Yoshio Tsuchiya

is a Japanese actor. He appeared in such movies as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal "Bara No Soretsu" (a.k.a. "Funeral Parade of Roses") and Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and "Red Beard", and Kihachi Okamoto's "Kill!". 
He has a long-standing interest in UFOs and had written several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction movies, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such movies as "Battle in Outer Space", "Monster Zero", and "Destroy All Monsters".