Chikara Hashimoto

Chikara Hashimoto
Born: (1933-10-20)October 20, 1933
Hokkaido, Japan
Died: October 11, 2017(2017-10-11) (aged 83)[1]
Teams
Mainichi Orions, 1950s

Chikara Hashimoto (橋本 力, Hashimoto Chikara, 20 October 1933 – 11 October 2017[1]), also erroneously called Riki Hashimoto (はしもと りき, Hashimoto Riki), was a Japanese professional baseball player and actor. Hashimoto played baseball for Mainichi Orions in the 1950s. He was forced to retire in 1958 following an injury, and then joined Daiei Studios. As an actor, he is known for his roles as Daimajin in the 1966 film trilogy and as Hiroshi Suzuki in the 1972 Bruce Lee film, Fist of Fury.[2][3][4]

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  2. ^ "大魔神の目にこだわり". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). 21 April 2017. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. ^ Tsutsui, William (2017). Godzilla on my Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781137055576.
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