Zen Kajiwara born 25 February 1966 in Okayama, Japan

Japan

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, is a Japanese theatre actor. Originally a member of the Tokyo Sunshine Boys

Tokyo Sunshine Boys

The is a Japanese theatrical troupe that was active from 1983 until about 1994. Since it disbanded almost all of its members have continued acting on theatre and in film.-History:...

 theatrical troupe, he now works mainly with the Gekidan Shinkansen troupe.

He is known for being very short in stature, but very noisy and wild on stage, specializing in comedy. He had a problem reading kanji

Kanji

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...

 (Chinese characters) and insists that his roles have long, complicated, difficult-to-remember names.

Selected works

• Furikaereba Yatsu ga Iru
• Furuhata Ninzaburō
  Furuhata Ninzaburo
  is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Koki Mitani and being known as the Japanese's version of Columbo....
  
  
• Oosama no Restaurant
• 12 Gentle Japanese
• Radio no Jikan: Welcome Back Mr. McDonald
• Minna no Ie
• The Uchoten Hotel
  The Uchoten Hotel
  is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Japanese director Koki Mitani. The film is set in a five star Tokyo hotel on New Year's Eve, and follows the misadventures of various hotel staff and guests in the run-up to midnight.The film is reminiscent of the Hollywood screwball comedies of 1930s...
  
  

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