Help with name confusion needed

[Stephen Cremin]

I would suggest that they are all one and the same person, HASHIMOTO 
Chikara.  Riki and Tsutomu are possible readings for the character but 
I'd trust Chikara.  (It's same character as in Takeuchi Riki of DEAD OR 
ALIVE, etc.)   Other films he had a bit part in include SPOOK WARFARE, 
DETROY ALL PLANETS, WOMEN'S CELL and THE GHOSTLY TRAP as well as the 
MAJIN series.  Not really my area so perhaps wait for someone else with 
a better collection of SFX oriented books to clarify.

Stephen

PS: There is a more established actor called Hashimot Isao, born 1941, 
with a "similar" character who acted in THE WAR IN SPACE, BLOOD, TOKYO 
196X, etc, but I believe this is a different person.


On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 09:21  am, Miles Wood wrote:

> Every English language source I've read credits Riki Hoshimoto with
> playing the part of the Majin in Daiei's DAIMAJIN trilogy, but the only
> name I spotted in the translated credits for more than one of the films
> on the new DVD's is Tsutomo Hashimoto.
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> To double-check I wrote down the Japanese name in the cast of all three
> films and got someone to translate it for me and instead of clearing it
> up I was given a third name, Chikara Hashimoto. He's actually
> interviewed on the DAIMAJIN DVD and I need to ID him for a review, so
> can anyone confirm which is correct.
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> Thanks!
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> Miles
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