Chikara Hashimoto

{{Short description|Japanese baseball player and actor}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|10|20}}

| birth_place =Hokkaido, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|11|1933|10|20}}{{cite news|language=ja |url=http://www.sankei.com/life/news/171019/lif1710190033-n1.html |title=橋本力さん死去 元プロ野球選手の俳優、ブルース・リーと共演、大魔神のスーツアクターも |newspaper=Sankei Shimbun |date=19 October 2017 |accessdate=23 October 2017}}

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| teams = Mainichi Orions, 1950s

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{{Nihongo|Chikara Hashimoto|橋本 力|Hashimoto Chikara|20 October 1933 – 11 October 2017}}, also erroneously called {{Nihongo|Riki Hashimoto|はしもと りき|Hashimoto Riki}}, was a Japanese professional baseball player and actor. Hashimoto played baseball for Mainichi Orions in the 1950s. He was forced to retire in 1958 following an injury, and then joined Daiei Studios. As an actor, he is known for his roles as Daimajin in the 1966 film trilogy and as Hiroshi Suzuki in the 1972 Bruce Lee film, Fist of Fury.{{cite news |language=ja |url=https://mainichi.jp/articles/20170321/dde/012/200/009000c |title=大魔神の目にこだわり |newspaper=Mainichi Shimbun |date=21 April 2017 |accessdate=1 August 2017 |archive-date=8 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908202240/https://mainichi.jp/articles/20170321/dde/012/200/009000c |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|first=William |last=Tsutsui |author-link=William Tsutsui |title=Godzilla on my Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781137055576}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=俳優の橋本力が死去、「大魔神」スーツアクターや「ドラゴン怒りの鉄拳」敵役 |trans-title=Actor Chikara Hashimoto dies, "Great Demon" suit actor and "Dragon Fury Iron Fist" antagonist |url=https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/253400 |access-date=2021-10-01 |website=映画ナタリー |language=ja}}