Rokkō Toura
Rokkō Toura 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 as MasaNight and Fog in Japan as HigashiuraZatoichi and the Chess Expert as crippled yakuzaViolence at Noon as GenjiJapan's Longest Day as Shun'ichi MatsumotoDouble Suicide: Japanese Summer Tales of the Ninja Diary of a Shinjuku Thief as himselfCurse of the Blood as Fukaya ShinzaemonDeath by Hanging as medical officerKuroneko as a warlordYokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts Live Today, Die Tomorrow! as GondoThe Ceremony as Sakurada MamoruStray Cat Rock: Beat '71 Silence as interpreterFemale Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 as Ministry of Justice officer- Dear Summer Sister Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as OribeBodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi as Karasaki GenZero Woman: Red Handcuffs as TaniMilitary Comfort Women as YamagamiThe Life of Chikuzan as HikoichiSanada Yukimura no Bōryaku as Ono HarunagaEdo Porn Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence as interpreterEarly Spring Story Tree Without Leaves as bailiff
- ''Yearning''