Eiji Kusuhara
Acting • Born 1947-01-02 – 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
32 credits
Somewhere to Run
Movie • 1989
Tourist
Sticky Wickets
Movie • 1990
Nashimoto
Topsy-Turvy
Movie • 1999
Second Kabuki Actor
Diamond Skulls
Movie • 1990
Ewo Nagasaky
Big Mäc
Movie • 1985
Professor
Quartermaine's Terms
Movie • 1987
Oko-Ri
Eyes Wide Shut
Movie • 1999
Japanese Man #2
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1980
Japanese Bleeder
Restless Natives
Movie • 1985
Presenter
The Parole Officer
Movie • 2001
Japanese Businessman
North Sea Hijack
Movie • 1980
Eiji
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Movie • 1980
Fortyninesah
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
Movie • 2007
Japanese News Reporter
The Beginner
Movie • 1985
Souvenir
Movie • 1994
Presentador TV
Return of the Jedi
Movie • 1983
Lieutenant Telsij - Grey Squadron (uncredited)
Super Banzai Video Show
Movie • 2002
Tokyo Jim
Movie • 2006
Mr. Yakamoto
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Movie • 1987
U.N. Guard - Japanese
Gummed Labels
Movie • 1992
The Man Who Shot Christmas
Movie • 1984
Yuzo
dinnerladies
TV • 1998
Mr Tashimoto
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Miki Watanabe
Tenko
TV • 1981
Lt. Sato
Tenko
TV • 1981
Captain Sato
Hustle
TV • 2004
Mr. Yakubi
The Paradise Club
TV • 1989
Yakuza #1
Terry and June
TV • 1979
Japanese Gentleman
Days That Shook the World
TV • 2003
(voice)
Are You Being Served?
TV • 1972
Mr. Kayoto
Third Time Lucky
TV • 1982
Mr Ho Moy
A Very Peculiar Practice
TV • 1986
Japanese Interpreter