--- name: "Bengal" canonical: "https://film.one/person/bengal" fi1m_id: "bengal" imdb_id: "nm0071024" tmdb_id: 564894 wikidata_id: "Q11337214" roles: [] born: "17 August 1951" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-28T21:01:17.776014+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Bengal ## Identity Bengal - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bengal - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** bengal - **IMDb ID:** nm0071024 - **TMDB ID:** 564894 - **Wikidata ID:** Q11337214 - **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11337214, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071024/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/564894 Actor. Born 17 August 1951 in Tokyo, Japan. ## Details - **Born:** 17 August 1951, Tokyo, Japan - **Also known as:** ベンガル, Bengaru , 柳原 晴郎, Haruo Yanagihara , Haruwo Yanagihara, 柳原 ハルヲ - **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11337214, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071024/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/564894 ## Biography Bengal is a Japanese actor, also credited as Bengaru and under his birth name Haruo Yanagihara. He was born in Tokyo on 17 August 1951 and trained at the Tokyo University of the Arts stage school after seeing an advertisement while at university. He is a founding member of the theatre company Tokyo Denchi and has worked extensively in stage, television and film since the 1970s. His screen credits include the role of Sonoda in *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Muto in *Boiling Point* (1990), Honami's father in *Gamera 2: Advent of Legion* (1996), Shizuo Todoroki in *Golden Slumber* (2010) and Sueo Saito in *0.5 mm* (2014). He has appeared in more than one hundred television and film productions. *Sources: imdb.com, ja.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Fi1m 63, as Sonoda — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) ## Complete filmography (151) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Goodbye My Car* (2026), Actor - *Countdown to Yes* (2026), series, as Tsuyoshi Yokoi - *Punch-Drunk Woman* (2026), series, as Ryuji Osada - *Sato and Sato* (2025), Actor - *Hirayasumi* (2025), series, as Shibusawa - *1972 Fireflies on the Shore* (2025), series, as Koyu Kyan - *大川と小川の休日捜査* (2024), Actor - *The Two in a Housing Complex* (2024), series, as Tetsuo Higashiyama - *Sensei's Pious Lie* (2024), Actor - *Abudeka Is Back* (2024), as Tanaka - *テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜* (2024), Actor - *A Town Without Seasons* (2023), series, as Tanba - *＜ＢＳ松竹東急×浅草九劇＞スペシャルドラマ「君しか見えないよ」* (2023), as Grandpa - *Kashi Mashi Meshi* (2023), series, Actor - *Octo: Emotional Investigator Shinno Akari* (2022), series, Actor - *Tsuyukusa* (2022), Actor - *99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie* (2021), as Tamotsu Ota - *Love Mooning* (2021), as Shûji Uchiyama - *Kawa no Hotori de* (2021), series, as BB - *Pension Metsä* (2021), series, as Ogawa - *Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist* (2020), series, Actor - *First Love* (2019), Actor - *Everyone’s Demoted!!* (2019), series, Actor - *Life in Overtime* (2018), Actor - *The Band from Nowhere* (2018), as Ikuo Miyabe - *The Dog Bridegroom* (2017), as Suzuki Ebizo - *Tomato No Shizuku* (2017), as Matsui - *Denshichi Torimonocho* (2016), series, Actor - *Saraba Abunai Deka* (2016), as Tanaka - *Mountain Days with Tom* (2015), Actor - *Partner In Darkness* (2015), series, as Fumiya Ajima - *0.5 mm* (2014), as Sueo Saito - *Delivery of Death* (2014), Actor - *Shinigami-kun* (2014), series, Actor - *The Next Generation: Patlabor* (2014), series, as The Mayor - *Olympic Ransom* (2013), series, Actor - *Fly, Dakota, Fly!* (2013), as Genji, Takahashi - *The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up* (2013), Actor - *See You Tomorrow, Everyone* (2013), as Taijiro - *Black Kite* (2013), series, as President Bito - *The Little Girl in Me* (2012), Actor - *By Rule of Crow's Thumb* (2012), Actor - *39 settoudan* (2012), Actor - *Casting Blossoms to the Sky* (2012), as Jiro Nakahata - *Step Up Love Story: Love Forever* (2012), as Mamoru Onoda - *Peak: The Rescuers* (2011), Actor - *Oba: The Last Samurai* (2011), as Kazuo Oshiro - *Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial* (2010), as Guru - *The Lightning Tree* (2010), as Monnosuke Hayasaka - *Mori no Asagao* (2010), series, as Toshiyuki Tanizaki - *Flarella* (2010), Actor - *Golden Slumber* (2010), as Shizuo Todoroki - *Kazura* (2010), Actor - *Ryōmaden* (2010), series, Actor - *Where Are You?