Personally trained the Asian extras who were hired to play the Japanese submarine crew in 1941 (1979). He was reportedly very annoyed that they were not real sailors and had no real training, so he used his own military background to teach them how ...
[on Akira Kurosawa] I am proud of nothing I have done other than with him.
Internationally associated almost solely with parts as samurai, both heroic and less so (despite many modern day parts in his time)
The Shogun
Aries
Sanchuan Minlang
Tsingtao, China [now Qingdao, Shandong, China]
(age 77)
Mitaka city, Tokyo, Japan