Yoshio Tsuchiya
Born: 1927-05-18 in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Died: 2017-02-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Yoshio Tsuchiya (土屋 嘉男 Tsuchiya Yoshio, May 18, 1927 – February 8, 2017) was a Japanese actor known for his frequent appearances in Akira Kurosawa's Samurai films as well as Ishiro Honda's science fiction films.
Filmography
2016
- Mifune: The Last Samurai as Self - Actor
2015
- Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction as Himself
2002
1997
1991
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah as Businessman Yasuaki Shindo
1989
- Tokyo: The Last War as Dr. Mizuno
1984
- Rouge as Akio Tsuchiya(土屋明雄)
1983
- The Undercover Ninja Organization
- The Yoshida School as Jōji Hayashi
1982
- Lady Karuizawa as Gen'ichirô Nakagawa
1980
1977
- Double Suicide at Nishijin as Yoshida
1974
1973
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy as Shobei
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro as Naomitsu Kitamura
1971
- Haru no Sakamichi as Ōtani Yoshitsugu
1970
- Space Amoeba as Dr. Kyoichi Mida
- The Militarists as Okawa
- Incident at Blood Pass as Itahachi
1969
- Funeral Parade of Roses as Gonda
- Samurai Banners
- Battle of the Japan Sea as Staff Officer Akiyama
1968
- Destroy All Monsters as Dr. Otani
- Admiral Yamamoto as Staff Officer Kuroshima
- Kill! as Shinroku Matsuo
- Golden Eyes as Kurokawa / Killer
1967
- Son of Godzilla as Furukawa
- Japan's Longest Day as Lt. Colonel Hiroshi Fuha - Eastern District Army Staff Officer
- Kojiro
- Two in the Shadow as Yumiko's husband
- The Killing Bottle as General Rubesa
1966
- Moment of Terror
- The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay as Hangoro Ose
- Zero Fighter
- Ultra Q as Ono
1965
- Red Beard as Dr. Handayû Mori
- Invasion of Astro-Monster as Controller of Planet X
- Frankenstein Conquers the World as Daigo Kawai
- The Retreat from Kiska as Terai
- Stairs of Evil as Second division detective
- Beast Alley as Katsuragi
1964
1963
- High and Low as Detective Murata
- Legacy of the 500,000 as Yamazaki
- Matango as Masafumi Kasai - Owner
- Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
- Young Swordsman
1962
- Sanjuro as Samurai
- Chûshingura
- Varan the Unbelievable as Military Officer Katsumoto
- Home-Brewed Tatsu as Kida
- The Crimson Sky
- The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru
- Chihō kisha
1961
- Yojimbo as Kohei
- Sir Galahad in Campus as Takizawa
- The Tenth Game of New Salarymen as Hiroshi Tsurumaki
- Death on the Mountain as Jiro Makita
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as ADA Secretary
- The Storm of the Pacific
- The Human Vapor as Mr. Mizuno
- The Secret of the Telegian as Det. Capt. Onosaki
- Girls Behind Bars
1959
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster as Tajima
- A Whistle in My Heart
- Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
- Battle in Outer Space as Iwomura
- Vagabond Employee: Outcry Version as Union Chairman
1958
- The Hidden Fortress as Horseman (uncredited)
- Varan as Military Officer Katsumoto
- The Rickshaw Man
- Little Peach as Ishima
- Song for a Bride
- The H-Man as Detective Taguchi
1957
- Throne of Blood as Washizu samurai
- A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls
- The Mysterians as Leader of the Mysterians
- A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 as Takeshi Shimada
- Reign of Terror as Nebukawa
1955
- Godzilla Raids Again as Tajima, Member of Osaka Defense Corps
- I Live in Fear as Factory Worker after Fire
- All is Well 2
- No Time for Tears
- Stray Sheep as Nonomiya
- No Response from Car 33
- New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain as Zenzaburō Matsudaira
1954
- Seven Samurai as Rikichi
- The Black Fury
- Invisible Man as Komatsu, reporter
- 君死に給うことなかれ