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Umenosuke Izumi
泉梅 之助
Umenosuke Izumi
Occupation/Role Actor, Suit actor
Birthplace Japan

Umenosuke Izumi (泉梅之助,   Izumi Umenosuke?) is a Japanese suit actor who played the monsters Magular and Ragon in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultraman, and also portrayed Gamera in Gamera vs. Guiron and Gamera vs. Jiger. Izumi worked on the staff of Tsuburaya Productions, contributing to their various monster shows in the late 1970's and maintaining the kaiju suits in the company's warehouse in the 1970's and 1980's.

Biography[]

He played the role various monsters in Ultraman and played the leading role in the Daiei movies Gamera vs. Guiron and Gamera vs. Jiger.

Originally, he was the chairman of the traveling troupe of local tours, and also appeared in the scenes of Toho movies.

Since the late 1970s, he has been a staff member of the monster show at Tsuburaya Productions.

From the 1970s to the 1980s, he was in charge of maintaining costumes at Tsuburaya Productions' monster warehouse.

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