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This article is about an actor in Inazuman.Eiji Maruyama (丸山 詠二, Maruyama Eiji) was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Tokyo. He was associated with Arts Vision, an agency he was last affiliated with.
Biography[]
Maruyama was born in Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture (now Tokyo). According to Maruyama, he had been called "a breastfed baby" from a young age, and he claimed to have a delicate constitution.
During the wartime, he was involved in making machine gun bullets, but he didn't experience any war-related disasters.
He attended an old-style middle school, and after the war ended, he continued his education in a new-style high school. During his high school years, he felt lost and didn't know what to pursue. However, after watching a play at school, he decided to study acting. He went on to study at the Faculty of Literature at Hosei University. He was taken to Kabuki-za by a university professor and developed an interest in kabuki. He even had the chance to see Nakamura Kichiemon's dressing room. While he was in the hospital due to illness, someone told him that the entertainment world was a place where skills mattered, which made him think it was like "shingeki" (new drama or modern theater). He then dropped out of the university and entered the world of "shingeki."
Maruyama was affiliated with various organizations and groups throughout his career, including the National Institute of Culture, Gekidan Nakagei Production Department, Tokyo Geijutsu-za, Gekidan Rekishi-za, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and Engekidan Mitou. He was associated with Arts Vision towards the end of his career. He made his debut on stage in "Shuurai" written by Leonid Leonov.
He began his career as a voice actor, starting with the role of the butler in The Addams Family.
He received the Outstanding Award for the New Theater Actor Association Reading "Festival."
On September 24, 2015, he passed away at the age of 84 due to natural causes (at the age of 85).