Kenji Sahara. Actor: Godzilla gegen Mechagodzilla II. Kenji Sahara was born Tadashi Ishihara on May 14, 1932 in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan. He came in second in the "Mr. Ordinary Contest" in 1953 and his cinema debut was as an extra in two small roles in Godzilla - Das Original (1954), one as a ship passenger and one as a journalist. However, his break-through in Toho Studios' sci-fi films came...