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Kenji Sahara

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Kenji Sahara (佐原健二 Sahara Kenji), born Masayoshi Kato (加藤正好 Katō Masayoshi) and formerly using the stage name Tadashi Ishihara (石原忠 Ishihara Tadashi), is a Japanese actor. He is known for appearing in many of Toho's kaiju films across the Shōwa and Heisei periods, as well as several entries in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra Series. His 13 appearances in Godzilla films are the most of any actor.

Selected filmography

Actor

Godzilla (1954) as daily newspaper reporter^[1] / partygoer on pleasure boat^[1]
Rodan (1956) as Shigeru Kawamura
The Mysterians (1957) as Joji Atsumi
The H-Man (1958) as Dr. Masada
Mothra (1961) as helicopter pilot^[3]
Gorath (1962) as First Officer Saiki
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) as Kazuo Fujita
Matango (1963) as Senzo Koyama
Atragon (1963) as Mu Agent Uoto Unno
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) as Jiro Torahata
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) as Editor-in-Chief Kanamaki
Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) as Tadokoro, Dr. James Bowen's assistant
Ultra Q (TV 1966) as Jun Manjome [27 episodes]
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) as Dr. Yuzo Mamiya
Ultraseven (TV 1967-1968) as Commander Takenaka [14 episodes]
Son of Godzilla (1967) as Morio
Destroy All Monsters (1968) as Commander Nishikawa
All Monsters Attack (1969) as Kenkichi Miki
Space Amoeba (1970) as Makoto Obata
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) as Captain of the Queen Coral
Ultraman Leo (TV 1974-1975) [episode 44]
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) as JSDF Commander Segawa
Ultraman 80 (TV 1980-1981) as Dr. Johno [3 episodes]
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) as Director General of the Defense Agency
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) as Takayuki Segawa
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) as Takayuki Segawa
Ultraman Nexus (TV 2004-2005) as Togo [7 episodes]
Godzilla Final Wars (2004) as Dr. Hachiro Jinguji
Ultraman Max (TV 2005-2006) as Sahashi [1 episode]
Superior Ultraman 8 Brothers (2008) as Jun Manjome

Interviewee

Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998)

External links

References

This is a list of references for Kenji Sahara. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Tanaka 1983, p. 530.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Nakamura et al. 2014, pp. 66–67.
↑ Tanaka 1983, p. 536.

Bibliography

Tanaka, Tomoyuki (10 December 1983). The Complete History of Toho Special Effects Movies. Toho. ISBN 4-924609-00-5.
Nakamura, Tetsu; Shiraishi, Masahiko; Aita, Tetsuo; Tomoi, Taketo; Shimazaki, Jun; Maruyama, Takeshi; Shimizu, Toshifumi; Hayakawa, Masaru (29 November 2014). Godzilla Toho Champion Festival Perfection. ASCII MEDIA WORKS. ISBN 978-4-04-866999-3.

