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name: "Yoshiaki Hanayagi"
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born: "5 January 1924"
died: "3 January 1978"
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# Yoshiaki Hanayagi

Actor. Born 5 January 1924 in Tokyo. Died 3 January 1978.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 January 1924, Tokyo
- **Died:** 3 January 1978
- **Also known as:** Ёсиаки Ханаяги

## Biography

Yoshiaki Hanayagi was a Japanese actor. Born Aoyama Masaru in 1924, he was adopted at a young age by the actor Hanayagi Shotaro. He made his stage debut in November 1933 at the Meijiza Theatre.

Hanayagi appeared in Kenji Mizoguchi films, playing Tamijirô Onoue in *The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum* (1939) and Zushiô in *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954). He later mentored younger actors in the Seinen no Kai group and died in 1978 after collapsing on stage during a performance at the Shinbashi Enbujo Theatre.

*Sources: imdb.com, mydramalist.com, jfdb.jp.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sansho the Bailiff* (1954), Fi1m 92, as Zushiô — [page](https://film.one/film/sansho-the-bailiff.md)

## Also known for

- *The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum* (1939), Tamijirô Onoue

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