Ryûdô Uzaki

Ryudo Uzaki is a musician, composer and actor who launched his pop career in 1973 by forming the rock and roll group the Downtown Boogie-Woogie Band, which took its name from its first album and became one of Japan's most popular rock bands of the period. He went on to a solo career before writing music for film and television, including Jackie Chan's The Young Master (1980) and the anime feature The Dagger of Kamui (1985). For Toei superhero programs he supplied theme songs and most of the other songs, among them the 1987 show Kamen Raidaa Burakku and the 1995 show Juukou B-Fighter. He composed the score for the 1992 video Shin Kamen Raidaa. His acting work began with Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978), an early film he scored, and he later appeared in The Crossing (2000). Among his most notable roles is General Tachibana in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001).