Toei President Yusuke Okada (Yusuke Okada, real name Tsuyoshi Okada = Tsuyoshi Okada) died in a Tokyo hospital at 10:58 pm on the 18th due to an acute aortic dissection. The company announced on the 20th. He was 71 years old.

Mr. Okada from Kyoto Prefecture is the eldest son of Mr. Shigeru Okada, who was President and President of Toei. Aiming to be an advertising agency or movie producer, he was recruited from a bar in Kyoto while attending the Department of Commerce, College of Commerce, Keio University, and made his acting debut in “Lemon Squash 4 to 4 “from Nippon Television in 1969. In 1970,” Beware Akatobuki-chan “(Director Shiro Moriya), hid his father, Shigeru, who was the director of Toei’s film production division at the time, and applied for a audition of 5,500 people in general. She made her film debut after filming the role of Kaoru, the main character. At the time, he was in his second year of college. In August of the same year, he signed a contract with Toho, a rival to his father’s company, for three or more bottles a year as an actor. The fact that he resembles Koji Ishizaka also attracted a lot of attention.

After that, he mainly appeared in the works of director Shiro Moriya, but in 1974, when he was 25 years old, he was nominated as a producer by director Kihachi Okamoto in the role of Manjiro, the main character, in the movie “Tokkan.” , Standing alone as the youngest producer at the time. In 1980, he worked on the movie “Ran” (directed by Shiro Moriya), in which Ken Takakura and Sayuri Yoshinaga co-starred for the first time.

He joined Toei in November 1988 and became the director of the Tokyo studio in 1990. After serving as director and managing director, he became president in 2002 and president of the Toei Group in 2014. He was also the face of the film industry, as he was appointed president of the Federation of Filmmakers of Japan (Eiren) since May 2014 and honorary president of the Organizing Committee of the Japan Academy Awards in 2008.

Yoshinaga starred in, and also spearheaded the production of “The Stop of Life” (directed by Narushima De, released in 1 year), which is currently being filmed, but died suddenly without waiting for its completion.