佐藤 慶
He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima, and for several films with Kaneto Shindo, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He also worked as a narrator for many documentaries, both on television and film. In his early days as an actor, before his success in The Human Condition, he supported himself by producing gariban hand-written mimeographs, and he maintained his interest in hand-printing to the end of his life.
In 1981 he appeared in the film Daydream performing an unsimulated sex scene with actress Kyoko Aizome.
The involvement of a mainstream actor in a hardcore film made good press coverage and brought audiences to the theater "in droves".