Actors

Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Akihiko Hirata • Akiji Kobayashi • Akiko Wakabayashi • Akira Kubo • Akira Nakao • Akira Takarada • Al Sapienza • Alexander Skarsgård • Andrew Hughes • Andy Serkis • Arthur "Chico" Lourant • Asuka Shimizu • Ayako Fujitani • Bin Furuya • Brian Tyree Henry • Charles Barkley • Daigo Kusano • Dan Stevens • David Strathairn • Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Frankie Sakai • Franz Gruber • Fuyuki Murakami • Goro Mutsumi • Harold Conway • Haruo Suzuki • Hideo Unagami • Hideyo Amamoto • Hiroki Hasegawa • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Fujioka, • Hiroshi Koizumi • Hiroyuki Kawase • Hiroyuki Watanabe • Hisaya Ito • Ikio Sawamura • Ikuko Mori • Jack Black • Jerry Ito • Jiro Dan • John Goodman • Jun Kunimura • Jun Tazaki • Kathy Horan • Katsuhiko Sasaki • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazuya Aoyama • Ken Echigo • Ken Uehara • Ken Watanabe • Kenji Sahara • Koichi Ueda • Koji Fujiyama • Koji Uruki • Kojiro Hongo • Kumi Mizuno • Kyle Chandler • Lance Reddick • Mamoru Miyano • Masahiro Takashima • Masaki Shinohara • Masami Nagasawa • Megumi Kobayashi • Megumi Odaka • Mie Hama • Millie Bobby Brown • Misato Tanaka • Miwa Sasaki • Momoko Kochi • Nick Adams • Norman England • Osman Yusuf • Peggy Neal • Ralph Jesser • Raymond Burr • Rebecca Hall • Ren Matsuzawa • Rinko Kikuchi • Robert Armstrong • Robert Baldwin • Robert Dunham • Robert Scott Field • Ron Perlman • Saburo Shinoda • Sally Hawkins • Samuel L. Jackson • Satomi Ishihara • Seiji Onaka • Norihei Miki • Shelley Sweeney • Shiho Fujimura • Shin Kishida • Shin Takuma • Shinobu Nakayama • Shinsuke Kasai • Shiro Sano • Shoichi Hirose • Shoichiro Akaboshi • Shoji Nakayama • Susumu Kurobe • Tadao Takashima • Takashi Shimura • Takehiro Murata • Tao Tsuchiya • Tatsuo Matsumura • Tetsu Nakamura • Thomas Middleditch • Toki Shiozawa • Tokio Okawa • Tom Hiddleston • Tomoko Ai • Tomonori Yazaki • Toru Ibuki • Toru Matoba • Toru Minegishi • Ulf Otsuki • William Ross • Yasuhisa Tsutsumi • Yasuko Sawaguchi • Yoshibumi Tajima • Yoshiko Tanaka • Yoshiro Kitahara • Yoshio Tsuchiya • Yosuke Natsuki • Yu Fujiki • Yukijiro Hotaru • Yukiko Kobayashi • Yumi Shirakawa • Yumiko Shaku • Yuriko Hoshi • Yusuke Kawazu • Zhang Ziyi

Voice actors

Craig Allen • Cristina Vee • Don Messick • Frank Welker • George Takei • Goro Naya • Ian Ziering • Joe Ochman • Kazuhiro Yamaji • Keith Silverstein • Kenta Miyake • Kenyu Horiuchi • Koichi Yamadera • Michihiro Ikemizu • Peter Cullen • Reina Ueda • Rie Kugimiya • Rik Thomas • Riley Jackson • Ron Perlman • Ryoichi Tanaka • Saori Hayami • Shinsuke Kasai • Ted Cassidy • Ted Thomas • Tomokazu Sugita • William Ross • Yu Mizushima

Suit/mocap actors

Akira Ohashi • Alan Maxson • Andy Serkis • Chikara Hashimoto • Fuminori Ohashi • Haruo Nakajima • Haruya Sakamoto • Haruyoshi Nakamura • Hideto Date • Hirofumi Fukuzawa • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Hiroshi Sekita • Isao Zushi • Jason Liles • Jun Suzuki • Kanta Ina • Katsumi Tezuka • Kazuhiro Yoshida • Kazunari Mori • Kenpachiro Satsuma • Kenya Saitou • Kinichi Kusumi • Koetsu Omiya • Koji Uruki • Kurt Carley • Makoto Ito • Mansai Nomura • Masaki Shinohara • Masao "Little Man Machan" Fukazawa • Minoru Watanabe • Mizuho Yoshida • Motokuni Nakagawa • Naoko Kamio • Naoya Matsumoto • Richard Dorton • Rick Baker • Rie Ota • Ryo Hariya • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinji Takagi • Shoichi Hirose • Susumu Utsumi • TJ Storm • Tadaaki Watanabe • Takateru Manabe • Tatsumi Nikamoto • Terry Notary • Teruo Aragaki • Tokio Okawa • Toru Kawai • Toshihiro Ogura • Toshinori Sasaki • Tsugutoshi Komada • Tsutomu Kitagawa • Umenosuke Izumi • Wataru Fukuda • Yumi Kameyama

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