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I was caught off-guard by
Paparoach408's
"nobody notices" remark, because I always notice and appreciate his amazing, amazing contributions.
For the record, two of Paparoach408's greatest accomplishments:
1) The identity of
Tenant (Jitta Hanaoka) - this was the coup of coups.
2) The identity of the
Creep (Ginji Sagawa).
The above two un-gentlemen represent the "Good" and the "Ugly" parts of this thread's title. For the record, Member
Nick Wells - in his "Other performers" thread within the JAV Discussion section - revealed the names of "
Tubby"
(Taku Yoshimura, 吉村卓), as well as "
The Bad"
(Genjin Moribayashi, 森林原人).
I also would like to make a point of another Paparoach408 discovery that blew me away... that was the identity of "
The Evil S.O.B"
(Yuhya Kubota - 久保田裕也), on Page 2 of this thread.
The reason why these identifications have made an impact in my personal case is that the mentioned actors are very familiar to me, and I have an appreciation for all of them.
But just because an actor is familiar does not mean you care about them. For example, the fact that I have seen the tottering old buzzard
Shigeo Tokuda in movies does not mean I have given him any emotional investment. So when he was identified a second time while Paparoach408 had already flushed him out - I was guilty of that oversight.
Another actor whom
Jack1956 has dubbed
"The Golden Archer" (who has yet to be identified, I believe) is one whom I have a grudging respect for only because he has a massive body of work. (He's everywhere, like McDonalds; thus his moniker. He's also past his prime, kind of like a "Golden" girl, although he's not a girl.) But... whenever I see him, he rubs me a bit the wrong way. No affinity for this fellow, in my case.
When I put up the six faces above (actually, in the previous page at first), all I had were the names in Japanese. I didn't even know who they were. (And great shame on me, because one of them happened to be almighty Tenant; I could not recognize him!)
But I can see now that Paparoach408 had first uncovered, among the six:
1)
Tatsurō Hibino (whom I wrote that I had trouble placing. Still can't place him.)
2)
Mitsugu Somezima (Some Mitsu) has a head covering above, but he's usually bald.
Maybe Paparoach408 has uncovered more among the six, but I only consulted the link he provided.
I see there was already discussion about
Yoshikazu Kōno, the one who usually wears a goatee. I don't remember who pinned him down first, but Jack1956 has dubbed him "
Don Mahler" (That was Yoshikazu's character's name from one of his movies, where he played a villain, if I recall. I may have trouble associating this nickname with Yoshikazu Kōno, because I find it more helpful when the moniker describes the actor somehow. Although... I make an exception with "Tenant"!)
Another one who was uncovered by Paparoach408 and with relevance to me is
Ozawa Tooru; he's a rugged looking guy that I like.
But you have no idea whom I'm talking about, because there is no pictorial reference. What a pity the attachments have no longer survived (I painstakingly put back the available pictures from this thread, for this reason), and even when there are pictures of the male actors, I find myself not being able to recognize them. (But that's only because I suck at this. Well, it's also because sometimes a singular photo does not do the features of a person justice. And even when the photo is nicely representative of a person's features, it does not mean you have seen - in this case - the male actor in a film, or that you will have remembered seeing him.)
Yet credit should go to where it belongs, and I have immense appreciation for the magnificent work Paparoach408 has performed. Please don't feel bad when there are times you don't get the accolades you richly deserve, Papa... you know this is a difficult arm of JAV, the male actors.
All right. I see during the
Akiba-Online hiatus that I had made a screen grab of who is, to me, a familiar face - and there was Japanese lettering identifying him. (The FA-PRO company may be the only one in JAV that credits its male actors.) The movie is FAD-1741:
EDIT: We'll call him
"Sleazy."
EDIT: Below, his name turned out to be
Makoto Nojima; a limited
filmography, and its
translation.
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