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Rokkō Toura (戸浦 六宏, Toura Rokkō, 25 March 1937 – 30 April 1993) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1960 to 1993.[1][2][3]　Before he started his acting career, he was a high school teacher but became an actor by Nagisa Oshima's recommendation.[4]

Rokkō Toura
戸浦六宏
Born	(1930-04-30)30 April 1930 Osaka, Japan
Died	25 March 1993(1993-03-25) (aged 62) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–1993

In 1993, he died of Polyarteritis nodosa at the age of 62.[3]

Selected filmography

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Film

• Taiyo no Sakaba (1960)
• Night and Fog in Japan (1960) as Higashiura
• Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965) as crippled yakuza
• Violence at Noon (1966) as Genji
• Japan's Longest Day (1967)
• Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
• Tales of the Ninja (Band of Ninja) (1967) (Voice)
• Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968) as Himself
• Curse of the Blood (1968)
• Death by Hanging (1968)
• Kuroneko (1968) as a warlord
• Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)[6] - Narrator
• Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) as Gondo
• The Ceremony (1971 film) (1971) as Sakurada Mamoru
• Alleycat Rock: Crazy Riders '71 (1971)
• Silence (1971) as The Interpreter
• Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) as Oribe
• Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi (1973) as Karasaki Gen
• Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
• Military Comfort Women (1974) as Yamagami
• The Life of Chikuzan (1977) as Hikoichi
• Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku (1979) as Ono Harunaga
• Edo Porn (1981)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
• Early Spring Story (1985)
• Tree Without Leaves (1986)
• Yearning (1993)

Television

• Taiga drama
  • Akō Rōshi (1964) as Takebayashi Takashige
  • Taikoki (1965) as Hosokawa Fujitaka
  • Ten to Chi to (1969) as Suwa Yorishige
  • Kunitori Monogatari (1973) as Shimozuma Rairen
  • Katsu Kaishū (1974) as Takano Chōei
  • Kusa Moeru as Minamoto no Yukiie
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu as Hirate Masahide
• Unmeitōge (1974) as Yami no Hichibei
• Miyamoto Musashi (1985) as Sakai Tadatoshi[7]
• Sanada Taiheiki (1985-86) as Ninja Nakayama Nagatoshi

References

External links

• Rokkō Toura at IMDb

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