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Bin Furuya
Bin Furuya posing with the Godzilla statue in front of Toho Studios
Born July 5, 1943
Nishiazabu, Minato, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Notable role(s) Ultraman, various background characters and supporting roles
First work Mothra (1961)
Notable work Ultraman (TV 1966)
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Satoshi Furuya (古谷 敏 (さとし),   Furuya Satoshi), known professionally as Bin Furuya (古谷 敏 (びん),   Furuya Bin), is a Japanese actor. He is famous for being the suit actor for Ultraman in the 1966 series of the same name, but previously appeared in various Toho films, usually as minor background characters. In recent years, he has become a frequent guest at American science-fiction conventions.

Selected filmography

Selected bibliography

  • The Man Who Became Ultraman (2009) - Author

Videos

Bin Furuya battles Zetton during
the G-Fest XVII costume parade in 2010
Bin Furuya interviewed for
a G-Fest XIX panel in 2012
Bin Furuya, Susumu Kurobe, and Hiroko Sakurai at a Monsterpalooza panel in 2013
Bin Furuya and Hiroshi Koizumi at
a Chiller Theatre panel in 2014

Trivia

  • Furuya was chosen to be the suit actor for Ultraman because of his relatively tall height and muscular proportions, meaning that he was the best fit for the suit.

External links

References

This is a list of references for Bin Furuya. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. ↑ "ウルトラマン、前屈みポーズは理由なき反抗 光線の意味：朝日新聞デジタル". Asahi Shimbun Digital. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Homenick, Brett. "THE ROAD TO M78! Bin Furuya on His Early Toho and Suit-Acting Roles!". Vantage Point Interviews. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Kawarada, Tsuyoshi (13 May 2022). "Interview with director Shinji Higuchi on Hideaki Anno and the "dissolution of the disconnect" he aims to create with Shin Ultraman". Business + IT.

Actors
 
Actors
Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Akihiko Hirata • Akiji Kobayashi • Akiko Wakabayashi • Akira Kubo • Akira Nakao • Akira Takarada • Al Sapienza • Alexander Skarsgård • Andrew Hughes • Andy Serkis • Arthur "Chico" Lourant • Asuka Shimizu • Ayako Fujitani • Bin Furuya • Brian Tyree Henry • Charles Barkley • Daigo Kusano • Dan Stevens • David Strathairn • Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Frankie Sakai • Franz Gruber • Fuyuki Murakami • Goro Mutsumi • Harold Conway • Haruo Suzuki • Hideo Unagami • Hideyo Amamoto • Hiroki Hasegawa • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Fujioka, • Hiroshi Koizumi • Hiroyuki Kawase • Hiroyuki Watanabe • Hisaya Ito • Ikio Sawamura • Ikuko Mori • Jack Black • Jerry Ito • Jiro Dan • John Goodman • Jun Kunimura • Jun Tazaki • Kathy Horan • Katsuhiko Sasaki • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazuya Aoyama • Ken Echigo • Ken Uehara • Ken Watanabe • Kenji Sahara • Koichi Ueda • Koji Fujiyama • Koji Uruki • Kojiro Hongo • Kumi Mizuno • Kyle Chandler • Lance Reddick • Mamoru Miyano • Masahiro Takashima • Masaki Shinohara • Masami Nagasawa • Megumi Kobayashi • Megumi Odaka • Mie Hama • Millie Bobby Brown • Misato Tanaka • Miwa Sasaki • Momoko Kochi • Nick Adams • Norman England • Osman Yusuf • Peggy Neal • Ralph Jesser • Raymond Burr • Rebecca Hall • Ren Matsuzawa • Rinko Kikuchi • Robert Armstrong • Robert Baldwin • Robert Dunham • Robert Scott Field • Ron Perlman • Saburo Shinoda • Sally Hawkins • Samuel L. Jackson • Satomi Ishihara • Seiji Onaka • Norihei Miki • Shelley Sweeney • Shiho Fujimura • Shin Kishida • Shin Takuma • Shinobu Nakayama • Shinsuke Kasai • Shiro Sano • Shoichi Hirose • Shoichiro Akaboshi • Shoji Nakayama • Susumu Kurobe • Tadao Takashima • Takashi Shimura • Takehiro Murata • Tao Tsuchiya • Tatsuo Matsumura • Tetsu Nakamura • Thomas Middleditch • Toki Shiozawa • Tokio Okawa • Tom Hiddleston • Tomoko Ai • Tomonori Yazaki • Toru Ibuki • Toru Matoba • Toru Minegishi • Ulf Otsuki • William Ross • Yasuhisa Tsutsumi • Yasuko Sawaguchi • Yoshibumi Tajima • Yoshiko Tanaka • Yoshiro Kitahara • Yoshio Tsuchiya • Yosuke Natsuki • Yu Fujiki • Yukijiro Hotaru • Yukiko Kobayashi • Yumi Shirakawa • Yumiko Shaku • Yuriko Hoshi • Yusuke Kawazu • Zhang Ziyi
 
Suit/mocap actors
Akira Ohashi • Alan Maxson • Andy Serkis • Chikara Hashimoto • Fuminori Ohashi • Haruo Nakajima • Haruya Sakamoto • Haruyoshi Nakamura • Hideto Date • Hirofumi Fukuzawa • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Hiroshi Sekita • Isao Zushi • Jason Liles • Jun Suzuki • Kanta Ina • Katsumi Tezuka • Kazuhiro Yoshida • Kazunari Mori • Kenpachiro Satsuma • Kenya Saitou • Kinichi Kusumi • Koetsu Omiya • Koji Uruki • Kurt Carley • Makoto Ito • Mansai Nomura • Masaki Shinohara • Masao "Little Man Machan" Fukazawa • Minoru Watanabe • Mizuho Yoshida • Motokuni Nakagawa • Naoko Kamio • Naoya Matsumoto • Richard Dorton • Rick Baker • Rie Ota • Ryo Hariya • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinji Takagi • Shoichi Hirose • Susumu Utsumi • TJ Storm • Tadaaki Watanabe • Takateru Manabe • Tatsumi Nikamoto • Terry Notary • Teruo Aragaki • Tokio Okawa • Toru Kawai • Toshihiro Ogura • Toshinori Sasaki • Tsugutoshi Komada • Tsutomu Kitagawa • Umenosuke Izumi • Wataru Fukuda • Yumi Kameyama

 
 
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