Shigeru Amachi
Acting Born Mar 4, 1931 Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan 24 credits
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.
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Full filmography
- Professional Killers (1972)
- Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu (1977) as Kogoro Akechi
- The 47 Ronins of Ako (1979) as Wakizaka Awaji-no-Kami
- The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) as Miki Hirate
- Yasei no Shōmei (1979)
- Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959) as Iemon Tamiya
- Port Arthur (1980) as Kentaro Kaneko
- 白昼の死角(TV)
- Hijo no License (1973) as 会田健
- Sword of the Beast (1965) as Vice-Counselor
- Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966) as Genpachiro Kurobe
- Jigoku (1960) as Shirô Shimizu
- Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
- Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood (1969)
- Beauty with a Mysterious Scar (1985) as Kogoro Akechi
- Destiny's Son (1962) as Sôshi Tada
- Mole Alley (1953)
- The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
- Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) as Toshizo Hijikata
- Rusty Knife (1958)
- Dead Angle (1979)
- A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell (1972) as Ryukichi
- Twilight Saloon (1955)
- Yellow Line (1960) as Kazuhiro Moroki