Kyusaku Shimada (嶋田 久作, Shimada Kyūsaku; born April 24, 1955) is a Japanese actor.
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History
Shimada was originally part of the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group, formed by artist Norimizu Ameya. He stayed with the group until its dissolution in 1986. One of the productions the group undertook was an adaptation of the occult novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) where Shimada played the lead role Yasunori Kato.
He has appeared in films such as Makoto Shinozaki's 0093: Her Majesty's Masao Kusakari and Takahisa Zeze's Pandemic.
Filmography
Television
Kōmyō ga Tsuji (2006) as Ogasawara Shōsai
Kitaro ga Mita Gyokusai - Mizuki Shigeru no Senso (2007)
Penance (2012)
Yae's Sakura (2013) as Maki Yasuomi
Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? (2016) as Daigoro Tokuyama
Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017) as Ōsawa Mototane
Half Blue Sky (2018) as Ichiro Tanabe
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses (2021)
Isoroku Yamamoto in London (2021) as Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu
What Will You Do, Ieyasu? (2023), Momochi Tanba
House of Ninjas (2024) as Kosaku Kuze
Unbound (2025) as Shibano Ritsuzan
Simulation: Defeat in the Summer of 1941 (2025), Teiichi Suzuki
Video games
Kingdom Hearts (2002) as Hades
Inazuma Eleven (2008) as Reiji Kageyama
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2010) as Hades
Kingdom Hearts III (2019) as Hades
Dubbing
Hercules (1997) as Hades