Toshio Takahara
Toshio Takahara was a Japanese actor.
Notable film appearances were Seven Samurai and Twenty-Four Eyes. He is also known for his role as Commander Gonpachi Edogawa in the tokusatsu superhero series Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
He started his acting career at the Bungakuza theatre company in 1941. In 1943, he made his stage debut with Denen . He gave his film debut with Ginza no Odoriko in 1950. Takahara signed his contract with Nikkatsu studio between 1956 and 1960 and starred in many Nikatsu films, including Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate directed by Yūzō Kawashima and Pigs and Battleships directed by Shōhei Imamura. He died of heart failure on 26 February 2000.
Filmography
Films
Ginza no Odoriko as Rickshaw manListen to the Voices of the Sea as combat medicKaizoku-sen as GyuhiHino hate Taiyō no nai Machi as young manSeven Samurai as Samurai with GunOkuman chōja Twenty-Four Eyes as Chiririn'yaNingen Gyorai Kaiten as KawamuraSun in the Last Days of the Shogunate as KanejiStolen Desire as Eisuke KatōRusty Knife as detective TakaishiNaked Sun as Kenzō SakiyamaVoice Without a Shadow as Shigeo KotaniMy Second Brother as shop assistantPigs and Battleships as Doctor MiyaguchiMan with a Shotgun as OkumuraThe Jet That Flew Into the Storm Blood Red Water in the Channel as HikawaBad Girl as TakedaShiroi Kyotō as TsukudaMen and War Karei-naru Ichizoku as TsunodaHimitsu Sentai Gorenger as Gonpachi EdogawaNiji wo Tsukamu Otoko Tokyo Lullaby- ''Natsu Shōjo''