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Kyūsaku Shimada
Acting
Born: April 24, 1955
Totsuka-ku, Japan
Biography
Kyūsaku Shimada is a Japanese actor. He was originally part of the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group, formed by artist Norimizu Ameya. He stayed with the group until its dissolution in 1986. One of the productions the group undertook was an adaptation of the occult novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) where Shimada played the lead role Yasunori Kato. He has appeared in films such as Makoto Shinozaki's 0093: Her Majesty's Masao Kusakari and Takahisa Zeze's Pandemic.
Known For

Shin Ultraman
as Taishi Okuma

Shin Godzilla
as Katayama : Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim

Memories of Matsuko

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
as Lieutenant Suehiro

One Million Yen Girl
as Prison Officer

The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Katsuragi Shigetsune

Tonbi
as Publishing Company Security Guard

The Blood of Wolves
as Takeshi Kako

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
as Syuzo

Tokyo!
as Prison Director (segment "Merde")