 This article is about an actor in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
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Kane Takeshi Kosugi (ケイン・健・コスギ, Kein Takeshi Kosugi), also known as Takeshi Kosugi (小杉 健 Kosugi Takeshi) is an American actor and martial artist who portrayed Jiraiya/NinjaBlack in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, with his most recent reprisal of the role in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Act Three - Middle-Aged Struggles.
Kosugi also portrayed other Tokusatsu heroes such as Kenichi Kai
in Ultraman Powered, Kazama in Godzilla Final Wars, and Azuma/Kamen Rider Daimon in Kamen Rider Revice: Battle Familia
.
Personal Life[]
- Kosugi is of both Japanese and Chinese descent. He is also fluent in English and Japanese.
Notes[]
- Kosugi is the first Tokusatsu actor in history to star in 3 big tokusatsu franchises and to have portrayed a Sentai Ranger, Ultraman, and a Kamen Rider, while also being in a Godzilla film.
- Outside the Sentai series, Kane Kosugi later plays the characters in some flop movies based on the popular video games. He played Ryu Hayabusa in the 2006 film, Dead or Alive and Kazuya Mishima in Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge.
External Links[]
Kane Kosugi at Wikipedia.- Kane Kosugi in Kamen Rider Wiki
- Kane Kosugi in Ultraman Wiki
- Kane Kosugi at the Sasukepedia Wiki
- Official Twitter
