Masakane Yonekura

Masakane Yonekura (Japanese: 米倉 斉加年; 7 October 1934 – 26 August 2014) was a Japanese stage director, actor, author and illustrator who was one of the central members of the Gekidan Mingei theatre company.^[1]

Masakane Yonekura
Born	(1934-07-10)10 July 1934 Fukuoka, Japan
Died	26 August 2014(2014-08-26) (aged 80) Fukuoka, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957–2014

Death

On 26 August 2014, Yonekura died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture. He was 80.^[1]

Filmography

Film

• Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963) as Nezu Jinpachi
• Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
• Kanashimi no Belladonna (1973)
• Aitsu ni Koishite (1987)
• Hope and Pain (1988)
• Gakkō no Kaidan 2 (1996)
• Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64 (2012) as Rintarō Chagawa
• The Little House (2014)

Television

• Kunitori Monogatari (1973) as Takenaka Hanbei
• Katsu Kaishū (1974) as Sakuma Shōzan
• Kaze to Kumo to Niji to (1976) as Ōkiyō
• Shiroi Kyotō (1978) as Noboru Kikukawa
• Haru no Hatō (1985) as Itagaki Taisuke
• Hideyoshi (1996) as Imagawa Yoshimoto
• Clouds Over the Hill (2009–11) as Ōyama Iwao