Hiroshi Akutagawa

Born: 1920-03-20

Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.


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Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Koichi Kido (uncredited)
Released: 1970-01-26

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...

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A Thousand and One Nights

as Badli (voice)
Released: 1969-06-14

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures...

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The Wild Geese

as Mr. Okada
Released: 1953-09-15

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...

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Dodes'ka-den

as Hei
Released: 1970-10-31

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...

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Night and Fog in Japan

as Prof. Udagawa
Released: 1960-10-09

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other...

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The Rickshaw Man

as Capitaine Kotaro Yoshioka
Released: 1958-04-21

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...

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Where Chimneys Are Seen

as Kenzo Kubo
Released: 1953-03-05

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a...

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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1969-10-16

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...

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Eyes of Children

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-15

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An...

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Till We Meet Again

as uncredited
Released: 1950-03-21

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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Night Butterflies

as Osamu Harada
Released: 1957-04-01

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

as uncredited
Released: 1953-11-23

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...

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Jose Torres II

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1965-03-04

This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who...

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The Twilight Story

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-28

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...

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The Valley Between Love and Death

as Kiyoshi Kazami
Released: 1954-09-21

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...

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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

as Mizuno Echizennokami
Released: 1970-04-18

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...

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Kyoto

as Narrator
Released: 1969-01-01

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a...

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A Certain Woman

as Kibe
Released: 1954-03-13

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Hōryū-ji

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1958-01-01

This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese...

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Minamoto no Yoshitsune

as Minamoto no Yoritomo
First aired: 1966-01-02

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...

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Haru no Sakamichi

as Yagyū Munetoshi
First aired: 1971-01-03

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

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