Saburo Ishikura
Saburō Ishikura (Jap.石 仓 三郎, Ishikura Saburō; born December 16, 1946 in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan石 原 三郎, Ishihara Saburō ) is a Japanese actor, primarily for his role as a consultant Ishikura in the show Takeshi 's Castle in Europe was known.
His career began with the series Usawa no keiji: Tomy & Matsu. After a few minor roles, he later worked with in several films by Takeshi Kitano. The first joint project was both as an actor in the movie tears behind the laughter ( Kanashii kibun de joke ), by the director Masaharu Segawa in 1985 instead, here he played the supporting role Rokusuke Sagawa instead. Some other well-known movies of their collaboration with Takeshi Kitano as a director are Asakusa Kid from 2002 in which he embodied the Boss Ogi and Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman: from the year 2003.
In the show Takeshi 's Castle, he took over for 44 episodes, the role of the wily adviser Ishikura and arranged in the order of the prince all the games until he fell out of favor with the prince and was replaced by Sonommama Higashi.
In 2001 he played the role of Kumagoro in the award- winning film Kah -chan. This was honored with the Award of the Japanese Academy and the Nikkan Sports Film Award. In 40 -part series Obanzai! he played the role of Tako in 2007.