Denden, born in Chikushino, Fukuoka in 1950, is a Japanese character actor with a long, distinctive career on stage, in variety and finally on screen. Rooted in independent theatre in Tokyo, he built a reputation as a comic personality before becoming a favourite of the director Sion Sono. His terrifying performance as the tropical-fish shop owner in Cold Fish (2010) is arguably his signature, and he also worked in Sono s Guilty of Romance (2011). He appears regularly across Japanese cinema and television in raffish, unpredictable roles that use his warm face against dark intentions. Read more