He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands,
The Tigers and
Pyg, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor
Japanese Academy Award for
The Sting of Death in 1991, and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994. He appeared in Toshiyuki Morioka's
Jokyo Monogatari in 2013. ==Selected filmography==