was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993.「個性光る、名脇役」 Asahi Shimbun読売新聞1993 March 26 朝刊31面 He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa Ōshima.
Life and career 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 on 25 March 1993, at the age of 62.
Selected filmography
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 Dear Summer Sister (1972) 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
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