* (2009), Actor - *The Code* (2009), Actor - *Happy Flight* (2008), as Bird Patrol - *Where The Legend Lives* (2008), Actor - *Rakugo musume* (2008), Actor - *The Glorious Team Batista* (2008), Actor - *One-Pound Gospel* (2008), series, as Takayama · Dragon Kanzaki's coach - *Shabake* (2007), as (as Bengaru) - *Tokyo Rhapsody* (2007), Actor - *HERO SP* (2006), as Takuro Komori - *Star Reformer* (2006), as Kazuyoshi Kurusu - *Paradise: Carried Away* (2006), Actor - *Peanuts* (2006), as Tsutomu Kusano - *Madamada Abunai Deka* (2005), as Tanaka - *Detective Office 5: Another Story* (2005), series, as Detective - *Older Sister* (2005), series, as Shigeta Noda - *The Motive* (2004), as Mutsuo Takarai - *Nejirin bou* (2004), as Fujisawa - *Tokyo Noir* (2004), Actor - *Damned Files 4* (2004), Actor - *Alive* (2003), as Tokutake - *Cop Festival: New Beginning* (2003), Actor - *Teacher's suitcase* (2003), as Matsumoto Hiroshi - *Trick: The Movie* (2002), as God No. 002 - *AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo* (2002), series, Actor - *The Last Snow* (2002), as Kenichiro Mizuta - *Ah, A Sharp Detective 2* (2001), Actor - *Ah, A Sharp Detective* (2001), Actor - *The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance* (2001), as Minakami - *Codename: Tomoko* (2000), as Koichi Kimitsu - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), as Sonoda — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) - *The Woman of S.R.I.* (1999), series, as Sano - *One Summer's Day* (1999), as Man at table - *Karaoke* (1999), Actor - *Give It All* (1998), as Class Teacher - *Abunai Deka Forever The Movie* (1998), Actor - *The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82* (1998), as Released Prisoner - *I Want to Hear the Wind's Song* (1998), as Ladies' Clinic doctor - *Bonds* (1998), as Doctor - *Sada* (1998), as Sanosuke Tachibana - *Two Stray Dogs and One Cat* (1997), Actor - *School Ghost Story F* (1997), Actor - *The King of Minami: Conspiracy* (1996), Actor - *Gamera 2: Advent of Legion* (1996), as Honami's father - *Closing Time* (1996), Actor - *Goodbye for Tomorrow* (1995), as Masaru Ikenouchi - *Teito Monogatari Gaiden* (1995), Actor - *Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident* (1995), Actor - *Broken Heart* (1995), Actor - *Level* (1994), Actor - *Turning Point* (1994), Actor - *Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II* (1994), Actor - *Pachislot Story: I Won’t Let Them Rip Me Off* (1994), Actor - *Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”* (1993), Actor - *The Tomb & the Divorce* (1993), Actor - *Samurai Kids* (1993), Actor - *Marriage* (1993), Actor - *We Are Not Alone* (1993), Actor - *Haruka, Nostalgia* (1993), as Akira Kinomiya - *Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2* (1992), Actor - *Suzume Iro Doki* (1992), Actor - *The Rocking Horsemen* (1992), as Takayuki Fujiwara - *Shimanto River* (1991), Actor - *Dance till Tomorrow* (1991), Actor - *Chizuko's Younger Sister* (1991), as Mako's Father - *Savage City: Angel Whisper* (1991), Actor - *Goodbye Mama* (1991), as Cameo - *Thriller CRT* (1991), Actor - *Stranger* (1991), Actor - *Dotchi mo dotchi* (1990), Actor - *Boiling Point* (1990), as Muto - *Megumi no Sekai* (1990), Actor - *Let's Go to the Hospital* (1990), as Ushimaru - *The Legend of Zipang* (1990), Actor - *Beijing Watermelon* (1989), as Shunzo Horikoshi - *The Discarnates* (1988), as Taxi Driver - *Stay or go?* (1988), Actor - *Cat's Eye: Midnight Love Adventure* (1988), Actor - *Dangerous Cops Again* (1988), as Tanaka - *The Yen Family* (1988), as Middle-aged man - *Memories of You* (1988), Actor - *Dangerous Cops* (1987), as Tanaka - *A Taxing Woman* (1987), as Man in Apartment - *Dangerous Detective* (1986), series, as Fumio Tanaka - *The Shogunate's Harem* (1986), as Kanji - *Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken* (1986), Actor - *Apartment Wife: Serial Murders* (1986), Actor - *Kekkon Annai Mystery* (1985), Actor - *Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki* (1985), as Hideyuki Ohashi - *Big Magnum Kuroiwa* (1985), as Haruhiko Nakayama - *Capone Cries a Lot* (1985), as Chinese man - *水曜ドラマスペシャル* (1984), series, Actor - *Ana* (1984), as Detective Katayama - *Tora-san's Song of Love* (1983), Actor - *Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman* (1979), as Noguchi - *Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie* (1979), Actor - *Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again* (1979), as The Man in Shinjuku --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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