Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu in The Challenge

Clyde Kusatsu (1948 - )

Film Deaths

• Black Sunday (1977) [Freighter Captain]: Killed when his phone explodes as he answers it, in a trap that had been set-up by Bruce Dern.
• Meteor (1979) [Yamashiro]: Drowns when a tsunami wave caused by a meteor strike crashes through his office while Sean Connery looks on via video.
• The Challenge (1982) [Go]: Slashed with a sword by Toshirô Mifune after Clyde betrays Toshirô.
• Rising Sun (1993) [Shoji Tanaka]: Commits suicide by crashing a sports car at the end of a high speed chase with police officers.
• Godzilla (1998) [Japanese Tanker Skipper]: Killed when Godzilla (Played by Kurt Carley and Voiced by Gary A. Hecker) broke the windows in front of the ship by smashing its' tail along with Toshi Toda.

Television Deaths

• Magnum, P.I,: Memories Are Forever (1981) [Colonel Ki]: Shot twice in the back by Tom Selleck just before he can shoot Marta DuBois.
• Mighty Max: The Maxnificent Seven (1993; animated) [Hanuman]: Killed (offscreen) by the Skullmaster (voice of Tim Curry) as he stays behind to stall him while Max (voice of Rob Paulsen) escapes.
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Ninja of the Zinja (1997; aniamted [Dr. Zin] :Supposedly dies in the opening with his twin daughters: Anaya (June Angela) and Melana (Lucy Liu) in attendance and fulfill their father's destiny. It turns out he faked his death, and was testing his daughters all along. A robot of him appears and then explodes.
• The Real Adventures of Johny Quest: The Robot Spies (1997; animated) [Dr. Zin (voice)]: Is presumably buried alive (off-screen), after being pinned down by a falling statue, when he fills his chamber with sand to kill John de Lancie (who escapes by burrowing to the surface in one of Clyde's robot spiders).
• Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998; TV Movie) [Bill Morishi]: Shot in the back by Shari Belafonte, who was under the control of the Thirdspace aliens.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Storm (2005; animated) [Pasang]: Killed by firebenders a hundred years before the events of the show; he only appears in flashbacks.
• Chuck: Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer (2008) [Mr. Morimoto]: Killed in an explosion after being forced by Faran Tahir to play Missile Command, rigged with a bomb, which will explode if he stops playing, after warning Zachary Levi and Adam Baldwin to get to safety.

Gallery

Clyde Kusatsu before his death in Chuck: Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer

Clyde Kusatsu's death (among others) in Godzilla