Shigeru Amachi

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-03-04 (54 years old)

Deathday

1985-07-27

Place of Birth

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Shigeru Amachi

Biography

Shigeru Amachi (天知 茂, Amachi Shigeru, 4 March 1931 – 27 July 1985) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1953 to 1984. Amachi joined the Shintoho studio as one of its "New Face" actors of 1951 and established himself in action and jidaigeki films. He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in Akatsuki no hijōsen and starred in Nobuo Nakagawa's version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959). On television, he played the hardboiled detective in Hijō no raisensu and Kogoro Akechi in a long-running series of TV specials. On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in Jinsei gekijō.

Acting

1966

Zatoichi's Vengeance

as Genpachiro Kurobe

1965

A Lonely Gamble

as Teijiro Chigusa

1978

1964

Two Lives, Two Yakuza

as Seiji Nawate

1979

Demonic Beauty

as 明智小五郎

1962

The Tale of Zatoichi

as Miki Hirate

1960

Jigoku

as Shirô Shimizu

1967

Shroud of Snow

as Guntaro

1962

Destiny's Son

as Sôshi Tada

1959

The Ghost of Yotsuya

as Iemon Tamiya

1963

Shinsengumi Chronicles

as Toshizo Hijikata

1963

The Third Shadow Warrior

as Sadamitsu Miki

1956

Revenge of the Pearl Queen

as Yûzô Yamauchi

1972

Eight Men to Kill

as Azami Yajuro

1959

The Lady Vampire

as Nobutaka Takenaka

1961

Counterattack of a Queen Bee

as Muteppô no Masa

1965

Sword of the Beast

as Vice-Counselor

1958

Queen Bee

as Mazaki

1958

Queen Bee's Anger

as Noboru Gôda

1961

Fire Line

as Kuroiwa

1967

Classmates

as Chief Navel Surgeon Mamiya

1960

Yellow Line

as Kazuhiro Moroki

1966

Yakuza Hooligans

as Sugiyama

1959

Elegy of a Geisha

as Hayase Chikara

1960

皇室と戦争とわが民族

as Lieutenant Colonel Shiizaki

1960

Black Line

as Koji Machida

1967

The Silent Gun

as Junta Kimura

1977

The Faceless Man

as Kogoro Akechi

1965

1959

Queen of the China Sea

as First Lieutenant Yokoyama

1965

The Dedicated Gunman

as Junta Kimura

1965

Trigger Happy Romeo

as Junta Kimura

1980

Port Arthur

as Kentaro Kaneko

1962

The Lightning Sword

as Higashinosuke Yamagata

1985

The Psychological Test

as Akechi Kogorō

Production

1984

1984

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