Utaemon Ichikawa
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-02-11 (95 years old)
Deathday
1999-09-16
Place of Birth
Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Утаэмон Итикава
Utaemon Ichikawa
Biography
Utaemon Ichikawa was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in Jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Shōzō Makino. Quickly gaining popularity, he followed the example of Makino stars such as Tsumasaburō Bandō in starting his own independent production company, Utaemon Ichikawa Productions, in 1927. It was there he first began the "Idle Vassal" (Hatamoto taikutsu otoko) series, which would become his signature role. When his company folded in 1936 as sound film came to the fore, he moved to Shinkō Kinema and then Daiei Studios before hel...
Acting
1960
as Ooka Tadasuke
1941
as Tsunatoyo Tokugawa
1960
as Chûsuke Yamakawa
1950
as Sôkichi Fudôyama
1962
as Tsukinosuke Ryûtan
1952
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1927
as Reinosuke Ushio
1953
1952
1956
1957
as Sato
1958
1954
1954
1950
1952
as Gotō Mototsugu
1955
1958
as Uotaro Toge
1964
1945
1932
as Awajinokami Wakisaka / Gorobei Kakimi
1951
1960
as Chusuke Yamakawa
1945
1961
1958
as Katsukawa
1951
as Jurozaemon Mizuno
1926
1960
as Sôshun Kôchiyama
1959
as Sasagawa no Shigezo
1961
as Yamanouchi Iganosuke
1952
as Tsukigata Hanpeita
1958
as Nikichi
1957
1957
as Boss Omaeda
1957
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1930
1960
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1959
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1963
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1962
as Takata Matabei Yoshitsugu
1961
1957
as Satahiko
1962
1959
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1958
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1950
1963
as Kumokiri Nizaemon
1951
as Shinsuke
1960
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1960
1956
1962
1961
as Saotome Mondonosuke
1958
as Asaka Keinosuke
1961
as Matabei Goto
1955
1955
1942
1949
as Haiyaku tengu no Chōta
1948
1956
1956
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