Biography
Kazuyoshi Kushida is a Japanese actor and theatre director. Born in Tokyo on 6 August 1942, he trained at the Haiyu-za actor’s school and joined the Bungaku-za theatre company in 1965. He later formed and led On-Theater Jiyu Gekijo and served as artistic director of the Bunkamura Theater Cocoon from its opening in 1989 until 1996. Since 2003 he has been artistic and administrative director of the Matsumoto Performing Arts Centre.
On screen he has appeared in supporting roles including Yoshinaga in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Nobody Knows (2004), Hiroshi’s father in Vital (2004), Doctor Yagi in K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008) and Kamatari Fujimaru in Plan 75 (2022). He also directed and wrote the 1988 film Shanhai bansukingu.
