Hajime Izu

Hajime Izu is one of those figures where the biography basically is the history — born in Tokyo in 1917, he came of age as the militarist tide was rising, worked through the wartime chaos, and kept going all the way to 2005, which means he lived through every single seismic shift modern Japan threw at him and apparently just kept acting. I don't have a filmography in front of me, but I honestly don't need one to feel the weight of that arc. An actor who started before World War II and was still around in the Heisei era carries a kind of lived texture in the face and voice that no amount of craft school can manufacture. Cancer sign, Year of the Snake — if you buy that, you're picturing someone quietly stubborn, a slow burn rather than a flashy spark. Eighty-seven years of that, from prewar Tokyo to the early 2000s. That's not a career, that's a whole century of Japan wearing one man's face.

Hajime Izu (1917–2005) was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo. He lived through the turbulent eras of prewar, wartime, and postwar Japan, spanning the Showa and Heisei periods. He was born under the Cancer zodiac sign in the year of the Snake. Detailed records of his career, works, and personal life are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Hajime Izu

Name (Japanese)

伊豆肇

Reading

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Born

July 6, 1917 – January 1, 2005

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Snake (巳)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan (formerly Tokyo Prefecture)

Occupation

Actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%B1%86%E8%82%87

Tags

• From Tokyo Prefecture
• Actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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