Biography

He was very prolific as a stage actor and director.

Although he was a Japanese descendant in real life, he did not mastered the Japanese language and when filming Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey (1980) where he plays a Japanese man who emigrates to Brazil, he was dubbed by another actor.

Member of the art group Ponkã, whose manifest was to include Asian actors and talents playing a wide range of parts instead of the stereotypical Asians caricatures many medias presented in the 1980's.

[presenting the idea behind the art group Ponkã] I know that actors and actresses of Japanese descent are going to 'eat grass', like Grande Otelo and Milton Gonçalves. Racial integration? This is just a pamphlet. I, Celso, born Brazilian, with the same degree of citizenship as anyone else, have the right to step on a stage and play any role, because I know how to do it. There is a generation of mestizos trying to make their way, but they claim nothing, just to have their professional ability recognized.