What is Shigeru Kōyama?
[[File:Japanese actor Shigeru Kōyama at the Imperial Japanese Naval Paymaster Academy.jpg|thumb|Kōyama during [[World War II]].]] {{Nihongo|'''Shigeru Kōyama'''|神山 繁|Kōyama Shigeru|16 January 1929 &ndash; 3 January 2017}} was a [[Japan]]ese [[actor]]. He began acting in 1952. He appeared in ''[[Samurai Rebellion]]'' (1967), ''[[The Man Who Stole the Sun|Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko]]'' (1979) and ''[[Beyond Outrage]]'' (2010). He was known in the [[United States]] for appearing in ''[[Black Rain]]'' (1986), starring [[Andy García]], [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Ken Takakura]]. He was born in [[Kure, Hiroshima|Kure]], [[Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima]]. Kōyama died from [[pneumonia]] on 3 January 2017 in [[Kyoto Prefecture]]. He was 87.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170116/k10010841271000.html|title=ザ・ガードマンなど 名脇役の神山繁さん死去|work=NHK|language=ja|date=16 January 2017|access-date=16 January 2017|archive-date=16 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116053452/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170116/k10010841271000.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|0477772}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Koyama, Shigeru}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from pneumonia]] [[Category:Infectious disease deaths in Japan]] [[Category:Japanese stage actors]] [[Category:Japanese military people]] [[Category:Japanese movie actors]] [[Category:People from Hiroshima Prefecture]] [[Category:Japanese television actors]] {{Actor-stub}}