Rokkō Toura

Rokkō Toura (戸浦 六宏) was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993. He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa Ōshima.

Biography
Toura was born Mutsuhiro Toura in Osaka, Japan. A graduate of Kyoto University, he worked as an English teacher at a private high school before becoming an actor at the Shochiku studios at Ōshima's recommendation. He left Shochiku together with Ōshima the following year and became a freelance actor who often worked with Ōshima, but also repeatedly with director Kaneto Shindō.

Toura died of polyarteritis nodosa in 1993 at the age of 62.

Film

 * The Sun's Burial (1960) as Masa
 * Night and Fog in Japan (1960) as Higashiura
 * Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965) as crippled yakuza
 * Violence at Noon (1966) as Genji
 * Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Shun'ichi Matsumoto
 * Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
 * Tales of the Ninja (1967) (voice)
 * Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968) as himself
 * Curse of the Blood (1968) as Fukaya Shinzaemon
 * Death by Hanging (1968) as medical officer
 * Kuroneko (1968) as a warlord
 * Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969) (narrator)
 * Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) as Gondo
 * The Ceremony (1971) as Sakurada Mamoru
 * Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971)
 * Silence (1971) as interpreter
 * Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) as Ministry of Justice officer
 * Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) as Oribe
 * Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi (1973) as Karasaki Gen
 * Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) as Tani
 * Military Comfort Women (1974) as Yamagami
 * The Life of Chikuzan (1977) as Hikoichi
 * Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku (1979) as Ono Harunaga
 * Edo Porn (1981)
 * Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) as interpreter
 * Early Spring Story (1985)
 * Tree Without Leaves (1986) as bailiff
 * Yearning (1993)

Television

 * Akō Rōshi (1964) as Takebayashi Takashige
 * Taikoki (1965) as Hosokawa Fujitaka
 * Ten to Chi to (1969) as Suwa Yorishige
 * Kunitori Monogatari (1973) as Shimozuma Rairen
 * Katsu Kaishū (1974) as Takano Chōei
 * Kusa Moeru as Minamoto no Yukiie
 * Tokugawa Ieyasu as Hirate Masahide
 * Unmeitōge (1974) as Yami no Hichibei
 * Miyamoto Musashi (1985) as Sakai Tadatoshi
 * Sanada Taiheiki (1985-86) as Ninja Nakayama Nagatoshi