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Occupation
  
Actor, voice actor

Spouse
  
Fujiko Kimura (m. 2010)

Role
  
Actor


Name
  
Takeshi Kusaka

Years active
  
1954–present


Born
  
February 24, 1931 (age 93) (
1931-02-24
)
Toshima, Tokyo, Japan

Movies
  
Antarctica, Street Fighter II: The Anim, Madadayo, Silence Has No Wings, Deaths in Tokimeki

Similar People
  
Koreyoshi Kurahara, Gisaburo Sugii, Kazuo Kuroki, Yoshimitsu Morita, Akira Kurosawa

Organizations founded
  
Shiki Theatre Company

Takeshi Kusaka (日下 武史, Kusaka Takeshi, February 24, 1931 – May 15, 2017) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Toshima, Tokyo. He was the founder of the Shiki Theatre Company. He remarried with actress Fujiko Kimura in 2010.

Contents


Live action television

  • Ōedo Sōsamō (Narrator)
  • Ōoku (1983 series) (Ryūkō)

    • Theater

  • The Cherry Orchard
  • Hamlet
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Alderle or a saint
  • Antigone
  • Troy war will not happen
  • Orphe and Yuriddis
  • lark
  • Understand and accumulate!
  • who's life？
  • Equus
  • Sluice
  • Hikarigoke
  • Yuriddis
  • Ondine
  • A man who sells memories
  • Rokumeikan
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • beauty and the beast
  • Devil and God’'

    • Live action

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead (Harry Crown)
  • Amadeus (Antonio Salieri)
  • Avalon (Game Master)
  • The Cassandra Crossing (Doctor Jonathan Chamberlain)
  • Columbo (Robert Conrad)
  • Hannibal (TV Asahi edition) (Hannibal Lecter)
  • Les Misérables (Inspector Javert)
  • Sitting Bull (Major Robert Parrish)
  • The Thief of Paris (Georges Randal)
  • The Untouchables (Eliot Ness)

    • Animation

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Judge Claude Frollo (speaking voice))
  • SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (Dr. Harley Street)

    • Honors

  • Medal with Purple Ribbon (1996)
  • Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2002)
  • Art Festival Award- Incentive award
  • Arts Reward - Minister of Education Award
  • Kinokuniya Theater Award

    • Filmography

    Actor
    2000
    Kasei no waga ya as
    Kamiyama - Kôhei
    1999
    Suzuran (TV Series)
    1997
    Shin sarariiman senka as
    Nishihara
    1994
    Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as
    Vega (voice)
    1994
    Legend of the Galactic Heroes (TV Series) as
    Voice in documentary
    - To Earth (1994) - Voice in documentary (voice)
    1993
    Kogarashi Monjiro Returns (TV Movie)
    1993
    Shinjitsu ichiro (TV Movie) as
    Gihei
    1993
    Madadayo as
    Dr. Kobayashi
    1991
    Mangetsu: Mr. Moonlight
    1991
    Noh Mask Murders as
    Kazunori Minakami
    1990
    Edogawa Rampo no bijo (TV Series) as
    Genzo Okuda
    - Ayashi inazuma no bijo (1990) - Genzo Okuda
    1990
    Vidro de Sôrô (TV Mini Series)
    1989
    Tokyo: The Last War as
    Fumimaro Konoe
    1989
    Four Days of Snow and Blood as
    Sadao Araki
    1988
    Those Swell Yakuza
    1988
    Daidokoro no seijo (TV Movie) as
    Kyoshi Takahama
    1987
    Twilight of the Cockroaches as
    Alois (voice)
    1985
    Out of Focus
    1984
    Deaths in Tokimeki as
    Nakayama
    1983
    Antarctica as
    Morishima Kyoju
    1977
    Shôgeki no sekaishi keishi
    1976
    Tenpô suiko-den: Ôhara Yûgaku as
    Kusakabe
    1976
    Fumô chitai
    1976
    Doudoutaru dasan (TV Series)
    1974
    Lone Wolf and Cub (TV Series)
    - Memasho the Cop (1974)
    1974
    Jack and the Beanstalk as
    Paper Priest (voice)
    1973
    The Petrified Forest
    1970
    Edogawa Rampo shirîzu: Akechi Kogorô (TV Series)
    - Kubi dorobô majutsu-shi yori (1970)
    1967
    Ningyo to yarô (TV Series) as
    Takemi Kaku
    - Episode #1.13 (1967) - Takemi Kaku
    - Episode #1.12 (1967) - Takemi Kaku
    - Episode #1.11 (1967) - Takemi Kaku
    - Episode #1.10 (1967) - Takemi Kaku
    - Episode #1.9 (1967) - Takemi Kaku
    1967
    Flame and Women as
    Ken Sakaguchi
    1966
    Silence Has No Wings
    1965
    Samurai Spy as
    Narrator
    1965
    International Case Reporter (TV Series)
    1964
    Assassination
    1963
    Chiisana boken ryoko (Short)
    Self
    2002
    Mars Sweet Home: Rehearsal (Video documentary short) as
    Self
    1961
    Nishijin (Documentary short) as
    Narrator (voice)

    References

    Takeshi Kusaka Wikipedia
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