He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands, The Tigers and Pyg, but later switched to acting.

[1] The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award for The Sting of Death in 1991,[2] and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994.

He appeared in Toshiyuki Morioka's Jokyo Monogatari in 2013.

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