Yūrei Yanagi
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Yûrei Yanagi is a famous Japanese actor.
[edit] Early life and career
He was born Hiroshima Prefecture on 8 April 1963. He is also credited as Masahiko Ono or Yuurei Yanagi. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan.
In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point (aka 3-4x juugatsu). Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film, Fireworks (aka Hana-bi). His most recent roles have been in J-Horror fims such as Ringu, Ju-on and Ju-on 2.