Rokkō Toura

Rokkō Toura
戸浦六宏
Born
Mutsuhiro Toura

(1930-04-30)30 April 1930
Osaka, Japan
Died25 March 1993(1993-03-25) (aged 62)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationActor
Years active1960–1993

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

Life and career

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 on 25 March 1993, at the age of 62.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "戸浦 六宏". Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 「個性光る、名脇役」　Asahi Shimbun読売新聞1993 March 26 朝刊31面
  3. ↑ "戸浦六宏". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "戸浦六宏". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 July 2023.