Zen Kajihara
Zen Kajihara, is a Japanese theatre actor. Originally a member of the Tokyo Sunshine Boys theatrical troupe, he now works mainly with the Gekidan Shinkansen troupe.
He is known for being very short in stature, but very noisy and wild on stage, specializing in comedy. He had a problem reading kanji and insists that his roles have long, complicated, difficult-to-remember names.
Filmography
Films
- The Gentle Twelve, Juror 7
- Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
- Minna no Ie
- The Grudge 2
- The Uchoten Hotel
- The Kiyosu Conference, Koichirō
- Galaxy Turnpike
- Black Widow Business
- Masquerade Hotel
- Hit Me Anyone One More Time
- Masquerade Night
- The Confidence Man JP: Episode of the Hero
- Do Unto Others
- We're Broke, My Lord!
- Nightmare Resort
- Yudo: The Way of the Bath
- What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister, Keiichi Morimoto
- House of Sayuri
- All About Suomi
- Hey, Dazai: The Movie, Jiro Darai
Television
- Furikaereba Yatsu ga Iru
- Furuhata Ninzaburō
- Oosama no Restaurant
- The Waste Land
- The Emperor's Cook, Emperor Hirohito
- Here Comes Asa!, Genkichi Miyabe
- The 13 Lords of the Shogun, Zenji
- DCU: Deep Crime Unit, Hideki Bando
- Hayabusa Fire Brigade, Yōsuke Morino
- Hey, Dazai, Jiro Darai
- Scandal Eve, Tetsuya Igarashi