On February 21, 2018, Osugi passed away due to heart failure.", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/BdB8A6_5c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Taguchi Tomorowo", "alternateName": "田口智朗, 田口トモロヲ, たぐち ともお, たぐち トモロヲ, Tomorowo Taguchi", "birthDate": "November 30, 1957", "nationality": "Musashino, Tokyo, Japan", "description": "Taguchi Tomorowo is a Japanese actor, film director, and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer, and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he made a screen debut in Zokubutsu Zukan (based on the book by Yasutaka Tsutsui) in 1982. He was also a prominent cult musician in the Tokyo underground scene with his band Bachikaburi in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is probably best known to the West as the lead actor in Tetsuo and Tetsuo II directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. He also makes regular appearances in Takashi Miike's films. He became known to the Japanese public as a narrator for the TV documentary series Project X - Challengers which aired between 2000 and 2005 on NHK. Taguchi has directed 3 films, Iden & Tity in 2003, Shikisoku Generation in 2009, and Piece of Cake in 2015. (Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/tomorowo-taguchi.png" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tsutsumi Shinichi", "alternateName": "堤真一", "birthDate": "July 7, 1964", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Tsutsumi Shinichi, born in Nishinomiya, is a Japanese stage and screen actor. He won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for "Always Sanch". (Source: Wikipedia)", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/q5y5Dc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Horibe Keisuke", "alternateName": "堀部圭亮", "birthDate": "March 25, 1966", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).", "image": "https://i.hndrama.com/image/people/vq6Zqc.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maro Akaji", "alternateName": "麿赤兒", "birthDate": "February 23, 1943", "nationality": "Japanese", "description": "Maro Akaji is a Japanese actor, butoh dancer, and director born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. He is the founder of the avant-garde butoh group Dai Rakuda-kan. He is affiliated with the talent agency Camel Arts.
His mother, Yuko, suffered from mental illness following her husband's suicide, and Maro was entrusted to his uncle and aunt who lived at the foot of Mount Miwa in Sakurai, Nara, Japan, when he was in fifth grade. Around this time, he was hospitalized with pulmonary tuberculosis, where he was influenced by another patient in the same room and became interested in literature and theater.
He graduated from Nara Prefectural Unebi High School and dropped out of the Philosophy Department of the First Faculty of Literature at Waseda University. During middle and high school, he was a member of the drama club and performed in plays. He joined the theater group "Budou no Kai", but became disenchanted with the political discussions of the upper echelons of the group and left. He then studied under the butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi.
In June 1964, he joined the theater group "Jokyo Gekijo". He left the theater group in 1970. In 1972, he founded and directed his own butoh group, "Dai Rakuda-kan".
In 2006, he became an advisor to the Japan Outdoor Journalists Association and a visiting professor at the Ando Momofuku Memorial Nature Experience Activity Instructor Training Center.
His eldest son is film director Omori Tatsushi, and his second son is actor Omori Nao.
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