In this film, he played a Japanese sergeant as well as working as a bilingual production assistant, script translator and location interpreter.
He has played Japanese soldiers in other Chinese films such as the 69th Golden Globe Awards nomination film The Flowers of War, directed by Zhang Yimou and City of Life and Death, directed by Lu Chuan.
In China, he has also played Japanese historical figures in leading roles, such as Monk Fusho in Jianzhen Dongdu, and Yamagata Aritomo in Taiwan 1895.
He went to China to study acting and to work in the Chinese film and TV industry as a fluent Mandarin speaker.
He has recently acted in Universal Pictures 47 Ronin, the first English language adaptation of the Japanese story Chushingura, and “Taking Stock”, starring Kelly Brook in the UK.