Eiji Kusuhara

The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko 198185 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