Eiji Kusuhara
- Acting
- January 2, 1947 · Tokio, Japan
- April 23, 2010
Biography
The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko (1981-85), was one of the narrators on the cult show Banzai (2001) and appeared on stages across the UK and Europe in a variety of beguiling roles. He was one of the first professional Japanese actors active in London in the 1970s and enjoyed something of a monopoly on roles until he starred alongside a fellow countryman, Togo Igawa, in The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984). Eiji spent most of his adult life in Britain.
Known for
Filmography
- Confessions of a Diary Secretary · Japanese News Reporter
- Tokyo Jim · Mr. Yakamoto
- Hotel Babylon · Mr. Matsui
- Hustle · Mr. Yakubi
- Days That Shook the World · Voice
- Super Banzai Video Show
- The Parole Officer · Japanese Businessman
- Topsy-Turvy · Second Kabuki Actor
- Eyes Wide Shut · Japanese Man #2
- dinnerladies · Mr Tashimoto
- Souvenir · Presentador TV
- Gummed Labels
- Stanley and the Women · Surangan Attaché
- Sticky Wickets · Nashimoto
- Diamond Skulls · Ewo Nagasaky
- The Ginger Tree · Takashi Maruyama
- The Paradise Club · Yakuza #1
- Somewhere to Run · Tourist
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace · U.N. Guard - Japanese
- Quartermaine's Terms · Oko-Ri
- A Very Peculiar Practice · Japanese Interpreter
- Lovejoy · Miki Watanabe
- The Beginner
- Restless Natives · Presenter
- Big Mäc · Professor
- Screen Two · Oko-Ri
- The Man Who Shot Christmas · Yuzo
- Sharing Time · Yukio
- Return of the Jedi · Lieutenant Telsij - Grey Squadron (uncredited)
- Third Time Lucky · Mr Ho Moy
- Q.E.D. · Count Oyama
- Tenko · Lt. Sato, Captain Sato
- Sir Henry at Rawlinson End · Fortyninesah
- The Elephant Man · Japanese Bleeder
- North Sea Hijack · Eiji
- Terry and June · Japanese Gentleman
- Licensed to Love and Kill · Male Madam Wang
- Are You Being Served? · Mr. Kayoto