Rokkō Toura | |
Native Name: | 戸浦六宏 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Birth Name: | Mutsuhiro Toura |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1930 |
Birth Place: | Osaka, Japan |
Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
Occupation: | Actor |
Years Active: | 1960–1993 |
was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993.[1] [2] He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa Ōshima.
Toura was born Mutsuhiro Toura in Osaka, Japan.[3] 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.[4]
Toura died of polyarteritis nodosa in 1993 at the age of 62.