Eiji Kusuhara

Born: 1947-01-02, Tokio, Japan

Died: 2010-04-23

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.

Filmography

• Screen Two (1985)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Days That Shook the World (2003)
• Lovejoy (1986)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Tenko (1981)
• Terry and June (1979)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
• dinnerladies (1998)
• A Very Peculiar Practice (1986)
• ffolkes (1980)
• Third Time Lucky (1982)
• The Parole Officer (2001)
• Die Einsteiger (1985)
• Licensed to Love and Kill (1979)
• Restless Natives (1985)
• Diamond Skulls (1990)
• Quartermaine's Terms (1987)
• Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
• Sticky Wickets (1990)
• Big Mäc (1985)
• Super Banzai Video Show (2002)