Japanese social activist, business leader, writer, art patron, and occasional actor. In the West he is best known for his cameo appearances in several of the last films directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Good Morning
(Customer)
The King
This Year's Love
Floating Weeds
(Sushi Restaurant Customer)
Our Town
(Tsuruta Tomizō, Diving Company Boss)
Equinox Flower
(Mr. Sugai)
How to Make Money
A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
(Tsusai Sugawara)
The Kii River
(Tazaki)
Late Autumn
(Sushiya Kyaku)
A Trap
Tokyo Twilight
(Mahjong Parlor Owner)
A Geisha's Diary
(Shimazaki)
The Horrible Obsessions
(Sugawara)
Early Spring
(Mr. Sugai)