was a Japanese stage and film actor active from 1960 to 1993. He is mostly associated with the films of director Nagisa à Âshima.
Toura was born Mutsuhiro Toura in Osaka, Japan. A graduate of Kyoto University, he worked as an English teacher at a private high school before becoming an actor at the Shochiku studios at à Âshima's recommendation. He left Shochiku together with à Âshima the following year and became a freelance actor who often worked with à Âshima, but also repeatedly with director Kaneto Shindà Â.
Toura died of polyarteritis nodosa on 25 March 1993, at the age of 62.