Biography
Yukijirō Hotaru is a Japanese actor. He was born on 27 August 1951 in Saitama, Japan, and has been active since the 1970s.
He is known for the role of Ichirō Kuwano in the 1997 film Cure. Hotaru played the recurring character Tsutomu Osako in the Heisei Gamera trilogy: Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe (1995), Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999). He has also portrayed Gonza Kurahashi in the Garo television franchise.
Later credits include appearances in Tokyo Vice (2022) as Dr Tominaga and Shōgun (2024) as Nakamura Hidetoshi.
