Biografie

Spoke Japanese, Chinese and English.

Reportedly, within approximately one year after graduating from high school, he went through Toho's "New Face" program and was cast in one of the lead roles in one of Toho's most expensive productions up to that date, "Gojira" (1954) ("Godzilla").

Japanese actor.

The only actor to appear in four eras of the Godzilla franchise; Showa, Hesei, Milenium and Monsterverse.

He was best known internationally for appearing in a number of Toho's special effects spectacles.