Ken Utsui

Ken Utsui
Ken Utsui
	Utsui in Attack from Space
Born	24 October 1931; Tokyo, Japan
Died	14 March 2014 (aged 82)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1952–2014

Ken Utsui (宇津井健, Utsui Ken) (24 October 1931 – 14 March 2014) was a Japanese actor who worked on stage, film, and television from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Career and death

Born in Tokyo, Utsui entered the Haiyūza theatre troupe in 1952 and was soon selected to star in the film Seishun no izumi that was produced by Haiyūza.[1] In 1954, he signed a contract with Shintoho and starred in 60 films, including the Super Giant series.[1] He moved to Daiei Film in 1963 and starred in another 52 films.[1] From the mid-1960s, he also began to work on television, starring in many television dramas, especially detective series like The Guardman and Sasurai keiji junjōhen and some installments of the Akai series with Momoe Yamaguchi.[1] He died on 14 March 2014 from natural causes at the age of 82.[2][3]

Selected filmography

Film

Ningen gyorai kaiten (人間魚雷回天 Ningen gyorai kaiten) (1955)
Revenge of the Pearl Queen (1956)
Senun Ajia no joo (戦雲アジアの女王) (1957)
Evil Brain from Outer Space (1964)
Attack from Space (1964)
Invaders from Space (1964)
Atomic Rulers of the World (1964)
The Bullet Train (1975)
Saimin (催眠) (1999)
Gokusen - The Movie (2009) (Ryuichiro Kuroda)

Television

Akai Meiro (1974) – adoptive father
Akai Unmei (1976) – father of Izumi
Akai Shisen (1980) – carjack victim and pilot
Takeda Shingen (1988) – Naoe Kagetsuna
Onna tachi no Hyakuman goku (1988) – Maeda Toshiie
Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000) – Mōri Terumoto
Gokusen - TV Series (2002–2005) – Ryuichiro Kuroda
Tenchijin (2009) – Maeda Toshiie

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References

"Utsui Ken". Tarento dētabanku. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
俳優の宇津井健さんが死去. 47News (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.
Japanese actor Ken Utsui dies at 82 Archived 2014-06-08 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Ken Utsui on IMDb
Utsui Ken at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
Official profile (in Japanese)

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[Tarento-1] "Utsui Ken". Tarento dētabanku. Retrieved 2 February 2012.

[47News-2] 俳優の宇津井健さんが死去. 47News (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014.

[3] Japanese actor Ken Utsui dies at 82 Archived 2014-06-08 at the Wayback Machine