1. Hiroyuki Nagato, stage name of Akio Kato, was a Japanese actor.
15 Facts About Hiroyuki Nagato
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Hiroyuki Nagato starred in Season of the Sun, Endless Desire, My Second Brother, Stolen Desire, and Sukeban Deka, and Yo-Yo Girl Cop.
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Hiroyuki Nagato's grandfather is the director Shozo Makino, nicknamed the Father of Japanese Film; his father, Kunitaro Sawamura, and his mother, Tomoko Makino, were both actors.
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Hiroyuki Nagato is distantly related to the modern Japanese comedian Daisuke Miyagawa.
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Former Hanshin Tigers coach Yoshio Yoshida attended Ritsumeikan at the same time as Hiroyuki Nagato but dropped out.
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Hiroyuki Nagato was a widely known child actor before World War II.
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Hiroyuki Nagato starred in the first installment book-turned-movie Taiyouzoku series, Season of the Sun, with his co-star, Yujiro Ishihara who debuted with this movie.
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In 1961 Hiroyuki Nagato married Yoko Minamida and the following year he left Nikkatsu.
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Hiroyuki Nagato worked together alongside other celebrities born in the same year as him : Yujiro Ishihara, Kinya Aikawa, Koizumi Ohashi, Ichiro Zaitsu, Jiro Sakagami, Shunji Fujimura, Goro Mutsumi, Shuichiro Moriyama to form the friendship association Showa 9 Nenkai.
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In November 1985, Hiroyuki Nagato published an expose called To Yoko; it was published by the publisher Datahouse.
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Hiroyuki Nagato took out an ad in the Ikeuchi newspaper to apologize over the situation.
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Hiroyuki Nagato went on numerous different celebrity gossip shows for interviews about the event and repeatedly slammed his book against the desk while disparaging it.
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Hiroyuki Nagato appeared in works directed by Tsugawa who assumed the name of Makino Masahiko.
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On 21 May 2011, one year and seven months after the death of his wife, Hiroyuki Nagato passed away at Juntendo Clinic in Tokyo at 5:20pm.
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Hiroyuki Nagato was given the posthumous name, traditional in Buddhist funeral ceremonies, of "Gokugeiin Shijojoaki".