Rider, and later the Sega Saturn mascot Segata Sanshiro. Fujioka is a cultural icon in Japan, even having the minor planet 12408 Fujioka, discovered by Akimasa Nakamura, named in his honor. Fujioka writes his name with the ideographic comma at the end (after the kanji for "Hiroshi" (弘?)), saying "It is meant to remind me to reconsider myself and what it is that I need to achieve. It shows that I am not yet finished with my tasks and must continue working toward their accomplishment." Originally, Hiroshi Fujioka did his own stunts as Kamen Rider 1. This made Kamen Rider history when early on in the show, Hiroshi shattered his leg in a motorcycle stunt gone wrong. This resulted in him being replaced by Takeshi Sasaki, who played Hayato Ichimonji/Kamen Rider 2. Eventually, Hiroshi recovered returned to the show, joining Takeshi as the Double Riders, although Fujioka did not continue to perform in suit due to the risk it posed to production.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/QpQA6c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Okada Eiji", "alternateName": "岡田英次", "birthDate": "June 13, 1920", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second-billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American. Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theater company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75. (Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/qYgkXd_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kayama Yuzo", "alternateName": "加山雄三", "birthDate": "April 11, 1937", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Kayama Yuzo is the son of one of one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1930s, 'Ken Uehara'. The handsome and likeable Yuzo Kayama became one of Japan's biggest male stars of the 1960s. And just as Uehara embodied the idea of a modern Japanese wartime hero, Kayama became symbolic of postwar Japanese affluence and confidence, most famously in his title role in the 17 original "Young Guy" movies for his father's home studio, Toho.
A popular singer as well as an actor, Kayama specialized in romantic comedies that encouraged him to break spontaneously into song, as showcased even in movies where he wasn't playing the Young Guy, such as "Oyome ni Oide" (1966). Though like his father, he also starred in some of Toho's war films, and crime and action thrillers, such as his debut "Otoko tai Otoko" (1960), he largely bypassed serious dramas until Akira Kurosawa tapped him for the lead alongside 'Toshiro Mifune' in Barberousse (1965), the two-year shoot of which Kayama found the most difficult experience of his life, but which also yielded the work of which he is proudest.
Other than a single return to the Young Guy character, "Kaettekita Wakadaisho" (1981), ten years after leaving the series, Kayama, also like his father, in later years moved towards playing a series of kindly authority figures, while still maintaining his romantic appeal to nostalgic audiences with musical appearances on the stage and on television.
He has overcome many challenges during his long life - the burning down of his ship 'Mitsunori Maru' as well as suffering a compression fracture in his hip, a stroke, and a cerebral hemorrhage.
On June 21, 2022, he announced that he would retire from stage after his concert aboard the luxury liner Asuka II in December 2022.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/ZYN5J_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wakayama Tomisaburo", "alternateName": "若山富三郎", "birthDate": "September 1, 1929", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater. Wakayama, tired of thism at the age of 13, began to study judo, eventually achieving the rank of 4th dan black belt in the art.
In 1952, as part of the Azuma Kabuki troupe, Wakayama toured the United States of America for nine months. He gave up theater performance completely after his two-year term with the troupe was over. Wakayama taught judo until Toho recruited him as a new martial arts star in their jidaigeki movies. He prepared for these movies by practicing other disciplines, including kenpō, iaidō, kendo, and bōjutsu. All this helped him with roles in the television series "The Lone Wolf".
Wakayama went on to star in many films, performing in a variety of roles. It has been estimated that he appeared in between 250 and 500 films. His only roles in American movies were as a baseball coach in The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) and as a yakuza boss, Sugai, in Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989).
Wakayama died of acute heart failure on April 2, 1992, in a hospital in Kyoto. He was survived by a son, Kiichiro Wakayama, who is also an actor.
(Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/XeYOJc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Hughes", "alternateName": "Andrew Hughes", "birthDate": "January 1, 1908", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Turkish-born businessman who lived in Japan and was recruited to play Western parts in Japanese films. For 1961’s The Last War, Hughes worked as an intermediary between the Japanese crew and the sizable Western cast of that film; although he apparently served as an interpreter on occasion, he did not speak fluent Japanese and was dubbed in all his works. His stature and serious expression often let to his casting as dignified, official parts.
He is best remembered in Japan for appearing as Hitler in the 1965 Crazy Cats comedy The Great Adventure. He is also well known as Dr. Stevenson in Destroy All Monsters (1968).
(Source: Godzilla Cineaste)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/X7oJX_5c.jpg" } ], "director": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fukuda Jun", "alternateName": "福田純", "birthDate": "February 17, 1923", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China (currently Changchun City). He spent his childhood in Manchuria because his father worked for the South Manchuria Railway. Although he went on to Nihon University, he rarely attended lectures and spent most of the day reading and watching movies. In 1946, Toho participated in the study listening to the assistant director recruitment, passed in which 200 people to apply. Hiroshi Inagaki and Ishirō Honda, while he served as assistant director of the et al., He coordinated the adjustment of the schedule between the staff and performers who need to film production, the know-how, such as budget management. During the Toho dispute, he was not directly involved in the dispute because he was on location in a rural area, and he formed an instant theater company with the staff and actors he was with to secure the company's income. In 1959, he was promoted to director in " Osorubeki hiasuka". Since then, subjected to a sunset period from the movie golden age in Toho, Wakadaisho series youth movies, such as the Godzilla series and other special effects movies. He directed works of various genres, including action films and comedy films.
The exclusive contract with Toho was cancelled at the end of "The War in Space " released in 1977, and the following year, he became the main director of the internationally broadcasted TV movie " Saiyuki " and made it a hit (Toho is in charge of special effects). After that, he established a movie professional and spent the rest of his life making documentary films such as the "Setagaya Bunkajin Series".
He died December 3, 2000, of lung cancer at 77 years old.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/pNXor_5c.jpg" } ]
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