Late actor Yujiro Ishihara's message plate unveiled

NAGANO, Japan - Actor Satoshi Tokushige holds a helmet said to have been used by late actor Yujiro Ishihara in a popular movie "Kurobe no Taiyo" beside a framed handwritten message by Ishihara on June 5, 2014 at the Kurobe Dam Station, a trolleybus station in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture.

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