Taro Yamamoto

“...it was [Kazuyuki Izutsu] who really introduced me to the joy and challenge of being an actor. He would refuse to sign off on a scene until he was perfectly satisfied with it — no matter how many takes he would tell me to do. That experience made me realize I had not really reached the passing grade to call myself an actor — but it also taught me how the work of an actor is like that of a high-level craftsman.”