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name: "Kazuyoshi Kushida"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kazuyoshi-kushida"
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imdb_id: "nm1441891"
tmdb_id: 1061235
wikidata_id: "Q11367902"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 August 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-02T22:10:41.776413+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."
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# Kazuyoshi Kushida

## Identity

Kazuyoshi Kushida

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kazuyoshi-kushida
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kazuyoshi-kushida
- **IMDb ID:** nm1441891
- **TMDB ID:** 1061235
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11367902
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11367902, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1441891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1061235

Actor. Born 6 August 1942 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 August 1942, Tokyo, Japan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11367902, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1441891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1061235

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Nobody Knows*](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md) (87)

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## 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*.

*Sources: imdb.com, mydramalist.com, performingarts.jpf.go.jp, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Fi1m 87, as Yoshinaga — [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Plan 75* (2022), as Kamatari Fujimaru
- *On Nights When I Want to End It All...* (2020), series, Actor
- *The Man of the Political Economy* (2015), Actor
- *Keisei Saimin no Otoko* (2015), series, as Tomekichi Sato
- *Sannin Kichisa* (2015), Director
- *A Samurai Chronicle* (2014), Actor
- *Ohisama* (2011), series, as Michio Maruyama
- *Crime or Punishment?!?* (2009), as Assistant chief
- *K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces* (2008), as Doctor Yagi
- *Beauty* (2008), Actor
- *Prodigy* (2007), as Professor Mikoshiba
- *Starfish Hotel* (2007), as Kuroda
- *A Woman Like The Devil* (2005), series, as 福留 晴夫
- *Vital* (2004), as Hiroshi's Father
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), as Yoshinaga — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *1980* (2003), as Sayjuro Hashiba
- *The Choice of Hercules* (2002), Actor
- *Shanghai bansu-kingu* (1988), as Shirô Hatano · Director, Writer, Producer, Art Direction
- *Hashū Hankachō* (1974), series, Actor
- *The Kingdom* (1973), Actor
- *Kita no kazoku* (1973), series, as 田宮英次
- *The Deserted Archipelago* (1969), as Hidekuni
- *Where did Sharaku go?* (1968), Actor
- *Ryoma ga Yuku* (1968), series, as Mochizuki Kameyata
- *Sing a Song of Sex* (1967), as Katsumi Hiroi
- *Glorious Fights* (1966), as Akira Iwamura

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Medal with Purple Ribbon 2008: Medal with Purple Ribbon (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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