Yoshio Tsuchiya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Japanese actor

Date of Birth: 18-May-1927

Place of Birth: Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 08-Feb-2017

Profession: actor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Yoshio Tsuchiya (?? ??, Tsuchiya Yoshio, May 18, 1927 – February 8, 2017) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a.
Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!.
He had a long-standing interest in UFOs and wrote several books on the subject.
He preferred starring in science fiction films, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such films as Battle in Outer Space, Monster Zero, and Destroy All Monsters.