Seizō Fukumoto

Biography

Seizō Fukumoto was a Japanese actor specializing in samurai films, known for his over 50,000 on-screen deaths as "kirareyaku". He began acting at age 15 in Kyoto and took nearly every role, often playing rōnin or taking on dramatic death scenes. His breakout role came when he played the Silent Samurai in the American film The Last Samurai. Fukumoto passed away on January 1, 2021, due to lung cancer.