5th-dan in karate, 3rd-dan in judo, and 2nd-dan in aikido. Currently runs his own production company, Kurata Promotions, in Japan. Was casted on a Shaw Brothers
audition held in Tokyo 1971 and made his first appearance in a Chinese language movie in September 1971 for Shaw Brothers (The Angry Guest) ..... Also in MISHIMA (1985).
He founded a Karate academy, whose students included fellow martial arts actor Tanigaki Kenji, who joined in 1989.