
Acting
The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko (1981-85), was one of the narrators on the cult show Banzai (2001) and appeared on stages across the UK and Europe in a variety of beguiling roles. He was one of the first professional Japanese actors active in London in the 1970s and enjoyed something of a monopoly on roles until he starred alongside a fellow countryman, Togo Igawa, in The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984). Eiji spent most of his adult life in Britain.

Screen Two
1985

Eyes Wide Shut
1999

Hustle
2004

Return of the Jedi
1983

Lovejoy
1986

Are You Being Served?
1972

The Elephant Man
1980

Hotel Babylon
2006

Terry and June
1979

Tenko
1981

Days That Shook the World
2003

The Paradise Club
1989

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987

dinnerladies
1998

A Very Peculiar Practice
1986

Q.E.D.
1982

North Sea Hijack
1980

Topsy-Turvy
1999

The Ginger Tree
1989

The Parole Officer
2001

Stanley and the Women
1991

Third Time Lucky
1982

Licensed to Love and Kill
1979

Restless Natives
1985

Diamond Skulls
1990

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
1980

The Beginner
1985

Sticky Wickets
1990

Quartermaine's Terms
1987

Big Mäc
1985

Super Banzai Video Show
2002

Souvenir
1994