{{Short description|Japanese actor (born 1943)}} {{Infobox person | name = Mitsuo Hamada | image = Hamada-Mitsuo-1.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|10|1}} | birth_place = Tokyo, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1955–present | spouse = | partner = | website = http://www.art-promotion.jp/prof_male16_hamada.html }} {{nihongo|'''Mitsuo Hamada'''|浜田 光夫|Hamada Mitsuo|born October 1, 1943 in Tokyo|lead=yes}} is a Japanese actor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vip-times.co.jp/?talent_id=M93-2634|script-title=ja:浜田光夫|accessdate=2020-12-22|language=Japanese|publisher=日本タレント名鑑|archive-date=2024-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225133428/https://www.vip-times.co.jp/?talent_id=M93-2634|url-status=live}}</ref> He co-starred with Sayuri Yoshinaga in many Nikkatsu films.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nikkatsu.com/report/201209/001144.html |script-title=ja:特集上映で浜田光夫さんが舞台挨拶|language= Japanese|publisher=Nikkatsu |accessdate=2020-12-22}}</ref> In 1960, Hamada joined Nikkatsu Company.<ref name="art"/> He won his first major award at the Elan d'or Awards in 1961.<ref name="art">{{Cite web |url=http://www.art-promotion.jp/prof_male16_hamada.html|script-title=ja:プロファイル 浜田光夫|accessdate= 2020-12-22|language= Japanese|publisher=アートプロモーション Hamada Mituo Official}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/246580/profile/ |script-title=ja:浜田光夫|accessdate= 2020-12-22|language= Japanese|publisher=oricon}}</ref> In 1966, Hamada was involved in the quarrel at the bar in Nagoya and came close to losing an eye.<ref name=yomiuri>{{cite web|url=https://yomidr.yomiuri.co.jp/article/20171010-OYTEW227434/|title=早咲き人生 深み増す 俳優 浜田光夫さん|publisher=Yomidoctor by Yomiuri Shimubun|access-date=11 December 2021}}</ref> The incident hindered his acting career.<ref name=yomiuri/>

Hamada appeared in the ''Tokusatsu'' superhero series ''Ultraman Gaia'' in 1999.

==Selected filmography== ===Film=== * ''Foundry Town'' (1962) : Tsukamoto Katsumi * ''Bad Girl'' (1963) * ''Dorodarake no Junjō'' (1963) * ''Utsukushi Jyudai'' (1964) * ''Gazing at Love and Death'' (1964) * ''Izu no Odoriko'' (1963) * ''Outlaw: Gangster VIP'' (1968) : Tsujikawa Takeo * ''Daikanbu Nagurikomi'' (1969) * ''Fuji sanchō'' (1970) : Sokkō * ''Sandakan No. 8'' (1974) : Satō * ''Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon'' (1974) : Kiyoharu Nakanishi * ''KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops'' (1977) as Goro Totsuka * ''Inubue'' (1978) * ''Tempyō no Iraka'' (1980) : Genrō * ''A Litre of Tears'' (2005) * ''Enkiri Village: Dead End Survival'' (2011) : Hongō

===Television=== *Taiga drama **''Ten to Chi to'' (1969) : Hashiba Hideyoshi **''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' (1983) : Ukita Hideie *''Nantatte 18 sai!'' (1972–73) : Ryūji Minagawa *''Iron King'' (1972–73) : Goro Kirishima *''Ultraman Gaia'' (1999) : Kōsuke Ranbashi

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