Rokkō Toura

Rokkō Toura
戸浦六宏
Born	Mutsuhiro Toura (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

Rokkō Toura (戸浦 六宏, Toura Rokkō, 25 March 1937 – 30 April 1993) was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993. He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa Ōshima.

Biography

Toura was born Mutsuhiro Toura in Osaka, Japan. A graduate of Kyoto University, he worked as an English teacher at a private high school before becoming an actor at the Shochiku studios at Ōshima's recommendation. He left Shochiku together with Ōshima the following year and became a freelance actor who often worked with Ōshima, but also repeatedly with director Kaneto Shindō.

Toura died of polyarteritis nodosa in 1993 at the age of 62.

Selected filmography

Film

• The Sun's Burial (1960) as Masa
• 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) as Shun'ichi Matsumoto
• Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
• Tales of the Ninja (1967) (voice)
• Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968) as himself
• Curse of the Blood (1968) as Fukaya Shinzaemon
• Death by Hanging (1968) as medical officer
• Kuroneko (1968) as a warlord
• Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) (narrator)
• Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) as Gondo
• The Ceremony (1971) as Sakurada Mamoru
• Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)
• Silence (1971) as interpreter
• Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) as Ministry of Justice officer
• 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) as Tani
• 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) as interpreter
• Early Spring Story (1985)
• Tree Without Leaves (1986) as bailiff
• Yearning (1993)

Television

• 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
• Sanada Taiheiki (1985-86) as Ninja Nakayama Nagatoshi

External links

• Rokkō Toura at IMDb
• "戸浦六宏 (Rokkō Toura)". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 July 2023.