He acted in Toyko's Ninagawa Company productions of William Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth," and Euripedes' play, "Medea," at the Lyttelton and Olivier Theatres in London, England with Komaki Kuihara, and Tokusaburo Arashi in the cast. Yukio Ninagawa was director.
He mainly works as an actor, appearing mainly in movies and TV dramas, such as the Bayside Shakedown movies and appearing in several NHK Taiga dramas since 1968.